After reading Richard's advice, I took another stab at that opening strip. I used a ruler more, found out how to increase the color tolerance when painting in PhotoStudio, and shortened my signature. Some things are probably not as good as before, but on the whole, I'm glad to have done the redux.
Hm, I've been using JPG for deviantArt simplicity, but maybe BMP would be better for Comic Genesis.
I'm of two minds about the ruler, partly because some people have hated its overuse in "For Better or for Worse." My alternative was to use rudimentary techniques left over from an art class. Maybe I can find a happy medium by using the ruler for sketches but not inking.
yes, by all means use PNG. PNG uses lossless compression (meaning every single pixel is faithfully reproduced) whereas JPG is lossy (the final product is an approximation of the original image, using Fourier transforms and stuff; it's especially noticeable in large fields of solid color like you have in your comic, where you can see a sort of cloudy/blurry texture). GIF is also lossless, but PNG usually results in better compression (not to mention PNG is free and open-source, whereas GIF is proprietary, if you care about that sort of thing).
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