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Comic Touch released for iPhone / iPod Touch |
Ever wished you had the fun of Comic Life handy at all times? Ever been out at a party, family gathering or on public transport and wished you could add your 'comic touch' to a photo? Now you can!
We're giggling with glee to announce Comic Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch. Add various speech balloons and captions to your photos. Choose a fun special effect to warp and bend your family and friends, then email the results to them!
Learn more about Comic Touch here or purchase it instantly from the iTunes App store.
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'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour! |
plasq is proud to announce that we are sponsoring authors
James McCann and
kc dyer on their 'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour.
The tour will go through Western Canadian Rocky Mountains from July 7-15th, 2008, with stops in Banff, Calgary, Red Deer, Cochrane, Kamloops, Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Click here for tour dates.
If you live nearby make sure you go along and say "Hi" for us! You may also enter a draw to win a copy of Comic Life Magiq or Comic Life Deluxe at each stop!
You can follow the authors travels on their websites - James McCann and kc dyer - where they will be doing a comic for each stop when they have a chance, using - you guessed it - Comic Life!
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Comic Life Magiq 1.0.1 update released |
A free update for Comic Life Magiq is available for all users!
This 1.0.1 update has many tweaks and bug fixes to improve the performance of Comic Life Magiq.
Get the update from the plasq Downloads page.
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Comic Life Magiq released! |
We're all super proud to announce something very special: Comic Life Magiq - our brand new addition to the Comic Life family.
Comic Life Magiq sports gorgeous themed templates, a cool image editor and a whole bunch of new creative options.
Download the trial (you'll need Mac OS 10.5.2 "Leopard") and let us know what you think!
It is available for purchase today at our online store and we have USD$29.95 crossgrades available if you own Comic Life or it came with your Mac!
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Comic Life packs a lot of 'Brawn'! |
Cranium Comics has recently launched their first four color comic, Brawn #1.
"I used Comic Life on my Mac exclusively to lay out the storyboards, then later when I created and colored all 24 pages of the issue," recounted Anthony Rezendes, the owner of Cranium Comics and co-creator of Brawn.
The comic 'Brawn' focuses on a dockworker named Sam Ross who was reborn as the hero "Brawn" after he was nearly killed in a drunk driving accident.
"Being an illustrator, it saved me quite a bit of time from having to lay all the text bubbles out manually. It made the process of actually creating the comic that much more enjoyable," Mr. Rezendes added.
We think this comic is great! So check out 'Brawn' on the Cranium Comics site or read the first 5 pages on our Comic Life gallery.
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Roll up! Roll up! A Doozla update has been released.
Doozla 1.1 brings a bunch of new features, tweaks and 34 new Coloring-in templates and 9 new colorful backgrounds.
Check out the release notes for all the fun details.
This is a free update and you can get it from our Downloads page.
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Comic Life (Windows) History |
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1.3.5 Official Release - Released 2nd April, 2008
Bug Fixes
- Temporary files location has changed to reflect guidelines (now located here :\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp\plasq\Comic Life)
- After selecting an Album/Folder from Photos/Explorer tab, the cursor now autofocuses to the images within that Album/Folder
- Improved BMP compatibility export when reusing in Comic Life
- General stability improvements
1.3.4 Official Release - Released 15th October, 2007
Bug Fixes
- 'Email this Comic...' now exports at the default 96 dpi resolution
- Fixed several issues that were causing Comic Life to crash on exit
- A Template can now be saved when using irregular shaped Panels
- Fixed an issue where sometimes an Image would disappear after a Style change
- Particular grayscale images no longer vanish on save and reopen of the document
- The Comic Life temp directory is now flushed when Comic Life is launched
- Unchecking the Irregular checkbox for a Panel on a saved document no longer crashes Comic Life
- As with the last release, you will need to uninstall b4 before installing this one.
b4 - Released 31st September, 2007
Bug Fixes
- Using the new beta serial will disable the 'Please Register' watermark until November 1st, 2007
- Added more checking for duplicate elements
- Added the ability to export at 96 dpi
- The balloon line spacing has been increased
- Fixed problem where the movie export delay time was incorrect
- When changing styles, the latest chosen style is now reflected in the Style menu
- Added a tweak to text width computations to fix small page numbers not drawing
- Error code displayed when failing to copy files
- Fixed a missing UTF8 conversion for font names
- Fixed several memory leaks - particularly with regard to Quick Comic
- No longer allows the 'Fonts' and 'Colors' to be clickable for elements where those pickers do not apply
b3 - Released 27th August, 2007
Bug Fixes
- Using the new beta serial will disable the 'Please Register' watermark until the 1st of October, 2007
- File menu modifications regarding New Comic, Close, Close and New Comic
- File > Close is no longer active unless more than one comic is open
- Export quality is now improved
- Improved Registration handling
- The functionality of the Bigger and Smaller toolbar buttons have been enhanced
- Text font size is now being shown correctly in the Fonts menu
- Lettering with shadows now copies to other applications
- Lettering can now be copy and pasted within the application more reliably
- More reliable launching on computers with many images
- Cut/Copy/Paste no longer interferes with document saving
- Can now "Check for Updates" in the Help menu
- GIF images now preserve transparent backgrounds when dragging into Comic Life
- Lettering can now have its font modified from the Fonts option in the Toolbar
- Balloons no longer format three text periods as a '0' on reloading of a saved document
- The Comic Life installer now installs the Comic Life shortcut in the All Programs list on other accounts on the system
b2 - Released 25th June, 2007
Bug Fixes
- Using the new beta serial will disable the 'Please Register' watermark until the 1st of September, 2007
- Can now access other Hard Disk Drives using Explorer tab, found in the 'My Computer' drop down
- Using the Photos browser now shows folders within a folder
- Accents are now saved correctly and new documents created will open correctly
- Fixed several issues that caused error messages when saving
- Balloons and captions are now WYSIWYG on export/print
- Shadows on panels and images are now WYSIWYG when exported
- Installation issues that were affecting some users should now be resolved - if you get an error, please send us the installation log (Vista machines).
- Comic Life's default Stylesheet is now 'Built-in: plasq-intl' (this can be changed in Preferences)
- Chinese and Japanese characters now save and load correctly
- A 'placeholder' is displayed when opening a Mac generated .comicdoc file containing a .pdf, TGA and/or PSD file (these are unsupported in Comic Life for Windows)
- 'Delete Key' now deletes text as per normal Windows behavior
- 'Backspace' now also deletes elements on a page
- The 'bigger' and 'smaller' buttons in the Toolbar are now inactive for Lettering
- A 'right-click' on the page view thumbnails on the left now brings up a menu with various options
- The Help file (Help > Comic Life Help) should now load correctly (for those users were having issues)
- Now loads irregular-sided, locked panels correctly
- Can now resize an image and press enter without crashing Comic Life
- Should now launch correctly for the small number of users who experienced a crash on launch
- Should no longer crash when changing styles
b1 - Released 1st May, 2007
- Open beta released on plasq.com forums
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