![]() ![]() ![]() Lettering is often what makes or breaks the audio 'action' in a comic strip. Furthermore, if two balloons overlap, the overlapping part of the outline will not be drawn, giving you a clear, natural shape that follows the contours of the text.Ĭaptions are much simpler, since they are always square, but still, Comic Life makes it easy to work with them, just drag and type the text in. You can even expand the balloons so they flow from one to another. The balloons can be resized and rotated at will, and positioning the tail is as easy as dragging it where you want it to go, because you will never have to worry about it not looking good. Just drag the style of bubble you want onto the page, type the text and you are done. Once the panels are in place with their content, it is usually time to add the 'words.' By words I am referring to speech bubbles, be they dialogue, thought, background noise or anything else captions, and lettering.īubbles are incredibly easy to work with. Once placed inside a panel, the image can be resized, rotated and you can even apply filters to it, much like the effects than can be obtained in Photoshop. This lets you easily leave just the relevant part of the image in the panel without having to worry about cutting or cropping to size. When you drag an image onto a panel, the panel acts as a mask, meaning that it is like a 'hole' or 'window' through which, the content of the picture can be seen. Once you have the panels ready, you can add the content to them, by simply dragging something from either iPhoto or the contents of your computer. Still, this leaves you with more than enough room to experiment with shapes and each panel, and indeed the entire page, can have its own style, which can either be one of the pre-defined ones or a custom one. Panels can have any shape but are restricted to no less than three and no more than 8 lines. Of course, it lets you customize and create your own, but most of the time, you can start with one of the tens of pre-made layout and tweak it a little to get something you can work on in a matter of minutes. Comic Life has a large number of such panel layouts that you can simply drag and drop into a page and you're done. ![]() Traditionally, comic strips have the action spread out over multiple panels on one page. ![]() All this is beautifully handled through easy drag and drop, and it is the kind of program you jump straight into. It will give you all the tools you need to get a panel layout, put the pictures in the layout, add the dialogue balloons and captions and even take care of the lettering for you. While the program doesn't house writers, pencilers, inkers or colorers under the hood, it wasn't meant for that type of comic, but rather for a 'digital photo' comic strip. If you have never liked or read comic strips, then this is not for you since you probably won't be able to appreciate it otherwise, read on. Comic Life is one such program, which, through the superb way it was made, pulls you in and makes you want to make your own comic strip.Ĭomic Life is a program that is designed to help you easily create comic strips. Most of the programs that we come across will either get discarded for being useless, or get a look at because they might actually be helpful to us in doing whatever it is we do? and then there are those rare few programs that actually inspire you to do something new, something you never considered doing before. ![]()
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