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by **Matt Trepal** on Mon Feb 12, 2001 2:38 am

I like the new look of the strips, Seven^3! They're much cleaner and crisper. What did you change to get them like that? Did you start using the Gimp?Didn't you say that you had an evaluation copy of Photoshop that wouldn't let you save, so you took screen captures which you then imported to PaintShop? Or something like that?Whatever you did, it looks good!Now I just have to figure out why you killed off Jack....------------------
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by **Matt Trepal** on Tue Feb 13, 2001 4:30 am

That still seems like an awful lot of work....But if you can do it sucessfully, and you seem to, then keep it up. However, I recommend playing around with the Gimp, because you may be able to get rid of what seems like a definite kludge.I do my work in Photoshop, but what I've seen of the Gimp has impressed me. My home computer doesn't have enough RAM to install it, so I only have it at work and use it to compress my images (which my version of Photshop won't do to greyscale images <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif">).The only thing I don't like about it is that there's no dynamic text option; text only appears on one line, so filling in dialogue balloons involves adding the text line by line, not in balloon batches. The UNIX version has a patch to correct this, but the Windows version doesn't.------------------
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by **Seven3** on Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:02 am

It's not that much work -at least not to me. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">For image conversion/compession I use <A HREF="http://www.xnview.com" TARGET=_blank>XN View</A> which is quite good, but you can't see what the output will be before you save.
Text is done in MSpaint -along with adding borders and 'twinking'. It's simple and easy to use. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">What's kludge?------------------
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by **Seven3** on Tue Feb 13, 2001 10:01 am

Hey, thanks! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">It's a two part thing. I've learnt of two new PhotoShop tools; colour selection and subtract selection. This makes it easier to add the text first so it anti-aliases along with the rest of the comic when I scale it back, making it look a lot better. It also means I can shade everything of the same colour at once, which is so much faster that even tho' I had to start over -twice- I still completed the comic about an hour faster than usual, then again, adding the text first helps with that too.I haven't touched GIMP since I got it. I might play around with it tonight when I do my part of the conspiracy to see what it can do.
that's just too easy, isn't it?It's the evaluation version of 5.0, and I do screen grabs into MSpaint, which I also use to clean up the images after I scan them, saving me a fortune in twink. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Now I just have to figure out why you killed off Jack....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
All will be revealed in due course - Stay tuned.------------------
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by **Matt Trepal** on Wed Feb 14, 2001 6:25 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Seven3:

What's kludge?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>"Kludge" is a term from the early days of the US space program, meaning a brute-force solution to a problem that has a more elegant but expensive/technically-challenging/time-consuming solution.To present a completely hypothetical example, using three separate pieces of software that you are familiar with rather than learn one new application that will do the same thing is a kludge. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif">------------------
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by **Seven3** on Wed Feb 14, 2001 9:29 am

So you're saying my philosophy of "If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer." doesn't always work?Dang.*Puts down 40lb sledgehammer and goes off to conspire with the GIMP*------------------
Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell - Albert Einstein, Red Alert.
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