Over at www.typealyzer.com, I checked out Johnny Saturn to see what personality type this site belongs to. I find this sort of interesting, because I have to imagine that this tells us more about the personalities of Comicpress theme author (Tyler Martin), and Phil Hofer, who has done a lot of work on this site, [...]
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We are approaching the end of our Photoshop Lettering tutorial, and if you have stuck with me this far then you have probably come to see Photoshop as a viable and relatively flexible lettering tool. There a few things to remember before you begin lettering.
Letter at a high resolution. Your comic pages will probably [...]
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Tech Thursday is back after its short hiatus. If you will remember the golden days of yore, we were last discussing the use of Photoshop to letter comics, and I explained how to create custom shapes to create all your balloons. Now it’s time to continue, and examine the tool presets that may be [...]
Illustrator is the industry standard for lettering comics, and there are lots of good reasons for this. Some letterers have been using Manga Studio, which I understand is well-suited for lettering as well. Photoshop may be used to letter, but if you do then there are some ways to streamline the process, and that’s what [...]
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In the last two columns, I have discussed how I collected and arranged my color swatches. In this episode, I’m giving you my general palette to download. You can study what I did, or use it as it, or do whatever you want with it.
Download ACO File (Good for Photoshop)
Download ACO File (Good [...]
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More fun with color swatches! This week, I’m going to cover how to set up and manage your own custom color swatch palette.
To create your own custom palette of color swatches, open Window, then Swatches. There will be a default color palette already loaded. In the upper right hand corner of this swatch window [...]
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Today, I’m discussing how I put together my color swatches in Photoshop. Before I dig into that, though, I think it’s best if I explain why I went to the trouble to make these color palettes.
Photoshop comes with a bunch of swatches, be they Pantone, or Trumatch, or what have you. These are [...]
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Today, I’m going to talk about scanning your line art into the computer. If you are not a stickler for getting crisp, clean scans where the blacks are black and the whites are white, and all the details are saved, then you can skip this episode. As you can probably deduce by my statements, [...]
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Well, I had hoped to present this episode as a pod cast, but I’m still on the steep and deep part of the learning curve with that, so maybe next week. This week, I’m covering how I set up files in Photoshop. First, however, I must state the obligatory caveat: This is the system [...]
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Witness the birth of Tech Thursday! On this day every week I plan to deal with some of the technical issues around cartooning. (Well, to be more exact, some of the technical issues around the way I cartoon, since I can’t speak for all cartoonists.) This won’t be the old “tool talk” variety of [...]
