The making of Power Pig. Behind the scenes.

That comic was composed of images found from searching Google's image directory for pigs. I have not kept a record of all the sources of all the images, but my one source was basically Google's search technology.

After getting a collection of suitable images together, I opened them up with Paint Shop Pro and began work on the comic. I started at the top and worked my way down (simple, eh?). The title was done with the text tool using an interior fill blend pattern that I had set up previously. I colourised 'Power Pig' (the chosen one) at the top also.

The speech bubbles are a handy feature within Paint Shop Pro. The Shapes tool also provided me with many comical effects; i.e: circular cutouts, explosion effects, stars.

I created the comic on one page; all as one big image. It was around 400KB in size:

Click the image for the full-size original (388KB)

I tried chopping the image up and reducing the colour depth in order to reduce it in size, I found the loss of quality was too great in ratio to the loss of file size so ended up keeping the original one and a black and white version which isn't all that much smaller than the original.

Even though I consider 388KB to be too large for one image on the Internet, I decided in this instance it was acceptable. On fast connections it will still be a very fast loading page.