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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently (to be precise 3.5 hours ago) put the following text related to comics creation on the ComixIndia.com discussion board. Thought to share it here as well. The admin had thrown up some questions related to comics creation, and I provided my thoughts on the same. Your comments welcome as always. 1. How does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=218&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have moved!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, This blog is now moved to http://www.huesandtones.net/blog All future updates to this blog will be hosted from huesandtones.net from now onwards. cheers, Shirish<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=97&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to HuesAndTones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally the version 1.0 of HuesAndTones is ready to be distributed to the world. It has been a tireless (actually, very tiring) and very fulfilling journey till now. More and more features and design elements are in the pipeline. Awaiting your candid responses and feedbacks on the site design and content<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=99&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The blog had just started and it&#039;s already time to move!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I booked my own website, the first ever. Another milestone achieved!! This blog will soon move to the new site. Once the site is operational and some content is added, I will publish the new address of the blog here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=204&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I booked my own website, the first ever. Another milestone achieved!! This blog will soon move to the new site. Once the site is operational and some content is added, I will publish the new address of the blog here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=95&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lettering 2 &#8211; Speech Balloons. Making them look &#039;Hand Drawn&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of the lettering process. Here, we will see how to finish up the speech balloons nicely with that &#8216;squashed&#8217; look. At the end of last procedure, the caption texts are grouped together with their bordering rectangles. The speech balloons are still not grouped with the ellipses bordering them. Now it&#8217;s time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=94&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lettering 2 &#8211; Speech Balloons. Making them look &#8216;Hand Drawn&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of the lettering process. Here, we will see how to finish up the speech balloons nicely with that &#8216;squashed&#8217; look. At the end of last procedure, the caption texts are grouped together with their bordering rectangles. The speech balloons are still not grouped with the ellipses bordering them. Now it&#8217;s time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=85&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lettering 1 &#8211; Text, Captions and Basic Speech Baloons Outlines</title>
		<link>http://shirishart.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/lettering-1-text-captions-and-basic-speech-baloons-outlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shirishart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in the eariler posts, Inkscape is a free Vector graphic drawing program, and is excellent for lettering. I import the TIFF file into this file. This TIFF file has only the graphic part, and no text. I resize the TIFF file within my page, such that the width of TIFF is exactly 8 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=66&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workflow employed for the making of my first comics and technical details. (This may drastically change in the future productions)</title>
		<link>http://shirishart.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/workflow-employed-for-the-making-of-my-first-comics-and-technical-details-this-may-drastically-change-in-the-future-productions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shirishart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Create panels, pencil sketches, inks and initial speech balloons/captions in GIMP. Graphic size &#8211; 3300 X 4400 pixels, 1200 PPI. When creating a new file, click ‘+’ sign next to the ‘Advanced Options’ and enter values as following: Creating panels, pencil sketches and inks has been discussed in previous posts. Something about the speech balloons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=44&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Difference between Raster Graphics and Vector Graphics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shirishart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two kinds of graphic formats are used in electronic mediums. Raster and Vector. Raster graphics are stored as a bunch of pixels, while Vector graphics are stored as a bunch of shapes and nodes. Raster graphics start losing their clarity as they are stretched beyond their original maximum size. Vector graphics can be (theoretically) stretched [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirishart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8666964&amp;post=40&amp;subd=shirishart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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