2012
04.26
04.26
[Work in Progress]
I made this for someone who said (mostly jokingly, I think) that they’d typeset for us if we taught them how.
This is basically how I typeset, hopefully it’ll be useful to someone.
If you’re able to figure out what the heck I’m talking about in this tutorial, you’re talented enough to typeset yourself!
Please feel free to leave any comments/criticisms, and let me know if it’s too confusing or if you’d like me to make a video
-Cyatomorrow
It’s a bit stretched, make sure to click on it and see it full-size.
Thanks!
this is the only thing that was in my mind while reading this.
http://i.imgur.com/pDBKD.jpg
I think a video tutorial would indeed be helpful
Hmm so far its pretty easy till you get to the text on art then it becomes a pain
Haha, the gundam stuff was funny ^^
I thought it was only with photoshop that it was possible to select a shape, and have the text automatically stay inside that shape as we typed ? O_o
Otherwise, maybe you’ll be confusing the beginner readers with your bubble cleaning explanations, here. If it were me, I’d simply surround the Japanese characters with the free hand selection tool, and delete these areas one after the other, and done, white bubbles.
Silly me, a precision was required : that is, suming correct cleaning was made and the background color is already white. Otherwise, color picking the background color, or even after the text has been suppressed, magical wand-selecting of the whole of the inside of the speech bubble and suppress.
But I think such steps wouldn’t be necessary, 99% of the time, free hand selection and suppress should do the job…
assumming. Sorry for the spam -_-
I’ve been using (and sharing) a similar cleaning method over at LWB for over a year now. It really works well, but has it’s pitfalls. Especially when you automate it all as one action. And bubbles with broken borders? You’re back to manual cleaning.
Yay, technical comments!
>I thought it was only with photoshop that it was possible to select a shape, and have the text automatically stay inside that shape as we typed ? O_o
Yeah, GIMP can’t do it, it’s awful at anything text-related; it won’t even let you use multiple font settings in one text box.
> I’d simply surround the Japanese characters with the free hand selection tool, and delete these areas one after the other, and done, white bubbles.
Of course there’s a million ways to do it. When I first started, I just colored in the kana in the bubbles with the pen tool. Free hand selection is probably as fast as that, but the problem is that it requires a bit of manual dexterity (especially without a tablet). The advantage of my method is that you can zoom out and click all the bubbles very quickly.
Incidentally, the reason I started doing this way was because of a particularly scan:http://www.fakku.net/viewmanga.php?id=3135
I can’t find the raw, but I remember it looked like the ink ran a bit, so the bubbles weren’t always fully white (or even a solid color). What I decided was to clean the entire bubble so it’s not obvious (and I wouldn’t need to spend hours eyedroppering the right color), and I found that this was the fastest way to do that by far.
>Especially when you automate it all as one action. And bubbles with broken borders? You’re back to manual cleaning.
Anecdotally, this happens only about 10% of the time to me. When it does, I turn off every layer except the mask I created, erase the area of the border that’s broken, and wand/delete the leaked area. I find that even if the border’s broken, it’s only broken in one or two places (usually two, incidentally), and it’s an easy fix.
Of course, sometimes I *will* decide it’s faster to do it by hand. In that case I just wand/delete the part of the mask I don’t want anymore and use another method on it.
I mostly advocate this method because it’s really fast, and I’ve found most tutorials online (at least when I was starting out) suggest using the pen tool or rectangle selection tool. I’ll have to make a video sometime after I get back from vacation…
I may be interested in doing this if I can’t find a good job… ;3;
Graduating school will leave my days quite open…
looks fun but If I started this i would need some one else to do the translating. still thanks for the guide
I was gonna ask about part 2 but then I realized how recent this post was…. Great tutorial! I have photoshop and I’m applying for the typesetter position for redCoMet. This definitely helps a lot
GREAT INFO, I have tried to clean the dialogue box using MS paint, unfortunately, the font text was not too good to be placed in the dialogue box, with this tutorial, I can edit my RAW manga and use appropriate fonts