How do you resize your comics?

LunarScyphozoa 2023-05-15 02:20:28 UTC #1

It’s something I’ve wondered for a while, how people get their incredibly detailed comics to fit the shall we say slim size requirements for tapas without losing the quality, especially as I use procreate which doesn’t seem to be good at resizing images without getting blurry and or pixel-y.

IndigoShirtProd 2023-05-15 02:32:53 UTC #2

Well, a high dpi is a good starting point and also saving the image after resizing as a .png rather than a .jpg/.jpeg. But losing quality after reformatting is kinda unavoidable.

BoomerZ 2023-05-15 02:42:08 UTC #3

Once again, DPI has zero effect on your quality of a computer image. That is a print term. Tapas has a max width of 940px. No matter what dpi you set it to, the width is still 940 pix wide. Set your canvas to the max width (or multiple of that width if you want some leadway then resize down). Ignore the dpi as it has zero effect on this size as you have, the px size is set.

RedLenai 2023-05-15 03:06:27 UTC #4

If you work on Procreate I would first recommend working on the bigger size the program allows you to work on.
Another thing you could do is to save your file in PNG instead of making it smallerin JPEG which tends to lower the quality and get a bit pixelated.
Then by resizing to Tapas size I believe the issue would lie down exactly on where are you looking at the resized image, is it from pc or a big tablet? If that's the case then it'll look blurry no matter what, what matters is that it looks neat once it is on a mobile view mostly a cellphone the size of the average human hand.

But in case that your issue is not within format or device, I believe you should give a look to this thread or this video.

Personally I work with Clip Studio Paint, so originally I work at 1600px width x 30000 lenght, then when it is time to export I only set it to Tapas width (940px), I do save my file in JPEG then lower quality to 85% since the quality of art doesn't look that bad once in my phone or tablet, on pc of course it looks a bit pixelated but it's tolerable.

IndigoShirtProd 2023-05-15 03:08:00 UTC #5

Really? I had no idea. I was always under the impression that it was pertinent, but I guess that's because for me, I plan on printing in the future.

BoomerZ 2023-05-15 05:23:27 UTC #6

If you plan on printing at a later date you need to do all artwork at X3 or X4 scale. So for tapas that is 2,820px or 3,760px.To uplaod to Tapas "save as" and scale it down in program as a separate copy, save you original. If you take a 940 px image and just say make it 600 dpi, your comic will literally just be 1 1/2 inches across. As the amount of px don't change, just how close they will be. And if you just upsize your 940px image it will get pixelated. That is why you keep a large px file original copy. You print from that.