apply comic book effect to an image in GIMP
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The first thing you need to do, is to decide on what form your comic should take. Is it a web comic, or are you aiming for print…or both. If aiming for print, you need to decide on what format the book will take; is it a black and white manga, a typical four color action comic, or a full color bande dessinée.
For this tutorial I’ve chosen a 7″x10″ full color book aimed at print, at around 64 pages. I’m using print specifications from Createspace, a print-on-demand service, as a reference. If you know beforehand where you’ll be getting your book printed, it’s a good idea to get exact specifications from your printer, which defines the resolution, trim size, bleed and so on.
For some of my web comics, I’ve made them half pages. This way, they better match the aspect ratio of most computer screens, but if I want to print them later, I can combine two half pages, one above the other, into one 7″x10″ page.
Trim Size, Margins and Bleed
The yellow area is the bleed, the green area is the margin and the red line indicates the trim size. Notice that the first panel goes all the way to the edge of the canvas, and into the bleed area.
Trim Size: 7″x10″
Outside Margin Min: 0.25″
Inside Margin Min: 0.375″ (for a 24 to 150 page book)
Bleed: 0.125″
Choosing a Resolution
Resolution is defined by the number of pixels per inch (ppi). For instance a 10 inch tall page, at 400ppi, will be 4000 pixels tall (10×400=4000). In general higher resolution is better as it makes your art look sharper, but you don’t want to go so high that it slows down GIMP and becomes hard to work with.
For a printed color comic, 400ppi is a nice middle ground between quality and how heavy the images are to work with. For photos, anything over 200ppi is usually fine, but comics contain both sharp lines and text, so 400ppi helps keep these crisp and sharp.
This means that my sample book at 7″x10″, with the addition of 0.125″ bleed on all sides, will be 2900×4100 pixels ((0.125+0.125+7)*400=2900 and (0.125+0.125+10)*400=4100). This is quite a high resolution to work at, especially when working with multiple layers, so this would be a good point to adjust your Tile Cache settings to get the optimal performance out of GIMP.
Pulling It All Together in GIMP Book
Now that we have all the numbers, we just need to put it all together in GIMP Book. Start by opening up GIMP, and choose Windows>Book… from the menu. This opens up the main GIMP Book interface. Choose New Book from the menu, and enter the name of your book and choose a destination folder for it. Then set the width to 2900 pixels, the height to 4100 pixels and the resolution to 400 ppi.
Next we want to add some guides to our page, that show us where the margins and bleed are. Since GIMP Book (for now) only accepts pixels as input, and not inches, I need to do some simple math to convert my chosen margins, to pixels. The side margins were 0.5″, which is 200 pixels (0.5*400=200), the top was 0.6″, which is 240 pixels, and the bottom 0.7″, which is 280 pixels. Finally the bleed is 0.125″, which is 50 pixels. Enter these values in the appropriate fields and hit OK.
We now have a new book with a single template page.
Tweaking the Template
The first thing we want to do, before we begin adding pages to our book, is to tweak the template page. Double click the template to open it. It should have two paths that indicate where the margins and bleed are. These we can use for reference when drawing, and to help with panel creation later on. Since all future pages are generated from this template, it’s a good idea to set up a few basic things we know we’re going to need on every page of our book, such as a set of default layers.
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