Subtitles of the Movie

Once we're done with inks on the figure and we're satisfied with them, the next thing that we need to do is we need to go ahead and compile all this so I've got some extra layers in here that I was using when I was working that I don't really care to have anymore so I'm going to delete them. The Guidelines Layer, the blue guidelines, we don't need to worry about those anymore. We can unlock those and delete those and the three layers that we have make up those ink files so I'm just going to go to Layer, Drop Off and this file had some extra dead space around the outside edges that were used primarily for sort of drawing through and just have a little bit of extra room so that you're not butting up right up against the edge of the paper when you're drawing but we need to get rid of that so we're going to go to Canvas, Size and what we need to basically do is subtract a hundred pixels from each side so what I'm going to do is I'm going to type in negative 100 and we're just going to do that again and hit OK. What that'll do is it'll crop this down to final print size and, you know, the final print size, in case you were wondering about that is going to be 2750 by 4200 so that's, that's basically our final print size and that'll work just fine for this. Now, the next thing we want to do is we want to Copy and Paste this into a file that has the background already ready for it from SketchUp so I've already got that file open. Let me just go ahead and close this one out and this file, as you can see here I've pasted in my figure and I've also done something which is a little different. I've cropped out part of the leg here and the way I did that was I just took our Polygon Lasso Tool and made a selection and cropped that out and the reason why was because when I got this into our background, you see here that there's a line on the edge of the building here where it's covering over the leg and I had drawn it too far down so I went ahead and cut that out so it looks a little, tiny bit different from the inks. But the next thing that we need to do is we need to actually get this figure onto the background and as you can see here, this isn't going to cut it because we can see the background through the figure so the way that we do that is we create a selection and I've already got one saved here in channel so you don't have to watch me go through that but this is the selection and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to load that channel as a selection. So I'm just going to go Load, Alpha 1, hit OK and I'm going to go back up here, turn that off so we don't need to see that no more and I'm going to create a new layer. So I'm going to create a new layer between my figure and my background and I'm going to make sure that white is my foreground color and I'm going to say Edit, Fill and we're going to Fill with Current Color, 100 Percent Opacity, hit OK. Now, what that looks like is now it is just simply a white space over our background and if I turn that on and off you'll see that it didn't touch our background at all. It's just a white space in the background and the reason why you want to do this in layers instead of just deleting out the background right away is because if you need to make any changes, it's better to have it in a layer so that you're not committing to a change before you're ready for it. But once we go back to our figure, all we need to do now is just change our Blending Mode to Multiply and now we have our figure composited against our background, everything looks good and now we can simply go to Layers, Drop All and let's go ahead and zoom in and enjoy our handiwork. So there we go. You can see here a slight, white halo because of the way in which those selections were made. It's about a one-pixel wide halo, which works fine for me. That actually gives him just a tiny bit of separation. Colorists tend to get kind of whiney about those white halos; they don't like them but you know, for something that's only one-pixel wide, it's not going to create any kind of a problem. You know, like I said, it just gives him a little extra pop against the background so he doesn't get lost in the background, so I like it just fine. I think that's a pretty nice, finished splash page to introduce our character and like I say, basically the rest of the book is just repeat this whole process over and over again until you're done. Now we're going to go ahead and start with color.