Not much history this week, just Morticia putting her bats to bed.

I scanned today’s image from my copy of Evilution, it is also published in Homebodies.

The page from Homebodies was fairly dark, and I am not great with Affinity photo so I could not do much to fix it. The scan I made today turned out pretty good, so I used that.

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  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    It’s funny how relatively slight changes in brightness, contrast and even image artifacts (as with the 2nd image) can make a world of difference in the impact of a comic. Also, the sepia-tone paper helps, too.

    Very often when I’m posting an image, I’m wrestling with these decisions, alongside whether it’s worth upscaling, too. In such cases, a ‘simple upload’ job can somehow bumble it’s way in to ~45min, due to playing around, comparing, deciding the best tools to use to impart the message…

    • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
      3·
      10 days ago

      I love the look of the older books with the sepia pages. I always try to find the strip I want to post in one of those old books. But some the image quality is poor, or in this case the brightness, and contrast is horrible.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        So you’re using “Affinity Photo” to deal with that stuff?

        Assuming you’re familiar, any comparison to GIMP?

        • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
          3·
          9 days ago

          I dislike the UI for gimp. I spend far too much time trying to figure out where stuff is.

          I use affinity designer to crop the PDFs and export them to png. I usually do not do any manipulation, but today needed something. I probably should have stuck it into the iPhone photo app and messed with it there.

          • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            oh fam I love and hate GIMP. it makes no freakin sense at all. I respect that. It’s, how you say, individualistic? If I don’t use it for a month or so I gotta do a bunch of web searches to figure out how to do anything. But yo, I respect open-source! so I use it for all my comic strip fan edits.

            • Pronell@lemmy.world
              3·
              9 days ago

              I used it the other day for the first time in six months and it took me about five minutes to remember how to crop an image.

              And it was a webp source image so I couldn’t just use kolourpaint.

              • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                9 days ago

                relateable! to be fair, gimp has a lot of information out there like tutorials and how-tos and such…

            • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
              2·
              9 days ago

              I used Macromedia Fireworks, then Photoshop, and now Affinity. I still find myself looking for Photoshop stuff in affinity.

              I really have tried to get used to gimp. But well my time is too valuable to me.