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      meh 0
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      Please note that this is not an advertising thread, we're simply looking for help.

      Greetings, members at Arlong Park. Me and a friend of mine had an idea of starting our own One Piece scanlation team a few days ago, and have managed to get a few more members so far, but the plan is to provide weekly High Quality scans on raw-day or the day after that, so we need even more members. Here are two tests, you only need to do one so that we can see what you can do.

      Test number one:

      Turn something like this

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      Into this

      !

      Test number two:

      Turn this

      !
      Into something like this

      !

      Cleaning Tutorial.

      Thanks in advance.

      Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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      • Malintex_Terek
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        I'd love to join an scanslation group someday but an issue I have with all these requests is that groups just request for people who already have the knowledge of cleaning scans, but there's no tutorial anywhere that can be read for people to learn how to clean scans.

        MUV-LUV ALTERNATIVE

        Making Anime and Manga OBSOLETE since 2006

        PM me for details

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          Added a cleaning tutorial at the bottom of my post. ^_ ^

          Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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            http://mangahelpers.com/forum/index.php?topic=2433.0

            go here for ya learning.

            edit: Will you look at that, beat to the punch.

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            • Malintex_Terek
              Malintex_Terek @stingy
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              It will be a personal mission of mine that, once I finish the Wiki + GMD I'll be a scanslator. =D

              MUV-LUV ALTERNATIVE

              Making Anime and Manga OBSOLETE since 2006

              PM me for details

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              • M
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                Sounds good, send me your msn via PM. ^^

                Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                  This seems like fun! I was thinking of forming a scanlation group but it was only me. I needed a translator and raw provider
                  I'd love to join! I'll edit this post and show you what I can do later (I'm at school), but I am VERY interested in joining!

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                  • Zephos
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                    I like the originals better.
                    Aside from the obvious gritty copy problem the art is actually more clear, it looks like the Tankobans. And the gray-tone looks far too…...plastic in the cleans.

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                    • GearSecond
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                      Greetings

                      I have recently started a mini-project of my own and was considering starting my own group, since I noticed alot of names were messed up, especially in earlier chapters.

                      Anyways I'm going to PM you with my ideas(well my project I've already started on) and let me know if you need someone to kinda "pick" names and such. Like for example there's Lucci Lucchi Luchi ect….

                      Anyways I'm interested. Cleaning will come in handy.

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                        @Ceestar:

                        This seems like fun! I was thinking of forming a scanlation group but it was only me. I needed a translator and raw provider
                        I'd love to join! I'll edit this post and show you what I can do later (I'm at school), but I am VERY interested in joining!

                        Added you to the msn you entered here at AP. ^_^
                        @GearSecond:

                        Greetings

                        I have recently started a mini-project of my own and was considering starting my own group, since I noticed alot of names were messed up, especially in earlier chapters.

                        Anyways I'm going to PM you with my ideas(well my project I've already started on) and let me know if you need someone to kinda "pick" names and such. Like for example there's Lucci Lucchi Luchi ect….

                        Anyways I'm interested. Cleaning will come in handy.

                        Answered your PM.

                        Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                          I'll have one of the tests to you soon.

                          And about how many members will you be looking for?

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                          • igalsfy
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                            what quality do you want for your scans?

                            because for now, we already have Cez and kokotas who do an amazing job in fast scanlations with zede05's translation. and then we have null which are… null. you know their quality.

                            my real question is: what do you think your group will bring that we don't have already? it might be good to think about it.

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                              @UncleGene:

                              I'll have one of the tests to you soon.

                              And about how many members will you be looking for?

                              About 2-4 more. ^_^
                              @igalsfy:

                              what quality do you want for your scans?

                              because for now, we already have Cez and kokotas who do an amazing job in fast scanlations with zede05's translation. and then we have null which are… null. you know their quality.

                              my real question is: what do you think your group will bring that we don't have already? it might be good to think about it.

                              We're going to have REAL High Quality scans on the day that the raw is released or the day after, and our project leader is Emery (you might know him, he scanlated some chapters on his own and works with Shannaro). So yeah, we're planning on becoming the best. 🙂

                              Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                ChopChopCannon @meh 0
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                                I'd help if I could, but there are two problems:

                                A: I don't really know what the average scanlation team requires.
                                B: My knowledge of Japanese is limited. I only know simple words, like how 'inu' means dog, 'Kusa' means grass, 'tori' means bird, and so on.

                                Holy hole in a doughnut, Batman!

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                                • M
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                                  A: Do the test and we'll see.
                                  B: What you're going to do if you join is clean pages, not translate. 😉

                                  Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                  • Hitotsumami
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                                    Hmmm, sounds like an interesting idea.

                                    Check out my art here… maybe...?

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                                    • igalsfy
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                                      guys, cleaning is hard and takes a lot of time, don't take it lightly. (not talking to meh but to people who eagerly want to join)

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                                        After spending fifteen minutes on the second test I realized why I stopped doing cleaning in the first place; it's boring. But if you're ever in need of page colorists keep me in mind and I'll show you some of my work.

                                        And igalsfy is entirely right; it takes more time to perfect these scans than you'd think. You may find a majority of the scanlation community to be incredibly cynical; coloring, editing, translating, and releasing, it's all to be perfect otherwise you'll come under the attack of many critics. You may think it sounds silly as scanlation is supposed to be a fun hobby and only there to help people out, but it's a reality. And if you're not bringing something new to the table, as igalsfy already mentioned, you're better off not bringing anything.

                                        I don't want to sound so pessimistic but I've seen these attempts never leave the ground; and groups rise and falter. The other reality is it's very difficult to pick up on good members, you will get a lot of empty promises seeing as very little people will realize how vital your deadlines are.

                                        So if you're doing this for fun, have at it. If you're really trying to be known for something though, prepare for a lot of work and criticism. But hell, either way, it's worth a try. 🆒

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                                        • M
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                                          I'll tell you this, this group won't falter because it's going to be the group for a One Piece website that's under construction, and the leader of the scanlation team is a very experienced cleaner, and we already have a few members. We might even scanlate the next chapter.

                                          So I think we'll be fine. 🙂

                                          Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                            Then good luck 🙂

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                                              Hey, wanted to tell you that you should be careful with a scanlation group… it's against the law and a friend of mine got sued because he made scanlations.
                                              I'm not telling you to stop, but you should be careful not to make it too official like on an own website where everyone can find it.
                                              Well, anyway... Good luck with your project! ^^

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                                                ^The chance of that happening is really low though

                                                Here's another editing/cleaning guide:
                                                http://www.unblessed.net/guide/main.html

                                                I'm in the scan team btw 🙂

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                                                • M
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                                                  Hey gnutte. You guys might know him, he just scanlated the latest naruto chapter on his own.

                                                  Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                                    I could provide hosting, if you'd like. If you read shounen stuff, I'm sure you've at least heard of my site for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure; ignition-one.

                                                    IGNITION-ONE | Ippo. Jojo. Go, go!

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                                                      We don't need hosting, this scanlation team is for a One Piece website that's coming up. ^_^

                                                      Thanks for the offer.

                                                      Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                                        @meh:

                                                        Hey gnutte. You guys might know him, he just scanlated the latest naruto chapter on his own.

                                                        Just did some simple leveling while cleaning, so it wasn't much work 😄

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                                                          True, but you cleaned the whole chapter. 😉

                                                          Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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                                                            We just released our first scanlation.

                                                            http://www.apforums.net/showthread.php?p=404725#post404725

                                                            Take the One Piece Character Quiz!

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