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Not much history this week, just Morticia putting her bats to bed.
I scanned today's image from my copy of Evilution, it is also published in Homebodies.
The page from Homebodies was fairly dark, and I am not great with Affinity photo so I could not do much to fix it. The scan I made today turned out pretty good, so I used that.
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It's funny how relatively slight changes in brightness, contrast and even image artifacts (as with the 2nd image) can make a world of difference in the impact of a comic. Also, the sepia-tone paper helps, too.
Very often when I'm posting an image, I'm wrestling with these decisions, alongside whether it's worth upscaling, too. In such cases, a 'simple upload' job can somehow bumble it's way in to ~45min, due to playing around, comparing, deciding the best tools to use to impart the message...
I love the look of the older books with the sepia pages. I always try to find the strip I want to post in one of those old books. But some the image quality is poor, or in this case the brightness, and contrast is horrible.
So you're using "Affinity Photo" to deal with that stuff?
Assuming you're familiar, any comparison to GIMP?
I dislike the UI for gimp. I spend far too much time trying to figure out where stuff is.
I use affinity designer to crop the PDFs and export them to png. I usually do not do any manipulation, but today needed something. I probably should have stuck it into the iPhone photo app and messed with it there.
oh fam I love and hate GIMP. it makes no freakin sense at all. I respect that. It's, how you say, individualistic? If I don't use it for a month or so I gotta do a bunch of web searches to figure out how to do anything. But yo, I respect open-source! so I use it for all my comic strip fan edits.
I used it the other day for the first time in six months and it took me about five minutes to remember how to crop an image.
And it was a webp source image so I couldn't just use kolourpaint.
relateable! to be fair, gimp has a lot of information out there like tutorials and how-tos and such...
I used Macromedia Fireworks, then Photoshop, and now Affinity. I still find myself looking for Photoshop stuff in affinity.
I really have tried to get used to gimp. But well my time is too valuable to me.
Yeah... yup. :/