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Balefully Odd Outing: Part 10 of 20
2010-10-22
Remove R Comic (aka rm -r comic), by Gary Marks:Balefully Odd Outing: Part 10 of 20 Dialog: We see by our outfits that we are both vampires, if you get an outfit you can be a vampire too. (Thanks Smothers Brothers) Panel 1 Jacob: And who are you supposed to be? Dracula: I'm Dracula! Jacob: No. I'm Dracula. Panel 2 Jacob: See? I have a cape and pointy teeth. Dracula: As do I. I also have a medallion Jacob: I too have a shiney! I also have a sexy seductive vampiress! Panel 3 Dracula: yeah... well.. it's hard to meet someone now a days. Everyone goes online. They want to see a picture of you. I don't photograph well, and I've got these dietary concerns, you know how it is... Panel 4 Jacob: Zoinks! Sound effect: POOF! Dracula: *sigh* and then there's all the hangups people have. You know what? You can be Dracula.


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Comic dialog
We see by our outfits that we are both vampires, if you get an outfit you can be a vampire too. (Thanks Smothers Brothers)

Panel 1
Jacob: And who are you supposed to be?
Dracula: I'm Dracula!
Jacob: No. I'm Dracula.
Panel 2
Jacob: See? I have a cape and pointy teeth.
Dracula: As do I. I also have a medallion
Jacob: I too have a shiney! I also have a sexy seductive vampiress!
Panel 3
Dracula: yeah... well.. it's hard to meet someone now a days. Everyone goes online. They want to see a picture of you. I don't photograph well, and I've got these dietary concerns, you know how it is...
Panel 4
Jacob: Zoinks!
Sound effect: POOF!
Dracula: *sigh* and then there's all the hangups people have. You know what? You can be Dracula.

Gary
Author Comments aka Comic News

New save method
So, as I was doing these comics, I was unhappy with the quality I lost when saving. It seems dropping to an 8bit (gif) pallet is one of the things GIMP doesn't do well. Now don't get me wrong, I've grown to really like GIMP. It's what I use to do all my comics, but, it does have some limitations. It doesn't reduce images well, I already knew about this, and I've been using paint.net to reduce my images once I'm done creating them in GIMP. It also doesn't reduce the pallet very well, so, I've come up with a new set of steps for saving.

My old method was:
1.) Copy the template
2.) Edit the copied template, creating the comic (in GIMP)
3.) Save the comic in it's original xcf (GIMP) format
4.) Save the comic as a gif (in GIMP)
5.) Open the comic in paint.net
6.) Reduce the image size (in paint.net)
7.) Re-save the gif (in paint.net)
8.) Upload the comic

My new method is:
1.) Copy the template
2.) Edit the copied template, creating the comic (in GIMP)
3.) Save the comic in it's original xcf (GIMP) format
4.) Save the comic as a 16 bit transparent png (in GIMP)
5.) Open the comic in paint.net
6.) Reduce the image size (in paint.net)
7.) Save the comic as a gif (in paint.net)
8.) Upload the comic

In my opinion, the difference in quality is noticeable, so I went back and reconverted all the Halloween comics. If you want to see the differences, you can see them here.
RIP rm-r-comic
Apr 2 2007->Oct 31 2015

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