A clip studio comic making question

[ChanYE]

i know alot of folks use clip here so i got this issue.... my comic size is big as hell. like 4000x 8000 big. ofcourse no comic site is going to take this file size so i tried changing the resolution and it just made things so... blurry.... i tried pasting everything to a clean page and just doing each panel separately but the items i was pasting are still too damn big and i cant resize them buecause the damned comic settings on clip make it near PISS IMPOSSIBLE to resize a comic box. its possible, its just it takes time.
i posted some pages but they look so weird im embarrassed to show them here as an example. is there any way i can get these pages down to size?

[qwerty]

I don't know if you have a different version or something but I use Edit -> Change Image Resolution.

Lowering the resolution will of course make everything more blurry. Maybe if it is too blurry you are lowering the resolution too much?

If you are lowering the resolution by the minimum amount possible to fit within the site's requirements and it is still blurry then maybe you need to break up your pages into multiple images? But that shouldn't happen since the image dimension guidelines are meant to be able to give reasonably high quality images.

I'm not sure about resizing comic boxes since I don't use that functionality. I just draw panels manually on a separate layer since it seems easier.

Hope some of that helped somehow

[audratki]

Wouldn't Change Canvas Size be a better option? (This will shrink it without shrinking your stuff, but you can use the Transform>Scale up/down feature first, then change the canvas size)

[kytri]

4000x8000 is pretty damn big to be honest. I format my comics primarily for print and they're only about 2500x3500. Going forward you might want to try working at a lower resolution from the start. I find it a bit easier to draw at a lower resolution anyway. Personally I like to sketch at about 150 DPI, ink on a vector layer and then up the resolution to about 350 DPI.

You can change the resolution, as people have mentioned. You are going to lose some quality, that's just how it works out. You can also manually set the size on an exported image under file>export(single layer) there will be a subsection on the export popup for output size.

It's hard to give more specific advice without seeing how your files are set up.

[ryoko]

In Clip studio my canvas is set at 3500 X 5500 at 300 dpi. When it comes time to resizing it, I merge all my layers and save it as a separate file as a TIFF. Then I open that TIFF up in Photoshop and resize it there to the what's allowed here on Tapas and Webtoons and then save it as a JPEG. Photoshop does a great job resizing without losing resolution whereas Clip studio doesn't seem to do as good a job

[mariusthered]

i use clip. i make my pages three time bigger. when finished this is the process.

(first of all i have made a template page to the with of tapas pages.)

finish page. and save.
flatten layers and cut the whole thing
paste on to my tapas siz page and resize.
flatten and save as jpeg.
then as an extra stage i open the whole thing in photoshop 7 and save it for web.

easy.

[thomassayle]

I make my pages twice the size I post them at , which is tapas maximum. I import it into photoshop for text and colour but also resize it down when I export it aswell.

[ChanYE]

thanks all for the help. i got it down to a neater process