Help Resizing Comic Pages

[theladiesi]

I'm trying to upload a comic I originally had on Deviantart but Tapastic has more restrictions on page size requirements. My pages are 4.0 MB and I'm having trouble getting them to 2 MB. Does anyone know a website or program that can fix the pages so they will be accepted by Tapas. I use Manga Studio and GIMP to make the comic so if anyone knows how to change the settings, that would be great. I already put it on 2250 w x 3300 pixels but it still says 4.0 MB. Do I have to scale it down more? Please help.

[anim8or2000]

are your pages in colour of black and white?

heres some things you can do to reduce the file size
first up try saving as .png . its' losless and will reduce the filesize a lot
you could also try saving as .jpg ( though that adds compression artifacts and i dont like that as much)

reduce the colour depth- if its 64 bit color . reduce it to 32 bit color

the 3 main file restrictions are width, height and file size, so cut each image in half and upload them in sequence. each 2250 x 3300 page is split into 2 2250x 1650 pixel images

if you were to supply a test page i might be able to document how you can reduce filesize.

[Akrav]

I think the width restriction for Tapas is 940pixel. It can be a .png or a .jpg.
Anything that's bigger in width than that is rejected by Tapas.

You should be able to resize it in GIMP, but I don't really know the setup of the program.
I use MediBang, it's a free program with many interesting features, I definitely recommend it to comic creators.

[anim8or2000]

to resize an image click this icon in the toolbar (hilighted with red circle)

then a new dialog will open allowing you to set the dimensions you want to resize it to.

if you click the chain icon (circled in red) to match the picture, aspect ration will be preserved. simply type in the width and the hieght is automatically adjusted.

[theladiesi]

Thanks, these suggestions are really helpful. So anything up to 940 pixel or lower should work? I'm going to try again and see if things work better. I'll check out MediBang. Thanks for letting me know.

[Akrav]

You're welcome, the great thing about MediBang is also, that it includes a Paneling tool which easily allows you to create panel material.
Check it out and look up a few tutorials for it, it's worth the time investment to learning it!

[theladiesi]

It sounds really interesting, I'm going to look it up. Thanks for letting me know. I tried resizing the pages with by changing the pixel dimensions and it looks like it was accepted. It really helped knowing the pixel requirements. Thank you guys so much for the help.

[J.Z.Castillo]

I also use Manga Studio. Just resize your canvas and bring the dpi down to a 72 (since that's the resolution for web). Remember the widest image Tapas will allow you to upload is 940px and the longest is 4000px.

Usually when you bring the dpi down to a 72 it already changes the dimension and the size of the image. SAVE IT AS A DIFFERENT FILE so you don't mess up the original. Also, .jpeg and .jpg are smaller than .png files so that can bring the image size down by a bit.

I work on 11x17in canvas at 600dpi (I'm working for print) but when I upload on web I just change the dpi to 72 and save it as a .jpg file and that is usually enough and I don't have to mess around with bit color and all of that

[nobebocafe]

On MangaStudio:

File-> Export (Single Layer) -> select the file format and name it -> now opens the export setting where you can change
the quality of the image and/or the output size.

If the export preview is marked, it will open the preview (yep...) image, where you can change the quality and see the final size (in kbytes) of your image.

In any case, for tapastic i d0nt recommend to convert the image on 72 dpi, because Tapastic do it automatically, and your image are going to be down grade twice.

[theladiesi]

Thanks for all the feed back guys. I think I've figured it out. You've all been a big help and I appreciate it.

[CoffeeandCats]

I use http://www.picresize.com/ If the image is bigger!

[theladiesi]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[ORO8ORO]

I use http://tinypng.com/ to compress PNG or JPG. It reduces the file size a lot sometimes. The difference in quality between the original file is almost imperceptible.

[theladiesi]

That's something I was really worried about with resizing images. Thanks for the info.