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Clay 22 is in the can! On to artwork!
I just finished the first pass of Clay 22, right on time. ^^ I also did a little experiment with the pdf. Those of you who have no interest in lettering or publishing can skip this part. Here, I'll put it behind a cut.
Shoujo Editor 2 told me about 3 years ago that her computer took forever and a day to print the pdfs I would send her of lettered volumes. Seriously, she'd tell her machine to print, then go take a nice long break. I'd been using Photoshop's default PDF-crunching settings up to then. When I learned of this problem, I experimented with different settings. SE2 discovered her computer liked zipped with no downsizing the best. It printed at the normal speed, and with an acceptable amount of moire/image loss on a regular printer.
Since then, I've always crunched SE2's PDFs with that new setting, and things have been great. *knocks on wood* This evening, I crunched the first half of Clay 22 at the Photoshop default setting for "high quality print PDF", then compared it to one done with the zipped no downsizing. I opened both files side-by-side in Acrobat. The difference was AMAZING. The zipped no downsizing had a much clearer image than the default "high quailty print PDF". Very interesting, no??
I'm not sure how the actual printed pages compare between the two versions, and I forgot to check the file size, but as long as SE2 is happy! ^^V
In other work news, for Skip fans who have hard-copy vol 29, you might have noticed the white margin around almost all the pages. This is because the page files we were sent from Japan were actually cropped across the width smaller than normal. To preserve as much artwork as possible, the pages were set up by Viz for printing without full bleeds. Thus, the white margins almost everywhere. I'm glad Viz was willing to show the white around the margins, so readers can see all the available art! And thankfully, Skip 30's pages were sent at a nice, fat size. In fact, the largest of the three sizes Skip has come in so far. C: Yay!
Now that work is done until Natsume 14 or a new title arrives, it's back to artwork for me! I'm still working on the bday present for Star-chan, but she kindly said she doesn't mind if I put her pic on pause so I can finish the bros calendar pic for this year. The official deadline is the 15th, in four days. All I have is a rough sketch. *has huuuuuge sweatdrop* I know, I know!! >< Thankfully ensuing knows I'll probably be a little late. I'm going to work on the pic full-time until it's done.
I've waited too long to make an LJ post. I keep thinking of all sorts of topics to babble about, but I don't want to post a novel here. :B I'll save them for the next few days!! I'd like to post more often again.
Time for me to upload those pdfs to Clay Editor 4 and then fire up the bros calendar pic again. Busy busy busy!!
Shoujo Editor 2 told me about 3 years ago that her computer took forever and a day to print the pdfs I would send her of lettered volumes. Seriously, she'd tell her machine to print, then go take a nice long break. I'd been using Photoshop's default PDF-crunching settings up to then. When I learned of this problem, I experimented with different settings. SE2 discovered her computer liked zipped with no downsizing the best. It printed at the normal speed, and with an acceptable amount of moire/image loss on a regular printer.
Since then, I've always crunched SE2's PDFs with that new setting, and things have been great. *knocks on wood* This evening, I crunched the first half of Clay 22 at the Photoshop default setting for "high quality print PDF", then compared it to one done with the zipped no downsizing. I opened both files side-by-side in Acrobat. The difference was AMAZING. The zipped no downsizing had a much clearer image than the default "high quailty print PDF". Very interesting, no??
I'm not sure how the actual printed pages compare between the two versions, and I forgot to check the file size, but as long as SE2 is happy! ^^V
In other work news, for Skip fans who have hard-copy vol 29, you might have noticed the white margin around almost all the pages. This is because the page files we were sent from Japan were actually cropped across the width smaller than normal. To preserve as much artwork as possible, the pages were set up by Viz for printing without full bleeds. Thus, the white margins almost everywhere. I'm glad Viz was willing to show the white around the margins, so readers can see all the available art! And thankfully, Skip 30's pages were sent at a nice, fat size. In fact, the largest of the three sizes Skip has come in so far. C: Yay!
Now that work is done until Natsume 14 or a new title arrives, it's back to artwork for me! I'm still working on the bday present for Star-chan, but she kindly said she doesn't mind if I put her pic on pause so I can finish the bros calendar pic for this year. The official deadline is the 15th, in four days. All I have is a rough sketch. *has huuuuuge sweatdrop* I know, I know!! >< Thankfully ensuing knows I'll probably be a little late. I'm going to work on the pic full-time until it's done.
I've waited too long to make an LJ post. I keep thinking of all sorts of topics to babble about, but I don't want to post a novel here. :B I'll save them for the next few days!! I'd like to post more often again.
Time for me to upload those pdfs to Clay Editor 4 and then fire up the bros calendar pic again. Busy busy busy!!