MQ or HQ? Please rate this clean

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Right.. I know a few of you might be pissed off on the fact that I've decided to scanlate/clean Naruto.. but here goes..


Original Raw:

Cleaned Page:


My reason for asking for feedback on this is because if it is good enough, I'll be cleaning the rest of the 431 release exactly this way
 

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Looks MQ, the grays look a little messy, you didn't redraw where it was needed and the borders look a little sloppy.
 

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Definitely MQ...

1. You didn't redraw all of pain's head
2. There's still a lot of dirt (some jpg artifact, perhaps this is because you save it as jpg)
3. speed motion line need more white..
4. Borders :)

overall MQ. nice ;)
 

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Be sure to burn *everything*. You forgot the Naruto logo at the top, a single bit of black that isn't burnt will *stand out*.

Good work anyway, I agree with the others, and say it's a MQ work. Also, if you want another opinion, do a page with some grays on it, grays will make or break the quality which you want for your release.
 

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Yup MQ but it's still a good work.
 

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Make sure when doing borders that anti-alias is turned off, unless they're diagonal borders which it looks better when it's on.
 

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Make sure when doing borders that anti-alias is turned off, unless they're diagonal borders which it looks better when it's on.
Or just use a pencil instead of a brush to redraw. :p

While this does rate a very solid MQ, could you give us an idea of the process you used? We can help you work on it and find a way to tweak the performance higher and then to HQ most likely.
 

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[Ju-Ni]Vicissitude;1195045 said:
Or just use a pencil instead of a brush to redraw. :p

While this does rate a very solid MQ, could you give us an idea of the process you used? We can help you work on it and find a way to tweak the performance higher and then to HQ most likely.
Actually I did spend quite a lot of time on this (about 3 days) but I guess the quality is just not up to the standard.

- Just leveled the page, then redid the borders. After that, made groups for all the panels and worked my way on blacks/whites/grays.

- The naruto logo on the top was deliberately not burnt black completely. It was 'brushed' black entirely, but I lowered the opacity, since I thought it looked better that way.

- The little dust was my mistake. I totally forgot about it.

- Borders... I guess they look bad because of the extra whites around the corners making them a bit 'LQ'.. will fix it today.

- The borders were drawn using the Line Tool (not the pencil nor the brush) with an 8px width.

- About redrawing pain's head.. do you mean the one in Panel 2?

- Speed motion lines in Panel 3 were basically a complete black with low opacity. Again, left it a bit dark because it looked kinda cool.. but I guess 'realistic' plays a more important role here

- Gray's in the first panel (Frog bodies, faces, legs) were a tad bit difficult.. especially the first frog starting left (with a fork-type thing in his hand) because the resolution was not too detailed there.

- The other grays were essentially colored gray, redrawn lineart and then film grain filter applied to it.

- Panel 4 pain bodies were filled black. Then re-did lineart (lowered opacity) and worked on a 'White' layer.



*Phew*
So.. now..
- I have to redo borders
- Redraw Pain's head in Panel 2 (right?)
- Fix lineart on grays in Panel 1
- Reduce Speed Motion opacity a tad bit more in Panel 3
- Fix the Naruto Logo (Opacity = 100 = Completely Black)

Anything else?

:)
 

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redo borders on the final height, then it doesn't leave those annoying anti-aliasing lines (or whatever you want to call them)
 

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redo borders on the final height, then it doesn't leave those annoying anti-aliasing lines (or whatever you want to call them)
Cheers... thanks for the tip :)
 

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Save as PNG-8 :)
 
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