Google Photos resizing trick for my webcomic

I found this easy trick to resize my webcomic images using Google Photos

I back my webcomics up to my Google Photos account which turned out to be a good thing.

I found a trick that I could use to resize my comics for different webcomic sites easily.

When I open my comic on Google Photos in the web browser I can actually use Google Photos itself to resize the image.

It's really easy and it's super fast.

1) Open image in Google Photos

right-click and open image in new tab

2) Open image in new tab

I open the most recent image, right-click on the comic and open that image in a new tab.

3) Look for image size in the URL

In the new tab at the top address bar of the browser, there's a size for the image in the URL. It's way over on the right.

Find image size in URL

I look for the image size and I change it in the URL.

4) Change the width size in the URL ex. w940

My comic is sized to 1000 px wide and in the URL it says the size it rendered to fit in my browser.

I want to resize the image for two different webcomic sites, Tapas.io, and Webtoons.com

Tapas requires the width of the comic to be 940 px.

Change width in the URL to w940

So to resize my image by replacing the size in the URL with the width I want as w940. Then I hit enter.

The browser resizes the image and I can right-click and download the new image size!

5) Change the width size in the URL ex. w800

Webtoons require a comic width of 800 px wide.

I still have my comic image open in the new tab, so all I need to do is switch the size in the URL again from w940 to w800.

Hit enter and right-click and download the resized image for the webtoon site.

6) Change the size to anything smaller than the original

I can actually change my image to any size smaller than the original one in Google Photos. It doesn't have to be these sizes.

Resize the image to anything smaller than the original

It will render any image I have in Google Photos below its original size which is why I draw my webcomics at 1000 px wide so it's larger than the webcomic sites requirements.

It renders the photo and resizes it just like it would in photoshop or any other image editing software.

I really love this trick it's something I've been using for so long! I don't even remember how I figured this out or where I heard about it but I've been doing it for as long as google photos have been around and I use it for so many other things.

Check out the video

picture of a man holding paperback books

I made a video talking more about this and the whole process of making my webcomic book. You can check that out on the site here! Making a Webcomic Book on Amazon - Part 2

To Do: Multitasking My Business, Music, and Comics

Sometimes balancing my multiple projects can often feel like an overwhelming task. I sit and think out loud about the tasks I need to juggle this week from my vintage reselling business, my band, and my webcomic series. In this video vlog, I begin the week by prioritizing tasks and setting goals. I'm going to mark them as I go along. ✅ = Done ⏲ = Still waiting Vintage reselling business - The Pop Culture Roadshow With a vintage reselling business to run, the first order of business is to pack orders from weekend sales on platforms like eBay and Mercari. As I pack these items I need to record a 'What Sold' video for my Pop Culture roadshow YouTube channel , turning the task into video content. ✅ Pack orders ✅ List new items I got from estate sales (See my latest eBay store listings here ) ⛔ Create a new "What sold" video for my YouTube page (Recorded not edited - Laptop upgrade issues) Band - Lorenzo's Music I've also got a new song out this month so I nee...

Artwork for the original Candy Land game by Milton Bradley from 1955.

I have a vintage Candy Land game from 1955 by Milton Bradley and I was about to sell it so I thought I would add it to my personal art history course concept I've been doing . I'm going to try and see if I can find out how this game was created, designed and why? Here is what I found out about this game https://candy-land.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land_Wiki Candy Land is a board game about children exploring a world made out of candy and other sweets that originally came out in 1949. In every version of the game, there are a group of children that go through Candy Land. In the earliest versions of the game, it was a realistically drawn boy and girl. Drawing of the Candy Land kids I did on my phone ☝ https://board-games-galore.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott , while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. It's rumored that Eleanor also did the original artwork but I didn't find anything that...

Using Google Photos and Google Docs To Make My Webcomic Book

I came up with a way to use Google docs and Google photos to make my webcomic books So whenever I draw my webcomics , the drawing program I use on my tablet saves them in a folder. I have Google Photos set up to back that folder up online. At first, I just wanted to have them backed up there so I could have that "year ago today thing" where it would just show me my own comic from the past year in the app. You know, so I could go, "oh I remember that happened this day". That was the original reason that I did this. Backing them up in Google Photos was a happy accident later on In my first book, I just used Google docs to put it together. I downloaded the book template from Amazon KDP and uploaded it to Google docs so it would have the right format. Then I just needed to add the comics. I added webcomics the hard way in the first book When I did the first book I thought this was genius! I figured out google docs lets me add images by URL and I had been posting t...

How I use one Gmail address for multiple Soundcloud accounts

Do you know the Gmail "+" trick to use one email for multiple accounts on one service? Here's a little trick I use that works for any service. I talked about this on the podcast episode I did with artist Mortimur K . In this case, let's say I used up all the uploads I have for my free Soundcloud account . With this trick, I can open a new free account and use the same Gmail address. I don't want to create another Gmail account to sign up again. Using my one Gmail address for multiple accounts on the same service I don't remember when I learned this but you can alter the name on a Gmail address. Like, let's say mine is "tom@gmail.com". To be clear that is not my email. I wish it was, but this is just a short example. Start with the original Gmail address Add a "+" after the email name Where it says "tom" on the address I can put a "+" after that. Add a "+" after the email name After that "+" I ca...

Tom Ray

Search This Blog