Page Notes: It's heating up on Point as the Tribunal Protectors (or Thought Police) begin to react to the growing Netwight population and things are getting interesting.
Clip Studio: When you work in CSP (or similar programs like Photoshop), you are able to create items on layers. Layers can be visualized like this... Imagine a stack of transparent paper and on any one of the pieces of paper in the stack you can craw characters, dialogue, backgrounds, or colors on any of those papers. When you look at all of the pages together, you see a combination of all of the pieces of paper, but you can modify any one of the pages independently.
Layers are organized by Panel, and I typically work in a standard set of layers - Dialogue & SFX, Inks, Colors, Pencils, background inks, background colors, and thumbnails. As I was preparing page 16, I had picked up on certain peculiarities in how the layers are defined. The specs for the inks layers specifically were influencing the resolution of the line work on specific layers. I draw at 600 dpi, and publish the pages at 100 dpi to support a rapid download speed... when I zoomed in on specific pieces of the page on the website, I could see a lack of resolution for some layers. I plan on going back and applying the learnings to previous pages that we've shared and I'd be interested if you see what I see.
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