Jumping Right In.

Sometimes starting in the middle of something can be thrilling. Knowing it is either sink or swim, that you have no plan B if something doesn't work can be exhilirating.

I just get frustrated and want to throw things.

Thus starts my second day of Post Production.

A bit of background.

Josh draws the strip. Pencil and Ink and all that. I take them, scan them, and up until Monday would use a web based photo program to alter the contrast and that was it.

Monday I started messing with Illustrator to add the text and try to change the contrast. Text was not much of a problem (I still can't make conjoined word balloons yet, or make them flush with a border) but the contrast thing was a tad more difficult.

Luckily there's a new feature called LiveTrace which takes the lines you have on the page and 'inks' them digitially (I may be way off on what it actually does, this is what it 'seems' to do). I'm not sure if I like the effect yet. We'll see how the whole week looks.

I also tend to get cranky when something I did in a program worked yesterday, then trying to do the exact same thing today doesn't work at all. I realize it is 99.99% likely that it's my fault, but that doesn't make me feel any better.

In good news, I bought 3 shirts today. More on that later.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

-alex.