Comic workflow - general ideas and feature requests (including long webcomics!)

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Hi,
I’m not sure if this would be included in this feature, but it’s difficult to create webcomics with the current features in Krita and it would be nice to have some things that could help with the process.

My Current Workflow

  • Create a project with the Comic Manager to hold all the pages

  • First page, 000, with a Width of 940 px

  • Draw all the thumbnails on this page

  • Add height by using the “Grow” feature in the Crop Tool

  • Add pages, 4700 px x 5000 px, in the Comic Manager that go with each thumbnail

  • Copy the thumbnails onto each page, creating the illustrations in those pages

  • Importing Panels into the First Page

    • Method 1
      • In Layer Docker, add panels by using File Layer and scaling it into the size of the thumbnail
    • Method 2
      • Export each page as a PNG
      • Import as Layer each page and scale to the sizes of the thumbnails

  • Export the Final File

    • Page 000
    • Image → Image Split
      • Horizontal Lines: Each page needs to measure 940 px x 4000 px (Divide up to 40 pages)
      • Vertical: 0
      • Save as PNG

Features

  • On Screen Area
    Link: Tips for Creating Vertical Scrolling Webtoons | Art Rocket

    • The ability to see the sections of the comic that would be visible on the either mobile screen or computer screen. In Krita, this feature is difficult to see when working on a document.

  • Divide Vertically by px

    • Also in the link above in the “Splitting and exporting your work” section.
      A feature that would allow artists to split and export the pages to a certain size and it automatically shows how many pages would be created with this size.

Limitations
Due to the most popular webcomic websites, the websites have their own restrictions, such as a limit in how many pages that can be uploaded per chapter, 40 in Tapas as an example, and the page sizes, such as 940 px x 4000 px per page.
It would be great to be able to prepare pages and see the sizes the individual pages would be and how many pages in Krita before splitting and exporting the file.

Thank you for your time and for making Krita an incredible program.

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