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Anonymous asked:

Hi! I just finished reading "Phantomland FAQ" and "ask maaria" tags and came to conclusion that you draw on A4 and your images are 1200dpi lineart and published comic is A5. Do you've a scanner with ability of scanning pics with 1200dpi OR do u use magic? In case of using magic, could you reveal something? I myself like drawing A4 comics but since my scanner can do only 600dpi scans turning them into bitmaps with 1200dpi makes pics awfully small, from A4 to A6.. Thank you for your answer! ;3;

Thanks for your message! I’m glad that you read my posts and they were somewhat useful to you, haha

Hmmm print resolution stuff is really simple but kinda difficult to explain… DPI, Dots Per Inch is not image size but rather the way the image will fill the paper in print. 1200DPI means the printer will use 1200 pixels of your image to fill the length of one inch on paper. Now if you don’t have enough pixels in your image it’ll just get crammed into a tiny space. So you need more pixels - make the pic larger. (In fact don’t measure your image size in pixels to begin with; change the units to millimeters in whichever software you use)

Note: super-sharp 1200DPI is meant for black&white bitmap art and printed with an industrial offset machine. If you’re doing color or grayscale art, 300DPI is the standard resolution for both home and industry printing

My scanner is not magic, I scan my pages in A4 600dpi and then convert them to A5 1200dpi. It’s literally the same amount of pixels :)