FoOlRulez » guorbatschow http://foolrulez.org/blog We translate it because we want to read it! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:14:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photoshop CS5 and the Impact on Scanlationhttp://foolrulez.org/blog/2010/04/photoshop-cs5-and-the-impact-on-scanlation/ http://foolrulez.org/blog/2010/04/photoshop-cs5-and-the-impact-on-scanlation/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:41:12 +0000 guorbatschow http://foolrulez.org/blog/?p=4127 It’s hardly four days till Adobe launches the next iteration of its – I dare say – most successful and most pirated piece of software. Here is the perspective and expectations from someone who had experience with Photoshop since version 7 and who avidly uses it for tasks involving images, including of course, scanlation.

Some people might argue that GIMP as an open source alternative is just as good, but most people who have had in-depth experience with Photoshop know otherwise. It’s the usability and lots of small yet crucial features that makes Photoshop the favorite among scanlators. Some groups even go as far as requiring their editors to use Photoshop. While GIMP certainly will get the job done, it will do so by consuming a lot more time, and time is a precious good when a single manga chapter averages out at 30 pages and involves a lot of routine tasks to be carried out.

CS4, the currently latest version of Photoshop, already brought a few great features. The support for hardware acceleration based on the graphics card not only improved the performance, but also allowed better preview scaling and most important of all (at least for scanlators), preview when using clone stamp right on the drawing cursor. While content-aware scaling is a cool feature, I personally almost never use it.
So what’s so special about CS5 that I dedicate an entire blog post to it? Watch and be amazed…

What does this mean for scanlators? You might already know that FoOlRulez puts a lot effort into editing, not only translating the text in the bubbles, but also replacing sound effects, however large it might be, with understandable English equivalent. That requires something we call redrawing: large chunks of what was japanese sound effect text have to be replaced by what we think might have been the original picture behind the sound effect. That, sometimes, takes a lot of time, depending on the size and the content to redraw.

See what my point is? Exactly, this time-consuming part of editing might be shortened a lot, if the feature shown on the demo video works as perfectly as we all are hoping it would.

Stay tuned and just maybe, FoOlRulez might be able to churn out fresh scanlations at an even faster pace, at the same high quality standard.

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Mediafire | Read here

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I’m kinda tired now, from all the stuff I gotta do for the uni… bleh. So in the end it actually got busy… *stretch*

Woxxy is still busy with school and his new project.

Google’s Chrome OS sucks.

Twilight.

What else is new?

Oh right. Orange Roof 37.

Mediafire | Read here

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I’m really getting tired of hamburgers btw…

Drink for today, my favorite beer:

augustiner_edelstoff_flasche_glas

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Here is the drink to go with the food at SCX:

6a00d8341cbc7453ef00e55074898f8834-800wi

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]]> http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-34/feed/ 12 Orange Roof chapter 33http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-chapter-33/ http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-chapter-33/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:02:40 +0000 guorbatschow http://foolrulez.org/blog/?p=3436 And again, Lenners caught me when I wasn’t being careful, so now I’m being forced to release Orange Roof, delaying my precious pasta!

Somebody go to SCX and flame them for releasing yet again!

Here’s some wine to go with whatever Lenners is serving today at their place today:

Red Wine

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]]> http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-chapter-33/feed/ 14 Orange Roof 31http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-31/ http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/10/orange-roof-31/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:42:14 +0000 guorbatschow http://foolrulez.org/blog/?p=3382 You guys remember me?

Yeah. It’s me again! And no I’m not back to scanlations again, at least not dedicatedly like I used to. Still about eighty days to go before I return from this exchange semester.

Good thing for you now is that Lenners from SCX managed to catch me on IRC and FORCED ME INTO RELEASING THIS!

Just kidding. Woxxy isn’t online, so I’m doing it for now.

Get it now: Mediafire | Manga Reader | DDL&IRC

PS: Lenners said this chapter was shocking…
PPS: Yeah I read it and its hawt!

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… is what I said.

Lenners complied, so now we got another joint release of SCX and FoOlRulez.

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Enjoy, more uncensored Orange Roof.

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]]> http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/07/orange-roof-19/feed/ 21 Spice and Wolf vol.2 final chapterhttp://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/07/spice-and-wolf-vol-2-final-chapter/ http://foolrulez.org/blog/2009/07/spice-and-wolf-vol-2-final-chapter/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:15:04 +0000 guorbatschow http://foolrulez.org/blog/?p=2740 Finally, last chapter of volume 2 of Spice and Wolf.
This manga must have been the most logically intricate and most chatty manga that I’ve ever edited and translated. Not to mention all the little SFX all over the place.

But now it’s done. At least till the next volume is available. Which should be released on 27. Nov. 2009, if they keep the pattern…

Until then, there is still second season of the anime!

read here | DDL&IRC | mediafire

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