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maxcavsm:
The panels idea is a great one.  I like printing it out before hand and then working around that.  Not a bad plan.

maxcavsm:
Okay, got my Intuious Pad, a copy of Photoshop Elements 4, and a new monitor.

Issue.  All of the Photoshop tutorials I've seen on inking all seem to involve the two basic tools.  The pen tool and the brush tool.  There IS no pen tool with Elements, only the brush.  Now while I did a little basic inking, what exactly is the pen tool for?  Is it possible to do what I want to do without a pen tool? 

If this is not good or impossible, then will a lesser version of Photoshop do? Say, CS1?

HFrankenstein:
The pen tool is for defining shapes (lines, curves, closed globs, whatever).  Drawing the shape itself doesn't actually do anything, though -- you have to apply some other tool to the shape you just drew.  For example, if you need a very precise curve and don't want to use the paintbrush over and over again until you get it right, you can use the pen tool to define the curve exactly as you want it, and then tell Photoshop to draw a line along it.  For inking, that's probably the most common use for the tool.

If you don't have it, you can probably get by without it (personally, for style's sake, I forbid myself from using it), but if you really want it, you'll just have to "acquire" a copy of Photoshop.

Narshada:
Hey,
I've just put up a page on my site that explains the process I have for creating my webcomics - http://www.exoticsoup.co.uk/create.htm and also a page with tips for people who want to create their own webcomics - http://www.exoticsoup.co.uk/tips.htm

Sraen:
Sorry for reviving a dead thread, but I have to say that there IS a brush tool in Elements. I have Elements 4.0 and the brush tool is underneath the pencil tool, presumably to save space with the GUI.

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