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  <forum-post parent_id="" title="The help topic" creator_id="3048" body="Pretty much you can post about anything in the forum.

Some things that may help you before you make a thread about a problem:

* &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/help|The help files.&gt;&gt; Helpfully, with a link to the relevant file on almost every page.  Some of the information is outdated.
*  [[howto:do everything]] - More help pages in the wiki for things not already covered in the help files.

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Ways to contact a mod if something needs fixing:

* The IRC channel - Go to irc://irc.rizon.net/moe-imouto and say the word &quot;mod&quot; or &quot;mods&quot; to get our attention.
* Send a PM to &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=Aurelia|Aurelia&gt;&gt;,  &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=VorpalNeko|VorpalNeko&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=syaoran-kun|syaoran&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=Radioactive|Radioactive&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=vita|vita&gt;&gt;, &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=aoie_emesai|aoie&gt;&gt; (expect extremely delayed response...), or &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=petopeto|petopeto&gt;&gt;.
* If you desperately need to contact the admin, dovac, your best option is IRC, but failing that, you can &lt;&lt;http://moe.imouto.org/dmail/compose?to=dovac|PM&gt;&gt; him and his email is on the front page.

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See forum #1340 to report bugs.
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[[image editing help|Click here]] for the index of pages containing information we know about processing images. 
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IF YOU JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT RANDOM NON-SITE RELATED THINGS WITH OTHER USERS, PLEASE GO HERE:
irc://irc.rizon.net/moe-chat .

(Mods, please edit this as you see fit)" creator="Aurelia" id="5018"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Its that time again, need some donations" creator_id="3" body="I'm in the middle of escrow for buying a house so I need some extra help this month.

http://www.imouto.org/donate/

As usual site is not in danger but I'd like to get some expenses of it covered.

(I pay over 700 for the servers and about 100 or so to people that help scan stuff..)

Thanks.." creator="dovac" id="4481"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Monthly server costs" creator_id="3" body="Elis - 199 a month
Moe - 299 a month
ranka - 50 a month

If you feel like supporting the site please visit imouto.org and click on donate link on the left, also enter in your username on moe so I can properly credit you in this topic thanks.

edit: let me stress that the site is not in danger of running out of money in case people are wondering

edit2: updated monthly costs" creator="dovac" id="2436"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Looking for editors" creator_id="3" body="Looking for editors to edit raw unprocessed scans.

If you're interested join the irc channel

#moe-imouto @ irc.rizon.net" creator="dovac" id="2633"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Allowing additional content" creator_id="3" body="Just expanding moe just a bit, high resolution mecha images are now ok, just tag it with mecha.

But still no yaoi, bl stuff just tag it with male and everyone who doesn't like it can just add it to the blacklist.

This is more of a notice for mods but since we do not have a special mod only forum its easier to post it in here instead of pming everyone individually" creator="dovac" id="1641"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="News" creator_id="3" body="No news is good news. This will be updated whenever something happens, no comments." creator="dovac" id="1339"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Bugs" creator_id="3" body="Bugs that are specific to Moe, first check on danbooru trac (http://trac.donmai.us/) before reporting a bug.

We now have our own bug tracker - http://imouto.org/bugs/index.php

Please report any bugs on the tracker instead of the forums thanks." creator="dovac" id="1340"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Does anybody have the pictures of shojo sect?" creator_id="31148" body="I want some pictures of shojo sect, especially the picture of hanta shinobu?
This is my first post here,
 hope  that  I have not break any rules&#12290;&#12290;&#12290;

And who can tell me how to chage the icon?

Thank you ~ " creator="shizuka_yi" id="5378"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Website Suggestion" creator_id="16579" body="Today I was stringing together multiple tags because I was looking for a sort of specific type of picture when I had an idea. Perhaps this idea is old and maybe it&#8217;s not very good, but I&#8217;d like to put it forth anyways. I think that it would be really cool to have suggestions of pictures that you might like that could then be ordered in the usual ways (random, score, etc).
My goal is to go beyond using tags to find new stuff.

One way that I think this could be done: your favorites could be compared to other users and you would be directed to some common favorites amongst users with similar preferences. I would be very willing to help with this project. My strongest language is Java and I know some C, HTML, and CSS, but I&#8217;d be willing to learn whatever it takes to do the project (SQL? and ???). To those that know more than I do: is this project doable? " creator="chrislee" id="5360"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Random tequniques/ideas for editing." creator_id="11634" body="if you have some, let us show them to be of some help.
I'll be posting a few gradually when I got time.
" creator="midzki" id="3342"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Why I would be a good moderator" creator_id="3" body="Now I got your attention..

I'm looking for 2 more moderators, since some other mods are quite busy with real life and I am in the middle of a big change....more details on that some other time.

First to be even considered being a moderator, you must be on the irc channel (exceptions are allowed, please give me a good reason). Most site decisions are decided there and I like to hear other people's opinions.

Now that is out of the way, people who are interested please reply with reasons why you would be helpful in maintaining moe.imouto and the hours you spend on the site so I can figure out a time schedule of who's active or not..." creator="dovac" id="5133"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Out of curiosity..." creator_id="12677" body="I was looking at the user listing for the first time and I noticed there was a level called Janitor. What irked me was that there was no one listed there... Is it that janitors are no longer used or no one has volunteered? If it's the latter if I could know what a janitor did I would be glad to help if I can. " creator="HaruhiSuzumiya" id="5019"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Mandatory gaming thread!" creator_id="5942" body="So... yeah, do you guys still play VGs? (eroges and all that don't count).

I could finally connect my PSP and PS3 online, and so I've been coming back to online play more actively. 

Resistance Retribution for PSP is probably the best online game for that platform, though I'm looking for more. I may give that portable Little Big Planet a chance when it's released.

And as for PS3, I only have Fifa 09 (lol included with console) and BlazBlue. Haven't tried online yet because I am still not in shape to give a good fight.

And... well, yeah, all my titles for Saturn, Dreamcast, XBox and PS2 are still there. I play them once in a while.

Kay, discuss!" creator="kyoushiro" id="4185"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="tag aliases" creator_id="11634" body="Can I make some aliases of fault tags with/without underscore?
like overfiltered =&gt; over_filtered, scanningdust =&gt; scanning_dust.e.t.c.
because, I sometimes mistyped -_-" creator="midzki" id="5325"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="What are these tags for again? (tag deletion proposals)" creator_id="3048" body="So we've got some old tags hanging around, and I'm not sure what to do with some of them.
[[magazine scan]] - 309 uses.  I'd say at least half of the posts on the site are from magazines, and this tag isn't very useful.

[[spread]] - 111 uses.  I know what a magazine spread is, but it seems to be applied to a bunch of other posts that are just in landscape format.

[[pinup]] - 404 uses.  I'm taking this to be posters that you're meant to hang up on your wall.  No one seems to use this anymore.

[[stick poster]] on the other hand is still used often, and I guess it's helpful to find images with that ratio." creator="Aurelia" id="3575"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Name that game" creator_id="23627" body="AZD here. I need help in finding a certain game. The only way for me to search it is if I know the name. I can remember some details but not the name. Work with me please?

#1: The game's platform is the NES [Nintendo Entertainment System].

#2: The character is a doctor...a sleep walking one.

#3: You don't actually control the sleepwalking doctor.

#4: What you control are the platforms that can help him...they can also kill him if you make a mistake.

#5: The platforms that I believe are pipes...although that may not exactly be it.

#6: I do know there are two different pairs of platforms that you can control that raise or lowers them...they are two different colors.

#7: Green platforms are controlled by pushing the [A] button while the Red Platforms uses the [B] button.

#8: I don't know whether they are those EXACT colors but I know there are two different colors. If there are more...then I do not know of them since I haven't completed the game.

#9: The way the game is setup is like a puzzle maze...at least that's how I think of it.

#10: You must help the sleepwalking doctor make it to the goal by controlling the platforms. Since the doctor is sleepwalking, the game is like a horizontal side-scroller starting from left to the goal at the right.

#11: You must think fast of when to raise the platforms or lower them for him since he doesn't stop at all...he's sleepwalking after all...although there are ways you can stop him in his sleepwalking path with the platforms. That can prove helpful.
On higher levels, timing the platforms as well as planning ahead on what to do is key. The games levels are like puzzles and you must think and figure out on getting the doctor to the goal in one piece with the platforms.

EDIT:
#12: I remember that there were enemies to stop you.

Well that is all I remember. I hope those details help you in naming that game for me. Part of me of being a gamer is beating the games I have played. Since I haven't completed that game in the past, I really want to do it now by using an Emulator. I recently had a dream about it and I now have the urge to search for it and play it.

Until I await my November Reserved games which is COD Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Naruto SCONRevolution 3 (Shame that R-Type Tactics 2 is pushed back to February 2010. Hopefully they have the time to make a English version when that gets released), I want to start playing the games of my past and that game is one of them.

So please - anyone - help me?

On a un-related note:
THIS LOGITECH WIRELESS KEYBOARD F*CKING SUCKS!!!!
I have to constantly re-check my words here since some buttons don't respond in inputting sometimes. The mouse is just as worse at times. You can't be too far OR too close to the wireless catcher...thingy. Anyone got a better wireless keyboard and mouse you can suggest to me?

Edit x2:
Having trouble location on how to put some words (In this case, the details) in color in the help section. This just has to do.

Editx3:
Game has been named.
The game's name is Gyromite and I was playing Game B.
Thanks gohanrice and everyone." creator="AZD-A9S" id="5299"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Anyone happen to know this manga?" creator_id="24073" body="A friend's been pestering me to help him find it. Viscans is using it as their credits page, but I had no luck figuring out which series it was from. Anyone have a clue?
Here's the page

http://media.onemanga.com/mangas/00004122/000240322/25.jpg" creator="Ponnkun" id="5268"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Out of Curiosity Episode III" creator_id="12677" body="I'm starting to like the whole episode thing lol. :  ) But anyways my question is Yoake Mae Yuri Ruriiro Na(Brighter than dawning blue)-morning cradle, is it same as Yoake Mae Yuri Ruriiro Na Perfect Visual Book? They have similar If not same art. I think there's some new art
though because I haven't seen it uploaded as a post. My phones google is broken so can't search to find out. Thank you for your time!" creator="HaruhiSuzumiya" id="5284"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="tag: smoking" creator_id="30343" body="A few days ago I found a tag: smoking, recently reminded me those pictures but I could not find them already here, can someone help me with this little problem &lt;(*-*&lt;)" creator="Padawan" id="5192"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="what's your processing?" creator_id="11634" body="I think we should exchange our own processing to improve quality of scans.
Let us show your processing (and forgive me my poor English ^^)!

For me, 

1. adjust only color levels manually (not use auto levels) while a scanner shows a preview, and make other filters all turnd off.
2. scan all with 600dpi.
3. if scans have moire, resize them into 300~450dpi.
4. apply Greycstortion twice with different settings.
 1st setting is p=0.7~0.8, a=0.2, &#945;=1.0~1.5, &#963;=5.0
 2nd setting is p=0.4~0.6, a=0.4~0.6, &#945;=0, &#963;=2.5
 (this settings may give you overfiltered images)
5. finally, open them with a paint tool like Opencanvas or SAI, and repaint them to erase some dusts, creases, and characters.

thanks ^^



" creator="midzki" id="2290"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Info. on Kamipani?" creator_id="22294" body="Could someone shed some light for me on this fascinating game? I'm trying to find some info. on it, like the storyline and stuff, but it's all in Japanese =\

It totally sucks not being able to read it. I wanted to buy the game, but I couldn't understand the damn thing if I did! They should translate that stuff." creator="tetsuo_shima" id="3785"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Filtering Paper Textured Scans (Help! &gt;.&lt;)" creator_id="861" body="At the moment I have a whole 11 page Mitsumi Misato scan that I have recently scanned and the whole 11 pages are filled with paper textures.

These annoying paper texture are terribly hard to filter out and I was wondering if anyone had any advices on how to go about doing this.

Currently i'm using these guys advices for it atm - http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00Bshw

It's for photos but basically the process is the same.

For this one, post #63540 will be our guiene pig
--

Currently i'm only using Photoshop CS2 as my program and every filter i've used is not effectively filtering the paper texture to a smooth finish and preserving enough detail.

Any help with this? I'm sure Imbri would be also very appealed to this topic since he tired it on that recent misato image too :) " creator="aoie_emesai" id="2789"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Tag scripts" creator_id="7126" body="Quick tag script tip that's easy to miss: set a tag script, click and hold on an image, and drag the mouse across other thumbs.  You can selectively tag many nearby images quickly, without giving yourself a finger cramp clicking over and over.  If you add to a pool this way, posts are added in the order you drag over them.  You can use this to set ratings, unhold several posts together, etc.

Combine with a search and a higher limit (eg. pool:100 limit:100) for batch editing.
" creator="petopeto" id="5082"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="out of curiosity episode II" creator_id="12677" body="Um my evil phone accidentally clicked flag for deletion on some comment. I don't even know which one. Anyone know how to cancel or check what you've flagged for deletes? And if it isn't possible please ignore any flag for deletes done around 5 minutes this was made. " creator="HaruhiSuzumiya" id="5130"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="wtf? Why can't I ge an avatar?" creator_id="28622" body="I already read the thing about it but when I go to set avatar it won't let me drag the box over the picture. What should I do?" creator="meowla" id="4989"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Account Name Question" creator_id="7936" body="I was wondering if there was a way to change your account name.  I tried to search the forum and the help thread, didn't find anything." creator="Rescue00" id="5051"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="So I wanna buy a scanner" creator_id="9859" body="I'm not that rich, but I was looking for something between 70-170&#8364;, if there even is something that cheap.... Guess it'll mainly be for A4 sized stuff I guess?

Need some tip on brand etc. In our local &quot;PC&quot; store here and we got flatbed (if correctly translated i think..) film and document scanners, they all kinda look the same, and I don't wanna feel like and idiot going there asking for which one I should by and for &quot;what&quot; purpose &gt;.&lt;" creator="Feito" id="3022"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Identify Art-style" creator_id="19353" body="I'd like some help in identifying this particular art-style:
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=big&amp;illust_id=5811931
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=big&amp;illust_id=3580035
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=big&amp;illust_id=6271966
also Okami was made in this style.

Now I've always just heard it called Japanese watercolors, but I've been wondering if it had another name. And it's not woodblock printing or sumi-e. Also would be nice if I could get it's name in Japanese and English.

So could someone please help me out? Thanks" creator="happyhobo898" id="5021"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Best way to edit pics" creator_id="9859" body="I'd like to cut out portions of a couple of pictures, namely the &quot;borders&quot; I think it's called? The easiest way I know of is to highlight the content I want to keep, then then copy it over to a new space and work from there.

However sometimes I miss a few pixels and it get's pretty annoying to have to repeat this procedure until I'm happy with the result. So I was wondering if anyone knew some app that can like &quot;shrink&quot; the picture, by taking out the borders and working in towards the middle of the picture or something like that. Perhaps it's some tool on PS that I've missed?" creator="Feito" id="5006"/>
  <forum-post parent_id="" title="Greycstoration PS plugin" creator_id="7126" body="I threw together a Greycstoration PS plugin a while back.  The UI's a bit rough and there was more I planned to work on, but it's useful in its current state so I figured I'd toss up a binary for people to play with.  (I'll put the source up soon, but you need the PS SDK to build it...)

http://moe.imouto.org/GreycShop.zip
source: http://moe.imouto.org/GreycShop-src.zip

Unzip into your PS plugins directory like any other plugin.

- Previewing parameter changes is substantially faster than doing it by hand.
- Click &quot;preview&quot; to view changes to settings.  (This isn't done automatically; I don't remember why off-hand.)
- Hold down the left mouse button on the image to compare against the original.
- Hold down the right mouse button to compare against the last settings you previewed.
- While holding right mouse button, you can left-click to revert to the previous settings.
- Alt-mousewheel zooms.
- It remembers settings, but it doesn't have a mechanism to save settings to &quot;profiles&quot; or anything like that.  Instead, use Photoshop actions to record settings.  Similarly, it can be used as an action in automation for batch processing.
- 8-bit and 16-bit images are supported (32-bit images aren't).
- &quot;Stage display&quot; shows intermediate stages of processing, which can be useful when tweaking parameters.
- SMP is fully enabled, and (unlike the original algorithm) should not cause tile-shaped artifacts.  It's still not a clean 1:1 speedup, but it can be 3x faster or better than single-threaded on my Q9300.
- There are some preview box glitches, but nothing that affects use.

Feedback is welcome, though I can't promise that I'll spend much time on it, since it's reached the point of &quot;works well enough&quot; and I've never intended to make a serious project out of this (just making it available since it's probably useful to a lot of people here).

(edited to reflect later UI changes)" creator="petopeto" id="2007"/>
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