The Tagtorial and Guides Thread -- HELP FOR CADETS HERE

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:22 pm

You need software. While its not preferred...you CAN (but really shouldn't unless you have no choice at all) use MSPaint to resample the goods (ie. your comic) by going to image and then selecting Stretch/Skew and changing the percentage to a smaller size. I did this to your current comic by shrinking it to 30%.

Of course, its also better to use a font package for lettering which can be obtained (for FREE) at Blambot.

Hawkthorn · Post by **Hawkthorn** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:16 am

Awwwww! Now I feel all self-concious.....Bleh!

Seriously though, I think I see what you're getting at. Considering the current situation I have with both accesible compters and computer room, I will see about the resampling via MSPaint.

I'm not sure what you ment when you were talking about font, though. Would such a program affect the whole comic size, or are you talking about the lettering? I think that is the most sensitive thing I have about my comics. I now have to do all the dialoge by hand. My dad says it's for my own good.

About the comic itself, though, I guess people are going to be seeing it on the site, anyway. It dosn't have to sit here that long though, does it? LOL![/code]

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:22 am

I think he means to use a font for the comic instead of doing it by hand.

Personnally, I don't believe that a font is automatically better than hand-written text.

However, it takes a lot of skill to do good hand writing. There are a few things to work on for your comic: straight lines, size consistency, overcrowding of phylacteries (speech bubbles)...

Practice makes perfect, so don't get discouraged. If need be, you can always write the text on another sheet of paper and use cut/paste to put it in place. That way, it's easier to re-do a few lines if you need to.

Hawkthorn · Post by **Hawkthorn** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:22 pm

I see. That last suggestion is still pretty complicated for me. I'll just have to start practicing my writing skills before the next comic. I might try making writing lines to help my spacing and then just erase or keep them depending on how they look. The main problem will be the speech bubble fitting. It was alright this time, but it could get much more distracting in the future. One thing that I am deffinetly doing for the next comic is to draw the original a bit larger. I tend to have a lot of trouble fitting detail in so far.

However, any suggestions for fitting in speech bubbles withought making the text too small would be very much appreciated.

Phase cactus · Post by **Phase cactus** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:26 pm

Two things:
a]
are there any explanations of the whole update schedule thing?
because that huge list of times and timezones and implacable capital letters just confuses the hell out of me until I run away sobbing.

b] autokeenlite, and so I assume autokeen, has a thing that reads picture sizes from the comic files and includes them in the <img> tag to make sure the page displays purtily before the comic file loads.
I've seen the scripts for GIF and JPG, but the public one, as far as I've seen, never had one for PNG.

If you guys need one, well, a friend was using autokeenlite and wanted to use PNGs so a different friend and I looked at some w3 standards and made a little PNG-measurement-taker subroutine to match the JPG and GIF ones.

If you'd like, I could post that here and maybe you could get some use out of it, if not, cool.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:47 am

Do not bump up old threads.

Read this for an explanation of update offsets.

As far as autokeenlite goes, I haven't seen anyone on the forum who uses it. I use PNGs for my comic with no problems.