Why I don't have clean comics.

ZOMBIE USER 11784 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11784** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 6:16 am

Unlike the rest of you, my webcomic has what you call a tight budget. This is why I don't have PhotoShop, but the horrible mistake called PhotoImpression.

I don't want charity in the form of donations.

But then I realized I had some stores in cafepress.

PLEDGE DRIVE

Here are the good stores, NBCD, the world trade center special, and Neglected Express.

I get paid $2.50 per image. If I get enough to purchase PhotoShop, I will clean up all of my comics.

McBean · Post by **McBean** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 7:40 am

I'm no mathmagician, but it would take about 400 people buying your stuff to reach the amount to buy photoshop

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 7:43 am

Why not just download Photoshop off somewhere?

Melancholy Chinese · Post by **Melancholy Chinese** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 8:02 am

http://www.gimp.org is free and the controls resemble Photoshop enough to make using it a breeze.

ZOMBIE USER 11784 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11784** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 8:43 am

Odd1 wrote:Why not just download Photoshop off somewhere?

Melancholy Chinese wrote:www.gimp.org is free and the controls resemble Photoshop enough to make using it a breeze.

Well, sorry, but I don't have a direct path to download. I use school equipment to deal with my comic. I suppose I could use the school's TAG resources, but it's a little risky.

McBean wrote:I'm no mathmagician, but it would take about 400 people buying your stuff to reach the amount to buy photoshop

Okay, carry the five...

What!!?? $1,000! What has happened to the price of software. It's getting to be that some programs are outpricing computers! This is ridiculous! I'm gonna try to see if I can get something cheaper that doesn't turn my lined pics into ghosts.

Whoever made this program will hear from me about this!!!???

Megidoth · Post by **Megidoth** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:10 am

You don't need photoshop to look clean,here how i do it only using mspaint:

step one:sketche

step 2:ink

step 3:erase pencil line and you're done!

and after that you can edit it in mspaint

But photoshop DO make a difference for coloring:

KedaDibandion · Post by **KedaDibandion** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:19 am

Inking...yeah. *sighs happily* Doesn't inking just rock? I love inking.

Um...

I'm only posting this because I can.

:D

ZOMBIE USER 12015 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 12015** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:41 am

Yeah, posting. There, I've done it.

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:42 am

Bah, I don't like inking at all. Probably because I have neither the skills nor the materials to do it properly.

But SOON! Soon I'll have my tablet and my inking frustrations will be history. ^___^

KedaDibandion · Post by **KedaDibandion** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:06 am

I wish I had a tablet.

*cries*

Netrek · Post by **Netrek** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:25 pm

I use ink, plus the bag of frustration known as iPhoto Plus 4, along with the Gimp when I can borrow my mom's Zip drive. Much usefulness all 'round!

--Sij

ZOMBIE USER 12015 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 12015** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:31 pm

Odd1 wrote:Bah, I don't like inking at all. Probably because I have neither the skills nor the materials to do it properly.

But SOON! Soon I'll have my tablet and my inking frustrations will be history. ^___^

I yikes inking. Me likes ink!

INK Ink INk! What kind of tablet? A wacom? I just gots me one. It's getting dusty. I loaned it to my friend. I got bored. What am I to do? I like inking, I can't draw. Meh.

ZOMBIE USER 11784 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11784** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:56 pm

WreckedHead wrote:I yikes inking. Me likes ink! INK Ink INk! What kind of tablet? A wacom? I just gots me one. It's getting dusty. I loaned it to my friend. I got bored. What am I to do? I like inking, I can't draw. Meh.

netrek wrote:I use ink, plus the bag of frustration known as iPhoto Plus 4, along with the Gimp when I can borrow my mom's Zip drive. Much usefulness all 'round!

Megidoth wrote:You don't need photoshop to look clean,here how i do it only using mspaint:

step one:sketche

step 2:ink

step 3:erase pencil line and you're done!

and after that you can edit it in mspaint

But photoshop DO make a difference for coloring:

Ahh, it's the attack of the ink nazis.

Look, I just need an easy way to clean up my drawings, without ink. The good ol' Young curse states that anytime I make something permanent, it becomes horribly wrong. It actually happened. This pic is where I screwed up the mouth. I barely saved it by ripping the mouth open and scanning it. It also states the point I make about myself using ink.

JRaygor · Post by **JRaygor** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:57 pm

Nike, there are some "Families" that'll be happy to help fund your comic. Just go into downtown and ask for a "Tony Soprano". He'll know what to do !

-Joe R.

ZOMBIE USER 11784 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11784** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 3:07 pm

Joe, you...
just...
gave...
away...
MY LOCATION! YOU HAVE JUST COMPROMISED MY EXISTENCE YOU BAS--

Nah, just teasin' ya.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 3:09 pm

Whee! I have a tablet! But guess what? It doesn't work with GIMP. Crashes the program everytime, without fail. Le sigh.

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 4:49 pm

Back when I did a pencils only Megatokyo parody, I found using 2B or even 4B pencils gave a much cleaner scan, as it allows lighter scanner settings. Using good paper is important too, something smooth like printer paper scans cleaner than the typical rough sketchbook stuff.

ZOMBIE USER 12015 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 12015** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 5:15 pm

NikeYoung wrote:Joe, you...
just...
gave...
away...
MY LOCATION! YOU HAVE JUST COMPROMISED MY EXISTENCE YOU BAS--

Nah, just teasin' ya.

You not in Jersey, are yah boy?? I'm gonna send some people wit' no thumbs up in there to help youse out. Just go down the Camden bus station, they'll be there.

By the way, it's "ink studs", we're "Ink Studs". No body can help you if you resist all the answers. (I'm gettin' all zen n' such, nice eh?)

o.k.. I'll stop..

Megidoth · Post by **Megidoth** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 7:30 pm

Photoshop isn't the name of a fairy that will magicly remove all the part you consider not clean^^;

You should ink and even if you mess some lines,you can always erase them with mspaint.I know because i do and i MESS my strip at time but some click of mspaint and everything nifty clean

Beside,it's not like you have a lot of option...

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 7:40 pm

Yar! and don't forget to muck about with the levels when you scan it. Simplifies things for me.