Hmm there are some websites on the Recruitment topic, maybe they would help you out a bit? *??
1: When redrawing should I make a new layer? Or should I just stick to the whole CTRL+Z / ALT+CTRL+Z?The easiest way when editing is to make a new layer every time you redraw, to minimize mistakes that you can't fix. When you get more confident with redrawing, then you can make less new layers. What sort of layer is also important, this depends on what you are redrawing. If you are redrawing just lines, then making a blank new layer would be best. If you are redrawing hair with patterns that need cloning, i find it best to duplicate the background layer so then you don't need to constantly switch layers to clone, but its up to you.
2: When redrawing hair, or lines in general, what is the best way to do it. What tool, is what I meant. Sometimes the line fades, think like a sun going down, the rays type thing.I use the line tool, other editors use the pen tool, and others just clone the original line. The problem with the line tool is that it is straight, so its not that easy to use for curves. The pen tool is kinda hard to use but great for curves. Cloning the line really only works for straight lines.... To make fading lines, you can either use a line tool that is white, and turn down the opacity to about 40% and run it over the black lines. Another way is to use the Dodge tool (looks like a ball on a stick) which gently lightens the dark lines. Try them and see what works best.
3: Cropping is a pain some times. When I use the crop tool it wants to jump a certain amount from the side/top/bottom. Instead of just alittle that I need. In that case should I try another tool and select the way I want to crop it, copy it and make a new file?You need to zoom in quite closely to crop accurately, around 600%-800% is fine but it does mean that when you're pulling the tool to cover the whole page, it takes a while to reach to the bottom. If you want to crop 1 pixel, you need to zoom in around 1000% and the crop tool should start jumping one pixel at a time. You can also do it the way you mentioned, it's just more work ^^;
4: JPG or PNG?PNG for normal scans, JPEG for color pages. There is a reason for this, PNG has "colors" that makes up the pictures, and it usually does not have enough colors to make up the color pages so it goes all pixel-ated. When saving, click on File, Save For Web... and a new window pops up, there should be a drop down menu somewhere with numbers. This is how many colors you can set the page to have, the more colors the igger the size of the file. Manga scans are usually set to around 16 colors.
5: Text, some times when I read manga it seems that the word seems to be some what longer than others, so it goes down a space like this:
Some-
times
Would it be best just to put sometimes in a line of it's own?This depends on if it looks okay, for example:
My dad
sometimes
eat a lot.
Thats okay. If its:
My mother
was talking to my sister
again today, she said how she
sometimes
likes to play on the computer
late at night.
It looks a bit weird....its hard to explain ^^;
6: What is the best way to redraw? Clone? If you use it that way, patterns get messed up.Again it depends on what you are redrawing, cloning is usually patterns and simple images like whole windows on a house. If you are redrawing hair, then using the pen or line tool is best. If the hair has a pattern in it then you need to use both. If its a cloud or something, then clone. If its flowers, you need to redraw with a pen or line tool. Redrawing is really a mixture of all different techniques...very complicated ^^
I hope that answered some questions, if you have more, feel free to ask, i know my explanations are sometimes horrible ^^; Good luck!