To see what Chastity’s referring to, here’s a good jumping on point. (Hit the Purple buttons underneath the strip to navigate through the storyline…)

-Krishna
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Mr. Krishna:

My son Daniel Conner purchased your PC Weenies book during your conference at the Safety Harbor Library during their 1st ‘Comic-Con’.

You autographed it for him, and since then, he has been reading it daily; including a recent trip our family took to Philadelphia, PA.
Attached are two photos of him holding your book at the ‘Rocky Statue’ outside the Museum of Fine Arts.

I hope you enjoy the photos as much as we did taking them,

Jeff D. Conner

Great photos, Jeff! Thank you for sharing :) I’m really happy to hear that Daniel is enjoying his book!

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve actually plugged PC Weenies: Rebootus Maximus, but if you’re interested in purchasing a copy, I have copies available for sale. Remember: once the Book 1 is completely sold out, it’s sold out forever!

Digital books are available for sale, too – only $3.00!

As always, I thank you for your support. And once the current story arc wraps up, I plan to focus my attention on finishing the long awaited PC Weenies: Book 2!

-Krishna
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You know the drill. Enjoy!*

*Owing to a super-tight deadline that’s looming over me, I’m only going to post the pencils for the strips until mid-June. In this way, you get to enjoy the thrice a week continuity while I get to keep my sanity (or what’s left of it, anyway.)

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1. Open my FTP application (Transmit)
2. Navigate to the proper folder on my computer
3. Drag the file into the appropriate folder on the server. (I keep all my comics within the same folder on my server.)

As is the case with my comics, every time I make a revision (and in some cases I’ve revised a strip 20 times over the course of a day), I’d have to repeat the above steps each and every time.

So…

…given all the whiz-bang computing power we have at our disposal in 2012, shouldn’t there be a better way?

Thankfully there is, and it’s called automation. To automate the steps above, I used two applications: Hazel and Automator.

Hazel ($24.99) is an incredibly powerful program that automates filing, organizing and cleaning files and folders that live on your computer. Automator is an app bundled with Mac OS X that bills itself as a “personal automation assistant” using drag-and-drop workflows.

To preface this discussion: there are many ways to skin this cat. This is what worked for me.

First, I’ve created a rule within Hazel called “Latest Toons”. This rule will examine the date of the file and checks to see if it was created within the current week. If that condition is true, two actions will be performed.

1. Hazel will set a color label on the file (marking it green).
2. Hazel will launch an Automator workflow to upload the file to the appropriate folder on my server

I use Panic’s Transmit ($24.99) for all my FTP tasks. Transmit comes with an Upload action that is accessible from within Automator.

In Automator, I selected the Upload action and moved it into the workflow area. Next, I configured the Upload action to use one of my Transmit “Favorites” (a bookmark of sorts that contains all my FTP login info, including the correct path to open on the server). After configuring the action, I saved the workflow for Hazel to access.

Now, whenever a new comic file is saved in my pcw_toons folder, Hazel automatically uploads the file into the appropriate folder on my server. Translation: I’ll never have to manually upload a comic to my FTP server EVER again!

To sum it up: Automation is a powerful method of saving time on repetitive tasks. It lets your computer handle the mundane, routine activities while freeing you up to focus on the real tasks at hand. And with tools like Hazel and Automator on the Mac, it’s never been easier!

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My top secret (well, not so top-secret, I guess) project is keeping me hella busy. I’m under the gun to get it finished before June 11th, so publishing comics here will be shaky this week and next week. Thanks for your patience.

Or we could run guest-strips. (Hint. Hint.) ;)

-Krishna

P.S. I tweaked panel 4. Below is the original:

And here’s the revised version:

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One big advantage of owning a display like the HP ZR24w is that it supports both landscape and portrait modes. While I’ve been using my display almost exclusively in landscape mode since I first purchased it, curiosity about the idea of “going vertical” got the best of me, so I went ahead and flipped the display over to portrait mode.

Portrait mode is fantastic for making comic pages. Instead of only seeing a portion of the full image, I can see the entire comic page in one go. To fully use the display for illustration in this mode, I had to adjust my Wacom tablet driver settings to match the orientation of my new display. No biggie. Once the settings were adjusted, my tablet worked like a charm!

Having used this setup all weekend, I’m starting to prefer portrait mode over landscape. I’m curious to know if other digital artists work with portrait mode, and what they think of using a display in this fashion. Share your thoughts in the comments below.

-Krishna

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I’m taking a quick detour from the storyline to address a tech topic that’s been weighing on my mind: Microsoft Signature.

So, here’s what it is:

In a nutshell, you can buy a MS Windows PC directly from their store without any trialware or crapware pre-installed. Each Windows Signature PC comes pre-tuned and optimized for the hardware it’s on. In other words, the way it should be sold. But if you didn’t buy a PC directly from the MS store you get to PAY Microsoft for the privilege of having all that crapware removed for the grand price of $99. Amazing.

Too bad the Windows signature PCs are still littered with stickers across them. Nascar anyone?

The story continues next week. Stick around…

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It’s a great image – full of contrast and color – but the crisp detail of the photograph has a nasty side-effect: it makes the text underneath the hard drive icons more difficult to read.

What’s my work around?

Simply take the image into Photoshop (or your favorite image editor) and add a Gaussian blur to it.

You’ll still have all the wonderful color and contrast that makes the image so appealing, but now it’ll be much easier to discern the icons from the background. Give it a try. You might actually like it.

-Krishna

It’s a defining moment for Chastity. I’m proud of her!

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Pencils are up Colors and inks are now accompanying the latest PCW! Inks and colors should be coming very soon. The set-up is complete – things are about to get CA-RAAY- ZEE.

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