So lately I've been having trouble finding manga to translate, mainly because most raws I do find aren't clear enough for me to read the characters well enough (especially when it comes to traditional)
Is there a way to use my photoshop program to clean it up enough for me to see things better?
odd question i know, but my main setback from translating traditional (only able to do simplified atm), would be this clarity issue =/

use the level adjustment.. also read the tutorials that spread here on the site. i'm sure there's many of them on the net also.

if you just want a quick clean so that you can read the text better, then I suggest leveling. Simply click Ctrl + L (at least in CS 3) and pull the black, white and grey things until you have a result that you can read. If you are interesting in cleaning that actually is releaseble (yes, I think that I just made that word up...), check the tutorial here: http://mudascantrad.forummotion.com/help-f6/learn-to-clean-in-10-minutes-or-less-by-willow-sama-t10.htm

And just so that you know, TS stands for typesetting and TL for translating ^^

OH haha, sorry, meant TL not TS then xDxD
and thanks for the info, i've tried leveling a couple times, but doesn't always work by itself. it may just be the raws tho >.<

like we said, search for tutorials, there's many of them in the net..

A quick leveling of the page is pretty much the best thing you can do, if you want to preserve the kanas. Anything else may destroy the lineart (alongside the kanas) D: