Bridge Comix

xenubarb · Posts: 10 Join date: 2008-07-10

Am I doing it right?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XC9YG27V

kinesta · Posts: 23 Join date: 2008-07-11

thats pretty funny lol

Dis · Posts: 9 Join date: 2008-07-11 Location: the internets

XenuBarb,

First off, great comic! Love the style and story.

From a technical standpoint: your file is 300 dpi at 6.625" wide x 10.25" high which are both correct. The file is RGB, but should be saved as Grayscale for an interior comic page, and the page has a gray tone running to the edge of the page. Since we're printing the interiors of the book with no bleed, the edge of the art needs a white margin of around .25" on all sides. In the case of your page, we could just reduce it with a white margin on all sides so the gray doesn't run to the page edge. Fixed!

Keep up the great work!

~Dis

OGjimbo · Posts: 11 Join date: 2008-07-12

Damn, every time I try to download it I get a server timeout message. I'll go ahead and try again a little bit later.

Dis · Posts: 9 Join date: 2008-07-11 Location: the internets

I got two hangups at first too, OG - then tried it on a different browser (Firefox) and it worked first shot.

OGjimbo · Posts: 11 Join date: 2008-07-12

Awesome, it finally downloaded. Yeah thats good!

A nice little story with a good message.

dammarud · Posts: 3 Join date: 2008-07-13

Just a tip for ppl to display images

It might be easier to use an image hosting site such as photobucket (etc...)

You can upload your images at varied sizes, and also link the pics to appear in forums, etc.

Good start with the comic! I think a short story (anthology) book is ideal for this project...

xenubarb · Posts: 10 Join date: 2008-07-10

Dis wrote:

XenuBarb,

First off, great comic! Love the style and story.

From a technical standpoint: your file is 300 dpi at 6.625" wide x 10.25" high which are both correct. The file is RGB, but should be saved as Grayscale for an interior comic page, and the page has a gray tone running to the edge of the page. Since we're printing the interiors of the book with no bleed, the edge of the art needs a white margin of around .25" on all sides. In the case of your page, we could just reduce it with a white margin on all sides so the gray doesn't run to the page edge. Fixed!

Keep up the great work!

~Dis

Dang, I thought I saved it as grayscale. Why the gray tone? It's a scan of a comic I did back in the days of pen and ink. My bad.

I just bought a new set of faux rapidographs. Expect...uh...moar?