What`s the best settings for comics in Clip Studio Paint

[feliscede]

Im making a new chapter in Clip Studio, but Im having trouble with the settings.

I make a new project in the A4 format, which is 210 mm wide. It should make the final pic about 760 pixels wide, according to the convertion charts. but instead, each page are about 6071 pixels wide!

If anyone uses CSP, please, which settings do you use to make comics for Tapastic?

Thank you in advance.

[okellymx]

You don't want to have that low of a pixel count for your project. 700 is way too low for comic work. I work in B4 600ppi for black and white. That is a bit much but my PC can handle it. When you export then you can resize to 700px.

[okellymx]

Also I never convert mm to pixels so I don't know why you did.

[feliscede]

I needed it because CSP doesn't convert to px when creating new project.

[feliscede]

When you export then you can resize to 700px.

But how do you resize the page when exporting. Do you export each page separately or do you export all at once?

[okellymx]

There should be an option for pixels. You have those select the all settings template when making a new project.

[serenitysquirrel]

When you export, the export screen gives you the option for output size.

[okellymx]

You can export all pages if you want by going file > export multiple.

[Kirstin]

Think about if you want to print your comic. Look up some standard comic sizes and try and work in that dimension! It'll make your life easier if you do decide to print.

As others have said, work bigger! it's always easy to export it in a lower dimension.

I personally work in 8.4 x 12.6 inches at 600 DPI, which is kind of overkill. I chose this because a high DPI is super important for quality when printing, and the dimensions are in the ratio of a common printing size.

[ConradComics]

To echo others here, Clip Studio new page presets (like their A4 page size) are usually set at a decently high working resolution (dpi) by default. The defaults are usually either 350 dpi or 700 dpi. I'm not sure why it's not 300 and 600, but Clip Studio does what Clip Studio does. Anyhoo, a 700 dpi working resolution will produce that 6000+ pixel size you're seeing on the A4. Good news is, you can export the image with a lower export resolution without changing any of the original images settings.

The linked guide page is a little old, but looks to have the appropriate options for the export feature:
Clip Studio Paint User Guide
Option 5; Output Size, can change the image output size in 3 different ways: (1) By Ratio, (2) By a specified output size (already mentioned) and (3) By a specifiied resoution; this is what I use. I just set it to 96 dpi and that 6000+ pixel width becomes the 700-800 pixel width you're after.

Like others have also mentioned, you should work in as high of a resolution as your pc can handle. The 700 dpi default should be fine though. Personally, I run it down to 600 dpi, because I've worked with 600 dpi resolution forever and I don't like change, LOL.

[feliscede]

Understood. Thank you for your detailed response.

[UzukiCheverie]

My #1 Golden Rule: Start large and shrink your pages for posting/printing. It's a lot easier to make large pages smaller than to make small pages bigger.

You should not be making your original drawing canvases as small as 700 px wide (you shouldn't be making the originals to adhere to website uploading rules - that's why we use the "Change Resolution/Image Size" options in PS/CSP and shrink down from larger sizes).

At the minimum, you should be working in at least 350 dpi (at the minimum). For inch sizes, I do main illustrations at 8.5 x 11 and I do about 11 x 16 for my comic pages (before bleed lines and cropping and such).

[Shanny8]

I just got myself a new laptop(had my old one for 6 yrs) and now I'm having to change the res settings on CSP. I was originally working at 300 dpi, but on the new [larger] latop, 300 dpi looks pixel-ly as hell. So I've bumped the settings up to 1200 dpi before the lines got smooth.

I always work on an 11"x17" size- that way when I reduce the size of the art, the work stays intact.