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Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Class Related Events
Brooklyn King Con is on the 7th and 8th of November. I highly suggest that if you have the time that you stop by. I will be there at the Rabid Rabbit table (Which I have no where that is- but it's not that big so it shouldn't be hard to find me)
MoCCA Events. unfortunately we missed the Calvin and Hobbes lecture- but as you can see there are many, many more upcoming cool events at the museum.
Brooklyn Comicfest Check this one out too.
Monday, November 2, 2009
How to Create a Separate Line Art Layer
This Tutorial will demonstrate one method of cleanly separating your comic lineart from the original scanned document in Photoshop. This will allow the artist to color/manipulate image on layer below the original line art.
This process works best with straight black and white images (though it can work with gradient images- but this requires a bit of experimentation to become comfortable with).
1. Open your image in Photoshop. Make sure your image in the grayscale mode- Look at the top of your image, after the title you'll see in parentheses "(Gray/8)" this means 8-bit gray- which is standard. If it says anything else you can go to the image menu and select- image/mode/grayscale.
2. Once you've done that go to your "layers" Palette- Next to it you'll see a tab for the "Channels" palette- select that palette. In that palette you'll see only one layer titled "gray"- Command select that layer. Upon doing that you will notice that all the white has been selected in you image.
3. Switch back to the layers palette and create a new layer and call it Line Art. In this new layer go to the "select" menu and choose inverse.
4. Make sure that your color picker is set the foreground color to black and then hit "option + delete" to fill the selected area with black (command+delete sets the selection to the background color).
5. Go to the select menu and choose deselect.
6. select the background layer and hit command+delete to fill it with white.
7. Now your Line Art is now on a separate layer.
This process works best with straight black and white images (though it can work with gradient images- but this requires a bit of experimentation to become comfortable with).
1. Open your image in Photoshop. Make sure your image in the grayscale mode- Look at the top of your image, after the title you'll see in parentheses "(Gray/8)" this means 8-bit gray- which is standard. If it says anything else you can go to the image menu and select- image/mode/grayscale.
2. Once you've done that go to your "layers" Palette- Next to it you'll see a tab for the "Channels" palette- select that palette. In that palette you'll see only one layer titled "gray"- Command select that layer. Upon doing that you will notice that all the white has been selected in you image.
3. Switch back to the layers palette and create a new layer and call it Line Art. In this new layer go to the "select" menu and choose inverse.
4. Make sure that your color picker is set the foreground color to black and then hit "option + delete" to fill the selected area with black (command+delete sets the selection to the background color).
5. Go to the select menu and choose deselect.
6. select the background layer and hit command+delete to fill it with white.
7. Now your Line Art is now on a separate layer.
Scanning Comic Art
When scanning your comic art there are several things to consider before you start.
Below I've broken it down by types of Artwork.
Black and White Inks: If your art is only black and white inks without any ink washes or grey scales then I suggest that you scan your art work as Black/White also sometimes called bitmap at 1200 dpi and if you are not importing directly into photoshop then I suggest saving it as a .tiff file. Why scan it in at such a high resolution? After you've scanned the file you will be reducing it's after converting it into greyscale, scanning at black and whites at a high res. before reducing them in another mode will help preserve the originals line quality. After you have the image in Photoshop I would change it's mode to greyscale. A pop-up window will appear asking you what ratio: Entering 1 will keep the image at 1200 dpi and the same size. Entering 2, will reduce the image by half- higher the number the more of a reduction (you can also do this after you've changed the mode)
Step by step:
1:Scan Art work as "Black and White/bitmap" at 1200 dpi (if not importing directly into Photoshop then save it as a .tiff file)
2:Open image in Photoshop.
3:Go to the "Image" menu select Mode/greyscale"
4.If you did not reduce your image size in the pop-up ratio menu then do so by going to the menu Image/Image Size and reduce it to between 300 to 400- art is printed at 300 dpi so working at a higher resolution is for your own benefit.
Scanning Color and Toned Artwork:
I suggest scanning all color and toned artwork at least at 400 dpi. Scanning an ink wash image in greyscale will discard any ambient colors that may appear in a color scan. After scanning the image open it in Photoshop, the image may require some color correction in photoshop but this depends on how well color calibrated your monitor is- to test this try printing a sample of your image- but be aware that printers can also alter the images color.
Note: If you are preparing an image for the web- you can work on in RGB Mode (red, Green, and Blue) and reduce it's dpi to 72- that is web resolution. If preparing an image to professionally printed it must be in the mode CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) If you switch between RGB and CMYK there will be a noticeable difference.
Below I've broken it down by types of Artwork.
Black and White Inks: If your art is only black and white inks without any ink washes or grey scales then I suggest that you scan your art work as Black/White also sometimes called bitmap at 1200 dpi and if you are not importing directly into photoshop then I suggest saving it as a .tiff file. Why scan it in at such a high resolution? After you've scanned the file you will be reducing it's after converting it into greyscale, scanning at black and whites at a high res. before reducing them in another mode will help preserve the originals line quality. After you have the image in Photoshop I would change it's mode to greyscale. A pop-up window will appear asking you what ratio: Entering 1 will keep the image at 1200 dpi and the same size. Entering 2, will reduce the image by half- higher the number the more of a reduction (you can also do this after you've changed the mode)
Step by step:
1:Scan Art work as "Black and White/bitmap" at 1200 dpi (if not importing directly into Photoshop then save it as a .tiff file)
2:Open image in Photoshop.
3:Go to the "Image" menu select Mode/greyscale"
4.If you did not reduce your image size in the pop-up ratio menu then do so by going to the menu Image/Image Size and reduce it to between 300 to 400- art is printed at 300 dpi so working at a higher resolution is for your own benefit.
Scanning Color and Toned Artwork:
I suggest scanning all color and toned artwork at least at 400 dpi. Scanning an ink wash image in greyscale will discard any ambient colors that may appear in a color scan. After scanning the image open it in Photoshop, the image may require some color correction in photoshop but this depends on how well color calibrated your monitor is- to test this try printing a sample of your image- but be aware that printers can also alter the images color.
Note: If you are preparing an image for the web- you can work on in RGB Mode (red, Green, and Blue) and reduce it's dpi to 72- that is web resolution. If preparing an image to professionally printed it must be in the mode CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) If you switch between RGB and CMYK there will be a noticeable difference.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Post One, The Art of the Graphic Novel
This Blog is dedicated to the work and projects of the "Art of the Graphic Novel" Class at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. It will feature and promote the work of the enrolled students and present tutorials to assist in creating better comics. This is only the beginning! stay tuned for some cool comics to be found here!
C.M.Butzer- Instructor
C.M.Butzer- Instructor
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