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Comic Life is the highly acclaimed, fun, easy, and powerful application that expands what you can do with your digital photos. With page and panel layouts, streamlined image selection, cropping and placement of authentic speech balloons, customizable captions, and special effects lettering, Comic Life 2 gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity. Liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides!
What's New
Version 2.1.1:
Improvements:
- Various bug fixes for issues encountered with the 2.1 update. That update incorporated a number of under the hood changes made in order to prepare for comic sharing with the iPad edition. Unfortunately it caused some issues which are addressed in this update.
- Trouble/crash opening some 1.X comics
- PDF output orientation locked to portrait
- PNG files losing transparency on export
- Image in panel moving when resizing the panel
- DigitalStrip limited to italics
- Lint McCree font line height differences between regular/italic/bold
- Slight misalignment of images in panels causing gaps
- Images missing from comics created from user templates
- Flickering editing area when working with vector images
Version 2.1.1:
Improvements:
- Various bug fixes for issues encountered with the 2.1 update. That update incorporated a number of under the hood changes made in order to prepare for comic sharing with the iPad edition. Unfortunately it caused some issues which are addressed in this update.
- Trouble/crash opening some 1.X comics
- PDF output orientation locked to more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Comic Life User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:132,917 |
| Version Downloads:992 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Illustration |
| License:Demo |
| Date:31 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $29.99 |
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Comic Life is the highly acclaimed, fun, easy, and powerful application that expands what you can do with your digital photos. With page and panel layouts, streamlined image selection, cropping and placement of authentic speech balloons, customizable captions, and special effects lettering, Comic Life 2 gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity. Liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides!
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Various bug fixes for issues encountered with the 2.1 update. That update incorporated a number of under the hood changes made in order to prepare for comic sharing with the iPad edition. Unfortunately it caused some issues which are addressed in this update.
The bug fixes are:
Trouble/crash opening some 1.X comics
PDF output orientation locked to portrait
PNG files losing transparency on export
Image in panel moving when resizing the panel
DigitalStrip limited to italics
Lint McCree font line height differences between regular/italic/bold
Slight misalignment of images in panels causing gaps
Images missing from comics created from user templates
Flickering editing area when working with vector images
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Magosilvan reviewed on 31 Oct 2011
Now I'm using it even to make custom paper bookmark for my books.
You may ask plasq.com for the template I expressly created.
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Magosilvan reviewed on 07 Jun 2011
V. 2 is even better.
Absolutely a must-have app and a great support.
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Elizabethbrooke reviewed on 19 Feb 2011
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TanM reviewed on 10 Dec 2010
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tigerandyx9 reviewed on 03 May 2009
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Maruko Drinking Team reviewed on 27 Jan 2008
I don't know anything better for this task, but the bugginess is very irritating.
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In the meantime, I realized that OmniGraffle, of course, is a much better comic-making solution. That's not its purpose (it is more "general-purpose") but it is such an awesome, awesome Mac app that it beats all comers for making comics.
(And also for making flowcharts, presentations, schematics, resumés, birthday cards, informal maps, state diagrams, floorplans, wedding invitations, lost pet flyers, flash cards, for sale signs, etc etc etc etc)
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After that, I decided it was actually much easier to make a bunch of re-usable speech bubbles, thought bubbles and captions in a .graffle document and use those when I wanted to make comics (admittedly, really not that frequently.
I'm sure it also helped that I use OG all the time, so there was no learning curve to deal with. (OmniGraffle's "Union Shapes" feature is very cool for making complicated speech bubbles.)
However, if they have fixed all the bugs, then CL would indeed be easier to get going with.
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Though considerably harder to adapt for comics, OG *always felt solid* - responsive and reliable, with no worries that one's next move might randomly crash and/or cause data loss. A more tightly coded, cocoa-compliant ComicLife would be wonderful - but its track record so far leaves me less than enthused by 1.4.5's reliability claims.
I'll still test it, though. Not to slam CL; I think it has tremendous potential, and I'd really like to see it working properly!
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arglborps reviewed on 10 Jan 2007
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DRAW reviewed on 28 Oct 2006
Thanks for giving my a new way of expressing my thoughts!!!
Stefano
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Was the comic created on a PowerPC Mac and then tried to open on an Intel machine? (or Vice Versa?)
If so, we have discovered there was basically an Intel/PPC compatibility bug for comics with lettering or irregular panels.
There is however, a work-around for this. Please download the new version of Comic Life 1.3 from this website if you purchased it online - http://plasq.com/downloads/ (or if you purchased the boxed edition, from here: http://freeverse.com/comiclife/)
Then load the comic on the computer it was created on (once updated to 1.3) then saving it will make it portable to any other 1.3 Comic Life (including your new intel machine).
I apologize for the inconvenience.
If you have any other issues contact us using the contact form on the plasq.com site.
/send kramy
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Pedrotaquelim rated on 08 Dec 2011
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