Black & White Text Print

Text box 80% opacity.

Pure white text bubbles look harsh and seem disconnected from my book’s images. To get a better effect, I set the textbox background opacity to 80% to give the feeling that the boxes are an organic part of the page rather than a sticker pasted on. With the textboxes at 80% opacity the pages have a holistic feel, but I wanted to see how they would look on the printed page. I printed the page above in black and white at 300dpi to get an idea of the levels. They look just right…in black and white, at least.

I’ve moved my Cintiq back to my Windows box and I’m happy now. Clip Studio Paint works better on Windows 10 than on macOS, at least with my gear. I can’t find anything on the Web about poor performance on Macs, so I’m thinking that it may be my Apple hardware that sucks.