SINCE AUGUST,
1999

Library Extra
Image Processing
After I've restored art on the cover, I rescan it, remove any greytones, and save. The black and white image is then opened up in Adobe PhotoDeluxe, which I use to color it. (The only thing I use this program for.) The colored image is then inserted into a cover template (In a second program, Ulead PhotoImpact), the issue number and date are inserted, and the resulting image is like the one seen on the home page (although much larger).

With the cover out of the way, I move on to the individual comic pages. For those, I use a third imaging program, and my best, Corel Photo-Paint. Doing one story at a time, I do virtually the same thing to each picture. When scanned, they are immediately auto-equalized (restoring the background to white and bringing out the color). When reopened, I crop the files, and straighten them (if necessary). Then I proceed to adjust the brightness, contrast, and color intensity (to the settings seen in the screen grab to the right), resize, and then finish by exporting the finished product to my "Reprint Books" folder. This process is repeated for my back cover, cover gallery, and biography/table of contents images.

From there I go back to PhotoImpact, but this time to a sub-program called "JPEG Smart Saver" (and likewise there's a GIF Smart Saver which I occasionally use for special images). There I bring the file sizes down to 140 kb for the individual pages, 200 kb for the cover, back cover, and cover gallery image, 50 kb for the cover gallery thumbnail image, and 25 kb for the biography/table of contents images.

At this point all of the hard work is finished, and I get to move on to the next phase, a tedious one, creating all of the web pages!

Next step: HTML.

Home
Stage 1: Pre Production
Stage 2: Image Processing
Stage 3: HTML
Stage 4: Post Production
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