Now, most of you know I'm the digital painting type of guy. I use a stripped down version of Photoshop, optimized for painting. Recently though, I've decided to start making comics with ideas I've had for years. Well, I got tired of both trying to trace my line art and make it work, and drawing new line art directly in the computer, as both yielded sub-par results.
My friend recommended I try Illustrator CS3. It has a feature called Live Trace, which will optimize the light and dark and vectorize them how you want. What this means for me is that I can take my line art, scan it, Live Trace it into vector art using custom settings, take it into Photoshop, blow it up to 600DPI, then color it. I can do some really hi-quality comic art this way.
In other news, when I finish my comics, I'm planning on contacting Dark Horse and other publishers about getting them published.
well Good luck on making it happen man, just keep at it ^^
can't wait to see it.....as for me, I'm about to go crazy here, not having windows and cs3 and all that good stuff..
....now, if I can get photoshop cs2 working on this damned ubuntu, I'll be (mostly) happy....
tigerfan Wrote:can't wait to see it.....as for me, I'm about to go crazy here, not having windows and cs3 and all that good stuff..
....now, if I can get photoshop cs2 working on this damned ubuntu, I'll be (mostly) happy....
wine.
Nacos Wrote:tigerfan Wrote:can't wait to see it.....as for me, I'm about to go crazy here, not having windows and cs3 and all that good stuff..
....now, if I can get photoshop cs2 working on this damned ubuntu, I'll be (mostly) happy....
wine.
don't forget cheese. they go well together.
*giggle
tigerfan Wrote:can't wait to see it.....as for me, I'm about to go crazy here, not having windows and cs3 and all that good stuff..
....now, if I can get photoshop cs2 working on this damned ubuntu, I'll be (mostly) happy....
What, did you get a computer with Ubuntu preinstalled? If so, you should just install Windows.
If it's not your computer, though, then that really sucks...
Also, I'm on OS X, not XP
Cool!!!
Don't worry I won't download your comic from some free fanscan group XD
Known this for a while/.
But why on earth would you need to blow it up to 600 dpi!?!?!?!
At Looking 2 inches from my photo prints I cannot tell the difference between 250 dpi and 200 dpi! Sure 300 dpi is the 'quality' printing format but WHY 600?!?!?
The average screen can only show you 72 dpi/
diego Wrote:Known this for a while/.
But why on earth would you need to blow it up to 600 dpi!?!?!?!
At Looking 2 inches from my photo prints I cannot tell the difference between 250 dpi and 200 dpi! Sure 300 dpi is the 'quality' printing format but WHY 600?!?!?
The average screen can only show you 72 dpi/
Like I said, I just discovered it. I'm a Photoshop guy, Illustrator is like whole new territory.
I plan on getting all of my comics printed on the highest quality paper in a hardbound book. You can tell the difference between 300 and 600 when the paper is that high of quality. Plus, it insures that I can basically blow it up to any size I want without any loss of quality.
Obviously you don't know me personally. I would not test the difference on quality of different dpis on cheap paper. I sent the images to a professional printing lab.
Seriously. at 250 dpi I cannot see a single mistake or lone pixel on my print (that's 15 x 12 inches By the way)
Just saying 600 dpi is Truly overkill. But if you insist. Just like you say your gonna be shooting RAW when you get your dSLR. I would rather shoot jpg for the space. When I shoot jpg I can get almost 400 images on a 2gb card. If I shoot RAW I can only get around 70.
Have fun with those large files. :)