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atina1255
Dec '19

Hey so does anyone like myself, have a comic on both tapas and webtoons?

I've just posted a new comic on webtoons, and I'm struggling with what their size requirement means?

I use Clip Studio Paint, and their guidelines are that it has to be 800pxx1200px. I tried to upload a page that was 800pxx1370px and it wouldn't let me, saying it was too big?

How is it some comic makers are getting pages on there that are scrollable for twelve minutes. Their pages are super lengthy, what am I doing wrong, can someone clear up the size guide for me please?

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keii4ii
Dec '19

Scrolling comics upload multiple images into a single update, and the site automatically stacks them up seamlessly.

Jenny-Toons
Dec '19

That, and a lot of creators use programs that have resize, convert, and splice their pages. I use Croppy for mine. I can basically use the same files I've created and put them through the same websites because of that extension:

So you can have pages that are twice the size of the needed requirements and just downsize them with a good program. It's easier that way since you're not limited to the site's requirements.

Buurd
Dec '19

If its 800x1200 and you uploaded 800x1370, its saying its too big because it's too big.
1370 is bigger than the max 1200.

But as others have explained, the part about how people create such long updates - is that they upload multiple pages following that (1) page size limit, to create their full update. Either using photoshops slice tool or Croppy usually

SedateCanopy
Dec '19

There is also one for CSP. Duplicate the page, go to Edit > Change Canvas size. One is taken from the bottom and one is taken from the top cut in either their middle line or any point really.

sekabead
Dec '19

Your page width matches with webtoon requirement , there's no need for resize in my opinion. Use your favorite tool (like croppy or photoshop slice tool) to slice each of your page into one 800x1200px and one 800x170px (or any other height, e.g. 800 and 570, as long as it's 1370 summed up).

You may want to use imagemagick directly though, as it could be invoked via command line interface on your computer (that's command prompt on windows, bash/terminal on linux-based distro / macOS) and automate the process of cropping, making your life easier if you have, say, 50 pages that needs to be cropped.

PaulieBlade
Dec '19

Can I turn this thread into another opportunity to complain about the width restriction?
Tapas' 940 is too small!
Webtoons' 800 is WAY too small!
HD screens in phones and tables are 1080, sometimes even 1200px wide! The extended images look blurry and ugly! Why do you ruin the potential beauty and crispness of the drawing?! AAARRRGGGHHH

Nobody hears... :pensive:

Rodimus13
Dec '19

We make ours at a nice size for hubby to draw on and then I shrink them down to 750 wide and from there we cut it into pieces. Normally around 25 for the length we do so it's under the limit for number of files on tapas and until the limit of length for webtoons.

azzy-m
Dec '19

Here's the thing: lengthy Webtoon episodes are actually one huge strip or a couple of strips split into multiple 800x1280 files for upload!

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This is somewhat what my episodes actually look like (as a matter of fact, my episodes are like, a lot longer than this. it's shorter cuz I'm working on a special episode right now), and I use a site called Croppy32 to split it into the needed sizes.

atina1255
Dec '19
keii4ii

Do you draw your pages, start to finish, with 800px by )the length that you want for that particular page) and THEN you have it cropped, or do you start out with whatever dimensions you want? For example, the first page I uploaded for my comic I went by what I thought were strict format dimensions, ergo 800px by 1280px

—> https://cc.loginfra.com/cc?a=myf.list&r=&i=&bw=1905&px=502&py=634&sx=502&sy=634&m=1&nsc=webtoons.all&g=en_en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webtoons.com%2Fen%2Fchallenge%2Flucky-in-love%2Flist%3Ftitle_no%3D36731712

so now everything from my cover page to my panels are those dimensions for this comic (I also made them like this because I though it would be easier if I ever wanted to make physical prints of my comics)

whereas with tapas I found a guy who showed you what dimension you could do (ive never made a mobile friendly/lengthy web comic format before because I'm so used to the standard dimensions.

atina1255
Dec '19
azzy-m

my other question is this. I watched a YouTuber show he did his, and he automatically had some large white space between his first panel and his second panel so that he could just throw text over it and then upload it, is that good and easier?

keii4ii
Dec '19
atina1255

800 pixels wide is awfully small if you want to print it. Here's my process:

  1. I sketch (thumbnail) my updates at 1200 something pixels wide by however long it takes.
  2. Then I divide that into multiple files, and each file gets resized to 3000 pixels wide.
  3. I make the polished art in that bigger size.
  4. Once the art/ lettering is all done, I flatten all the layers, and combine flattened files BACK to one biiiiig, loooooong image.
  5. ...Then I resize that biiiiig, loooooong image to fit Webtoons/Tapas width requirement, and slice it into multiple images.

This may seem redundant, especially how I divide the image, compile it, and then divide it again. But this is necessary because my panels often bleed into each other. (e.g. In the update I linked, you can see how the orange zoo panel bleeds into the panels above and below.) I create the bleeding effect during step 4.

I also need to sketch the whole thing in one image at first, to get a sense of how the whole thing flows throughout. So yeah... Divide, compile, re-divide is my fate.