Fitting To the Standards

Reign 2019-01-20 05:17:40 UTC #1

Hey, guys! Me and my editor are trying to find the best way to fit the pages of the comic into the standards that Tapastic is asking for. I've got this episode that I'm trying to put in, but it's too wide. Is there a way to make it less wide without squishing the image?

Because I have this version, the original:

The only thing me and my editor could figure to fix the problem was to do this, but is there any way around it?:

silverraven0 2019-01-20 05:21:22 UTC #2

Did you made the original pages with the 800 something Pixel? If you do, then I recommend you to draw on a bigger pixels, like twice of the original or more. If you do, the time you cut and resize it to be the second version, they won't Get blurred.

(is this what you're asking for tho? XD)

The maximum resolution tapas allowed is 940x4000 pixels, so maybe try to made it doable from the width number and resize it to it the upload.

Reign 2019-01-20 05:23:55 UTC #3

I'm not too concerned with pixels. It's just saying that the picture is too wide because I've drawn it horizontally. I'm just wondering if there's any way to keep it horizontal and have it fit on the Tapastic page. The drawing is already pretty small, and I don't know how to edit it and shrink the picture without smushing the image.

silverraven0 2019-01-20 05:26:54 UTC #4

I'm looking on this from mobile, and the third panels have a bubble with a pretty small fonts if you ask me. And I won't recommend having 3 panels for tapas, but you do you, lol. Sorry I don't have the solution for this.

Reign 2019-01-20 05:28:14 UTC #5

That's okay! It helps to know that on mobile, the font is really small. Thanks for the help.

Zaboem 2019-01-20 06:23:59 UTC #6

If it is any consolation, the three row high format looks good on my phone screen.

GesuGesu 2019-01-20 08:22:35 UTC #7

I think 6 rows of 1 panel each would match the scroll format that Tapas prefers.

Cavechan 2019-01-20 15:48:14 UTC #8

I think if you go with the 3 rows, you should put much more space with the horizontal gutters because they look too close together. In comics, generally the vertical gutters are thin and the horizontal gutters are wide so the reader doesn't accidentally read the panel down instead of the panel to the right.