Newfound respect for scanlation groups.
 

I'm currently trying to edit a manga from Japanese to Enligh, and it's harder than I thought. Especially when you have to erase the Japanese text from the panels that don't have the boxes or anything around them!

Since I don't have any after-school activities, I figured I might as well try working in a scanlation group in my free time.

So far, so...okay. It's already been a few hours and all I have done so far are two pages. Ahhh, I'm so inexperienced at this. I've used GIMP for about two? Months now, and I am pretty comfortable with it. But sigh. I wonder how long it takes to edit a whole chapter. I've come to Mene for some break time. Haha.

By the way, I have no plan whatsoever to legally install Photoshop. It's so expensive! I never even knew it would cost over $200- let alone $100! What is the software made of? Gold? [gonk]

Anyway. I should also really get a job soon, so I thought this would be useful to jot down as a past job experience? Or would that really count as volunteer work, though... Because technically, it's considered a hobby. I don't really understand how editing can be fun, but I like to do it to kill time. Would you consider it as volunteering? It might be hard to explain to future job employers exactly what I do since not everyone reads manga. Ehhh...

Am I overthinking this? I might be. I should go to bed soon. [sweat]

---------- Post added 08-18-2012 at 11:10 PM ----------

Erm. I'm also wondering if this thread belongs here. I am talking about manga, but not particularly a series...?

I figure it belongs here, there's nowhere else it goes.

I know what you mean though. I tried just cleaning a page up once. Even with photoshop and a decent knowledge on how to use, it took me ages.

As far as I know, it would be quite hard to put down as job experience unless you were going for something in graphic design, where it would probably be quite useful.

And still after 30 minutes of cleaning, there's still scan dirt @[email protected];;
Hm... I see... So it's just considered a past-time then? Would it fit under special skills, etc? s: