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So glad to hear that! What's your webcomic called?

@@simondrawsstuff It's called The Last Dimension! Excuse the late reply;;

I'm really happy to hear that! ^^

Glad it could help! ^^

So happy to hear! :D

Glad to hear! :D

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Awesome! I'm so glad to hear. And yeah, Croppy is just A HUGE time saver. So thankful for it.

That's definitely an interesting idea!

Glad you liked it! The drawings were a lot of fun to do!

600 dpi only matters in relation to setting up a format in cm/mm or inches. So, let's say, you create a 1x1cm picture with 600dpi, that's going to give you a 230x230 pixel image. If then, you create your webtoon canvas with at least 800 pixel width and size up your line art, that might make it pixelated. I would recommend two things: 1) Only worry about dpi when creating pages meant for print, and base it off the size you want to print at. With creating the webtoon version of your comic, worry more about pixel size (again, at least 800 pixel width as this is roughly what Webtoon/Tapas size the final image down to anyway). 2) Draw with vector lineart (I have another tutorial on this on my channel "5 Methods for Perfecting your Lineart in CSP"), which will ensure your lineart looks smooth no matter how much you scale it up/down or transform it. Hope that helps!

Sorry for the late reply, I must have overlooked this message. I don't crop the canvas size when exporting for print within Clip Studio Paint. I set up the files so that bleed is included (extra art extending beyond the final dimensions, which helps prevent any potential inaccuracies when art extends to the edge of a page and might not be cut cleanly in the printing process). If anything, I tend to cut the canvas size to the final dimensions when exporting for online PDFs or CBRs. Hope that helped answer your question!

Thank you! As for your question, I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you mean. By saying you're "exporting to Amazon", are you talking about a Kindle version of the comic?

@@simondrawsstuff to keep it simple how do I set up the correct margins and bleeds on an square comic? Like mouse guard

@@JerryDunhamJr The bleeds will depend on what your printer will want to work with. But 5 mm (0.20 inches) is usually plenty, and even 3 mm (0.12 inches) is enough for most printers I've worked with. For margins, I would suggest at least 0.5 inches on all sides. Depending on the look you want to achieve, you could make it larger, but I wouldn't go over 1 inch as it might limit the space available for the art too much beyond that.

@@simondrawsstuff perfect! Subscribing to your webtoons. Keep up the dope amazing work!

If you click the little menu icon next to the "Color Set" tab, select the option "View(S)" and then you have new ways of displaying the Color Sets. I'm using "List medium"!

There's a "JPEG Settings" option where you can set "Quality" to 100.

You can of course upload to Webtoon or Tapas as comic pages, there's no rule against it! I've seen comics that do that and that still manage to gain an audience. But many of the users of those platforms are used to the vertical format, so it can be helpful if you're trying to appeal to those users. :)

I worked that way for chapter 2 of Weirdogs. All I can say is that I had a much harder time rearranging the webtoon version into print pages, than I did vice versa. Though, if you don't care about having an elaborate and typical page layout, and are okay with doing something loose (with lots of unused white space) like Lore Olympus did for their print version, then this approach can work. I just personally prefer the look of typical page layouts and it's pretty much going to impossible to replicate that look when you start out with webtoon focused layouts.

Honestly, if you're working with analogue media but plan on having the finished product be a vertical scroll manga, I don't think it makes a lot of difference which paper size you're using. Just make sure to scan it at a high DPI (600 for smaller paper sizes, at least 300 for larger paper sizes). I would try avoiding larger paper sizes so you're not tempted to add in more complex panels. You could maybe even pick a small notepad size paper actually, and think about each sheet of paper as a single panel that you can then stitch together as a vertical scroll. Those are just ideas and suggestions - I haven't created a vertical scroll that started out with analogue media, so I'm not speaking from experience.

This website gives a pretty good overview of a few common dimensions: makingcomics.spiltink.org/pgtemplates/

Well it's still possible, but it's more work than the other way around in my experience.

Make sure to NOT have the "Object" tool selected when copy/pasting a frame folder. If you use the Move Layer tool for example, it will copy everything, not just the frame.

I just select each line of dialogue individually, press CTRL+C, select the template text in one of the text boxes that I made multiples of in Clip Studio and press CTRL+V. I hope that clears it up, if not, let me know!

If you're in the US, some friends recently used Mixam Print to print their comic and were really happy with the result!

For print, especially color comics, 300 DPI is the standard. If you're just doing a black and white manga style piece, I have also seen 600 DPI recommended.

@@simondrawsstuff Great! Thank you very much :)

I recommend using Clip Studio Paint, as shown in the video.

I don't have an iPad so I am not sure, but there just might be a limit. In any case, the values I named here are just suggestions, so if you can't stick to them, you will still be fine! ^^

@@simondrawsstuff yo thanks for replying! Yeah I figured it’s the limit, but 20000 is good enough.

I'm not sure I understand which part exactly you're struggling with. Is it setting up the webtoon format for a new file? Or do you mean it's not copying your frame folder to the other file?

@@simondrawsstuff the part am struggling is to but the comic page panels into the webtoon page i have. i think everything you said in your video select frame folder copy/paste put nothing happens and cant paste it into the webtoon canvas

Hey! What I've done is: 1. Create a template text layer with the default font size I want for my entire comic. 2. Copy this text layer for each speech bubble I want on the page. 3. Select final speech bubble text in Google Docs. 4. Press Ctrl+C 5. Select template speech bubble text in Clip Studio Paint 6. Press Ctrl+V 7. Format text (add line breaks, adjust position, add bold or italic text, etc) (Repeat steps 3-7 for each speech bubble on the page Hope that helps! If there's a more direct way to copy text over, I'm not aware of it.

@@simondrawsstuff Oh shoot thank you! I didnt get a notification that you replied so sorry for replying late!

Different standards in different places. Always a good idea to refer to existing comics as reference on the size you might want; and to check with various printing services whether they are able to work with that size.

I used Clip Studio Paint Pro!

@@simondrawsstuff Do you also recommend doing this with Krita too or mainly Clip Studio?

@@simondrawsstuff Actually, what would be your advice for someone who (let's say) does a webtoon now, but is not sure if they want to make it in print in the future (but they're highly considering it?)

@@spydertyler7572 I'm not familiar with Krita. If it's a better option for you personally due to the familiarity or the price, it might be worth to considering choosing it over Clip Studio. Make sure to also check if there's tutorials available for doing the stuff you would like to do in Krita, as having easily accessible help and guidance can be a very important factor.

@@spydertyler7572 If you are already doing a webtoon and are highly considering printing it, I would recommend to start as soon as you can with making stuff for print first and for webtoon second. It's much easier to rework from a regular page to a webtoon than it is the other way around. Even if you were to end up not printing your current webtoon after all, it would still be a valuable way to learn how to prepare things with print in mind and it might come in useful in any future projects.

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