Hello Side7!
I've finally got some finished art uploaded, and I'm transitioning my comic universe from furry to humanoid. I could really really use some critique, particularly regarding coloring. I may pretend I know what I'm doing when I color things, but I really don't. My latest image is at the following address: http://www.side7.com/cgi-bin/S7SDB/Display.pl?act=image&iid=327625
Thanks so much!!
This is an unrelated thought, but you might want to increase the compression of your images or otherwise find a way to decrease the file size. 700kb is really way too big for an image of these dimensions. Personally, I refuse to load images any larger than about 300k, max, partially because I have limited bandwidth available each month. Increasing compression just a little bit can have a dramatic effect on file size while retaining quality.
Typically, compression is done on the final save, when you're finished with your work and want to post it somewhere. Normally, I scan in my picture as a .bmp; do all the manipulation I want to make with it on my graphics program (the gimp), such as coloring, cleanup, etc.; and then save it once as a full-size .bmp and then resize for my final, uploadable picture. Typically, I also have the cleaned-up scanned lineart saved as its own file. For the actual compression, I first resize the picture. A good rule of thumb is to scale the picture so that a viewer doesn't have to scroll in order to see all of it. I typically prefer to make the height or width (whichever is longer) under 700 pixels across. Next, I save it as either a .jpg or a .png. .Jpgs allows one to adjust how much the picture is compressed, but I don't like them as they tend to leave artifacts in the picture. In my opinion, .pngs are better. Though a person can't choose how much to compress a picture with a .png, it usually isn't a worry.
