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Published: 2012-04-10 14:19:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 15726; Favourites: 393; Downloads: 317
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Ok so here is it, my first tutorial EVER
.Not much else to say other than its how I have been making all my books to date.
**Update** for those who have asked about paper specs.
I print my pages at home on 160 gram paper with all my printers settings to max.
And the print shop does my covers on OVERSIZED A3 (very important you need the extra space to be able to trim down).
And we print at 105%.
Their paper is something like 250 gram gloss.
*Just want to say thanks for all the Favs etc I will get round to thanking everyone individually. (I thanked people until DA declaired I must be spamming
so I'm off to work).1,500 views in under 10 hours... HOLY CRAP!!!!.
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It's a hack job method, it it helps then great but it is rough and dirty : P
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Danke
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This is quite interesting! ^_^ I would definitely try this if i make a graphic novel!
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Thankyou + for the fav.
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This will be very useful if I ever do anything like this. ^^
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I would love to see someones results to prove this was worth my time putting together
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this will help when I finish my graphic novel! Question, did you do all your art work digitally? Im planning to do my work traditionally, scanning each page, then printing them, but Im not so sure, and was curious what your opinion on that would be?
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Glad it will help, I will admit its NOT my war work, I simply made books of game art for games that went "un-loved"
If you can do it digital/at least the colour it would help as scanning always looks bad, you would likely have to re-edit them after anyway.
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Thanks for the advice, that does sound like a good idea and sounds easy enough to do as well ^^, thank ya.
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im working on a manga and i will definatly se this when the first volume is done!
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I would love to see that !
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If I ever need to, or decide to, make a graphic novel, I know where to go.
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Thank you! It's really helpful! I was searching for a good and simple tutorial for a long time! Thank you again
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Thankyou.
Comment and fav, I'm eager to see peoples bindings.
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Thankyou, fav and comment.
Please do let me know how it turns out if you ever use it.
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Oh wow! This is awesome! I'm writing a short graphic novel that I have to bind for an assignment. I was prepared to pay money (that I don't have) to get it done too. So you could understand why this tutorial is a godsend for me! Thank you!
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Plus thaks for the fav!
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Will do! I was wondering what kind of paper did you print your pages on, and the cover also? My print shop offers a variety of different papers to print on and it's quite confusing.
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I print on 160 gram paper from staples but I'm sure its nothing special, I put all my print settings to max photo and slow it right down
As for the print shop I think its about 250 gram oversized A3 (so there is an edge to cut off), with a gloss layer on it
Hope that helps.
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Wonderful, This helps a lot! Thanks so much, keep up the good work!
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Have to ask, man... Did you get it printed at home or a print shop? That's a very good quality print you got there.
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I printed at home, on....160gm paper
The cover of course was from the print shop I can't print A3 at home.
P.S. Thanks for the fav.
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My printer doesn't seem to print all that nicely. What kind of ink/paper do you use? And how do you layout the pages to print?
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Its an Epson SX200 , nothing special.
I max out all the settings for photo/slow print.
And use really thick 160 gram paper I got from stapels (normal A4 is about 60-90gram thick off the top of my head).
I set up each page in photoshop individually and then arrange them with Adobe bridge and convert to PDF so it can print the lot double sided.
Not perfect I need to find a way to move each page away form the spine (and not have to do it maually), but it works well enough right now.
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Now you should make a tutorial for the setting up 
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Its not that hard, each page is a picture..I use adobe bridge to put them all in order then it makes them into a PDF.. and I print the PDF
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But I don't even know how to make PDFs
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Its not needed it's just my method of keeping everything in page order to print.
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Really great tutorial Null Entity. If only all tutorials were as detailed!
xx
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Thankyou 
Feels to me like it's lacking sooooo much detail.
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Yes... You prefer a "great tuto, and great work" ,This is the meaning of this "lol"
Sorry, I`m Spanish and i use Some expressions as I like to use!
Great tattoo designs!!
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Ah ok
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