Short Wharf is a group that specializes in yaoi and trap manga. It’s part of the much larger Little White Butterflies scanlation group, which also includes the vanilla hentai blog Team Vanilla. We also do a few non-H things on our sister blog, Little Black Butterflies. This chart explains how we work.
What is being part of Short Wharf like?
–You get to work on whatever you want.
Unlike commission groups, we only work on the things that we’re personally motivated by.
–You get to learn a shit ton.
We’ve got tutorials and tips coming out of our ears! You’ll also have the chance to see how other translators and editors work, and learn from them.
–You get to rock.
You’re going to be sharing deliciousness with the world! People from all walks of life are going to be looking at and enjoying the things you’ve worked on! You’re going to be a part of thousands and millions of lives, and you’re going to be giving them something that they wouldn’t have ever had unless you’d done so! You could hardly ask for a better karma booster!
How to Edit With Short Wharf
If you already edit regularly, and want to join the group, just sign up on the forum and post a link to your previous work in Recruiting. We are always looking for opportunities to communicate and collaborate with other groups. If you’re part of another scanlation group and would like to work with us, get in touch on our forums. Because this is adult content, you do have to be 18 or older to work with us.
If you’ve never edited but want to learn, we can help you! We’re putting together an Editing Walkthrough Bundle, but for now it’ll be well worth your time to check out some tutorials:
Senbonzakura’s Tutorial for Beginners (this is like the King James’ version of editing tutorials)
Ero-otoko’s Guide to Editing (and translating) On E-hentai.
Ruinevil- Manga Editing in Photoshop Segmented nicely into smaller pieces, so great for learning new skills and brushing up on weaknesses.
Try our [Editing Walkthrough Bundle], which has sample pages, example PSDs, and a [step by step guide] (coming soon). When you’re finished, post a download link in a comment to see how you did! After that, you can try out your new skills on an easy project.
Guest Project
If you’re already confident in your editing skills, but don’t have any previous work to show off, why not try doing a project as a guest editor?
Comment below what you’d like to try, and we’ll get in touch with you with about six pages of script and the pages that go with them.
When you have the it, try editing the sample and send us what you’ve done for a quality check (include both images and your PSD files). Once it looks good, you’ll be ready to do the full project, which will be published along with an announcement about how awesome you are.
If doing all that makes you excited to become an editor and do the same process again and again and again, you might be crazy enough to join the group full time!
Check back frequently for new projects. If these aren’t your thing, try the pages for Little White Butterflies or Team Vanilla.
Easy Projects
These have no redraws, difficult typesetting, or hard to clean pages. All you will need to know is explained in the [editing basics tutorial]. This kind of project is good practice for a beginner.
Normal Projects
These edits are harder. You might need to redraw simple art like lines or background textures. There may be several fonts that you should try to mimic, and some text might be written on signs at odd angles (or even on people’s bodies). If you’re interested in joining the group as a full member, this is the skill level most of our projects require.
We have a higher quality version of the LoZ one, so make sure you ask for it!
Hard Projects
This is gonna be tough. Color redraws everywhere, terrible scan quality, numerous transparent bubbles or giant blocks of free-floating text, two page spreads with missing art to redraw, and other horrible things. These monsters are the prey of the very best editors.
Say which project you’d like to try by commenting, then reply to that comment and post a mediafire/dropbox/whatever link to the file when you’ve finished. Please include your PSDs.
Don’t worry if your comment doesn’t appear right away.
Can i give it a shot i don’t have much experience but i am willing to learn and would love to work with you all.
Sure! Just pick one of the easy projects.
Unfortunately, most tutorials on the net are out of date, and we’re still working on our own. But this guide is a very good start:
http://www.ruinevil.com/rawr/editguide/index.html
It’s for 3 versions of photoshop ago, and doesn’t have anything about content aware, but you won’t need that for the easy projects.
This is also a good tutorial, except for the “resizing and saving” part (which is nonsense): http://wiki.yuriproject.org/editing_tutorial
Ask here if anything confuses you, and we’ll do our best to help. If you sign up on our forum, we’ll be able to help you more http://dhforums.littlewhitebutterflies.net/
thank you if you do not mind id like to pick
[Chaos no Genri (ippo)] Ascend Fafnir (Shouten Fafuniiru)
I look forward to working with you all.
i think i am already a member on the forum but i will check.
Sorry to keep posting was reading the links you gave me this is the sight I was using to help teach me.
A bit outdated now.
http://senbonzakura.kageyoshi.net/
Hello, guys! I want to try [Tsukumo Gou (Box)] Kusabi, Aruiha Kaihou no Tobira.
Great, good luck! It’s excellent typesetting practice.
another person has also expressed interest in [Tsukumo Gou (Box)] Kusabi, Aruiha Kaihou no Tobira.
so, Khanalas, I encourage you to give it a shot, but also curious to know how things are going on it. like altereggo said, it’s really great practice, so you should stick with it, even if this other guy finishes it earlier.
will post updates about it as they come to me.
So did they ever edit the project successfully? It was a project that seemed like it wouldn’t take this long to complete. Anyways, if you’re still down for giving me the raw part of the transcript, you can find me on IRC.
Sorry about such immence amount of time I needed for this simple task, my PC went up in fiery flames so I wasn’t able to finish it until I got it fixed. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzwdk0mhrc2hvbq/TsuGou%20Kusabi%28psd%2Bjpg%29.rar
Replied by email. Congrats on finishing!
I would LOVE to work on the 2nd Rape by cannibis, I have long loved her work and ABGRUND and Shimanji for a long time. I write tg/cd/trap fiction and post on fictionmania and Big Closet under the name sissy nikki thong I have about 70 stories on fictionmania and have a very good following and people love my stories, I am well known for my erotic descriptions of sex and love scenes especially the kinky submissive/dom or aggressive lover types. I can turn a phrase very artfully and get the juices flowing!
I know very well how scenes and a story should and can be told and would love to do some work here a place I have lurked and downloaded for a while and long wanted to try my hand at. I have some images I have edited and played with before for fun or using in caption work but I only did them using MS-PAINT. So I do need a decent editor program. What do you recommend? Please let me know, I have been reading things on the various editing sites you guys have posted.
I can send or post the images I worked on if you tell me where?
PS i was once a trap myself and looked pretty good especially in my teen years many moons ago (still do for my age I clean up pretty good) so I have a particular fondness for traps and the whole caught fembois or forced fem genre.
Thanks hope to hear from you.
Nikki
Your best bet is Photoshop CS6. It’s very expensive, but google offers 100% discounts if you, err, search a little.
I believe this project might have already been claimed, but I’ll get in touch with you by email if the current guy editing it gets booted.
Reading tutorials and practicing on something simple is a good start. Would you like to try an easy project first?
Sure that sounds great! Whatever I can do to help bring trap joy to the masses! As far as the photoshop, WOW! I had an old version back in the late nineties that was expensive enough but damned they have really gone up even more with the new product. They must be really proud of their software. I was looking at using the student extended version then I saw that the certificate only lasts a year which is ridiculous for that money. Another thing I was wondering about was the new Photoshop Elements Premier 11, it says something in the description about using “brushstroke tools etc” to enhance images and video. But it sounds more like a video and picture editing software more than what CS6 is.
Another one I found that is cheaper is PaintShop ProX5 Ultimate. It says it has vectoring and brushstroke tools etc for cleaning images. Ever know anyone to use it? One reviewer said it has similarities to CS6 at a fraction of the cost. But would it be useful for our purposes?
I defer to your expertise though. Will look more on Google as well. Wink wink say no more…
Thanks for your help and opinion.
Nikki
I use an old version of Paint Shop Pro (X2) and it’s serviceable. The main drawback is that all the tutorials are for Photoshop. That, and nearly all the new features they add from version to version are one-click tools for retouching photos and that’s why I didn’t upgrade.
What I meant is, all the tutorials for editing mangas you find on the web are geared towards Photoshop users.
I see Jukan, and I have gone over some of them and I figure that some of the tools and techniques should be adaptable to figure out. I am not without skills and am pretty clever and used to interpreting things to my uses. So it’s something to consider when comparing the cost of the two products. I found the Paint Pro X5 at a sale price right now.
I forgot to say, I have tried to download the pages for the 2nd rape manga but I only get the “sad panda” when I click on the mediafire link and cant figure out how to get past it. Is there something I am missing?
THanks
Nikki
Sorry, I meant exhentai link
Google exhentai sadpanda to find out how to use exhentai links.
Thanks altereggo,
fixed the sad panda for my firefox. working good so far now just need to find the raws listed.
nikki
Emailed you. Check your spam filter if you didn’t get anything.
Got it and hit ya back! Thanks!
Soo… I really wanna try and help :3 but dunno if ill be any good, but i believe myself to be a pretty lil trap :3 and im good with computers, so maybe i can help edit or something? :3
I can use the following a little… Not even 20% good at them xD :
- manga studios
- photoshop cs5
- corel painter
And i know like elementary level japanese, but im learning more :3 i has friends that work for rosetta stone and get free memberships :3
hey there Miyuki,
nice to meet you. it’s great that you’re interested in helping out. the very first step is usually signing up on the forums
http://dhforums.littlewhitebutterflies.net/index.php
this way the other people in the group, but who don’t work just with Short Wharf, get to meet you, and we get to learn a little more about you.
the forum also has some good tutorials and other resources for improving editing. i’ve done my share of edits, but there’s a lot to learn and i don’t think anybody really ever learns more than 80% of the editing program, max.
also, it’d be good to indicate what project you’d like to work on. if there’s nothing from this list that catches your eye, you can always try and request a translation.
hope to talk to you later,
masa
I made an account but i cant log in to it T_T
i’m afraid i can’t help unless you give a little more information. is it saying you’re giving the wrong password? not recognizing the username? what?
my login is MiyukiMikazuki and the passwords the same on both SW and wordpress, so i dunno why i cant log in~ it just says wrong login info
The forum isn’t related to wordpress.
Try the “I forgot my password” thing?
And maybe the “Resend activation e-mail”?
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