I'm working on a comic. I have comic life 3 and it works like a charm.

However, I find myself confronted with a real connundrum: How big should I make the output panels?

My layout decission was to go with a single landscape page with each render so as to not cover up the majority of the render with the thought and speech bubbles. I've rendered the images at 1600x700.

I actually don't have a smaller monitor to test these out on, so am wondering how they will display on a monitor that is say 1024 wide. Will the browser resize them automatically? Would I be better off sacrificing size for those with big screens to accomodate those with more modest viewing devices?

Never done this before, so a nod or two form those with experience would be appreciated.

Wizzie

I presume you are using HTML to publish? As a web page? If so, there are ways to make the page adjust itself to the size of the browser screen without cropping the image.

comic book publisher's dogma requires 8X10 format, but if web-only, 1024X768 more usr-friendly.

I am not familiar with comic life and was wondering if it had formats and pre defined page sizes acceptable to publishers and standard book layouts.

If not does anyone know if there is such an app out there?  Thinking about doing a children's book.

i need information on submission guidelines also.  I tried contacting publishers on submission guidlines but never got the information I needed.  They sent all kinds of information but skirted the basics I needed.

pappy

Try this:

http://plasq.com/products/comiclife3/win

Thank you CedarWolf.  Glad to see there is a windows version.

pappy

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> Quote - I am not familiar with comic life and was wondering if it had formats and pre defined page sizes acceptable to publishers and standard book layouts. > > If not does anyone know if there is such an app out there?  Thinking about doing a children's book. > > i need information on submission guidelines also.  I tried contacting publishers on submission guidlines but never got the information I needed.  They sent all kinds of information but skirted the basics I needed. > > pappy

Quick and short answer: Yes.

Basicwiz: if you want a general idea of how your output will look using Comic life's default output, check out my webcomic, ANDROID.

The link is above and you can also save your output to PDF file. You can also follow the links on the webpage if you want to download an issue.

I always make my images hi rez anyway so I could zoom in on say just the eyes next time I need eyes etc ie I reuse some of the pics.  also if you make i just for web and a publisher finds you and wants to print it one day you'll be sad.

Quote - I always make my images hi rez anyway so I could zoom in on say just the eyes next time I need eyes etc ie I reuse some of the pics.  also if you make i just for web and a publisher finds you and wants to print it one day you'll be sad.

You  and me both. I still have all my scenes from every issue.

any shortcut is a good shortcut.

***'im working on a comic. I have comic life 3 and it works like a charm.*** ***However, I find myself confronted with a real connundrum: How big should I make the output panels?"***

Depends on your expected delivery format
anything that will be viewed online need not be super hi res as it will be downsampled ultimately for web usage.
Obviously if you plan on printing it at some point your renders will have to be higher res.

My  personal advice is treat each frame like a single shot from a movie with creative camera angles
many poser "comics" that I have seen ,never use any creative camera angles.

I advise getting a free CBR reader and previewing
some of the free samples from Marvel or IDW
to see how they layout there pages& shots.

See attached samples.

Cheers

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My  personal advice is treat each frame like a single shot from a movie with creative camera angles
many poser "comics" that I have seen ,never use any creative camera angles.

Cheers

I think that's more of a artistic thing than anything else. I've tried getting creative with a few camera angles, but it just doesn't look right sometimes or sometimes  you see things or show things you don't want to. Especially when dealing with children.  Some camera angles I had that would have been creative turned out to be upskirts of 13 year old Laura or V3.

Other times, walls, furniture, etc. things just got in the way.

Not saying that you don't have a point Wolf, just that some times the artist isn't daring or skilled enough to get the shot.

Raw size and aspect ratiio for monitors were the only things I couldn't make up my mind about, but the rest orf the discussion has been interesting to read, and caused me to review the project in more positive ways. That's what I love about this place! It doesn't matter what you are doing, there are people here who know how to help!

Thanks to all!

When we do see some comic release shots and assuming it's web only, what size did you decide upon?

When we do see some comic release shots and assuming it's web only, what size did you decide upon?