Manga!

jackchen posted this at 12:28 — 7th February 2001.

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I've drawn some comic strips and have scanned them into my computer. I'm looking for a program that can smoothen my picture and make them look manga-like. I've tried Adobe Streamline but it doesn't works.

AndyB posted this at 20:58 — 7th February 2001.

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What does 'manga-like' mean??

Justin S posted this at 21:27 — 7th February 2001.

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Manga Art looks like this: http://www.mangaart.com

So you're looking for a program that smoothes out the edges for you, jackchen? The only program I know of that does that is Streamline, which isn't working for you. The only other thing I can suggest is using Adobe Illustrator and drawing your comics in that. It automatically straightens and smoothens out the lines for you.

Justin Stayton - [email] [icq]

AndyB posted this at 21:50 — 7th February 2001.

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Oh, thanks Justin. Well, does a Gaussian blur do what you want?

ross posted this at 21:29 — 9th February 2001.

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i have done a similar thing before jack (at least i hope it's similar to yours otherwise this is meaningless). i used photoshop and it worked very well but there was a lot of undoing and trying things out and i'm an experienced PShop user. you need to Select > Color Range, put the dropper on the colour you want to mangatise, one by one, and despeckle, blur etc that way, but i wouldn't relish the prospect myself as it takes time - there is no ONE tool you can use to achieve waht you're after as far as i know (i dont use fireworks tho)

bon chance
ross

Suzanne posted this at 20:32 — 13th February 2001.