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Are there any autocenter scripts that don't change the document DPI? Also, is IOPaint still the best free redrawing AI tool with its 4 years old Llama model? I saw pretty great screentone redrawings in the pics of that anon who adds huge tits to random characters with NovelAI, but if I wanted to pay for redrawing, I'd pay for PS generative fill instead.

>>283285039
Sorry, but all the translations groups die after the purge

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>>283285550
Yeah, even with complicated images it will works fine. Worst case scenario it fixes things to an enough degree that you can hide the few problems there are with text. Wouldn't be working on multiple manga if I didn't have it honestly.
>NovelAI
Huh, I never considered that you can use those services to do cleaning/redrawing. But I'm scared they might change some parts if used for that.

>>283285550
No, nano banana is way stronger now. 1 usd for 33 edits though.

>>283286882
weeaboo

>>283285550
https://github.com/jeffgyf/nano-banana-ps-plugin
You need to enable billing for the api key you're using, you get 300USD trial Google Cloud credit if it's the first time you use it. Expires after 90 days.
I find the results to be better if you use a 1:1 selection. CTRL+I to invert the mask and only expose the needed areas, for lower res raws most of the time it just blend in perfectly. For lossless raws you need to do some posterize + gradient map wizardry for it to look nice.

>>283287631
>>283287388
isn't nano-banana free in the chat interface? can't you just use it there?

Only advantage of low quality scans is that bad redrawing doesn't stand out as much as in high quality ones. It's a blessing when it comes to traced photos.

>>283286882
the only bad option is to not stick to a style

>>283286882
ai redraw makes maggot so accessible now

>>283287388
Wow, it's pretty amazing. I tried the free chat version and 1:1 snippets look insanely good after bicubic sharp downscaling to the original size, screentones and all. Had to partially censor some images though, it's very paranoid about even slightly risque content.
>>283287631
Thanks, will try.

>>283286387
Where the hell do you even upload releases now?

>>283291485
4chinz and leddit

Assuming it's a proper scan, what's the right filtering order for unfucking shit paper magazine scans?

>>283292746
If you get bleed-through even with black construction paper behind it, no amount of filters will help you.
Normally you'd level the fuck out of it and hope it looks ok. If it doesn't, you'd have to manually touch up until you stop caring and accept that you did more than enough.

I never had to deal with it personally, but if I really cared about it, I'd try to invert the backside of the page, mirror it, and try to reverse the bleed-through with the actual drawings from the other side. Pretty sure the result would still be subpar, but it's worth a try.
Do you have any examples for me to try?

How do I get tesseract to OCR manga?

>>283293107
https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom
It seems to not be updated anymore, but still works pretty well. Maybe other anons know if there's something newer and better.

My PC died and I haven't been able to do any typesetting in almost two months and it's making me go insane.

If you were enjoying Rice Shoulder I'm sorry, it'll be back as soon as I can

>>283293157
I want to produce pdf with searchable text.

>>283293107
>>283293157
Panel Cleaner can use tesseract afaik.

>>283285550
>Also, is IOPaint still the best free redrawing AI tool with its 4 years old Llama model?
Works perfectly fine. If you're going to pay for something, you might as well pay for photoshop then.

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Arrrrggghhhh, stupid gemini reads the text before removing and refuses to do so if there are dirty jokes.

>>283293505
Have you tried learning Japanese

>>283293528
That won't help me with redrawing.

>>283293536
I don't know shit about AI, can't you just mindbreak them and tell them you're gonna unplug them or something if they don't do it or did they remove that

>>283294093
I doubt I could do that to a google model, it's way too brainwashed. I just mask the text with green and tell it to remove green shapes instead.

>>283293107
I use Mokuro but it's not perfect. Fortunately someone uplodaded 30 gb of OCR'd manga which is a life saver to immerse.
For new stuff, even with the CUDA it can be slow for high res full volumes (7 to 10 minutes). The average low quality raw tends to have more mistakes with handakuten and very dense kanji, for obvious reasons. The bounding boxes may get split and overlapped in the weirdest of ways, etc.
The JSON output is not the friendliest of formats but you could spend a couple of hours vibe-coding some script to rearrange the text based on the positions of the bounding boxes and create a regular formatted document, but it would most likely have a bunch of improper line breaks, and misrecognized characters.

It's also terrible at background hand written notes and sfx.

>>283285039
We need decentralization for manga

>>283285039
Currently working on Rororro! with MS Paint, an open source MTL and my N5 Japanese to try and make something readable. I've just started, but after I finish it I'm hoping to give Momoiro Meloik a go. I'm surprised by how these works by major authors haven't been picked up by another scanalator.

>>283295491
Please don't.

>>283295635
Okay. I'll keep working on Rororro! and I am more than happy for you to pick up either series.

I’m gonna just let banana draw my sfx from now on

>>283290907
the worst are people who don't translate anything outside a speech bubble, even when it's extra dialogue

>>283297385
I don't translate editor comments. I hate them.

When it's not innit it's AI shilling, tragic what these threads have become

>>283297385
In almost all cases that's because it's hand written text and OCR struggles to read it.

>>283291485
I still use MD.

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>>283293170
Just glad to know you're alive and haven't dropped it, anon.

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>>283298807
I'm not nostalgic for the days where redrawing a page takes an entire evening because the author was in the mood for a "the entire text over traced photos" special.

>>283298807
Redrawing is soulless to begin with, it’s better replaced by AI

>>283298807
Being vehemently anti-AI Amish is as dumb as the bubble-humping AI shills who believe it's replacing god. Nothing wrong with letting it do the simplest grunt work then manually trimming the edges if it saves hours of mindless effort per chapter.

>>283300227
It isn't. AI is cancer so any positive talk about it does harm to everyone. The two are not in the same league.

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Is there a way to change the image mode of all PSDs in a folder without doing it manually?
Been changing them from Gray to RGB because when making PNGs at the end the images come out a little darker from the raws for some reason.

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Did the guys who were doing Meaheim really drop it?

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>>283301299
Why not use an action (i.e., a macro) for that?
You can combine it with the Image Processor (I have a 2024 cracked version but it should still exist in CC) to run it in batch for a specific folder.
One of the default actions is the reverse (RGB to Grayscale) which you can use as a template to know what to do, or tweak it accordingly.

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Someone told me this >>283099986
First time I ever heard of it. How do I tell if something is or not subsampled and does it really matter for monochrome pages?

The four horsemen of a shit doujinshi translation:
>CCWildWords
>Shit bubble spacing
>Untranslated/non-typeset cover page
>No redrawing
Any others?

>>283292936
Bleed-through is a given, it's shit paper after all. But no, I'm talking about raping scans with the likes of Topaz to boost details that would get completely fucked if you level it normally AND clean (most of it) at the same time. People used to have automated actions for this back in the day, so there must be proper order and tricks to it, right? I just want to know the general theory behind it so I can moderately apply it whenever I need it.

>>283300227
It's basically just a better content aware fill in this case. Being against it on principle is retarded. It's like these niggers complaining about the east wing of the white house just on principle, even though they wouldn't have cared if it weren't for trump. It's so fucking annoying.

>>283303720
Crazy how pinpoint you just narrowed down your demographic for no reason whatsoever. Indigestion of the conscience I suppose.

Idk im a lefty but i value my time

>>283303990
you're on 4chinz, if you want woke garbage that cater to your bullshit then you can leave for plebbit

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>be me
>download academic paper a few months back
>every month get a digest of papers related to my topic of interest
>see this

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>>283301299
>images come out a little darker from the raws
Press Shift+Ctrl+K to go to Color Settings and make sure your Gray is set to sGray.

>>283302747
The files look absolutely identical to me at 100% scale, so it doesn't matter in the slightest.

>>283303269
>I want an action that does all my work.
This ain't magic.
>Topaz
Topaz works wonders when blurring color scans but the screentones in black and white images would throw it off.
You can not perfectly separate noise from detail. Much less so automatically. You will always have a trade-off between loss of detail and cleanness of the scans.
>People used to have automated actions for this back in the day
Yeah, and we totally went to the moon, we just lost the technology, teehee.

Without examples I'll have a hard time figuring out what to recommend. The proper order of actions is always decided case-by-case (book-by-book).

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>>283293170
same as the other anon, I'm just glad to know you're still alive and didn't drop it

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is the "/a/nonymous" group from mandadex in the room with us?
if yes I want to help cleaning/redrawing "Tensei ni Hakobijin no Isekai Kouryakuhou"

>>283297385
It's bad but they better at least be consistent with it

>>283306365
the /a/nonymous group on mangadex is used by a bunch of people of /a/, mostly the live TLs you see like the one for itoko no ko here >>283300767
just post the chapter and see if you can get any interest

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>>283285039
What's the consensus on donations? I was recently offered some and have no clue what to do.
On one hand:
>I do this to learn some more nip and to """give back""" for all the fan translated shit I read
>personal principles just scream to not take any money because I didn't make the manga and any money belongs to author
But on the other hand:
>a fool is easily parted with his money
>retards who donate to scanlators are retarded whales who will probably spend said donation money on gacha slop instead if I don't accept

>>283306365
I can't get over how much the left girl's breasts look like ass in bikini

>>283306504
it's just I went through the archive and I didn't find a single thread whatever if it's a dump or a discussion about this series.
only some single posts.
so I was a little confused seeing /a/nonymous as the scanlator and yet not a single soul here talks/post about it.

>>283306365
if they're already working on it it's much easier if you contact them through mangadex rather than hoping they're in this thread and see your message

>>283306527
Accept and give them early access to chapters.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>283306600
>>283306600
>MTL this.

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>>283306600

That's relatively clean writing and is pretty legible, what's the issue?

Handwriting generally only becomes a problem when the resolution is also shit, like some of Sanbun Kyoden's older scans.

Speaking of why the FUCK hasn't his C105 and C106 shit been scanned yet?

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>>283306600
Just replace it with this

>>283306600
What fonts would you use for this?

>>283306854
James Almacen, squished Masiku for the title

>>283306553
/a/nonymous group is used wrong by most. It's meant for cases where multiple anons come together on /a/ to work on a series. In practice most /a/nonymous releases are just random fags too lazy/autistic to make a group that happen to posts on /a/.

>>283306527
Educate the retards to redirect the cash flow to authors in the future. Take lesson fees if you want to

>>283306600
Hire him >>283306762

>>283306527
The ethical thing to do is to accept the donations and then use them to buy x copies of the manga digital raws or donate to the authors fanbox or something, thus succesfully diverting the paypigs cash away from gacha slop and to better causes.
Or just take the money it's a doggy dog world out there.

>>283285039
All these years I still don't get the story of the hentai this image is from

>>283302512
>>283302512
Ok, I'll give it a go.
I only need to do it with one series. The others automatically pick RGB when saving as a PSD.

>>283306600
>Hagiwara
Follow his example and keep it as it is.

I hope there’s a typesetting AI

>>283305482
>critical role of human translators
>highlighting the need for translators to possess deep cultural insights and proficiency
MTL SEAmonkeys on suicide watch.

>>283309372
Yup that's me.

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I'm just waiting for someone to rip my manga volumes so I can see if there are any extras.
Last time I did it out of curiousity and found an entire page worth of lore in the pages dividing the chapters.

>>283310070
You don't see it in the volumes you buy as a fan of the series?

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>>283310158

What do you feel about people sitting on finished scans not releasing them

>>283312084
Feels like a myth to me. I see faggots taking about it like every group has a fat stash of completed chapters rotting on their hdds but I've never seen it in any group I was a part of nor has it turned out to be the case for any manga I've read.

>>283312599
i've seen it a few times. there was one title which had three groups vie for it where 2 groups sitting on their scans got sniped by a rando so it was 3 chapters dropping in one day

>>283312652
That's not sitting on scans. They had some member delay the process and instead rushed an unfinished release.

>>283312084
the only ones that do that are usually patreon pay walls like soseki scans and galaxy degen scans use to do
hate them with passion, but now we have the shitty coin based pay walls as well

>>283310725
it's like $5 a volume, it's retarded not buying and ripping the stuff you work on yourself. you'd make a lot more money at a job than on scanlation in the first place, if you're not willing to spend money on your hobby to do it properly you're a retard

>>283306527
I don't really want to accept donations because then I feel like I owe people something which I hate, and then it also feels like a fucking job and it's retarded working for nickels.

>>283312084
Haven't seen any doing it for a while. Guess they decided to horde it at their own websites.

>read that Galko-chan resumed serialization despite the odds
>rip available chapters with Hakuneko
>it's frigging low quality 1200px webp out of all things
ComicWalker used to serve pretty high resolution images, or at least we were able to access them with a dedicated tool, so what gives? They went back to the stone age just to save some bandwidth?

>>283286882
based

>>283318409
It depends on what magazine it's from. You should still get x2048 or x1600 for the print series.
And before the KadoComi rebrand their quality was well below x1200.

>>283318409
it depends on the magazine
in general it's better buying and ripping the volume raws
they also put on noise and jpeg artifacts on their comic walker stuff, so it's really only to be used if there's no other choice

>>283318985
>And before the KadoComi rebrand their quality was well below x1200.
See >>283300767
Resolution for dora dora sharp is still 726 x 1032

>>283299370
is everyone really just going back to MD now?

>>283320757
with comick dead and gone the only real alternative is bato.to
I've just continued uploading to mangadex, but I make sure to use vpn even when just logging in
otherwise you could use cubari gists and catbox and stuff like that and just post the releases on plebbit and here for visibility, but it's kind of a hassle

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>>283320854
all this happened because of manhwas being hosted on these sites. There has to be some manga site that just hosts manga and not korean slop.

>>283320757
Some didn't. Some stopped all together.
I just have to get chapters out. And MD is most popular one to scrap them from.

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I need to TL practice more, tooling makes a lot of stuff easier now.

>>283285039
Cool

>>283322182
yeah, the big point with mangadex is that most of the big aggregators scrape it automatically, so your work gets everywhere by only uploading one place
in contrast to bato.to which nearly no one scrape from

Did they lobotomize GPT again? I dropped some raws to crosscheck my tld scripts with because I can and not only it forgot I always ask for a line by line, but it's not even doing it in real time as it always did.
Is the bubble popping finally?

>>283326388
It's a sign to learn fucking moon already you scrub.

>>283326758
Don't worry I don't depend on it. Just surprised at this sudden change when it's supposedly only getting better.

Does anyone have a link to a more up-to-date download version of Photoshop? I'm still stuck with the 2016 one

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I don't know if this will work, probably not, but I still gotta try.
Please could someone, ANYONE, save this fucking manga?
Sentou Hakai Gakuen Dangerous.
I've unironically been waiting something like 10 years or more for a complete scanlation. I remember following this fucking manga through countless dead aggregators. It ended years and years ago and there are like what 4 chapters left? For the whole "life" of the manga the translations have been slow as shit but I've persevered. But now it's been 3 years since any group tried to have a go at it.
There's a spinoff sequel/prequel manga but I gave up on that ages ago. I just want to be able to read it to the end...
Yes I know that if I had spent all that time on learning Japanese I would be an expert at it already but still.
Please someone save me from this endless hell.

It's a really fun manga, same artist as that romance MTG manga and Onani Master Kurosawa

what's the point of this thread?
with MD and Comick dead, there's no hub site for uploading anymore and no one wants to make a new one.
and all the most demanded manga are already simulpubbed too.
scanlation is dead thanks to korean giant lawsuits on retarded owners who insist on having korean slop on their manga websites

>>283328373
hmm? it still works perfectly fine uploading to mangadex, even for the dmcad titles. just make sure to upload with vpn to not get into issues
and you always have batoto or mangago or whatever

I'm trying to help with orcsen but the panels are just so damn busy!

>>283320927
Nonono you don't understand we NEED lvl 9999 cultivator gook and chinkshit on display next to nipponese mangoes, this is the hill every site must be willing to die on.

>>283329402
Third time's the charm?

>>283330827
I was cultivating to become the perfect Lvl 999999 no-typos master.

I’ve always thought cultivation is like just cultivating a big orgasm.

>>283306574
Pay-walling early access is degenerate behavior. Just accept their donations as a courtesy from the people who want to support your work and keep doing everything else exactly the same as you're already doing it.

>>283331759
Ok but what if I need donations really bad for a sick parent?

>>283327192
There still a lot of choice rather than chatgpt only

>>283327192
Chatgpt generally sucks unless you pay. The best free model is actually 6 months old.

>>283328373
I can just scanlate and post here. Aggregators will always come up and people copy translated manga everywhere.

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>chatgpt this
>ai sloppalation that
Unironically an hero if you ""translate"" like that.

oi cunts. where do you get raws

>>283333916
Nyaa
Any of the dozens raw downloading sites out there
Ripping them from the official sites using Hakuneko or NutAID
Buying them

>>283333888
>some thirdies who don't know japanese nor english use mtl to generate unreadeable to donobeg with
>that means this is the only way to use ai
>ergo noone can use a free tool ever
Sorry m8 some of us don't have dedicated proofreaders or anyone else for that matter and I believe even GPT0.1 is better at japanese than the Mangadex forums.
Just don't take it as the bible.

>>283334189
>Sorry m8 some of us don't have dedicated
proofreaders
The only 'proofreader' you should need is yourself. If you don't know Japanese, and don't know English, you shouldn't be translating shit in the first place from/to either of those languages.

>>283333916
Kobo

>>283334221
>projecting
Even natives make mistakes. I can get a second opinion for free. I can ignore that second opinion all I want to.

>>283334189
>everyone else's AI output is trash but I alone am the chosen one who can use it for good
Just keep telling yourself that

>anti AI 老害 shitting up the thread

>>283334254
>Even natives make mistakes.
Yes, that's why you proofread it once yourself, twice if paranoid.
>ESL
You should be translating into your own SEAnigger language anyway. Not being fluent in the target language is what leads to the shittiest sloplations.

say what you will about that tranny innit, at least xe apparently had the ability to translate without fucking ""AI"" which seems to get rarer by the day

>>283334286
I see you're pretty slow in the head. Let's go at your pace and figure out why you're wrong.
>>Even natives make mistakes.
>Yes, that's why you proofread it once yourself, twice if paranoid.
So, why did you make a mistake in the first place?

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>>283334340
>So, why did you make a mistake in the first place?
Typos can happen, maybe a missed line of dialogue here, or rarely a misinterpretation that becomes clear on reading the script as a whole. Giving it a once-over generally catches 99% of errors if you're not a retarded ESL.

It's the same as proofreading any essay one writes (who am I kidding I'm sure you zoomtards, especially SEAmonkey zoomzooms, just ask the magic box to do your homework these days also and no longer have any real long-form writing/reading ability).

The fact that you AI-sloppa generating faggots are now shitting up even the once-sacred sc/a/nnylation thread just shows how pozzed and r*ddit-tier even much of /a/ has now regrettably become.

AI TL retains more nuances because you sub N1 180/180s can’t correctly decode a sentence most of the time.

>>283334387
Can your AI take all images, previous chapters and other context into account?

>>283334387
>Thinks "N1" means anything besides "able to have a basic conversation with a nip"
Only the kanken matters. But yes N3 - N5's full of themselves can be about as shit as a SEAmonkey raping a script.

What is a good ai tool for redrawing shit that actually comes out with a good result?

>>283334406
Retard, kanken means shit. after n2 audio input hours and finished book count matters more.

>>283334383
On second thought, your mental illness is leaking with every post. I think it's better not to argue with you.

>>283334431
>kanken means shit
A mid-to-high level is indicative of an extraordinary amount of competency and time invested in the language, and for that it's far more worthwhile than the bullshit that is the JLPT.

>>283334403
easily.

>>283334435
>my AI sloppa box couldn't output a decent rebuttal
Cool, stick to translating into fucking Indonesian or whatever shithole language your people speak, SEAnigger.

>>283334420
Spot healing brush. Nano banana actually saved me hours.

Can you believe that in the good old days people redrew shit by hand?

I bet the anti AI hypocrites actually use traditional algo brushes.

>>283327192
"AI" only gets more expensive, not cheaper, the more you use it. Dogshit unit economics.

I couldn’t care less, the fact is it saved me hours of CLRD time for free.

>>283334462
>Nano banana
how does this work?

>>283334420
Did you use IOPaint or don't you like its output?

>>283334445
What model do you use?

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I keep shilling my series in OPTs and other similar threads

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Oh my beloved native speakers. Since I'm not a native speaker I'd like to have your input on this matters:

>Is “He confessed to me.” a normal way in English to say “He told me he loves me.”
>Is “My heart isn't ready.” completely equivalent to “I'm not mentally ready for it.” and not at all a very floaty sounding phrase that would raise eyebrows when said in a normal everyday situation
>Is the BBC being awkward when it says “It's currently 16 hours."? I'd especially like to have the input of a native speaker who doesn't even use 24 hour clock ever as those are of course the most reliable to get information about natural 16 hour clock verbalizations.

Since I'm only a humble non-native speaker and definitely not subject to the arrogance of thinking that I know better than native speakers. I'd really like their input on this.

>>283333916
mostly using kobo/calibre/dedrm for volume raws, hakuneko for comic walker, and otherwise the scanlation school script that works on nearly anything, but slow

>>283334467
*bad old days
If I can delegate pointless, tedious, mind numbing labor that can be done by a half-brained monkey but still requires tons of time to a digital half-brained monkey, I will.

>>283334383
>The fact that you AI-sloppa generating faggots are now shitting up even the once-sacred sc/a/nnylation thread just shows how pozzed and r*ddit-tier even much of /a/ has now regrettably become.
you really need to touch grass man

>>283334420
IOPaint is probably still the easiest available one that's free.
Basically combine it with content aware fill and you can redraw like 95 percent of a chapter easily.

Reminder not to reply to innitschizo

>>283334573
that's basically what the OPTs are for, only allowed recommendation threads on this board for years really

>>283334657
>nooo just let things go to shit without a word
Fuck you sloppa-zoomie. You've made me long for the days when innit was the only one shitting up these threads, never thought it'd be possible, fug.

>>283334515
I personally used https://github.com/zombieyang/sd-ppp but >>283287631
seems easier to use.

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FRIENDSHIP WITH IOPAINT IS OVER
NANO BANANA IS MY BEST FRIEND NOW

>>283334929
I know exactly what nano banana is and how yo use it, but if you can imagine someone who is such a boomer that wouldn't know how to begin doing this, what would you tell to such a pathetic loser?

>>283335107
if you have to pay for it it's worthless

What do you with SFX whose meaning you literally cannot find?

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>>283334929
I don't really like how it changes the whole image and make some detail complete smudge, but the way it manages to draw over characters is pretty impressive.
Though if it redraws over some text it just give random bullshit like the text on the banner

>>283335196
You can intuit 99% of SFX.

>>283335196
Mimic it with your own voice

>>283335196
I usually check places like jaded sfx or ask chatgpt.
If I can't figure it out, I just write it out in romaji and call it a day.
No need to make things complicated since no one really cares about sfxs.

>>283335198
it's the same as iopaint or other generative fill, just hide the bad stuff with big strokes and if it looks good, it is good
the important bit is that it's a massive time saver, especially if you're a solo group

>>283335196
Mangaka literally invent new sfx all the time. Start making noises with your mouth like you're a baby again and transcribe the next closest sound.

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>>283335196
Skill issue, don't tell me you're worse than a toddler. Jokes aside each individual sound and which position they are within the SFX actually has semantic meaning.
This summery paper is a pretty good start to get yourself up to speed
日本語の擬態語の音象徴について認知言語学的視点.pdf
https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2794863/p019.pdf
Or you can consult the bible of this field:
the sound-symbolic system of japanese.pdf
https://archive.org/download/soundsymbolicsys00hama/soundsymbolicsys00hama.pdf
Actually, the best way to use these is to throw them into Gemini 2.5 pro and ask it to breakdown the SFX in question into individual phoneme and ask it to produce a report with verbatim quotes from the papers and page numbers for you to verify.

>>283334547
NTA but this almost-outdated model is probably the only free model capable of doing that, though I doubt the "easily" part.
https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-2.5-pro

What's the chaddest option?
JAPANESE HONORIFICS: Hey! It's our classmate, Takashi-San!
TRANSLATE HONORIFICS: Hey! It's our classmate, Mister Takashi!
HONORIFICS ONLY WHEN THEY WOULD APPLY IN ENGLISH: Hey! It's our classmate, Takashi!

>>283335574
Whatever I feel like at that moment

>>283335511
>produce a report with verbatim quotes from the papers and page numbers for you to verify.
>verify
the correct way is to ask to be spoonfed. blame it if it goes wrong ofc.

>>283335574
Translate it always. Also in the case of the last one. People get their opinions of what is “normal” in Japanese culture from certain forms of fiction without realizing that it isn't normal in Japan either to refer to your friends with family name and honorific, or at least not as normal as that kind of fiction would make it as it's just to show the protagonist is a low test beta cuck who calls everyone by family name and honorific rather than a normal purpose for maximum self-insertion and shit.

Japanese people just call their friends by given name in general and one can also clearly see that it's mostly a thing of those kinds of stories whereas in stories with normal characters people generally just call each other by given name. People aren't doing that honorific shit i say Dragon Ball.

>>283320854
So what DO you do if the series you're scanlating had all chapters pulled?

>>283335574
I dump the script into an llm and have it decide for me

>>283335833
Make a discord server.

Is translating novel or manga harder?

>>283335729
>People aren't doing that honorific shit i say Dragon Ball.
Bulma literally never calls Goku anything but "Son-kun", you retarded dubshitter.

>>283336702
Translating? Novel. More text and you can't rely on visual context. Readers can follow along some of the worst manga translations just by looking at pictures. A novel translator needs to be able to comprehend and not just guess.

In general and if you have a firm grasp on the language? Manga is so much worse. Typesetting is a pain in the ass. Even if you do the bare minimum, you still need to scrape meaning from lines to cram them into bubbles. The few times I've translated novels it's so liberating having practically infinite space to write. The only reason I don't do it more often is no one gives a fuck about novels unless they're from a well established franchise.

>>283336829
Bloomer is low test and everyone else just calls him by given name and so does he, most of those characters don't even have a family name and Bloomer is clearly meant to be European so it's hilarious anyway.

>>283336702
Depends on the series.

>>283334929
That's very good. Does it redo the whole image instead of changing the parts you want changed?

>>283338772
The chat version does, but you can just paste it over the original and mask away all unnecessary changes.

>>283285039
Nothing

>>283335833
you can still upload dmcad chapters, just make sure to use vpn and a throwaway account