how are RAWs made

[dsid2814]

Do people just shove the book into the scanner, or do they take the book apart.

 

[bugmenot2]

The lower quality scans are made without breaking the book, so the spine crease is usually visible.
The highly quality scans do indeed RIP and TEAR.

 

[Koneko_Nyaa]

Or sometimes people don't even bother with a scanner and just copy the digital edition.

 

[semicharmed]

Buying physical raws used to be a big thing like I remember seeing so many cleaning tutorials over at DA here's one I bookmarked from almost a decade ago, and yes they do rip from the spine basically taking it apart then scanning them. I vaguely remember a group posting a picture of a stack of manga they destroyed and that it was such a shame. Nowadays most groups use digital rips.

 

[ABCsOfLife]

I also think they just ripped the book and then scan them page by page, at least for older manga that doesn't have digital copy back then.

 

[solstice258]

I want to know why some people write raw in all caps. Isn't it just the word "raw" as in unprocessed?

 

[Teddy]

RAWR

 

[grosbc]

@solstice258 they're probably thinking of the RAW camera image format. At least, that's my best guess.