Hi, AzureK,
thanks for your application. I had our Head Cleaner check it out. His verdict is that you have good instincts - you have a proper grasp of
how a page should be cleaned. However, at this point there are too many problems with your application
to warrant approval, so you haven't made the cut. Unfortunately, he added that the number of problems also precludes pointing all of them out - you need
to redo the pages from scratch.
We have a standing offer
to mentor applicants, but in your case there's a problem: you don't use Adobe Photoshop. We don't have anything against any raster graphics program that works - the only step of scanlation for which Photoshop is a must is typesetting, for reasons I won't explain here. But all our veteran editors who could teach you
to clean only know Photoshop, so at most they could show you what properly cleaned pages look like, but you'd have
to figure out
how to achieve those results using your software. I'm not entirely sure
how feasible that would be, but if you'd like
to discuss it further, just join our Discord (
https://discord.gg/9kTthjW) and send me a direct message. (We don't enforce use of instant messaging or social networks for members who pass their test, so you'd be allowed
to leave Discord once you passed, but for mentoring we need real-time interaction.)
If you think you'd rather train on your own, then check out the tutorials for physicals here:
https://quicksandscans.wordpress.com/re ... tingguidesThey're Photoshop-oriented, but you could use them for reference of what
to try
to accomplish using your programs.
Also, please re-download the test if you want
to try again and re-read the Readme.txt file, we've updated it
to make a couple things clearer.
If you decide this is as far as you go, I thank you for your time and effort so far, and hope you continue enjoying our series.
Cheers!
P.S.: when we ask "what manga you're interested in", we mean from the ones we're recruiting for, though we're flattered you like several of our series. As you may know,
Terror Man is finished,
DICE is only hosted by us and the team in charge has also finished it, Souboutei is 12 chapters from conclusion and we have a full team, and we also have a full team for
How to Fight, meaning we're not recruiting editors for these two series.
