Size restrictions?

[Rhyzue]

Hello all,
I'm planning on starting a korean style webtoon. If you've read any, you'll know that they are suuuper long, the first chapter of mine may be well over 15,000 pixels in height once put together. Tapastic seems to have a restriction to 4000 pixels in height, yet a webtoon called "American Ghost Jack" (which is also on Tapas) is much bigger than that.

So my question is, is it possible to surpass the 4000 pixel restriction? Or should I try publishing my webtoon on a different host, such as LINE Webtoons? I'd love to publish on Line but I heard it'll be hard to find my comic there, especially since I don't have much source of "outside viewers", ie. a popular twitter or tumblr account where I can attract readers from.

[joannekwan]

Well, you just gotta splice/cut up the page into multiple pages. Like toilet paper.

Here's a great tutorial by Fany!

[Heck]

[joannekwan]

I don't think I'd want a cleaver near me in the bathroom! XD

[Endhil]

The guide says 940x4000 per image, 2mb in size per image and up to 40 images.
So you could potentially have a chapter that is 160,000 pixels in length, if you had all 40 images.

(I'm only going on Fany's tutorial and Tapastic's Creator's Guide, so please tell me if I'm wrong)

[PotooGryphon]

Well, you just gotta splice/cut up the page into multiple pages. Like toilet paper.

Here's a great tutorial by Fany!

I love Fany's tutorials! Art and information is fantastic! Before reading her tut on the slice tool I'd actually use the crop tool in photoshop and manually divide the image up that way. Oh it's so much easier with the slice tool. lol

So my question is, is it possible to surpass the 4000 pixel restriction?

It's 4000 pixel height restriction per image you upload into an episode and episodes can contain like 20 to 30 images(?)... a lot, it can contain a lot of images. So basically for your 15,000 pixel image you'd use the slice tool [as shown how to do it in Fany's tut linked above] and divide your image by 4 horizontally. (since 15,000 divided by 4,000 is 3.75 you'll need to round it up to 4 slices to make it work)

Then "Save For Web" in photoshop and it'll save all 4 slices as their own image files. Next upload those 4 image files into a Tapastic episode and BOOM! Done!

Or should I try publishing my webtoon on a different host, such as LINE Webtoons?

Webtoons has a smaller image file restriction than Tapastic. It's 800 px wide by 1280 px tall and they only take jpg files, so you'd run into the same issue there. You just have to slice your image.

[69Michi]

It's 4000 pixel height restriction per image you upload into an episode and episodes can contain like 20 to 30 images(?)... a lot, it can contain a lot of images. So basically for your 15,000 pixel image you'd use the slice tool [as shown how to do it in Fany's tut linked above] and divide your image by 4 horizontally. (since 15,000 divided by 4,000 is 3.75 you'll need to round it up to 4 slices to make it work)

Sadly 1,000 px per sliced image is the maximum auto slice would do for you. If you want any longer image than that, then you have to do thing manually, which would suck. LMAO

[PotooGryphon]

Huh?

Divide with the slice tool lets you do more than 1000 px per slice.

EDIT: Oh I think I see what you mean. Using the pixels per slice option is only from 1 to 1000. However if you divide by slices you don't run into this problem.

[69Michi]

Yea! That is what I mean LMFAO I often just use the auto slice because Webtoon the other website I upload on only allows up to 1280px per picture :C Beside I always feel hella inaccurate when I divide the picture manually LMFAO

[jrossola]

You said:
"Divide with the slice tool lets you do more than 1000 px per slice."
Could you explain me how? Thank you!