Blog: Extracting ink from scans 2010-10-31
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:
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3-Panel Comic: Isa the intern (4) 2010-10-18
And again, this is absolutely true. There is a certain boss that does this, and he makes his assistant aggregate the values by hand using a calculator just like that. REALLY.
She tried to convince him to use a simple sum on the Excel file and he thanked her but said she should first start to know the company and how they work, and then try to improve the processes, instead of changing everything so that only she would know how to do it.
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3-Panel Comic: Isa the intern (3) 2010-10-16
I know these things are not that funny, these are kind of an in-joke at work because this is all based on TRUE stories from my workplace.
(more...)Blog: Slightly different style for a panel 2010-10-14
Yesterday I was playing with the scan of a drawing I had previously inked by hand. I added some shadows using Inkscape and have yet to decide whether to use it or to redraw it using vector graphics. Maybe I’ll just fix a bit the shapes inside the room and call it a panel :). I love drawings with this rough feeling, I only worry that maybe it’s hard to recognize the actual contents of the panel.
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