RH Cleaner's Test

I've finished 01-02-03-05. Will tackle last few panels of 04 latter.

Cage of Eden_01
Kimi_02
Ocha_03
TLR_01

Cage: Joined and burned well, only a few minor specs in the blacks to worry about.
Kimi: I'm a little suspicious as to why it's typeset....but from a cleaning standpoint looks good. Grays look a little messy, but that's probably because of the page.
Ocha: Looks fine to me, I can't see any problems.
TLR: There are a few small blacks that aren't burned, but otherwise it's fine.

Overall good cleans, everything looks passable.

The blacks are pretty crunchy. What I mean by this is the black's edges are jagged. When you resize or use a low exposure (burn tool) the edges of black is slightly grayer which add an anti-alias look. That is what you want. When the gray edges are totally black (caused by extreme exposure and overleveling), they appear jagged as I mentioned. The likely cause is when you were burning you used settings that were too high - what were your exposure settings? Mine range from 5% to 30% depending on the raw. The other possibility is that you are leveling too much. The latter seems evident in the the second page, a bit in the third page and the fourth page.

Specs:
First: Bits of gray in the blacks - need burning.
Second: Very crunchy and jagged - burn before resizing.
Third: A few gray specs in the black.
Fourth: A bit crunchy and minor overleveling.

Well, the thing is I didn't use the Burn/Dodge tool


01 Redraw was done with 'Replace' Healing Brush on to a new layer then 'Normal' Healing Brush to smooth out the line. Level settings was: 56 / 0.61 /203

This img was neither burnt or cleared so the remaining specs are to be expected.


The reason for 02 was typeset was because Kimi was the only series that I'm reading so I can find the text for it from Chapter 46 Page 10.


The editing on 02 was done with Line tool+Paint Bucket for bordering. Level settings was 75 / 1 / 150.
Afterwards it's panel by panel New Layer by Copy + Filter on that new layer + Set Layer Blending to Color Burn.
Any remain dust was done by Polygonal Lasso Tool + Select>Modify>Smooth>1px +Feather 1px -> Clear.


As for 03 the few grays appear on the guys hair after converting to PNG. The PSD don't have those grays.


05 was done pretty much the same way as 02, sans the New Layer by Copy part.

Level settings was 80 / 0.32 / 181.

Please considering looking at the tutorials.

Your levels are unreasonable. If you are achieving the blacks through that method, it is pretty evident why the blacks are crunchy.