Topic: Cleaner App (Read 636 times)

folkien · « **on:** August 09, 2010, 07:37:29 PM »

'hayo!

Name/Nickname: Folkien
Country Of Origin & Time Zone: Poland, GMT+1
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Enter Msn or Yahoo messenger: folkien666@hotmail.com
What Field You Would Like To Be Positioned In: Cleaner
Why You Want This Position: Well, I saw announcement that you're lacking on staff, so here I am, trying to be useful.
Your Time Available:about 5 hours a day.
Experience: None, I have just read few tutorials and here I am.

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23757771/fv4.zip

Lanie · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2010, 07:58:53 PM »

Heya! Looks good for a first try, especially considering you don't have any experience! (So congrats!) There are a couple issues, so I'll need you to make another pass.

First of all, all the raws need denoising. There's some awesome software you can get for free (unlimited trials). Try either NeatImage or Topaz Denoise (google it) and play around with that. It makes all the difference!

Secondly, I need you to remove any text that's not in the bubbles. The easiest way is with the clone tool in Photoshop. Don't worry about the sound effects on Blazer Drive.

Also I noticed you had odd pixel depths for all the images. Keep it at 72dpi, please.

Your blacks and whites look great and you haven't over-burned or over-leveled anything so that's awesome. Let me know about how long it takes you per-page please.

Can't wait to see your fixes!

folkien · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2010, 08:05:44 PM »

Ok then, I'll do some fixes and upload again tomorrow :)

Oh, and it's about 20-30 minuter per page, I can't remember xD

ikore · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2010, 08:15:24 PM »

You don't have to remove the text outside a bubble, that rule has changed recently. (it's easier for the typesetters to know where the text goes without looking at the raws)

folkien · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2010, 09:24:08 PM »

I said I'll do it tomorrow, but i had more time than i thought :D
Denoised a bit and corrected to 72dpi.

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23731453/folkien_v2.zip

ikore · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2010, 03:04:23 PM »

Woah, another european XD

Beelzebub: Burn the top of tree a little bit more. And make the page border white. (you left some on the left middle)

BD: This page is blurry. Level it to get rid of it. The grays could be a little bit flatter too.

DGM: Remove the dusts on the whites and burn the blacks. The grays here are a little bit weird. It's blurry too.

DD: Good job on the grays. You forgot to burn some blacks and to remove the dusts on the white. You forgot to remove the marks of the page border on the top right.

FT: Good job, but please leave the text ouside bubbles. Typesetters remove them.

Naruto: This page is blurry, level it.

Reborn: Remove the dusts on the whites and burn the speedlines. Good merge =)

I hope this helps and good luck on your next try.

folkien · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2010, 04:19:07 PM »

One more try.
With DGM I started from beginning, but i don't know if I'm doing it wrong or is it just bad raw, but I don't like it. Also, there are no text outside bubbles in FT cause I already deleted them and I see no sense in pasting them once again.

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23741486/f_v_3.zip

ikore · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2010, 04:37:59 PM »

Beelzebub: Ok.

BD: Blur is gone. Grays aren't flattend. (which can make it look much better)

DGM: The grays are still a little bit weird. Rest of the page is ok. What do you use to denoise?

DD: Good, the blacks in the eyes could be burned a little more except for the first panel.

FT: I didn't notice it last time, but it's a little blurry too. Level the whites slightly.

Naruto: It's still blurry, look at pain in the gray panels. You might have to redo it to get rid of it. (not sure)

Reborn: Same as last time. There's a lot of dust between the speedlines and they aren't burned enough.

Good luck with your next attempt, but take your time. It makes your pages look much better. Speed will come later ;)

folkien · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2010, 04:55:49 PM »

To denoise i use NeatImage.
BTW are there any magic setting that would look good on any raws?

ikore · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:38:36 PM »

Quote from: folkien on August 10, 2010, 04:55:49 PM

To denoise i use NeatImage.
BTW are there any magic setting that would look good on any raws?

No, there isn't. But there's one that only needs to be tweaked a little.
Noise level:
Luminance channel: -10%
Noise reduction amounts:
Luminance channel: 60%

AvalonsAyame ಠ‿ಠ · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:46:56 PM »

as ikore said there isn't :P

buut when i denoise the first time (after levelling the raws a bit, but not completely) i almost always use these settings:

noise level:
luminance channel: -10%
Noise reduction amounts:
Luminance channel: 80%

then for the second denoising i use whatever makes the page looks good :P

it really depends on your style of cleaning though, ikore uses different settings than i do for example, you'll just have to practise a bit and eventually you'll know approximately which settings you can use ^^ but still, different pages need slightly different settings XD

folkien · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2010, 06:51:38 PM »

Thx for advice ^^

Here is goes again!
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23757771/fv4.zip

I still dunno what should i do with "weird grays" in DGM.

ikore · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2010, 11:21:13 AM »

Beelzebub: Nice job!

BD: Grays are a little bit TOO flat. Be careful with topaz clean, so you won't overdo it. The speedlines on the sfx are a bit overburned.

DGM: What I want to say with weird grays is that there are those weird gray spots in them. They make the grays look bad.

DD: Grays on the top panel could a little lighter, otherwise good job.

FT: Level the grays, so they're a little lighter. (don't overdo it or they will become too light)

Naruto: Burn the borders a little. You cropped off a little too much on the left side.

Reborn: You should start again from the version in 3. You overleveled the page. And lost a lot of details because of it. To remove the dusts use the dodge tool on them.

Good luck with your next try =)

folkien · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2010, 11:39:02 AM »

I did what i could, but I still don't like how BD looks like.

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23781212/the_fifth.zip

ikore · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2010, 11:55:58 AM »

BD: Well, the grays aren't quite right =/

DGM: Good grays. Rotate the page and fix that black at the bottom right corner.

DD: There are a few dusts on the whites. (kucabara's hair on the 3rd panel)

FT: Good.

Naruto: You burned the borders too much, they're really crisp now xd (restart from your pevious attempt)

Reborn: You overleveled again =/ (Look at gokudera's hair, it's almost completely black. You can't make all the blacks black and the whites white with just leveling on this page.

You don't have to include FT and Beelzebub in your next try.

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