I'm working a web comic for the first time and have been reading through the cadet guide for making comics.
I am not completely clear from the instructions how big my images need to be. How many pixels long and wide is okay?
And how many bytes/KB should an image be? How much is too much?
My comic is hand draw and coloured in with coloured pencils, if that makes any difference to how it should be handled.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Warmonkey
Just starting, need help formating my comics
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Re: Just starting, need help formating my comics
There are a couple of different ideas floating around on what is and isn't suitable, but no real hard and fast rules.
As a general guideline, the text should be large enough to be easily readable on a 1024 x 768 resolution monitor and the comic small enough that you can see it on a same size monitor and only scroll in one direction.
So if your comic is in a "page a day" format (ie: taller than it is wide) then you would have it so that it was narrow enough to be seen on 1024 wide monitor, but can be any height since the reader can just scroll down. If the reader needs to scroll in both directions, then that's normally considered "bad". As another generalization, scrolling vertically is considered fine and acceptable, scrolling sideways is considered "bad", but there are situations where it is fine.
If you were doing a 3-panel comic side-by-side then I'd say go for around 700 pixels wide with squarish panels (so about 240 pixels tall, give or take.
Essentially, just play with different sizes until it looks right to you. Don't forget to check on a computer other than yours.
As a general guideline, the text should be large enough to be easily readable on a 1024 x 768 resolution monitor and the comic small enough that you can see it on a same size monitor and only scroll in one direction.
So if your comic is in a "page a day" format (ie: taller than it is wide) then you would have it so that it was narrow enough to be seen on 1024 wide monitor, but can be any height since the reader can just scroll down. If the reader needs to scroll in both directions, then that's normally considered "bad". As another generalization, scrolling vertically is considered fine and acceptable, scrolling sideways is considered "bad", but there are situations where it is fine.
If you were doing a 3-panel comic side-by-side then I'd say go for around 700 pixels wide with squarish panels (so about 240 pixels tall, give or take.
Essentially, just play with different sizes until it looks right to you. Don't forget to check on a computer other than yours.