Gatillos

I’ve been reorganizing the ‘LIFE/interior’ comic. I’m trying to bring more consistency to the story, essentially updating dialogues and adding a bit more context here and there. Most noticeable, I changed the font used for balloons. The font is now Blambot’s Artists Alley, essentially because I can’t –for the life of me– find a license for Yankshand, the font I was using before. Apparently the company that owns the rights went bankrupt so the font lies there in limbo, although many sites wrongly offer it and label it as free. I’m using all capital letters for text now, and rearranging/updating some texts.

I thought I would nicely document what I’m doing right now in terms of transforming a regular scan of an inked comic into a transparent image that can be added to Inkscape (or Gimp) for coloring and shading.

Step one, scan an image: I’m doing it using Image Capture in Mac OS X just because it’s dead simple. I stay far far away from software provided by Canon, it’s simply not worth it for my needs. Here’s a capture of the process: