Positions's Closed

Think we're good for now?

Wednesday Updates: Response has been far greater than I anticipated; I expected one or two replies after a couple weeks. Do believe we were overwhelmed and underprepared; maybe we should finish up with the volunteer's current projects, take some time to get some shit together, then have another editin' drive?

Current Volunteers: I'll post a few more corrections to the instructions below now (saving and the text ordering illustration), and whenever necessary. Please leave a message if I've not sent you something to work on, or if you want another story instead. I am awful at organization, and awful sorry if I've forgotten you.
Edit: And a quick new addition, on masking.
Saturday: Another very short note on SFXs.


Oh, I won't ask for help, naw. But if you want to pitch in, you can do that. Whether you're a complete newb wanting to try your hand at editing, or a hardened vet with nothing better to do, or if you just really want to see one of those poor neglected stories get done faster, leave a comment, lemmie know.
I'd be here if you've got questions, or if you just want me to do the hard stuff.  Maybe I could write up some sort of guide or shit, perhaps give fence sitters an idea of what's involved/open my process to scrutiny and ridicule? Is that a thing I should do? Honest, got an outline in my head already...


Check out that list of translations, see if anything tickles fancy. There are a couple stories I don't really want to do, a bunch I just gotta do (one is both, fuck...), and while most of 'em I do look forward to I might be willing to share. Ask for more info, raws, volunteer? Just leave a comment.


Yeah guys, editing's fun.

Update, Mon.:
Applicants, please leave the following info:

• What kind of stories do you want to do? Any deal breakers? Please let us know of anything you're not into (anal, etc...)
  
• What kind of editing (typesetting/SFXs/cleaning/de-censoring) do you want to do? If just typesetting, you can leave all the SFXs to someone else (likely me).
• Have any experience? Need any particular advice or help?
• If you decide to do a story I've sent you, leave a post. Keep us updated! Some of these artists are suddenly in demand, I don't want any blood shed here, guys.

Saving
And I've just now come up with some requests for your submitted work. Applies mostly to those only doing the typesetting, but I think this is the best way to send all the quality while keeping your upload time to a minimum. And it's illustrated!
Wednesday Update: Turns out I can open .psd files with the gimp, though they may be losing font outlines, perhaps other issues may arise... Still, that would be preferable to .png. And it never occurred to me that anyone else might be using gimp, but .xcf would be ideal. Again, you can strip out the original image layer to save space if you want to. So:

1. Use plain white to mask the original text.
2. Delete original image layer!
3. Save as .psd (photoshoop)/.xcf (gimp)
4. I fix it.

This is assuming I'm cleaning the image after you're done with it, of course (any .jpgs, I need to clean). No problem if you want to leave me all the SFXs, or any difficult stuff like:

Aw dude, I totally fucked up that one line... Pic reminds me though, check out Ero-Otoko's editing guide. Good stuff there. Covers some de-censoring/translating too.

Order

Important Wed. Addition!: In the above example, if there were SFX
translations they would follow the same rules, appearing between
lines of dialogue like so:
Lines 1, 2, sfx, 3, sfx, sfx, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Since the translation text files have been written for me, who's quite familiar with their format, Uglicus has provided some notes:

1. Text in the file corresponds to columns of items in comic panels like so (see right). Note that this rule means ordering in the script has nothing to do with the order things should be read in on the comic page. The point is to make it clear where things go without making you read any Japanese.

2.    Sound effects are accompanied by kana so you will know where to place them.  "squeeze  きゅっ" should be on a single line in the text file. 
If you see the line "squeeze  きゅっ" in the text file, you should look for "きゅっ" on the page, and then put "squeeze" on top of it. If you are only typesetting you should be able to ignore lines with kana on them in most cases (rule three being one exception).
Sat. Edit; Note:  Multiple Sfxs may be listed as 'slich (each ぬる)' or such; Uglicus has assured me not every single one has to be added (see Anipyu!, where I didn't listen).

3.    Sound effects in bubbles are usually not accompanied by kana. For clarity I sometimes type bubbled sound effects in parentheses like so:  "squeeze (きゅっ)". That way they look different from the loose sound effects that are more common. Sometimes I forget the parentheses, though. Watch for that.   

4.    I try to note when I am skipping bubbles. I may also note when I am skipping sound effects.

Wednesday Addition!: Tranny Mask Layer!: Even after following the above rules for months, shit gets tricky.
A thing I like to do is keep my masking layer transparent. First, you should be using a separate layer to white-out the Japanese text anyway; if you're dealing with really messy scans or transparent bubbles a copy of the image layer'll do too (or you can just stick to white and leave all that to me :D). I dial this mask layer down to 70~80% opacity while I'm putting the text in, see pic (and pic above for an incidental example). This way, even if you don't know any Japanese you can keep an eye on the punctuation, sentence length, or repeating characters for reference. I'm slowly learning a few hiraganas that way, which is also a great help for those onomatopoeic gasps and moans.
Remember sometimes stuff gets changed around in the translation, of course, but I find this much more often useful than not.

Beyond  that, a transparent mask layer'll let you keep an eye on the original fonts and sizes, letting you mimic them as you please. Crazy fun!
When I'm done a page, I roll the opacity back to 100%, and give things a look over before saving. It's also important to see how the text looks on it's own, and following the original too closely can be detrimental (I should look up some examples of this).

I am super tired right now, hope I did not mangle all that or something. I did just remember a dirty little secret about Uglicus's translations; I've never pointed this out to him in hopes of sparing him the shame, but you guys must know the truth: Sometimes he uses two spaces instead of one. Like this  sorta thing. Like '  ' instead of just ' '. That can  throw off your text a bit, so what I do is ctrl+h '  ' for ' ', every time, first thing.
 Never breath a word of that to him. If I get the next script and find that's been corrected, I'll know I can never trust any of you guys again. I'm serious, you guys. Super Tires.

*Super-Lame-Ass Disclaimer, for serious prospective editors' eyes only: If you have a website with significantly violent or similarly disturbing content, I will not knowingly link to it and make an effort to not visit myself. I am a massively paranoid pussy crybaby and I bear grudges, sorry. No hate, man.
**Re. pic: Tsundere-san is mine.