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Notes:

1. The odd rippling effect on the closeup of Izumi's face was created by my scanner. On the actual manga page, Izumi's face is evenly shaded by screen-tone consisting of fine horizonal parallel lines. Sometimes when an image is scanned, repeated detailed patterns like this create a "ripple" effect in the resulting image. If you scan the picture with an enourmous amount of dpi (dots per inch) you can bypass this effect. However, it greatly greatly increases the file size. Another way to avoid this is by using the "descreen" option on the higher-end scanner programs. When used, this setting does remove the ripple effect, however, all the scan is slightly out of focus. Sharpness is lost, and with the fine lines and small bits of detail found in manga, it makes the page blurry and ruins the clean effect.

I did try to Photoshop out the ripples. Cut and paste, airbrushing, paintbrush, flooding the area with a flat gray. After half an hour of fiddling, I decided it was not worth the effort. X_x If you want a perfect image, go buy the manga book. ^^ All the information you need is included on every page of my scanlations for that very purpose. :D

last tweaked 5-11-05, created on 12-28-02 by slr2moons@hotmail.com