Formating "Poll"

[Io]

Well this isn't really a poll so much as another question list wondering what proggies and whatnot people work in.

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
- For now I use a combinataion of Illustrator, and Photoshop, thinking of trying open canvas or painter as well to make some prettier pre-made background cells.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
- 600 dpi, makes things like line work shrink down beautifully as well as print well. If I had another gig of ram I'd bump it higher but as of now my PC would commit suicide working in higher.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
-Still working in jpg, might switch to png though. I've been relunctant out of habbit remembering once upon a time when all pings looked the sdame on the web- a little white box with a red "X."

4.) Color or B&W?
-Color all the way here ^^; I love traditional pen and ink more then almost anything ( watercolor painting is my <3 though) But color seems to make comedy strips look more dynamic.

[Tarts]

1.) Photoshop and <censored because it's an ancient secret kept in the family for hundreds of years>

2.) I don't know/care. My panels are completely vectorized before being rendered into webcomic format.

3.) JPG, GIF, PNG... depends really. JPG for normal colored strips, GIF for strips where I became lazy, PNG for filler, etc...

4.) Color all the way. I color with <censored because it's an ancient secret kept in the family for hundreds of years> I only use B&W for comic effect.

[Garneta]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?

Photoshop FTW.

2.) What dpi do you work in?

600...um, I think. Not really sure.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.

jpg.

4.) Color or B&W?

I've had one black and white strip, drawn in charcoal. The rest have been colored and (most of them) shaded.

[Black Sparrow]

1.) Photoshop. I pencil and pen it by hand first, though.

2.) 300 dpi. It's what my scanner defaults to. *shrug*

3.) Jpg for anything with gradiants and shading. Gif for anything else. Both have compression that are easily manipulatable in PS 5.

4.) I prefer color, but I was kinda jaded to full color comics during my last one. I ended up burning out because I was spending a couple hours a day working in Photoshop. So, my next project is opting for mostly black and white, excluding title images.

[InSite]

1.) I ink by hand, then take it to photoshop to add tones.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
300dpi. Its fine for print and I prefer not having to wait 5 minutes every time I save my work.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
JPEG. That's force of habit, though. I don't like pixelated .gif and I haven't dealt much in PNG.

4.) Color or B&W?
I love colour comics but its a practical issue for me to do my in muted colours. However, with the time it can take to do the grays in photoshop.... I'm wondering if its as time-saving as I'd thought. Should probably do a colour one and see.

[Jameslong]

1. it's all photoshop

2. 300dpi but only because my 1.5ghz laptop starts laughing when I hint at anything higher.

3. I stick to Jpegs out of habbit. it's the perfect sort of compression for me. If I didn't work with so many gradiants, I could probably be persuaded to go with gif's.

4. Color can make a good comic look great. creating a flat for each panel, though, is uber-time consuming. When you are just one guy/gal doing it all it's easy to burn yourself out on the extra three or four hours it takes to color a page. I try to color, but if i'm running short on time, I don't. Or if I'm sick of looking at my lines.

[Stinkywigfiddle]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
- Ink and paper. Then I scan it in and use Photoshop. For the longest time I used Microsoft Picture It.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
-300

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
-jpg.

4.) Color or B&W?
-B&W it's quicker, easier, cheaper, and I just like the look of it.

[Jkandra]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
Pen and ink on bristol board then scan into Photoshop. I have used Illustrator a couple of time for effects.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
I scan as B&W line art so it's 720 DPI.

3.) What is your preferred strip format.
I export to GIF for my final web sized comic.

4.) Color or B&W?
B&W. I like the look of a traditional B&W strip. I also don't have the time for lots of color.

[Wp]

600 dpi? 720 dpi? Isn't that overkill? Are you making posters out of your comics?

[Jackhass]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
- Photoshop.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
- Scan it in at 600 dpi, reduce it to 72 when I put it up online.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
- JPG.

4.) Color or B&W?
- Black and white with shading.

[Joel Fagin]

Photoshop, 300dpi, what ever ends up smaller and colour.

An artist I'm working with on another comic uses Flash (which has no dpi) in colour.

- Joel Fagin

[Vorticus]

I work in photoshop though I used to work with gimp. I work at 300 dpi because my scanner won't go any higher. I save in .png for flat colors and prefer .jpg when I shade. I like color best because my line work still isn't to the point where it can really stand on its own.

[Cope]

1.) The GIMP.

2.) 300 dpi. I worrked in 600 for a while thinking the higher resolution would result in higher quality images, but it seemed to make no difference once the images were shrunk down.

3.) I worked in gifs for ages but eventually switched to pngs. Moderately smaller filesizes ftw.

4.) What is this colour of which you speak?

[Siabur]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
Scan it into photoshop 5.0. Then use CS for everything else. You mean there are other programs?

2.) What dpi do you work in?
300 then reduce to 72.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
Depends. Some look better and are smaller in ping, which btw is 33% larger in displayed size and 80% smaller file size than the gifs they used to be in.
4.) Color or B&W?
B&W. Haven't figured out color yet. Something that is actually hard for me with my cartoons. Not to mention it takes too long for me to keep an interest.

[TRI]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
GIMP

2.) What dpi do you work in?
Err. I draw my comics directly on the computer, so scanning isn't an issue. I work four times larger than the finished strip is... so I suppose that's equivalent to 288dpi.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
JPG, but mostly out of habit.

4.) Color or B&W?
Color whenever possible because I don't like my black-and-white work.

[Ataraxia]

1) The Gimp for drawing, Ultimate Paint for adding speech balloons and certain other effects.

2) 300 dpi currently, but I've been thinking about changing to 600dpi for an upcoming project. 300dpi doesn't allow very good crosshatching.

3) png

4) Black and white. I'd never be able to update three times a week in color. Besides, my coloring looks like crap.

[Pimpette]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
I draw by hand, then scan into Photoshop, and use Illustrator to add in text or anything else I like.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
300 for Pimpette (used to be 150)
600 for Shenanigan (because it'll go straight to print once each chapter is finished)

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
JPG
There are a few GIFs in my archive, simply because I was playing with Save For Web settings and for those particular strips, GIFs were smaller in size.

4.) Color or B&W?
I totally prefer colour, but sadly the majority of Pimpette strips end up being uploaded in B&W... and stay that way. Shenanigan strips are uploaded as full colour OR NOTHING. Cause unphotoshopped Shen strips are sort of icky.

[Magpye]

1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics?
Pencils and ink by hand or ink in Illustrator, colour in Photoshop or if I've got a lot of time, colour in Illustrator. I never have time though because I am LAZY.

2.) What dpi do you work in?
- 600 dpi, any smaller and you can hear the cursing in Siberia.

3.) What is your prefered strip format.
JPEG. Playing with PNG but not entirely sold yet.

4.) Color or B&W?
Depends what I'm working on and the mood of the comic I'm working on. A future project will likely be in B/W & sepia. Sometimes I'll hand colour with a limited range of inks. Depends how I feel.

[CaptainClaude]

2.) What dpi do you work in?

600 for Shenanigan (because it'll go straight to print once each chapter is finished)

Which will never ever happen. Ever.

I scan at 720 dpi because thats what my scanner defaults to with pure black and white images, and my comp can handle it. makes everything incredibly clean.

Everything else is standard, photoshop, colour, jpegs or pngs.

[TharanFayth]

1) I use photoshop for everything: editing, rendering and coloring/shading.
2) 200 dpi seems to work fine for me. (I don't use the original lines anyway, just for an outline which I discard later on in my little coloring process)
3) All my comics are in JPEG
4) I switched from a pencil B&W style to completely using photoshop for lining/coloring/shading, I like it considerably more than the earlier strips.