Requius
June 24th, 2005, 09:33 AM
Hi there,
Surely someone out there must've encountered the problem that I'm faced with, and if so I'm most interested in hearing your take on it.
Alright, so I'm using a PC with a Cintiq 18sx and Painter 8 to create line art
(and possibly color) for comics. I am attempting to emulate lines
that are comparable to the fineness and integrity of rapidographs, preferably
as fine as the turquoise 0.13.
From Adi Granov, I hear that the comic industry standard is 2800 x 4200
pixel resolution for, of course, print. Now at that res such detail is achieveable. However, I also seek to post my images/pages at the end print size which is 6" x 9" at 100 pixels per inch so that viewers can see them on their monitor at a real life size or at least at the traditional original size of
10" x 15" at 100ppi.
Because I'm using a brush size of 1 pixel (scratchboard tool) at 280ppi,
those detailed lines fade into grey, if not entirely wipe out, when reduced.
After much investigation, I realize the problem is inherent to raster images and there is no way that I can meet demanding industry deadlines while creating paths in Illustrator CS (such as Brian Denham) and satisfy my own aesthetic desires. But determined and desperate, I dove into Illustrator anyway and discovered the AutoTrace feature that vectorizes pixel based images.
Soon after, I read somewhere that it's inferior to Adobe Streamline 4.0. Though I cannot help but to wonder if there is indeed something superior, program or method, than Streamline which was released in 1997, eh?
So to you discerning professionals and students, how do you deal with such raster distortion?
Thanx, the internet is my art school :)
Steven
Surely someone out there must've encountered the problem that I'm faced with, and if so I'm most interested in hearing your take on it.
Alright, so I'm using a PC with a Cintiq 18sx and Painter 8 to create line art
(and possibly color) for comics. I am attempting to emulate lines
that are comparable to the fineness and integrity of rapidographs, preferably
as fine as the turquoise 0.13.
From Adi Granov, I hear that the comic industry standard is 2800 x 4200
pixel resolution for, of course, print. Now at that res such detail is achieveable. However, I also seek to post my images/pages at the end print size which is 6" x 9" at 100 pixels per inch so that viewers can see them on their monitor at a real life size or at least at the traditional original size of
10" x 15" at 100ppi.
Because I'm using a brush size of 1 pixel (scratchboard tool) at 280ppi,
those detailed lines fade into grey, if not entirely wipe out, when reduced.
After much investigation, I realize the problem is inherent to raster images and there is no way that I can meet demanding industry deadlines while creating paths in Illustrator CS (such as Brian Denham) and satisfy my own aesthetic desires. But determined and desperate, I dove into Illustrator anyway and discovered the AutoTrace feature that vectorizes pixel based images.
Soon after, I read somewhere that it's inferior to Adobe Streamline 4.0. Though I cannot help but to wonder if there is indeed something superior, program or method, than Streamline which was released in 1997, eh?
So to you discerning professionals and students, how do you deal with such raster distortion?
Thanx, the internet is my art school :)
Steven