hard-translated

An image that has been edited by a third party to replace the original text (Japanese or otherwise) with a translation into English (or another language).

This regularly occurs in comics and doujinshi, scanlated or otherwise.

Uploading hard-translated images is discouraged, due to image quality issues, typographical issues, and the difficulty of confirming the correctness of the translations (see topic #2590 for discussion). The original image should be uploaded instead, and the translations applied via notes. Non-original hard translations should be made children of the original images whenever the latter can be found.

Posts that are hard-translated by the artist themselves should be tagged alternate language instead.

See also

• alternate language
• check translation
• partially translated
• poorly translated
• translated
• translation request
• fake translation
• hard-translated (non-English)
• howto:translate