Home plasq. Apps from the Past. Discussions Articles. No articles found. Contact Support. Is there a printable manual for Comic Life Magiq? AND they are about to release some type of draw application soon, too. The script page addition in version 3 was a nice touch. Creating actual comic strips or graphic novels with it is quite possible, but not ideal. For that it would be a little awkward production tool, though I have used it similarly.
If you have to draw the panels in relative context - you are doing it elsewhere already. Perhaps their new drawing app will address that part of the equation more robustly. Get Comic Life anyway. Makosuke Mar 24 While this app is clearly designed for casual consumer use, it's actually a fully functional professional tool as well. Unfortunately, the English-language lettering tools in that software are a disaster no kerning or ligatures at all, awkward, etc , so I need something else for lettering, and Comic Life is exactly the tool I need for that.
It supports advanced OpenType text features auto ligatures, etc , is extremely fast and smooth-feeling, and tweaking the size of a balloon-shaped dialogue box is fast and easy. The sound effect lettering tools are also great--you can stretch, bend, tweak, and outline fully-editable text to your heart's content. For my use, if I set up page sizes correctly, import full-page images, and set them to "actual size", I can then add lettering on top and export a pixel-accurate PDF of each page with correctly anti-aliased text added.
Works just as well in greyscale as color, too. The only disadvantage to using it in this completely non-standard way: If you're not using ComicLife to do the panels themselves, clipping SFX or dialogue balloons to the edge of panels is awkward--it requires adding an invisible, borderless panel overlaying the one in the image and putting the text inside it. Functional, but clumsy, so I usually end up adding balloons in Manga Studio.
My only other complaints are that accessing the advanced text features is cumbersome, since most of it is buried in tiny tabs in a small floating properties window, and it's organized the way I'd expect.
It's in there, but hard to find things if you don't know where they are, and they aren't always clearly labeled with what they do. Also, it's a shame there's no "outline" feature to SFX text--if you add a border to text, the border ends up centered on the text outline, with no option to give it an external "halo".
For, say, black floating text with a white outside border, this has the effect of making the text itself look really spindly if the border is thicker.
Mr-Mike Jan 6 I use this app to letter all my comics and to create tutorials with. Jfm Oct 10 A fine app indeed! Just uncertain about the best way to upgrade: as an owner of v. Wondering if I should seize the opportunity to switch to the App Store version, or continue to follow the usual upgrade route F Oct 9 I put it through the paces for over an hour and readily sought to upgrade.
Plasq is fine group with some serious talent and it shows in their products. The new styles are great as are the new features. I use Comic Life mostly for recaps of family events where I've managed to pull-off some tomfoolery and get away with it. Love it! Fast and easy. Download All Files. Select a Collection. Save to Collection. Tip Designer. Share this thing. Send to Thingiverse user. Remixed from: Select a Collection. Print Settings. Back to Top.
I do not have a Comic Life yet. Where should I get it? Developer's website. Recently viewed associations. I cannot see the file extensions.
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