Typesetting Test by blasted

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Hi
I wanted to try this out..
and apply for the position
any advice would be appreciated, as this is my first time typesetting.
i dunno if i even uploaded and linked it right.....

took me a while to do those 2.
took some thime to learn a few things bout the program...
complete noob here lol

I'm not a staff but I will comment your work if you don't mind, first thing of all, before typesetting, on the bar set your anti aliasng to smooth if you don't want your fonts looks ugly like what you have right now, some of your font is not on the correct size and not positioned in center, and don't use too many weird fonts stick to regulations, and give some space between bubble and text, some of your text is overlapping the bubble, thus making the text hard to read.

and your text shape is already good, but still could use some fix, try to match it by size or try to arrange the text yourself. And you should use vertical text tool for that book flipping SFX, it's make the text more readable, and for outside text, put a stroke effect there . the good one should look like this (this is not the perfect one since every TS have their own way to make the TS looks good)

Hey, blasted...seems you are a noob.

Here's Pakui/Eric test: https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/zer0rev/OD%20typeset/Overdrive_097b.jpg

Take a look at his typesetting... pretty good isn't it. That was his second try :p His first try can be viewed here: http://baka87.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=105

And I suggest you look these tutorials too:
http://www.kuu-scans.info/forum/index.php?topic=346.0
http://www.n-u-l-l.net/wiki/index.php/Typeset

Be sure to read them first, and you'll know what is a good Typesetting (you have to...I read them twice ), and If you want to ask things...I'll be gladly help you.

And for OP typesetting...well Hyuver's typesetting is good...but the space between bubbles is too narrow :p...so make the font size smaller a bit.

kid.21 wrote:And for OP typesetting...well Hyuver's typesetting is good...but the space between bubbles is too narrow :p...so make the font size smaller a bit.

whether the font fit or not I believe it up to group, some prefer to use big text, and some small. I like to use big text because I like text that not too small, because I read scanlation on distance, but I admit that my style if affected by Oh!Great uniqueness of drawing bubble, he always use small bubble that leave us TS-er with no choice but to overload the bubble with text :p although it hard to typeset but the result of the TS always great :p

yay, great! Another typesetter!!
I can't really add anymore things^^. Kid and Hyuver said it all!
Good luck and much effort!

blasted, are you there? Don't be scared of us

i'm still here.
i've been sick lately, and had summer school,
so ya......

thx for the advice!
tho i will have to do a lot more work on this it seems.....
first off it will seem i have to get photoshop.......unless somebody knows
how to do all that stuff with the GIMP or some other free program....

now off to try the stuff u guys talked about.

blasted, you're using Linux?

Photoshop makes life easier if you already know how to use it. If not, there's a learning curve, but typesetting only uses one tool, so you really have to get used to the interface and options.

what about the people who doesnt have photoshop? D:

Well, it sounds like blasted doesn't have Photoshop but he did the test, so there are other programs out there that let you typeset. I just can't name any since Photoshop is all I use.

I'll google for a bit

GIMP is an opensource type of program (mostly installed at Linux) that is just like photoshop, can let you edit images and layout/typeset. another one is Paint Shop Pro.

i know this amazing artist on deviantart as in i have seen her work.. XD and she uses GIMP. so yeah... XD PSP too... XD okay, sorta of unrelated... welcome blasted! thanks for signing up~!

hey blasted, how's it going?

sorry for my long absence..
my comp is broken, so i am unable to redo the typesetting test at the moment..
i can't even boot into my comp now, and the recovery dvd's i was supposed to make, which i did, didn't work, so now i have to figure out how to get an os toinstall on my comp,...short of going linux anyways.
so ya.....

Omigosh..Poor you! I wish I was there, I could help installing your windows.

yay, linux wins over windows (although I'm using windows)

Good luck with your reinstallment

im not sure if this would help.. but i use photoscape and it works as well as any other photoshop when you're typesetting.