23Aug02 (Monthenor): This comic pretty much happened. People may wonder how much of this MM stuff actually occurs in our apartment, and I'd have to reply, "About 50%. The rest of it happens outside of our apartment." Stuff like 'leisurely' or 'smoke break'? Yeah, that's verbatim. We're cool like that.
So we were sitting there, watching the wrapup of Witchblade, when out of nowhere Morgion says, "Oh yeah, piranha." This naturally made me very suspicious, as did his stuttering coverup about wanting a pet and it not being part of an evil plot. Hint: you can't lie to another member of the HIVE MIND!!
Some of you may be questioning my graphical orientation. Heck, I've been questioning myself lately. Am I a Photoshopper or a GIMPer? Well, I've decided that the world is too large to classify myself into a narrow little label like that. Photoshop makes much smoother and prettier things than the GIMP ever could. However, my experience today putting together GM013 has made sure that I don't completely convert.
See, my comics have text in them, right? I use Comic Sans MS 12 point for all my normal dialogue and center them by hand. So today in Photoshop I set my Text tool to Comic Sans MS 12 point and start typing. What I got was not 12 point. What I got from Photoshop was about 48 point. To get the right size, I was mucking about down in 1.5 point. So I gave up and did all the text in GIMP, and then started up Photoshop to balloon.
After a bunch of centering, I realized I wanted to change the monologue in a flashback panel (see, I'm even teasing you guys while I'm complaining!). Morgion would use this moment to say "Hah! Editable text layers, beeeyotch!" So I pulled out the Text tool to try and fix it. Set it Comic 12 point. What came out this time was not 12 point, but neither was it 48 point. It was more like 16.
I thought "point" was a pretty standard measure. I could maybe understand Photoshop not agreeing with GIMP on the size of "point", but when it doesn't agree with itself, I will never trust it completely.
08.23.02 (Morgion):
I have no idea what Monty is doing wrong, but I know that he's doing something wrong. Or Gimp is doing something wrong. Someone or something is wrong, and it's not Photoshop. I'll have to look over Monty's shoulder and see what horible things the Graphics Satan has been whispering in his ear, then I'll be able to offer an amusing and informative anecdote on what was really happening.
Until then, both you and I will have to sustain ourselves with the knowledge that Monty is willingly using Photoshop. And that he's wrong, or at least vicariously wrong because of the Gimp. ;-)
08.23.02 (Morgion):
The moral of the story is this: high resolutions in Photoshop mean very large bits on screen. Including your font sizes. Nothing to be ashamed of, these things happen. Especially if you're slightly blinded by the glorious radiance of Photoshop, a brilliance that filles every part of your being and gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling of being loved unconditionally by your graphics program. Even if you've been shaking up with some cheap, tawdry open source solution on weekends.
More thrilling news; I'm not completely insane! I've been professing this for years, but what with the Hive Mind and all, it's been rather difficult to distinguish my insanity from that of everyone else. Huh... yes yes, I'm getting to that. <whispering to the voices/> But now there's proof.
One of my co-workers started swearing to himself today—a common and completely rational habit—because he had a song stuck in his head. This, too, is perfectly acceptable... until I learned what ditty of doom it was... the I Dream of Genie theme. I've had that damn thing stuck in my head continually for the past year or more.
To know that someone else out there has the same affliction as I is, at the very least, reassuring. Either because I'm not all that crazy because it's a common ocurance, or that the Hive Mind is so infectious that everyone will soon be just as crazy as we are. In any case, it's comforting... sorta.