How To Make Sprite Comics: Comic Making Basics

How to Make Sprite Comics

Chapter 2: Comic Making Basics

Now that you have your background up, click the dotted square near the top of your page. Click and drag the mouse over the background. Now we will learn how to resize it. DON'T ever drag the image by the corners and sides to make it bigger or smaller, it will distort the image. Instead, click Image, then Stretch and Skew. In the Stretch section, change the numbers to whatever you wish. For this example, I resized mine to be Horizontal: 150 and Vertical 200. Now the image looks like this:

It doesn't have to be this big, just big enough to be able to fit the characters and text boxes, plus whatever else you want to add in the background. Try to keep each background you make the same size as the other. Now that you have your background, time to add your characters. Find wherever you saved your character sprites, and do the same thing you did with your background sprites, click the dotted square and drag it over the character, then right click and click Copy, then paste the image over your background. It should look like this.

If you find a white square behind your character, then click the dotted rectangle, and click the other option below the toolbar, the one with the transparent square behind it. That should make it go away. Now that we have Mario on our background, let's add in another character. Why not Bowser, but wait! What if you don't want him facing the same direction as Mario? What you do is while still having Bowser selected, click Image, and then Flip/Rotate. Click the Horizontal button, and click Ok. That should have him facing the other direction.

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