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To begin, I shall state the obvious:
Every case should have an intro. If it does not, you fail at life.
Moving on!
Now, here are some resources:
A template for the comics.
Now, I recommend Paint.net to make these. So i've provided the link to download it. It's free, so don't worry.
Yuma has a set of Phoenix Wright fonts.
Ideally, I wouldn't write your text in Paint.net. It goes somewhat too antialiased. I'd recommend making all the templates in Paint.net, filling in the blocks on your comic template with them in paint, and writing all your text in paint.
Which brings me to my next point: make templates. It is a huge timesaver.
If you don't know what I mean, i'll show you.
See? A bunch of blank templates, with no text. It saves a lot of time to copy and paste these into the template, and write your text later.
I'd recommend using Imagehosting to host your images, but it's up to you. Just don't use Photobucket.
And finally, SAVE AS .PNG. NEVER JPEG.
If you have any questions, or want me to provide a resource, don't hesitate to ask.
You may use these recources without credit.
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OBJECTION! BOTH ATTORNEYS ARE AWESOME!
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Regardless, I'm sure this will help a lot of people who don't fail at custom graphics.
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Bitmap Font Writer. After I write the text, I click the copy button and the background which the text had in the writer, now also appears in the transparent textbox.
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Here's the process:
1.) I open a new paint page.
2.) I open Photoshop CS3 and open various images of the characters I already saved with the transparent textbox.
3.) I open Bitmap Font Writer and write the text. After that, I click the copy button.
4.) Then I paste it in the textbox, arrange it a little, and it still has the background color.
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Here's the process:
1.) I open a new paint page.
2.) I open Photoshop CS3 and open various images of the characters I already saved with the transparent textbox.
3.) I open Bitmap Font Writer and write the text. After that, I click the copy button.
4.) Then I paste it in the textbox, arrange it a little, and it still has the background color.
Well, I have this question for you. Why are you using font writer? Why don't you just use paint?
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Well it's definately a good beginner's guide. Infact, we could improve it over time and boost up the level of sprite comics around the forum. Well I'm not personally willing to give away my secret super-techniques like that but I do think you'd be better of recommending Gimp for making sprite comics.
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Greeny, I update roughly 4X as often as you do. I really don't think you can talk about what's faster.
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And I used to update that fast... A long time ago... Ah, good times, good times.
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And I used to update that fast... A long time ago... Ah, good times, good times.
*is now paranoid that the same thing will happen to me*
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But in all honesty, META humour sucks.
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Here's the process:
1.) I open a new paint page.
2.) I open Photoshop CS3 and open various images of the characters I already saved with the transparent textbox.
3.) I open Bitmap Font Writer and write the text. After that, I click the copy button.
4.) Then I paste it in the textbox, arrange it a little, and it still has the background color.
In paint, couldn't you just the (what's it called? You know, the tool that makes the colour anything on the page. Right click on the colour of the background to the BFW font) and choose the transparent background thing on paint.
It's simple but hard to explain.
But in all honesty, META humour sucks.
I'd say
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Gimp> Paint.net for comics.
But the important thing to remember is, It doesn't matter what it looks like, as long as it has an interesting story, characters and pacing; any comic will do fine.
And yes, you WILL get lazy after a while, it's just a fact.
Everyone goes through it. XD
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GIMP is better.
I use some boxes to do my text placement, that way it comes centered and perfect every.
In fact. I think I might make a tutorial for this.
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You can set it from "Smooth" to "Sharp" and from "Antialiasing Enabled" to "Antialiasing Disabled," as I found this to resolve the issue. Then again, perhaps you had already accounted for this...
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You can set it from "Smooth" to "Sharp" and from "Antialiasing Enabled" to "Antialiasing Disabled," as I found this to resolve the issue. Then again, perhaps you had already accounted for this...
Actually, I hadn't. Thanks for that!
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Well, would you care to explain what it lacks?
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And I used Paint.NET for the text too, it was for fun anyway, and I don't want to make a game or something.
Anyway, here's the picture
As you can see, I have low expectations.
I KNOW, I SHALL BE LIKE THAT GUY, LAURICE.
*thinks*
Any chance of having a Judge Stand?
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And I used Paint.NET for the text too, it was for fun anyway, and I don't want to make a game or something.
Anyway, here's the picture
As you can see, I have low expectations.
I KNOW, I SHALL BE LIKE THAT GUY, LAURICE.
*thinks*
Any chance of having a Judge Stand?
What do you need the Judge stand for? It's already aligned perfectly for the Judge's sprites...
But yeah, sure, just gimme a bit.
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But yeah, sure, just gimme a bit.
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But yeah, sure, just gimme a bit.
Oh. Point taken.
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Any adivce on custom backgrounds?
(fixing top part of sig)
Many thanks to myself for the signature! PM me for requests (I can see myself going out of business already...)
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(You will probably get responses here, but I think there are more people that browse the sprites section than the sprite comic section.)
Credit to Evolina for the sig+avatar!
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