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Design Your Own Comic

Posted on August 13th, 2007
Written by admin and filed into the Design, Miscellaneous, Effects category.


Step 6: Cleaning Up

Now that we have drawn, scanned, adjusted, colored and shaded our image its time to clean it up and make it look like a comic book page. The first thing that we want to look at is the edges. When coloring your boxes, if you did your layout like mine, you may have some paint outside the picture box. This is no big deal all that will need to be done is to paint over the overdrawn edges.

I like more artistic layouts myself, things that have flaws but play off them to make a better picture, it adds the human element to art in my opinion. For example, my boxes are off center and rough, you can obviously tell that I did this by hand with no means of a straight edge, but to me it looks a little better than a perfectly laid out box. You may not see it that way and want everything to be perfectly laid out and proportioned properly. This is possibly the easiest thing you will do in this project. All that needs to be done is to grab the line tool and make boxes around the ones that you have drawn to become even.

You can adjust the pixel size of the line in the options bar at the top to fit with your desired width. Whenever you make a line this will result in a new layer at the end we will need to merge all these layers so its one flattened image for print.

Step 7: Size Adjustment And Print

Once you have your image cleaned up you will need to resize it and flatten the image for print. You have probably noticed you have been working with a colossal document with the painting and everything, which is good because it doesn’t distort your lines when painting which allows a smooth coloring task. But as you may have guessed this large document isn’t going to print on just one page so we will need to downsize it. The standard format for print is 8 inches by 10.5 inches. The easiest way to get this step over with is to open a new document and set your dimensions.

Then after you open the new document go back to your comic page and merge the layers. Once they are merged select the whole document and copy it, this may take a while if you don’t have a lot of RAM on your computer.

Paste and fit the document inside the 8 x 10.5 document. To fit the document just hold down ctrl + T to transform it, grab the nearest corner and hold down shift to downsize the document and keep it in proportion. After fitted just hit “Enter” and you have a printable comic page.

Making a comic book page, like all things, is something that gets easier the more times you do it. And like all things in art there is no right or wrong way to go about doing something. The steps I have just demonstrated are just one of many ways to go about making your own comic book page. When reading this tutorial I hope you’ll become more familiar with the settings in Photoshop as well with how to utilize them and make them work to your specific need, thanks for reading.

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