What’s what we call an editor in FoOlRulez?

An editor is the person who takes care of applying the translation on the images. This means this person must clean, redraw all the SFX possible and put the translation in the bubbles. He must take care of the graphics through all the process, and make sure the editing quality is on par (eventually asking for advice if not sure or unable to do something).

Nothing more. In short: take the proofread translation, put it on PSDs the best you can, wait while it gets proofread a second time, apply corrections, release.

We need someone (in order of importance):

• someway experienced in Photoshop;
• with lots of time to waste at PC;
• with no preference on the manga to edit (but editors are almost free to pick the chapters);
• who talks in English decently enough (just to be able to chat with us fluently!);
• with a tablet (makes you leaps better at redrawing, but if you’re good with a mouse, it’s fine anyway);
• who wouldn’t mind keeping an IRC client always on.

We don’t want someone (any of this disqualifies you):

• who is already in another group;
• using GIMP;
• who is a tutorial victim, thinking quality is into that 0.03° rotation of the page or the 3 tones of black you’ve lost as tutorials say (while cloning the same 3 pixels 400 times all over the page and not styling the fonts according to the Japanese version);
• who thinks we need a quality checker.

To apply, please, leave a PM to Woxxy in the forums. It’s great if you have manga you’ve edited before as example, but if that’s not the case, I’ll provide a short test to show me what can you do, and to understand yourself what’s editing about.

There’s as usual a lot going on at fools.

Ok, first news, we’ll take up Seitokai Yakuindomo 4koma manga, with all its sex references. But this is just news, wait for facts. The decision should be final though, and the release come quite soon, as in 24-48 hours.

Second: I wasted 1 hour from the release to draw the yukkuri. So make sure you praise me.

Third, and surely more massive, it took a load of work by guorbatschow. We’re (guorbatschow is) working on Curves, a new bot framework written in Java, which means Tanline, our gangsta-moe black haired twintailed bot is now also going to give you the downloads, beside being almost living on artificial intelligence. If things go well, Curves will become an Open Source project that you will be able to use yourself.

Fourth, we have Sora no Otoshimono 40!

Please, if you can waste 40 seconds more of your life, go on IRC to try downloading from the new bot. Use the command “!get sora 40″ or “!download sora no otoshimono 40″ or any command in this page. And please, report in this thread if things didn’t go well.

Sora no Otoshimono 40:
DDL&IRC | Read it

If the new bot doesn’t work, just use “/msg fool xdcc send 290″ to use the old bot.

So yeah, if you got some attitude, go in the forum’s spam section and break the hell loose with spam!

I know around 30% of our readers have an account, so I am sure it won’t be such a big hassle to drop in there, will it?

Now, GO SPAMMIN’.

scizzer12, the King of Spam says:
It all started a year ago, on a day like any other. The denizens of FoOlz needed a holiday, an outlet for their spamming power. Being their newly reelected king, I happily obliged and Spam Day was born!

Flock to the forums;
we love you long time.

So he tells me, “I participated in World War II. I lost my NOSE in that war.” And I was all, “Hey, okay, I feel for you man, but so did Michael Jackson, and technology helped you guys out.”
His eyes narrowed. He turned around and kicked a whole through the bus stop’s Excel ad. I look at him in the glass, and I can see he’s crying. Crying. And I’m scared. It’s raining outside. And this bus stop isn’t even a bus stop. It’s a telephone booth. So there’s a grown man crying here, and I’m shivering because I didn’t wear any socks. Heck, I didn’t even wear a sweater. My mom got me a new sweater. Same one for my brother. His was blue and dark blue. Mines was white and black. Mine’s looked better. It was also more multicultural.

And I’m cold. And I’m thinking about the oil spill, and all the poor people out in the East, who die without receiving any love. Edmonton sure has weird weather. It snowed here yesterday, would you believe it, Daniel, would you?!

May 29th

It rained all day. The snow from yesterday is pretty much washed out.

(fade to black)

Roald Dahl is taller than me. I noticed that when I walked in. I usually notice when someone is taller than me. This is because when they are taller than me, they are taller than me. This makes me take note of my shortness in comparison to them. I like having short friends. I tried wrestling with one of my tall friends once. I ended up looking like a hotdog you put in the microwave for a minute and thirty seconds. You ever seen that stuff? Yeah, that’s some messed up stuff right there. I opened a  lot of Pharaoh Treasure Chests. Like 100. I didn’t even get one scroll.

Roald Dahl stopped crying in the summer of 2004. I stayed by his side the whole time. I reminded him what a lovely family he had, all the people who cared about him. Korea must be interesting. Apparently, there are tourist “hotspots”. But that’s silly. The Earth is a tourist hotspot. There’s like, 7 billion people there. All the time. Have you seen how many visitors the moon gets? Pfff. I wonder if they ever had a tea party up there. Did they pass gas to keep the tea in?

Dolphins are made out of rubber, right? They jump in the water, they jump out. Who can keep up with all that, anyways?

(sound of sirens in the distance)

Roald Dahl stopped crying. He turns to me now.

“Who is Nagato Yuki?”

I have no answer for him. Outside, the rain continues to fall.

(sound of sirens now louder)

Is being depressed during rain hardwired into our brains? Like, we see water coming down, and all of a sudden, even the Barney costume finally stops smiling. I like rain. Whenever there’s a huge storm, I get excited. I go on my porch. Roald Dahl is just around the corner.

(red and white lights can now be seen clearly outside the telephone booth)

“I’ll be seeing you, then.”

“Where will you go?”

“Who knows? I’m a writer. I can go anywhere.”

“Firefighters must be happy right now. The weather’s been pretty damp lately.”

Roald Dahl got up and walked outside. Richard Parker never looked back. But Roald Dahl did. He gave me one long, piercing stare from behind his half-moon spectacles.

“”Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
“Huh?”

“You take care of yourself now.”

(The sirens are gone.)

I picked up the ping pong paddles and left the telephone booth. A little boy with his plush tiger ran past me.  I stared at him. What did he think of his plush tiger? What could be so interesting about it? Had he ever played computer games? I liked to think that perhaps, in his imagination, the he was having adventures with a tiger, who could talk. Maybe he gave it a name.
How absurd.

In case you’re still wondering, no, we are not dubbing Boku no Pico.

http://foolz.us/fb

Coming soon to your nearest Facebook!

There was a splendid Rin Kagamine by the way. And, you know, we appreciate Kagamine Rin.

I’ll put here the pics that turned out to be decent.

By Woxxy:

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By GBolt:

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By Urielmatt:

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Dollars Chat

What does it have to do with me? Well, I made the cool avatars that you’re already (if you’re not, get moving) using. But this wasn’t enough, so we though we’re going to give you even more.
*APPLAUSE*

We are going to make more (yes, more) cool avatars and you are going to choose what’s next. Your favorite anime waifu? The most badass video game character? The dog-belonging-to-the-secondary-character-that-was-in-one-chapter-

of-that-one-manga-you-don’t-remember-the-name-of-but-probably-dealt-with-high-school-students? Just post your suggestions in the comments and we will check them and see if they’re viable to become Durarara-like avatars. Please note that the subject must not be too complex (not because I’m too lazy, but because the graphic style isn’t suitable for complex designs). Also note that the chat is still in sort-of-beta, so there may be bugs or or traits to be improved. Enough chitchatting (did you get the pun? :D), we want you to comments, so post feedback about the chat (what is missing and what could be improved), suggestions about the next avatars to come and your opinion on this project. Thanks for the attention.

Disclaimer: FoOlRulez is in no way affiliated with Ryohgo Narita, Dengeki Bunko, ASCII Media Works, Brain’s Base, Dullahans and/or Vending Machine companies. It is indeed affiliated with me, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this post, you dummy. Also, we won’t  really do any avatar about that dog-that-was-in-[...]. That was a lie.

Here are the avatars.

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tanaka-taro.png

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/setton.png

http://foolrulez.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kanra.png

Don’t worry, Saika will be coming soon.

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.

SERIOUSLY. GAHHH.

OH, DID I SAY HAYATE CHAPTERS? I MEANT SPOILERS.

SPOILERS.

*sob*

He’s also a goddamn good planner, but he has a fault: he writes down every plan before processing it.

This is my revenge for the April Fool he pulled on me: this is the plan that he prepared for “April FoOls”.

FoOlRulez, Fabio, you got assraped!