FREE SCRIPTS - August Edition - Statistically NP

Just finished editing Caged Hawk, what should I do with the files?
edit: uploaded to EX. Link: g/730075/cea4ae84a7/

What you've done is fine and completely acceptable. If you ever wanted to try doing the transparent bubble thing, it's not as hard as you might think.

What you can do is:

1. Use the text free images to patch the insides of the bubbles. Put the text free version underneath, then delete everything inside the bubbles so you can see through to the text free version.
2. Put a partially transparent white layer between the text free and text layers. White at 50% opacity seems to be what most artists use, but you can experiment. It doesn't have to be exactly the same, as long as it looks good.
3. Typeset your bubbles.

Huzzah and hurrah, you now have pretty looking transparent bubbles with a minimum of effort. You could use the text free images and draw your own bubbles, but that's probably more work.



The answer is "whatever you like!" :)

Upload to EX is always a good choice, because I'll always upload there (and FAKKU if possible) if the editor doesn't do it themselves.

Thanks for your hard work!



Thanks J, gotta share the love sometimes. No point me keeping all these things locked up on my hard drive. ;)

Following your instructions, here's what I came up with.

I like the way this looks much more than the other way I had it, so I think I'll do the rest of it like this. Thanks for all the help!

Well done! You're very welcome.

I just finished it, what's next?

Give it a quick read over to make sure you haven't made any cringeworthy typos that will have you tearing your hair out, and then publish it somewhere.

I recommend E-Hentai for starters. If you can publish to FAKKU then do, but if you can't then I'll do it. If you can post the link to the final gallery either here or on the SNP blog, it makes it easier for me to track down and help spread it around.

Then you must consume a beverage of your choice in celebration of your hard work. Dancing a jog of glee is optional.

Then if you enjoyed yourself, you can start looking for what else you might be interested in editing... ;)

EXHentai link. For some reason the fourth thumbnail isn't showing in the gallery, but the image is there.

There are some doujins on SNP that I'm interested in. Also, take a look at this. It needs to be translated, but I'd be willing to do the rest. (Its a trap doujin)

Here's my first attempt at typesetting. I'd love any and all criticism for how I can improve. I decided to try my hand at Caged Bird.
I tried to level it but I'm not sure if I made it too dark.
The only problems I had were:
I didn't know how to replace the title in english.
I didn't replace the 2 characters at the bottom left because the only way I thought would work would be a text box but I wasn't sure if that was a good idea since it would be over his face.

I'm pretty new to this too but here are my thoughts.
The leveling is off, look at the "..." panel and you see grey in his face where there was white in the original. And the darks are too dark. Try to redo it and get smoother white areas. Don't move the midtone slider just the lights and darks.
Redrawing the whole top to replace the title wouldn't be fun so I would use white title text (meaning use a different typeface) with a thick black outer glow like the title is using and place it beneath since starting at the left you have lots of room before the first bubble.
If you have translation for the sfx in the bottom left corner just use small type with a white outline and put it closeby. You could try vertical type too to keep it in his hair not on his face.
"Huh?" is too high in the bubble.
"Money?", "a tale of" and "upon me" almost touch the edges of their bubbles, you can give negative tracking to just those lines of text to fix that. (look it up if you need)
Just remember that your negative tracking will apply to the next text you make so set it back to zero after!

Ah, Arai Kei is a tricky one for levelling.

The pages have actually already been levelled. If you look at the title block on that page, you'll see that the blacks are really already black before you've even touched it.

I own a few Arai Kei books in real life, and they all have that washed out shade of grey, like they've been done in pencil. It's what they're supposed to look like, but it's hard to know that unless you've seen one before. ;)


Don't worry about the title if you're not confident doing it. It would be a major job to make it look right, and I'm not even that sure how I'd go about starting that one. Myself, I'd probably just avoid it altogether on the basis that I'd likely only make it look worse. As it is at least it's pretty, and people can get the title from the file name.

Likewise the bit over his face. It's only a sigh, and if you're not sure you can do it cleanly you're better off leaving the original text in place. It's not a big deal.


However, you should be aware that later on in the book there is text that is part of the story (and thus needs to be placed) that is not in a bubble. Pages 18, 22, 26, 27, 28, and 32. These parts will need the text to be placed and then the art behind them redrawn. None of them are horrendously difficult as far as redraws go, but neither are they particularly easy. If you haven't done redraws before you may find it very difficult.

If you want to continue, I'd go and have a look at those parts first (and double check the other pages to see that I haven't missed any more). Those are going to be the hardest sections, so I'd do those first so that you don't get stuck halfway through. I've seen it happen to people before, and my redraw skill isn't really good enough to help you out if you get stuck, unfortunately. :( I get a bit lost after anything that's more complicated than content aware clone can handle. ;)

I did A Day in the Life at Red Light School.

Okay, so here's the first page of a doujin I just started working on. I really like this one a lot and no one has translated it yet, so even though I'm not confident in my Japanese I gave it a shot. If my translation is absolutely terrible, please let me know.

Cleaned image
Finished/Redrawn image

That aside, has anyone taken the Chunibyo one? I'll do that next.

Thanks a lot for all the info! Il look into what you said :)



Thanks for the heads up. It may save me some time but I wanna try and redraw it first. I've never done any though. Would you by any chance have a good guide on how to do it?

Akiran gave a good guide earlier in the thread.



Ero-Otoko's guide also applies. The same skills are used for decensoring as for redrawing.

g/274869/052c6b9d43/

The short version is abuse layers, clone and content aware tools, and line tools. If necessary, place your text first and only redraw stuff that's not hidden behind text, that saves some time. Greyscale stuff is usually doable, it's colour stuff that gets really tricky.



I've had a couple of people say they were going to do the Chuunibyou one last month, but no one this month. I'd say you're good to go.



You fucking legend! It's so hard to find people to do Mayonnaise stuff. :)

Thanks again for the help! Il try to get to work on it tomorrow. Should be an interesting challenge

To finally get back to this post:

The first one I wouldn't do, not my thing.
The second I might, but it would be unusual. I want to say that I'll put it on the list, but putting it on the list is generally equivalent to a no these days. So I'll say no, but I'm aware that it exists should I feel the need.

Sorry that's not a more positive response, but I don't like getting people's hopes up unnecessarily. I'm notoriously unreliable even when it's something I'm really interested in (see the fact that I haven't finished translating Lucrecia V yet, which is possibly the best series I've ever done), so I'm not big on promising anything until I have it in my hand.

Some of the stuff on my To Do list has been there for five years, and shows no signs of moving any time soon.



Also, this one.

I'm not a Cannabis man, but I know people who are. I won't do it, but I've shared with others that if they wanted to translate that book then there's someone who'd be interested in editing it. That's about all I can do for you, hopefully someone will pick it up.

Its been picked up and was uploaded to EX earlier today. Thanks for sharing it though.

Edit: I finally finished the Chuunibyou doujin. I uploaded it on EX Hentai. Man, full color stuff is hard!

Very nice work! Yeah, full colour can be tough.

Thanks! I'll do Hi Energy 2 next... it doesn't look like anyone has done that one.