How to prepare your comic book for printing macworld. Scan your final inked comic book pages to clean them up, edit them and prepare them. Grayscale and worse yet color scans will include all of the natural variations in ink and paper in the scanned image that exist in real life. Dont be intimidated by the length of this page, and dont be afraid to skim or skip. She was later reused by scott lobdell and john romita jr when she appeared as scanner in uncanny xmen issue 300. Deleter gpen, deleter type a b4 comic book paper, deleter type 6. If you can change your scanner settings you can probably lay the page on so that the comic hangs off the scanner, but im not sure how exactly to do that. One thing i noticed is when i scan a glossy page, i have to turn off the top head light and use the additional light to avoid the reflection. Best scanners for comic books comics general cgc comic. I, like a lot of comic book artists, use blue pencils or blue line pencils when i. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. In a directtobitmap scan, you are allowing the scanner to make artistic.
Weigh down the top of you scanner with some books if possible, to make sure that your art lies flat. It seems a lot of beginners struggle with scanning. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. Obviously you need a scanner and you just need to scan each page. Readcomiconline read comics online in high quality. My first book remind won the xeric grant and got on the great. This is obviously great for someone buying the books but not so excellent for myself. A flatbed scanner is the most effective tool for acquiring an image of a comic.
From there, you can edit or view the issueor just type a number from 0 to 9 on your computers keyboard and instantly set that number as they quantity in stock for the selected issue. Making comics 01 scan preparation delilah dirk 2 duration. Keep track of comic book values, new variants, what you have, what you dont, and more with zapkapow comic s price guide and collection management. The number 1 free online comic book community featuring a comic book price guide database, friends, lists, blogs, and more. True, vuescan has a lot of film profiles that should be more accurate than the limited number epson uses, but the trouble with vuescan and this v600 scannerin my experienceis that the frames for batch scanning a group of negatives were not accurate, and it was more than a little confusing, if not impossible, to change the frames around. She was later reused by scott lobdell and john romita jr when she appeared as. How to scan comic art board 11 by 17 pencilinks by.
Zapkapow comics comic book price guide and collection. Maybe it is just me but it seems when i use my scanner to scan a book the resulting scan looks worse than the book in hand. A bitmap has only two color settings, black, and white. One subscription lets you use the app on multiple phones andor tablets. How to scan pencils or inks for that matter thats 11 by 17 inches on a regular scanner that only does a little bit more then 8 12 by 11. How to scan your comics part 1 for part one, im going to start with the basics. It comes with a button to trigger the scanner or set as automatically scan.
But once you get into a rhythm, it will be done before you know it. Scan your inked comic book pages for editing and effects. Zero gloss seems to come through in the scan and even the almost unnoticeable defects seem to be enhanced beyond reality. The software is also powerful, the book pages can split easily.
This subscription gives you access to the clz online services. Youve spent days working on the perfect page, but when you scan it your beautiful lines the. The basics on scanning and prepping your inked comic art for printing. Scanner was created by bob harras and steve epting and first appeared as screener in the avengers issue 357 1992. Clz cloud, for online backups, for syncing between devices and for online sharing. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database. And the rise of smartphones, tablets and other portable devices has sparked a boom in apps that not only let you read your favorite digital comics on.
What is the best way to scan in your inked comic pages and prepare them for. Scan your inked comic book pages for editing and effects youtube. When scanning a page against glass you want to do 400dpi and higher. Pearl scan offers a comic book scanning services to digitise old comics and magazines without damaging the original document. Scanning your comic books can get a bit tedious, depending on how many you have and how many pages are in each one. The premier online comics price guide free comic book values.
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