tha raw is quite LQ.
anyway, you overleveled, try to resize to 3000 px height before levelling and don't try to get rid of all the dark with levels, use the burn tool, redraw the line on the dresses with the pen tool for an HQ result!
the raw is a little bad for a tank, anyway, try to resize to 2000 px Height before levelling, put it to grey scale, don't use filters and do less levelling, grey doesn't have to become black
I like the film grain, you could try to do that like this: http://senbonzakura.kageyoshi.net/2008/01/21/advanced-grays-film-grain/
it also depend on which manga you're cleaning
Hi Finestela, could you upload the new chapters of Drifters (Chapter 12) and Godeath (chapter 3) ?
please! a lot of people in the community would be really gratefull! =D
no, it doesn't, HQ in a few words is the manga just like you would see it in a tankobon
does it looks like that to you? this definitely is LQ in my opinion.
anyway that's just my opinion and you're free to agree with it or not.
maybe this could be a cool effect for some graphic work, but as cleaning metod... this sucks, sorry XD
you've lost ALL the details, the line are squiggy and the blacks are not even completely black.
Although i was wondering what would be the result if you used this page as a multiply level like...
it's called redrawing, take a look here: http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17521
improving the LQ-MQ raw quality is called cleaning, you have to look around for some tutorial, anyway Photoshop is better then gimp for this kind of things