Yes, since the restart of PSI this summer, I started producing pages in an actual comic book page format. Technically all correctly printable, too.
The only thing is, that my script writing needs refinement to be able put everything together, without cramming too much… Not to mention that my drawing needs to become more refined in the fact that messing with characters and backgrounds, individually, are a tad more difficult with the now, more limiting space.
I’m also coloring in CMYK, which is what things get printed in. Normally people color in RGB, which is fine for monitors, but is impossible to print the colors CORRECTLY for the most part (they usually add black, to help the colors, but it can look muddy that way). Some drawbacks are that bright reds and greens cannot translate to CMYK… meaning that the bright fuchsia I use for magick…. is impossible to create in CMYK… so something needed color adjustments.
I’m trying to improve dammit!
I hope to maintain this sort of style, as it helps me learn of to do it correctly for planned print projects in the future (including PSI stuff).
So how has it been looking so far?
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Actually, it’s been pretty decent.
I thought that RGB -> CMYK was a “solved” issue since ICM calibration. As neither “RGB” nor “CMYK” actually specify a color space (they specify groups of color spaces), you need the other information to make it work; if you have the ICM for the actual CMYK print space you will use, then your drawing software can let you know if a color you are using is not valid for that printer.
Otherwise, the only real problems are black point and white point. (Ok, room lighting, paper reflectivity versus monitor transmittivity (and different paper brightnesses, and some monitors that now use reflected light or have adjustable backlighting), the point where dark colors can be distinguished from black, etc.)
If you’ve got a calibrated scanner to scan in your inkwork, a calibrated display so that what you see is what you want to see, and calibration information for what your printer can display, then you can make something that displays and prints correctly.
Just avoid cyan if you want standard monitors to display it. That “C” can’t display. Yucky. (And in fairness, yellow is such a very large color area to the eye that it is hard to match print and display.)
No. The ink used by printer (unless they get special ink) cannot reproduce such bright and glowing colors… especially bright reds and greens…. Fuchsia just doesn’t exist in standard CMYK coloring inks. It really has nothing to do with the monitor, it has everything to do with printing.