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DESCRIPTION
Comic Life (Deluxe Edition) 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 gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity. Liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides!
Includes a full-color manual (with the "How to Make a Photo Comic" comic book inside), as well as extra fonts, styles, and templates to give you maximum power and freedom when creating your comics.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.1:
- Several Snow Leopard compatibility fixes
- Improved .PSD, .EPS and .AI file compatibility for use in comic documents
- And other minor fixes
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
- Image filtering requires 10.4 or later.
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| Comic Life User Reviews (34 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 3 2009 |
TIGERANDYX9 I have been using Comic for the last year or two and find it excellent for my purpose which is to tell a "story" with the pictures of my travels around Europe and with the outings with my kids and/or grandchildren.
I usually have a one to two page "comic" which depicts the story, eg; my grandson giving me a violin concert, my so-called diet whilst in Florence, my motorcycle trips to Bruges, Gant, Venice, Milan, the Alps, the wine vendimia in Champagne, thru Andalucia, etc.
So instead of having hundreds of pictures (which I do) I have to select the best, think about the composition and the messages, and then play around a bit until I have the finished product. It could use more page templates with other shapes. So I combine its use with iWatermark for watermarking and different titles, and with Picasa for collages.
The software is easy to use, reliable, does not have any of the defects mentioned for the older versions (mine is 1.4.4) and it reflects the ease that Macintosh brings to daily digital life.
I highly recommend it.
(Version 1.4.5) | |
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| Jan 27 2008 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM This software would be great if it wasn't so buggy. But it is. Small one-page comics work great, but every time you make a multipage comic with lots of editing, it eventually gets into some freaked out state whereby you cannot select/delete certain elements (like speech bubbles), and the undo system crashes, which makes it easy to lose the last bit of your work. Undo no longer does anything, so if you delete an element, it's gone forever. I don't know anything better for this task, but the bugginess is very irritating.
(Version 1.4.1) | |
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 | Apr 24 2009 |
NAMECAT.COM Looks like the new v.1.4.5 addresses these issues.
(Version 1.4.5) | |
| Apr 24 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM Well, great if they have fixed those things in their latest update, but my comments were from January 2008; well over a year ago. 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)
(Version 1.4.5) | |
| Apr 24 2009 |
EMB I own OmniGraffle so I know what a great program it is, but if you just want to make great comics Comic Life is about 1000 times easier. Choosing lettering, pictures, making captions are all so much easier in Comic Life. OmniGraffle is something I use quite a lot, but I use Comic Life for comics.
(Version 1.4.5) | |
| Apr 24 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM Yeah, that's cool. I found ComicLife a bit easier, too--until I had to deal with all the bugs. 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.
(Version 1.4.5) | |
| Apr 25 2009 |
$IR M. Maruko, you are not alone! ~2 years ago I was doing a bunch of comics, had the same problems, and also ended up going with OmniGraffle custom stencils ... 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!
(Version 1.4.5) | |
| Jan 10 2007 |
ARGLBORPS Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Even for producing professional Comics this is the be all and end all for Comic creation.
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Jan 10 2007 |
APPLECRYPT MODS i thought 'uh wtf' when i first seen this on my new computer. Never tried it until recently. Never expected something this good, wow i love this app!!! Feels like it should be part of iLife. Great s/w, give it a whirl now!
(Version 1.3) | |
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 | Jan 9 2007 |
SEO I love this application and it's not for nothing that OSX integrated it in its baic package in its last version. I just have a problem now in opening the files that I did with the old version of Comic Life (similarly to what another dude experineced), I can actually open the files with Comic Life but I don't see anything in the main screen, while the miniatures on the left are there. Hope developer will be able to fix it cause I really don't want to loose the originals of my old comics !!! Thanks for giving my a new way of expressing my thoughts!!! | |
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 | Jan 11 2007 |
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
(Version 1.3) | |
| Oct 28 2006 |
DRAW version has improved, working is fun now!
(Version 1.2.6) | |
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| Apr 20 2006 |
$IR M. INSPIRED CONCEPT, FLAWED EXECUTION It's said that one thing people love best is creating narratives. In facilitating this, ComicLife scratches a VERY deep itch! CL seems like the kind of app that would actually sell Macs: everyone who sees it, loves it. I too want it to be the best it can be. However, right now, it's really more proof-of-concept than finished product -- it's buggy, slow, requires excessive horsepower for what it does, and gives users too little control. In the spirit of constructive criticism, then, here are some suggestions for the next version: * Users need more style management control -- the ability to disable/delete unused styles would be a good start * In any program this visual, all styles should be graphically represented, not just named * The background area outside the page should be a pasteboard (common to all pages) * Zooming in should center around the currently selected object * Alignment tools should let users align (and probably distribute) objects to each other (not just the page), just like in any draw program. * Grid-snapping should apply to everything, not just panels. * You should be able to batch-change multiple selections via the contextual menu * The details pane should more clearly indicate modes and subordinate hierarchies * At least in my testing, QuickComic rarely worked properly * page ranges don't appear in the "save as" dialog * user-created page templates only open correctly if dragged (not if double-clicked) These comments aside, everyone should buy it anyway, to support and encourage the plasq team. If they listen to their users and come through with a solid 3.0, it should be a smash hit, and rightly so.
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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| Apr 8 2006 |
DRAW POOR. simply hangs up. using 10.4.6, iphoto lib manager 3.1.2.
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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| Apr 4 2006 |
S P L A T ! nice, easy, fun... a real Macintosh app!
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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| Apr 3 2006 |
ORION MK. V It produces nice casual and semi-professional looking designs, but more importantly is a real blast to use. Simple and intuitive.
(Version 1.2.5) | |
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