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Still one of the best animations I've ever done. Took just under a week and was equal parts fun and challenging. So here are some process passes! The full version had too many colors so I had to do some compression T0T

When an artist shares their work for free online, it can be easy to assume the art is free for everyone else to use too. So you grab it and include it in your own project, and all of a sudden an artist is mad at you, their fans are calling you out, you’re getting threatened with legal action—or even scarier, the artist’s publisher is threatening you with legal action. One-shot comics and minicomics are especially susceptible to this misunderstanding because often they are seen as viral memes instead of art, or treated as public property. But is this really the case? This guide will help you navigate using art you’ve found online. We’ll start with three basic questions: 1. Do I need to ask permission from the artist? 2. Do I need to give credit to the artist? 3. Do I need to pay the artist? After that, we’ll offer some tips on how to approach the artist.

I wrote an article for Cartoonists United! CU has a great collection of resources to help the art community, and I was really excited to contribute.

If you don't know whether it's safe to use a piece of art you found online, if you don't know how to ask permission to use art, and if you are unsure of how to approach artists, read the article!

And if you're an artist who frequently finds your work being used without permission, spread this around so more people know the etiquette around using art online!

“Freedom always has a price.”

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Hieronymus is a first person shooter game where you explore the world of Hieronymus Bosch's paintings. Currently in development by Hurdy-Gurdy Games.

I’ve seen a lot of misinformation out there that CSP can’t work in CMYK. That’s incorrect. If you’re making an illustration for print, you’ll want to see what your illustration looks like in CMYK first. Some colors that look great in RGB just wash out and look bad in CMYK, and this will help you see what’s going on.

You can view your illustration in CMYK by going to View and selecting Color Profile and then Preview Settings:

It’ll bring up this dialogue box, which is where the magic happens:

Under Profile for preview is where you select CMYK. If your printer has not specified a color profile to you (and most don’t really care unless you’re a big time client getting thousands of prints) then it’s safe to select CMYK: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 from the list as a default go-to. Hit OK and you’re good to go! Your art is now displaying in CMYK mode, easy as that.

How do I turn the preview on and off?

Back under View, and under Color Profile, now Preview will have a checkbox next to it. You can just select this option repeatedly to turn CMYK view on or off

Wait, so how do I export in CMYK then?

A lot of the time, you don’t actually have to! A lot of digital printers these days have ink capabilities beyond just CMYK. There are toners for Light Cyan and Light Magenta available now, among others. Regular CMYK files don’t have the data to use toner colors like this. What this means is you probably don’t want to actually reduce your file to CMYK unless your printer wants you to as part of their workflow. Giving them an RGB file means that all available color information is there, and their print specialist and specialized RIP can handle the conversion to CMYK that will most benefit your file. It’s still very useful to preview your file in CMYK and make corrections though, because it’s still a close depiction of how your file will turn out!

I need to export in CMYK anyway.

Ok! Make sure you’ve picked your CMYK preview settings as this also determines the CMYK output settings. You’ll be using File, Export (Single Layer) to get your CMYK file.

I use .tif for this as it is a lossless format that works with the largest number of printers without issue. After you pick where to save this export, a new dialogue box will open:

First, make sure that Output range is set to To offset of crop mark

What this does is exports your image with the bleed included. Since you’re exporting for print, this is necessary. This is of course assuming you have set up your bleed properly as outlined in my Creating a New Illustration File guide!

Next, this is how you export with CMYK:

Select CMYK color under Expression color. Easy as that. Now, just a couple final steps to review for output:

Make sure it’s set to Scale ratio from original data and pick 100%. This will output the file at the exact size that you want it to print at, as set up when you created your new document. If you made the document an 8x10 print file, this option makes sure it exports as a full-size 8x10 file.

Finally, this is the last option:

This is default set to For illustration, and that’s what you’re looking for. It makes sure that your file flattens well so that colors or lines don’t shift where they were placed.