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Jun 2021

Here's my problem. I want to share my new comic, which uses classic pages, but Tapas' max size is 940 and doesn't resize it like Webtoon does.
When i shrink the pages to 940 they look horribly pixelated. Here's a sample:

There's no way anyone would read this. I wouldn't.
So what's the resolution/trick/whatever so i can fit my pages in Tapas without using a vertical format? Thanks in advance.

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What DPI are your images? If you're uploading a 300+ DPI image, Tapas is probably compressing it, which is why it's looking pixelated. If you reduce it to around 72-100 DPI yourself, then the file size should be small enough that Tapas won't try and compress it on its end.

As far as I know, there's no trick. The max resolution is 940 so it's just what the image size has to be unfortunately :sweat_smile: Webtoons is even worse for page comics tbh, with a max width of only 800.

Tbh I think it still works out okay. My first comic12 was a page format one, and although it's definitely small on a phone screen it's still readable. I think the most important thing is upsizing the font size a little bit more than you would for a print copy, though. Readers wont necessarily zoom, so making sure that the font is somewhat legible at 100% is important.

Another option (albeit much more labor intensive) that some folks opt to do would be to chop the pages up into something that is mobile friendly. You can increase the viewing size and more easily upsize the font without covering too much art this way. To provide another example, I experimented with this (although just with the first 7 pages of the comic linked above) here3.

Thanks for your answers! Yes, i am working on 600 DPI, reducing the files to 940 pixels wide, whatever the resolution i choose, shrinks the page so much it's not readable anymore, since my pages are classic style, with 5-6 panels per page on average.

Just thinking on the work it would take placing all the panels in vertical webcomic style is giving me headache.
Ironically, on Webtoons i only had to resize the pages a little and now they can be read just fine.

It's sad a website for comics makes it so hard to share comics. I already have this done to be a comic-book, transforming it into vertical format is a no-no, so i guess my comic won't be on Tapas.

It's not hard. When you resize your image, make it 940 pixels wide and 100 DPI. I do the same thing with my own pages. You need to adjust the DPI and the pixel dimensions at the same time, not just one or the other.

Hey i did exactly as you said, resizing both in a single process, which worked, you're my lifesaver.

Ironically, they just removed the prologue on Webtoons (probably the punches with blood, lmao, another chapter in Webtoons censoring), so Tapas is, again, the way to go. It's sad because i had 10 subs already.
Anyway. Thanks a lot!

If you are using photoshop, export it with File > Export > Save for web ( Legacy ) If you resize your page with this method, it won't be pixelated. Just make sure the quality is set to bicubic and you export it as PNG.

I don't use photoshop, but i realize i was using an interpolation method that was pixelating the files. Thank you!

600 dpi is unnecessarily high, even for printing. Your files must be huge. What is the purpose of working so high?

There are actually many printers that are requiring higher DPIs for printing. I used to work at 300 DPI, but the last company I did pages for wanted 400 DPI for color and 600 DPI for black and white.

That said, even if print doesn't need to be that big, there are benefits to working at a higher DPI. I work at 600 DPI for my comic so I can ink without an anti-aliased brush to make it faster to color it, while still maintaining a good line quality and being able to get in a decent amount of detail in my images.

As long as images are properly resized for web before posting online, there's no harm in working larger. And it's always better to work bigger, because you can always scale down. If you do pages at 300 DPI and find out they need to be 400 for the printer you're working with, you can't scale up without losing quality.

I haven't noticed this issue to be honest, but I work with full colored pages and size it in photoshop beforehand to reduce the risk.