Is there anything better than seeing your work printed in a book or magazine? I don't think so! Whether it's a full graphic novel or just a few printed illustrations, seeing your hard work on paper is one of the great things about being a digital artist. With these directions, you'll learn how to export pages to get a nice print, whether you're making them at home or sending them to a printer.
Tip
When sending your work to a print shop to be printed, make sure that you research what file formats and resolution they accept as well as any restrictions that they may have. Adjust the steps in this recipe to fit them. Sending a batch of .jpg files to a printer that only accepts .png files will only waste time and cause headaches all around!
You will need a file open to export. In order for your illustrations to look good in print, they must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Anything lower than this may look pixelated or blurry when printed.
There are times when you do not need a full-resolution image. This recipe will explain how to export an image with compression so that the image quality is decreased, along with the size of the file.
The following steps will explain how to change the image quality:
Navigate to File | Export (Single Layer) | .jpg (JPEG).
Name the file and choose a folder to save it in. Click on Save.
The JPEG export settings dialog box will appear. Click on the checkbox next to Preview rendering results on output at the top of the window.
Under JPEG settings, find the Quality setting. It is marked in this screenshot:
Click on the arrow next to the number box and adjust the slider...
Another way of changing the file size of the exported image is by changing the width and height of the image during export. This can be done on the fly without making any changes to your original file. Simply adjust the size during export and upload the image to the Web or to your e-mail, without being in danger of accidentally saving a 600-pixel-wide image over your full-size drawing ever again.
Let's change the dimensions of an image with the following recipe:
There are chances that you'll also want to share your comics or illustrations on the Internet. Whether it's on a personal portfolio site or whether you're making a webcomic, you'd want to be able to resize and compress your files to optimize them for the Web. Let's export a comic page for the Internet!
You will need a file open to export. It can be of any dimension and dpi; we will be adjusting these values as we export.
No need to export your entire graphic novel one page at a time as long as you have Manga Studio EX 5! We can do a batch export and save lots of time, saving all the pages in a story file for printing or sizing them all for the Web at once!
Let's export an entire chapter's worth of pages at once with the following steps:
Click on Story and then go to Batch process | Batch export, as shown in this screenshot:
The Batch export options will show up on the screen. They are depicted in the following screenshot:
Use the Refer button to choose a file to save the exported batch in.
Select the File format option to save as from the drop-down menu.
In the Name box, type the name that all the exported files should be prefaced by (for example,
PageorChapter01). When the pages are exported, this name will be followed by the number of the page, such asPage001.jpg.
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