Recent content by DrPepperPro

I'd suggest not cropping the white space. It's kind of an aspect of the manga's art, although a minor one.

Oh, merge all just to make sure levels layers don't change with the profile change.

Well converting a scan (which most likely isn't dotgrain 20% in the first place) to dot grain 20% is what darkens the grays, so some colors will be lost. It doesn't show up in photoshop unless you use proof colors (ctrl + y). Using save for web doesn't preserve color profiles so an image with...

I used to think this too and was very confused about it for a while. The actual reason is that the default color profile for grayscale PSDs in photoshop is "Dot Gain 20%", and needs to be changed to "sGray". It can be changed in edit > color settings.

A curves (ctrl-m) with these points should work good enough: 39, 0 69, 62 95, 95 160, 163 215, 225 231, 255 (also make sure it is on Light (0-255) mode not Pigment/Ink%) Some details will be lost in the near-white and near-black areas, so maybe also use a small denoise and less black/white...

Re: gimp question :) If the cleaned pages are in a non layered image type (jpg/png), then the white boxes are probably there in the image when not viewing it in GIMP, however different methods of rendering the image might be making it harder to see the difference between the background color...

Not sure, you can find it on rawpiece.com though.

Chapter 188's out also, good stuff there too. You should probably put that in a spoiler though, yes?

The magazine has to ship out to other countries beforehand, and stores aren't supposed to sell it before the specified date, but sometimes people are able to get them early.

Mangahelpers doesn't host raws anymore, but google is your friend.

Still too much. Notice all the details that are being distorted or completely turned black. I'd recommend no filters. ---------- Post added September 27, 2011 at 09:18 AM ---------- Previous post was September 15, 2011 at 05:49 PM ---------- Oh, sorry your post was stuck in the moderated...

Title: The First King (始皇) By: CHEN Uen Original Publisher: N/A (1998) Target Group: Adults, Men Genre: Action, Historical Chinese Release: 1 volume (complete) MH DB-Entry: http://mangahelpers.com/m/the-first-king Manga Editors: N/A Sample Pages: Description: Historical manga about a king...

Title: Heroes of the East Chou Dynasty (东周英雄传) By: CHEN Uen Original Publisher: Tong Li (1991) Target Group: Adult, Men Genre: Action, Historical Chinese Release: 3 volumes (complete) MH DB-Entry: http://mangahelpers.com/m/heroes-of-the-east-chou-dynasty Manga Editors: N/A Sample Pages...

Title: Banzai (萬歳) By: CHEN Uen Original Publisher: Tong Li (1996) Target Group: Adult, Men Genre: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural Chinese Release: 1 volume (complete) MH DB-Entry: http://mangahelpers.com/m/banzai Manga Editors: N/A Sample Pages: Description: I can't find any summary of...

Title: Magical Super Asia (美丽深邃的亚细亚) By: CHEN Uen Original Publisher: Kodansha (1992) Target Group: Adult, Men Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi Chinese Release: 5 volumes (complete) MH DB-Entry: http://mangahelpers.com/m/magical-super-asia Manga Editors: N/A Sample Pages...