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[chu_totoro]

I have a weather ranking system.

sunny bright warm days = win
sunny bright hot days = good
sunny humid warm/hot days = ugh
rainy grey days = win
drizzly grey days = good
stormy days = pwnage
cloudy cold days = hate
cloudy warm days = do those exist?
sunny cold days = hate x1000000
sunny while raining days = triple quadruple quintuple win

:)

My Princeton interviewer was my brother's age. In fact, she's from his graduating class and knew him AND my sister. Was fairly pleasant, esp. seeing as I had been expecting, oh, a 40-year old woman?

She was an Economics major. Influenced by Dwyer, no doubt. At any rate she remembers him and his brainwashing regime (repeat the seven economic principles every morning at the start of class!) quite well.

In other news, since I had nothing better to do, I decided to try my hand at editing (now that I've fixed photoshop and all). So I picked a random series that I liked and had the raw to, one that hadn't been scanlated (at least not the later volumes), and I have to say--

ASLKJDG;LDSJLFJL;GJ;LJKFD THIS TAKES FREAKING FOREVER I HAVE SO MUCH MORE RESPECT FOR QUALITY EDITORS NOW. SO. MUCH.

Most of the pages are not too bad. but. BUT. stuff like THIS PAGE.



see that bloody bottom panel?!



you have NO IDEA how long it took for me to get from image 1 to image 2. duplicating all those stupid glowy bubbles. and it gets worse.



GURAHKSGAKGJDLKA;LK;JHALSDFJAS;LF THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS SO PAINFUL IT HURTS. I spent ages cloning and redrawing (inexpertly, I might add) and I am STILL. NOT. DONE. See here:



Espy that little black blotch down in the bottom left corner? the bits of text? (incidentally, the bit of white in the middle of the panel? and the black on the right that looks all off?) Yes, not even close to finishing. because redrawing the hair is going to be a bitch. /facepalm

In conclusion, lots and lots of worship for Chara and yadi_chan and Maris and all the other editors that do such a great job and make it look so easy. *____*

Also, it probably wasn't smart to pick a 50-page long chapter to start out with. Should have tried Tsubasa and some of those nice short little 10-pagers.

>>; /sigh

Comments

[monoyuki.livejournal.com]

Editing is a tough job D: Especially the cleaning part, I assume. I edited manga for a really short time but I never tried to get the quality you're getting.

Glad your Princeton interview went well :D

Cloudy warm days exist. Usually they're slightly moist.

[ayumuchin.livejournal.com]

Ooh, After School Nightmare. I kind of like that manga, but I stopped reading it for some weird reason. It's kinda awesome though, in a twisted kind of way.

[chu-totoro.livejournal.com]

the entire metaphorical concept of the nightmare and the various forms people take inside it just caught me from the start. it's so creative... the sheer idea of it is just kind of awesome.