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Bald Steve
05-23-2006, 01:28 AM
First off, the good news: Hard-Boiled Comics #1 is all set and just got picked up by Diamond for national distribution! Woo-hoo! Now, a big reason I even got it off the ground in the first place is because of the help I received from the Jedi-like Council of gurus right here whever I got stuck and posted a question. Check it all out at the offical Hard-Boiled Comics Website (http://www.hardboiledcomics.com). I remain humbled by your wisdom.

That said, I'm stuck again on #2! :whistlin:

The artist for #1 lived in India and did all the art on 8 1/2 x 14 board so I had to do a LOT of cutting, pasting and resizing. The artist for #2 (the amazing Ulises Carpintero) is a published dude and uses 11 x 17 paper and even sends pages as PSD scans with lines showing the trim and bleed edges. I got the first two pages tonight and when I tried to set them up in Illustrator to be lettered the quality went all to crap. Here is the page as it appears in Photoshop when I saved it as a TIFF:

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/scebass/Picture-1.gif

Cool, right? Now here's what happened when I placed it into Illustrator:

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i284/scebass/Picture-2.gif

:man:

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thank you in advance to anyone who took the time to read through this.
ShanE
05-23-2006, 04:10 AM
The only thing I might think it would be, is like in Adobe InDesign, you can select the quality of the viewed image to save on ram, it doesn't affect the final image its just a viewing option, you might have to check preferences or possibly if its a Tiff, you might have to convert it to a PSD in Photoshop, THEN take it into Illustrator.
Larime Taylor
05-23-2006, 05:09 AM
In Photoshop, choose 'file', then 'export'. You can turn it into an .ai.
Darren Schwindaman
05-23-2006, 09:19 AM
I notice that the .tif when opened in Photoshop is set to Bitmap. Try converting that to Greyscale and then placing that image in to your Illustrator template.
Jason Arthur
05-23-2006, 09:35 AM
Actually you're fine with it saved as a bitmap.

If you hit Save for web in Illustrator with that file open you'll notice it looks beautiful and crisp. That's how it will print as well.

Don't let bitmap scare you. Your artist knows what he's doing.

-- J
Ron Phillips
05-23-2006, 09:55 AM
I'm a hack, so just ignore me. But I did the same thing, kind of. I was using InDesign (though) and placed art that I scanned and saved as tiff. I just about freaked when I saw it looking that way on screen. I took a chill and printed it out to discover it was just a screen rendering. Whew!

So there's a setting to change that view setting then? I'll have to look into that.
Bald Steve
05-23-2006, 12:02 PM
I notice that the .tif when opened in Photoshop is set to Bitmap. Try converting that to Greyscale and then placing that image in to your Illustrator template.

:slap:

D'oh!

Yeah, that did the trick. Thank you so very much, my man.

Still batting 1000, fellas.
Kel Nuttall
05-23-2006, 03:02 PM
Actually you're fine with it saved as a bitmap.

If you hit Save for web in Illustrator with that file open you'll notice it looks beautiful and crisp. That's how it will print as well.

Don't let bitmap scare you. Your artist knows what he's doing.

-- J
Yep, what Jason said. ;)
Jason Arthur
05-23-2006, 04:18 PM
Converting it to greyscale is only going to do two things: make the file size bigger and make it look better on your screen.

I'd stick with the ugly on the screen, but beautiful in print bitmap.

cheers,

-- J
Darren Schwindaman
05-23-2006, 10:20 PM
glad that worked for you. ultimately, i'd defer to Jason, though, as i work with bitmap never in my actual work and bitmap files do, in fact, scare me a little bit. so you're probably good to go either way.:)
Bald Steve
05-24-2006, 04:42 PM
Converting it to greyscale is only going to do two things: make the file size bigger and make it look better on your screen.

I'd stick with the ugly on the screen, but beautiful in print bitmap.

cheers,

-- J

When the edges are choppy, how to you precisely trim balloons to the edges in bitmap format? I got the panel edges to be clean, but it didn't occur until 300% magnification.

Bitmap files scare me, too Darren.