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Guides to each step of translating a chapter, and how every part of tinypica works.
Guides · the job itself
01 · start hereHow to translate a manga chapterThe whole job in order: read the page, translate it, clean the art, letter it back in and check it. What each step takes, and where the time goes.02How to clean text off a manga pageErasing the original lettering without hurting the art: plain balloons, text over screentone, sound effects, and what to check afterwards.03How to typeset a manga pagePutting the translated lines back into the balloons so the page reads as if it was drawn that way. Four decisions do most of the work.04How to split a long webtoon stripWhere to cut a long strip into pages so no balloon or panel is sliced, and what size to cut to.05Which font for which balloonThe kind of typeface that suits dialogue, thoughts, shouts, sound effects, captions and narration, and how to keep them the same across a series.
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