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General Font for notes: Zud Juice

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Dokuhime

Chapter Title Headings: Comic City

Normal: Laffayette Comic Pro

Thoughts/general narration: Manga Temple, #555555

Narration (boxes): Manga Temple

Small: China cat

Gakkou no Sensei

Manga Title Font:Verdana

Chapter Title Font: 4eyoin

Table of Contents: Verdana

Normal: Zud Juice, black

Thoughts/general narration: Feltmark #555555

Narration (boxes): Feltmark, black

Small: Joyful Juliana, Sharp

Goraihou Gakuen e Youkoso!

Normal: Mighty Zeo Caps

Thoughts/general narration: Andy #666666

Narration (boxes): Pristina

Small: Joyful Juliana

HapiMari

Normal: Digital Strip

Thought Bubbles: Digital Strip, #555555 Italic

Thoughts (background): Felt, #555555

Narration (boxes): Felt

Small: Kristen ITC

Shout Bubbles: Digital Strip, Bold

Calls: Audimat

Chapter / End Font: Neucha

Horror Collector

Normal: Komika Text Light, caps

Thoughts/general narration: Viner Hand ITC

Narration (boxes): Viner Hand ITC

Small: Augie

Kimi wa Boku no Toriko Nare

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Andy

Narration (boxes): Pristina

Small: Kristen ITC

Kurobara Alice

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Mishounen Produce

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Oh! My Prince

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Table of Contents:

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Chapter / End Font:

Oneichan to Issho

Manga Title Font: Shirley

Table of Contents: BlacklightD

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Wild Words 666666

Narration (boxes): Angelina

Small: Kristen ITC

Chapter / End Font: Oh Crap/Oh Crud

Purple Eyes

Normal: Zud Juice, black

Thoughts/general narration: Feltmark #555555

Narration (boxes): Feltmark, black

Small: Joyful Juliana, Sharp

Raspberry Field no Majo

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration:  Komika Hands #6666666

Narration (boxes): Zap Raygun v2.0

Small: China Cat

Ruri no Kaze ni Hana wa Nagareru

Manga Title Font: BlackRose

Normal: DigitalStrip

Thoughts/general narration: Felt 555555

Narration (boxes): CCYuletideLog

Small: Chinacat

Chapter / End Font: Eras Demi ITC

Seishun Kouryokuhon

Normal: Laffayette Comic Pro

Thoughts/general narration: same font as above/#7e7e7e

Narration (boxes): pristina/#7e7e7e

Small: Augie

Shinyaku Ookami Ga Kuru!

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Shounen Dolls

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Sora Log

Normal: Zud Juice

Thoughts: angelina (outside bubbles), Zud Juice italics, #555555 (inside bubbles)

Narration (boxes):  desyrel

Small: kirsten itc

Tamashiizume

Normal: CC astro

Thoughts/general narration: CC astro Italic #555555

Narration (boxes): CC Yuletide

Small: Chinacat

Xia ke Xing

Normal: Wild Words, black

Thoughts/general narration: Wild Words, italics, #555555

Narration (boxes): Andy

Small: Augie, sharp

Yasashii Ryuu Koroshikata

Normal: Wild Words

Thoughts/general narration: Felt faux italics #666666

Narration (boxes): Gothikka strong

Small: Augie

Magic Spells: CCYuletideLog

Shoujo no Melancholy

Normal: Wild Words
Thoughts: Wild Words, gray, italics
Narration: Felt
Small text: China cat

Full Moon

Normal: Wild Words

Excited Text: Wild Words Bold (separate font than Wild Words)

Thoughts in Bubbles: Wild Words Italic 666666

Thoughts/general narration: Felt 666666

Narration (boxes): Franciscan

Kei’s Exorcism Attacks: Earthquake

Demons: Chiller or other “horror” variant

Small: Augie

Kaizoku to Ningyou

narrative: komika parch black

Chikutaku Bonbon

Blend-If Burning – ‘Autoburn’

You can burn by hand, but you might make a mistake and not be able to fix it. And burning by hand can affect midtones you don’t want to touch. I hand burned the above image, it didn’t take too long and the result reflects this. Never the less, the parts we need black have been burned.

If you wanted to be able to fix an error you may have made, you can always use an adjustment layer. Quick mask all the parts you need black and then make an adjustment layer that darkens it all. It fixes the problem of not being able to undo burning, but you still have to do that for every page. What if your page knew already what you wanted black? ^^ And so our long boring ‘Getting to Know Your Options’ comes into play~ If we use ‘Blend If’ to cut out all the white, and light grey colors, then it will know where to darken, all on by itself! That could save you a lot of time, and it’s just about as accurate as hand burning.

Now, let’s face it, this isn’t perfect. You might have to brush off some of it, if it effects something you don’t want it to. (By selecting the levels mask, and using a black brush erase some of it.) But it could, with scripts, make bruning a lot faster and more automatic.

A note though, you want to be careful with layer stacking and autoburn. If you place the auto-burn under a levels layer that darkens the lines from grey to black, then aut-burn will not work. Similarly, if you place it above the layer that darkens the greys, it will cut out more. So, keep this in mind when making your script: Layer carefully.

Layer Burning & ‘Auto-Burn’

Even if you level properly you will still need to burn places that should be black, but aren’t. The WORST practise, in my opinion, is burning by hand. The reason I feel this way is because you can never undo it. There are several simple methods with which you can nicely ‘burn’, and still be able to adjust of fix things later, if you need to. The first methods is probably the simpilest way: Quick mask areas that need darkened, and then make an adjustment levels layer that does this. It will work very well and you can alter it any time.

Under your blending options there are three sections: General Blending, Advanced Blending, & Blend If.

General blending – ‘Blend Mode’ is basically how the layer you’re adjusting is blended with the layers below it. Each mode effects the leyers below in unique ways. To understand this more try playing with them or reading about how each of them work. On a group the blend mode is set to ‘Pass Through’ by default. It means that all blending modes used in the group will also effect everything outside of the group, below it. (If a groups blending mode is set to normal, it will stop the groups inner layers and their blending modes from effecting the layers below it.) ‘Layer opacity’ is the entire layers opacity and the opacity of all styles/effects (stroke, drop shadow, pattern overlay, ect.).

Advanced Blending – ‘Fill Opacity’ is the opacity of the layer itself, and does not set the opacity for strokes ect. ‘Channels’ uses the greyscale data on the layer you’re adjusting to alter the color channels of the layers below (generally following the pattern; Black parts of the layer are used to alter the below layers via something comparable to RGB, and the White parts of the layer are used to alter the below layers via the equivalent of CMYK). ‘Knockout’ should be used on a layer in a group. When Knockout is set to ‘Deep’ the group will not alter an layers below it, and will pass through them, straight down to the background layer. (And if that isn’t set, is will pass through them all.) When set to ‘Shallow’ it will not alter the very next layer that is visable, outside of the group, but will effect all layers after. The check boxes are pretty self evident: ‘Layer mask hides effects’ & ‘Vector mask hides effects’ means that a layer/vector mask will also cut strokes, & drop shadows. They treat the layer and it’s styles/effects as one layer, together. This is useful for typesetting and whatnot, when you don’t want effects to go around what you’ve just cut away with a mask.

Blend If – These settings are quite useful, as they allow you to ‘cut out’ parts of the current layer via it’s own colors, or the layer below it via it’s respective colors. (And both.) Using the drop down, you select which channel you want to use (Red, Green, Blue & Gray).

Picture time! Blend If & ‘Cutting out’

In order to fully understand how this works I’m going to use two layers, one of a pattern and one of a basic red layer.

Dragging the bottom slider, named ‘Underlining Layer’, will cut out the current layer depending on the layer below it. On the ‘Gray’ setting, moving the white slider to the left cuts out the current layer where the layers below it are white:

If you were to drag the other slider, the black one, it would do the opposite; It would cut out the layer where the black shades are, on the layers below it:

Now, the edges are very sharp like this. But luckily there’s a way to soften them up. We’re going to go back to cutting out based on the white parts, with the white slider. OK, if you Alt + click on the white slider it will seperate. This makes two little white halves. The first half, on the left, will be how far you want to cut; The second half is how far you want to soften. Basically, you can think of it as an opacity – the left half is 100%, and the right half is 0% opacity. (I’m not going to go into how this actually works.) It’s similar with the black slider, only the slider halves are reversed: left half is 0% and the right is 100%.

The top sliders, named ‘This Layer’, do the same thing, only they do it to the layer you’re adjusting. To show it best, I am using a layer with a pattern:

You can also combine the effects, using both sliders:

For more advanced blending, with photos and images, you’ll can use each of the color fields and their respective sliders. Like, for example, if you selected blue, and moved the white slider, you would cut out the pattern layer where the the below layers don’t have a sade of blue. If you moved the black slider it would do the opposite; It would cut out the pattern layer where the below layers do have a shade of blue. (I know, it doesn’t quite make sense like this, but it’s actually based on the rgb channel.)

When I asked these questions, it happened to be our staff were immersed in Bathroom-Tile RP.. XDD

TerraCotta: We promise we aren’t really crazy?

TerraCotta: Just easily amused XD

We… who never stop to dream… XDDD

<Adrift> Yep, like what I’m doing for Akagami now. Ideally… I would prep it with SOs

<Adrift> you would then TS it on the resized page

<craxx> hmmmmm

<Adrift> and clay would CN it inside the SO that contains the unresized version

<Adrift> WOOT \o/

<craxx> \o/

<craxx> I think clay should be our elite CN instead of editor when she’s not busy later……

<craxx> XD

<Adrift> and I would be our elite prepper if I wasn’t QC/slow~

<craxx> XDDD

<Adrift> Well… maybe

<Adrift> that’s kind of a stretch XD

<Adrift> and you’re our elite TSer already

<Adrift> We three could form into a super team >]

<craxx> uoh!

<craxx> I like that

<craxx> XDDDD

<craxx> super elite team!

<craxx> XD

<Adrift> Combined with jojo’s scanner skills… we would be unstoppable!

<craxx> hahaha

<craxx> we’re the unbreakable E! *makes E logo like S-for Superman

<Adrift> Hahaha

<Adrift> We’re the.. AElite~

<Adrift> Fufufufu

<craxx> uoh~ cool~

<craxx> XDD

<craxx> I feel like pasting these in staff blog

<craxx> XD

<Adrift> Maybe we should, the staff blog has been neglected~