Hi

I am an amateur Poser user, I have Poser 2010.

I am trying to develop the skills to produce some superhero comics on PDF format.

I am trying to standardise on the produced image from each scene.

I am looking for good quality large size images that fill the computer screen when opened.

I do save as a TIFF file and then covert to JPG.

Can anyone suggest the settings I should use for preview, rendering and exporting the scene.

Once I have settled on one setting I will be very happy as this should not change.

Thanks in advance

Art4me

Which of the comic PDFs that you have bought from other artists has the largest filesize and how slow is it to browse from page to page in it?  Which comic PDFs do you find easier to scroll through quickly without any slowdown or loss of image quality?  And what are their filesizes?

Hi

Many thanks for your prompt reply.

I have not bought any comic pdfs from other artists yet, but it is a good idea.

If anyone has any experience which is good please let me know, in the meantime I will research.

Thanks

when I do series I use a size of about 1000 x 750 which fits nicely in my PDF reader. Thats my page size and there may be several frames in that space.  I run 1024 x 768 as my pc screen size.

Its a very personal preference but I really hate having to scroll to see the full picture.

I have seen others done bigger with the zoom feature used to size it smaller for initial reading.

Your primary concern in determining image size is who will be looking at it and how will it be used.  Many years ago I did comics and made the original PDF in 8.5x11 inch at 300 dpi pages because they were printed by many of the readers.  If you only want to make them viewable on a computer screen, or a color reader, keep screen size in mind.  For example my normal screen size is 1920x1200.

It is easy to shrink an image size (50%, etc.)  using a viewer, but when you enlarge an image (200%) it can get pretty ugly.

Also decide the layout for your comic.  Will it have multiple images on one page with balloons or will each page be a single image?

In the long run, it is all about the person or persons reading the comic.

Hi

Many thanks for all your helpful advice, appreciated.

ToxicWolf, just a bit more information if I may ask.

I agree with you to enlarge an image can get ugly hence my requirement for good control over the size.

So lets say I want to target a screen size of 1000 * 750, would I set this size before I started composing the scene or after.

Where would I set this size on the preview or render menu?

I guest what I am asking for is a simple step by step guide to setting the exported image size.

Any assistance appreciated

Thanks

art4me,

What software do you plan to use to create the comic art in?  Your page margins (pixel height/width, etc) will be set in that program.  The PDF file is only created when you export to that format (if you have PDF software like Adobe Acrobat or CutePDF, and such).

art4me

There are two sizes that are important: the preview window size and the render size.  You need to make sure that they are both set with the same aspect ratio.  Here is what I mean by aspect ratio:

If I was going to render a 1920x1080 image I would set the preview window to 1000x563 so it would fit on my screen easily and be the same aspect ratio (a multiple of the final render).  For me, it is important that I see exactly what will render in the preview window.  If I had my preview window set to 1000x1000 a large part of what I was looking at would not be seen in the render.  Set both of these sizes before you start to work.

To set the preview window size, go to “window” … “document window size” and type in the numbers. Your preview window should not be docked or this will not work.

To set the render size, click the “Render” tab and then click on the number just below the tab. Select “render to exact resolution” and type in the numbers for your render.

For 1000x700 you can probably use the same numbers for both without the need to calculate the ratio.  Just make sure you set both the preview window and render size before you get started or tell it to render to the preview window size.

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Have you considered putting your comic into the comic standard, either .cbr or .cbz?

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I don't know what you intend to use for creating comics, but I like Comic Life.  The auto text bubble feature is an incredible time saver.  It allows you to save to various formats.  I usually save to JPG, then import the JPG's as images to a word doc (one step - incredibly fast if you set up the pages), then export as PDF.  Works like a charm.

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This one I d/led recently and works beautifully.  Not only can you read your standard PDF, register the software and you will receive an activation code to allow you to create PDFs.  It can also read comic book standards like .cbr and .cbz plus it will give you a 3D book view where you virtually turn pages.