So chucky, whose parents make beer, is drinking a rather massive glass of port wine??

He's drinking a barley wine actually. Of course, it's the previous panel where he asks for it.

Never heard of barley wine - is that one of those CA things??

Well, I've only had it here in CA now that you mention it, but I'm sure you can get it anywhere. It's basically an ale with a high alcohol content, over 10%.

Ahhh, so it is really a hard beer! I am a wine guy, so I am not at all familiar with beers.....

Yes. It's a wine in name only, and the term wine is used because of the similar alcohol content. But it is indeed beer(fermented barley).

also known as a "Wee heavy"
and i can tell you it id wonderfully malty
--Rick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley_wine - quite nice stuff, at least it can be.

I like Dave...actually I like all of Chucky's friends.

They're good peoples.

Always good to have people who'll have your back.

Good picture.

Thanks!

i thought he was drinkin brandy xD but i dont drink so i would be one of the people just stublin around all drunk xD

A glass of that stuff would certainly do it.

If you're concerned with costs or using Photoshop legally, there's a link to get Photoshop CS2 free and legal from Adobe itself or are you just trying to broaden your graphical application knowledge?

Actually, that was sort of the reason. For some strange reason, the serial number of the copy of photoshop I have no longer works. Adobe wants $700 for a new one and I really can't do that. For the most part, GIMP seems to do what I need it to. What version of Photoshop do you get with CS2?

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_.....ads/index.html
You can get all CS2 products free, the serial number works, I've verified it myself.

Cool man, I'm going to give this a try. A friend of mind said older versions of Photoshop don't work with Windows 7. I like GIMP, but I know Photoshop so well I'd rather stick with it.

High fuckin' 5 to you man!!! This shit works just fine. This must be a version later than the old one I had which I'm told didn't work with Windows 7 at all. If I still lived in New Hampshire I'd be hookin' you up with some major homebrews this weekend.

I've tried Photoshop 7.0 on Win7 and it works okay, I don't know what version they're referring to. Perhaps 5.0 or something. I was just as happy as you when Cobalt told me about it, not sure who told him. :)

I think it was Photoshop 7, but this looks like a slightly later version than the one I had, unless I'm getting these mixed up. But either way, thanks a bunch.

Caption

"How can you pay $9 for a small Beer?"

"They have Westvleteren 12 on Tap, $9 is a steal!"

I'll have to look for that.

nice

Is this the actual working size of your comic?

GIMP huh? I'm not noticing the difference if any!

Congrats on the new computer.

Hopefully you won't know any difference, but I may still try to get an older version of photoshop working.

Believe it or not, the above picture is a slightly shrunken version of one comic panel. A whole comic page is HUGE. I have to shrink it to less than 1/3 its original size just to meet the maximum upload dimentions.

Wow!

I'm only now realizing that working on big files saves a lot of headaches later on....wish I knew that 10 years ago....

I didn't used to work on big files. I scan my comic at very high resolution(although probably not as high as the really professional artists) so it gets that smooth look to it. The result is very large files. If you look at some of the early Chucky comic pages, they were scanned at a low resolution. I didn't know any better back then, and the size they appear on here, is exactly the size I was working on.

They're too drunk to speak! (with the empty speech balloons)

Just kidding, I'm looking forward to the next page, as always!

It's kinda like the all white eyes. O.O

Cool! Are you going to be trying out Gimp for very long?
(I noticed you got your Photoshop problem worked out in the comments above)

Is there any particular issue you're having with colouring in Gimp?
I might be able to provide a couple of suggestions.

I actually switched right back to photoshop since I know it so well. I'm holding onto GIMP though, just in case. I didn't have any trouble with coloring though, that was pretty straight forward. Most of my trouble was with tool presets. It seemed like there were a lot of things I had to set up manually to get them to work the way I wanted.

I kind of suspected you might.
It's often far easier to do a good job with a tool you're familiar with, especially if you've devoted lots of time and effort into making sure both that it's configured for yourself and that you understand it.

It's why I often get frustrated whenever I have to do a clean OS install.
I spent countless hours installing and configuring things to be just exactly how I want them, then I eventually have to do it all again with a new version of the OS.

I've managed to dodge that bullet for the most part. The transition to Windows 7 was quite easy.

You're lucky on that. Others haven't had it so easy.
I used to use Windows 98SE, and had to reinstall once every blue moon or so.
(haven't had any problems with XP or 7 recently, though)

Though Linux has the advantage that because the vast majority of applications are free, you don't have to fiddle around with license keys and such.
Mostly it's remembering what programs you use and what settings you like.

Yeah, I've got a friend who swears by Linux. It's actually because of him that I even knew someting like GIMP existed. Windows XP and 7 were pretty stable. Windows Vista sucked as much as people said, at least the version I had sucked. It crashed frequently.

When im out of beer, I have to settle for *whine*. 8-P

Awwwww!

Full face leather mask with a zipper mouth is what i think of Gimp, like in Pulp Fiction.

Ha ha ha! They should have used that as the symbol for the program.