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Do you want to clean mangas, but you're just too lazy to do all that stuff? With this method, you'll get a MQ in around 2 minutes, which can be improved to a MQ/HQ if you rotate, crop and redo the borders.
I've made an action set (well, in fact a single action) which will do most of the work for you. This action set isn't indispensable for the cleaning, but it'll make it faster and better. You can download it from Sendspace (I'll later provide more mirrors). You'll have to save the file on the folder C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Actions (replacing "CS3" for your version number, of course).
Once the raw is opened, you could start cleaning, but it's always better to do a few things before. The first one is increasing the size of the raw to 2000px height (that's always better than working with the actual size).
Now, let's check if there's any non-bubble text on the page. If there is any, it's better to redraw it now (it'll look better than if you do it after the cleaning). Also, if you want, you can follow these tutorials for rotating, cropping and redoing borders.
Now let's start the cleaning. You can either start the action "cleaning" in the action set "cleaning" (which will do everything automatically) or do it step by step:
Once done all this, you'll have two layers. In the top layer, you'll have the whites and the blacks denoised, but the greys will be either too dark or too bright. And in the bottom layer, you'll have the greys right, but the blacks and whites will be noised. What you have to do is just erasing the greys from the top layer.
Now, if you want, you can resize the page again. The usual is 1200px height.
Here you can see how's the page before and after the cleaning (I've used the raw for Buster Keel 3, but it'll work on any raw you use):
The text will get blurry, but don't worry about it because you're gonna remove it later for the Edited Manga, so why care?
Well, I hope you like this tutorial and this form of easy cleaning.
Thanks a lot to Darkangel for teaching me to clean. Without him, I'd be still trying to redraw all the grays
I've made an action set (well, in fact a single action) which will do most of the work for you. This action set isn't indispensable for the cleaning, but it'll make it faster and better. You can download it from Sendspace (I'll later provide more mirrors). You'll have to save the file on the folder C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Actions (replacing "CS3" for your version number, of course).
Once the raw is opened, you could start cleaning, but it's always better to do a few things before. The first one is increasing the size of the raw to 2000px height (that's always better than working with the actual size).
Now, let's check if there's any non-bubble text on the page. If there is any, it's better to redraw it now (it'll look better than if you do it after the cleaning). Also, if you want, you can follow these tutorials for rotating, cropping and redoing borders.
Now let's start the cleaning. You can either start the action "cleaning" in the action set "cleaning" (which will do everything automatically) or do it step by step:
- Level the whites (right) to 190.
- Now level again, this time the blacks (left) to 64.
- Level again the greys (middle) to 0,4.
- Level one more time the whites (right) to 190.
- Go Filter/Stylize/Diffuse and select anisotropic.
- Duplicate the current layer.
- Go Filter/Noise/Reduce Noise and set it to 10, 0, 0, 25.
- Level the whites (right) to 190.
- And finally, level the greys (middle) to 0,4.
Once done all this, you'll have two layers. In the top layer, you'll have the whites and the blacks denoised, but the greys will be either too dark or too bright. And in the bottom layer, you'll have the greys right, but the blacks and whites will be noised. What you have to do is just erasing the greys from the top layer.
Now, if you want, you can resize the page again. The usual is 1200px height.
Here you can see how's the page before and after the cleaning (I've used the raw for Buster Keel 3, but it'll work on any raw you use):
The text will get blurry, but don't worry about it because you're gonna remove it later for the Edited Manga, so why care?
Well, I hope you like this tutorial and this form of easy cleaning.
Thanks a lot to Darkangel for teaching me to clean. Without him, I'd be still trying to redraw all the grays
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