Web comic art experiments, Phase 2

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Further experiments in web comics. This time around the narrative captions are matted, and I'm playing with fonts and so on. It's, um, really exciting.

The art begins as individual panels, of course, and actually spruces up like this, if you don't mind having a fiddle about in Photoshop...

...and they're rendered out of DAZ, imported into Serif and combined there. The final export is done out of Serif, at 200dpi, and then I use Irfanview to crop and convert each page to 100dpi so the pages are not prohibitively big. And as far as I know, these pages are a perfect fit for the iPad. Cool, huh?!

Is there anybody out there with an iPad who could test these pages for fit, and send some feedback? Thanks in advance!

Jade, 19 July

***Posted by MK because the internet is AWOL. Intermittent crap. Be warned, guys: our connection is going to be in and out for a week or two, as of this point: Telstra (or whatever) is doing a lot of work on the landlines in this area. And as you know, if you've been looking at the "poster notes" on these journal entries in my looooong adventure through the world of CG, 3D and digital, even at the best of times we can find ourselves with dialup speeds in this area. This is why MK has been making many posts for me, since Day One -- Keegan has the fast connection, not me! (This should change in the near future, when the cables or whatever are updated, and they stop working on them. At least, s'wot Telstra promises.) Credit where it's due: this blog would not have been possible without the support of a pal with decent internet. Because ours sucks. We moved into this area about six months before I got into Studio and blogging about it, and I almost quit right there: DAYS to download something from the DAZ store, at one point. Argh. Thank gods for friends when you need 'em!