How to Convert Traditional Comics to Webtoon

Traditional comics (manga) are usually drawn in a format suitable for printing on A5 or A4 paper. With the popularity of e-reading devices such as mobile phones, webtoon has comes up. It arranges comic panels on a long image in a size suitable for mobile phone reading. Readers can just keep reading by swiping down.

Converting an existing traditional comics to webtoon usually involves rearranging subplots and redrawing speech bubbles. You can refer to the video by comic artist Jason Brubaker.

As readers, if we want to convert traditional comics to webtoon for easy reading on our mobile phones without too much effort, we can use ImageTrans for automatic conversion. This software can detect the panels and export them in a long image in the webtoon format. We can edit the panels and adjust the order of them in the software to ensure the results are correct before exporting.

Original image:

Image source: “Tie Ji Gang Bing”.

Exported image: