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Chroma · 23/09/2008 11:27 AM

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.

S7* · 23/09/2008 11:32 AM

well Good luck on making it happen man, just keep at it ^^

Cyonix · 23/09/2008 11:59 AM

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....

Nacos · 23/09/2008 12:03 PM

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.

PSPkiller · 23/09/2008 12:11 PM

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

Chroma · 23/09/2008 12:43 PM

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

Method · 23/09/2008 01:08 PM

Cool!!!
Don't worry I won't download your comic from some free fanscan group XD

diego · 23/09/2008 03:55 PM

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/

Chroma · 23/09/2008 04:01 PM

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.

diego · 23/09/2008 04:08 PM

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. :)

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