Sizing Pages
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NephilimDreams
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Sizing Pages
Hi, one of the problems I always have whenever I post something on the internet is the sizing. I wanted to know if there are any recomended resolutions for comic pages? Are there certain number ranges of pixelxpixel that work well? Any suggestions would help alot, thank you^ ^
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Kaourika
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Re: Sizing Pages
There really isn't any particular standard, but generally whatever you post on the internet should be no wider than 800 pixels, which is the width of the smallest common screen resoloution in use. Any wider than that, and it will cause the readers with an 800x600 rez to get that annoying horizontal scrollbar.
On the other hand, readers won't mind using the vertical scrollbar--it's expected, in fact--so you can generally make images as tall as you like. :3
Just as a personal opionion, I think that the size I use for my comic's pages, 600px wide by 832px tall, is a decent and pleasing size :D I got this size by scanning a professional manga template, and setting the width to 600px.
Hope that helped! :D
On the other hand, readers won't mind using the vertical scrollbar--it's expected, in fact--so you can generally make images as tall as you like. :3
Just as a personal opionion, I think that the size I use for my comic's pages, 600px wide by 832px tall, is a decent and pleasing size :D I got this size by scanning a professional manga template, and setting the width to 600px.
Hope that helped! :D
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Boozeathon4billion
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Re: Sizing Pages
It really depends on the kind of strip you're doing. DIfferent sizes work better for different kinds of comics... mine is a little big for the comics I'm doing right now, but I have plans to also mess with some multiframe stuff in the future, so I felt that bigger would be better so I wouldn't have to remake the site when/if I change styles a bit.
I'd suggest playing around with sizes some and look at how they will appear online. That will make a big difference in choosing... that and how it feels to draw on the different templates you are looking at.
I'd suggest playing around with sizes some and look at how they will appear online. That will make a big difference in choosing... that and how it feels to draw on the different templates you are looking at.
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Dr Neo Lao
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Re: Sizing Pages
The main problem lies in that you don't really know what resolution your readers are using to view your comic.
Text is easy, you just set it to 1em and then their browser will show it to them in whatever their default font size. Everyone is happy.
Images are harder. A button that is 80 pixels tall will always be 80 pixels tall, no matter what resolution they are using. So someone on an old 800x600 would see a big button, someone on a 2048x1532 (or higher) would have a lot of difficulty reading any text on the button and it would fill half the screen of someone browsing on their phone.
At the moment, the recommended guide is to try and please the 1024x768 crowd. It's the most common resolution (at the moment) and you can now pretty much safely ignore the 800x600 (though there are a few still around). Taking into account scrollbars, the common guide is a maximum width of 914 pixels.
However, as has already been stated, there are no "rules", you just pick the one that looks best on your monitor and hope everyone else can see it. Ideally, you'll be able to upload a comic and look at it on your computer, then go to a friends' place and look at it on their monitor and see the difference. Maybe even pop down to the library or a netcafe and see what it looks like from there. Hopefully all these places will have different resolutions!
Short version - you want it to be big enough to be easily read on a high-resolution monitor, but not so big that it looks bad on a low resolution monitor...
Text is easy, you just set it to 1em and then their browser will show it to them in whatever their default font size. Everyone is happy.
Images are harder. A button that is 80 pixels tall will always be 80 pixels tall, no matter what resolution they are using. So someone on an old 800x600 would see a big button, someone on a 2048x1532 (or higher) would have a lot of difficulty reading any text on the button and it would fill half the screen of someone browsing on their phone.
At the moment, the recommended guide is to try and please the 1024x768 crowd. It's the most common resolution (at the moment) and you can now pretty much safely ignore the 800x600 (though there are a few still around). Taking into account scrollbars, the common guide is a maximum width of 914 pixels.
However, as has already been stated, there are no "rules", you just pick the one that looks best on your monitor and hope everyone else can see it. Ideally, you'll be able to upload a comic and look at it on your computer, then go to a friends' place and look at it on their monitor and see the difference. Maybe even pop down to the library or a netcafe and see what it looks like from there. Hopefully all these places will have different resolutions!
Short version - you want it to be big enough to be easily read on a high-resolution monitor, but not so big that it looks bad on a low resolution monitor...