Please ask about anything unclear in this guide.

Cleaning

• All pages should be leveled so that whites are white and blacks are black
• This tool helps calibrate monitors to optimal brightness/contrast: http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php 
• Pages should be rotated and aligned so the top of panels (starting from the top of the page) that are suppose to be horizontally level, are so
• White space around the page should not be eliminated
• However, if it seems excessive, ask.
• Advertisements and store recaps along the sides of pages should be cleaned off 
• If a bubble contains only punctuation, it should not be cleaned off and replaced

Fonts and SFX

• Our commonly used fonts are:
• Main Text - Wild Words
• Thoughts/Narration Boxes - Zud Juice
• Small Text - akbar/augie
• Notes - Aquillia
• Please ask if you require any of these fonts or any other fonts if you want to be more creative
• These fonts are suggestions, different fonts can be used but need to stick to consistent roles like listed above
• Bold should be used very sparingly
• Italics should never be used 
• SFX do not need to be fully replaced, however it is encouraged
• This applies to titles as well 
• SFX fonts should match the original SFX style as closely as possible 
• If not replacing SFX, a method similar to what Del-Rey employs should be done
• Example: http://imgnow.com/uploads/711112246White_Album_ch10_008.png
• Note how the style of the original is still kept 
• SFX should always have some sort of rotation and/or warp to to clearly show it is not regular text 

Typesetting 

• Text should be sized not to fill the entire bubble, but also large enough to be readable
• Text should always be center aligned 
• Text should be centered in the visible space of the bubble
• In Photoshop, Control + ' turns on the grid, which helps with this
• Avoid placing vertically aligned text or using extreme rotations 
• When typesetting a long dash of 2 or more dashes "--" use a single dash and stretch it, or draw it in
• When typesetting a long tilde "~~~" draw it in
• When typesetting hearts, drawn hearts (original or newly drawn) should always be used
• Hearts should be placed like punctuation
• Punctuation should never be on a line by itself
• Breaking up of words should always be avoided if possible
• When breaking up words, the hyphen should always end the first line
• This applies to honorifics as well such as -san or -chan 

Exporting and Optimization 

• Pages should be resized to a 1200 height pixel minimum
• Keeping PSDs larger than the final size will allow you to easily rotate/crop pages without having to worry about the page size
• Pages should always be exported through "Save for Web" in Photoshop or a similar function in other image editing programs
• Never use just "Save As..."
• Photoshop Settings to use: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6752/export.png 
• Pages should be exported as PNGs if they are black/white or greyscale and JPGs if they are colour