Comic Life is great for sharing those funny little moments from school, in the office, or while on worldwide progressive-rock-legends tours.
Robert Fripp and Tony Levin have been sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands - on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour.
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!
'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!
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.
Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/26 16:05UPDATE: b3 has been released. Check it out here.
Using the new beta serial will --- Here is Comic Life Windows beta 2!
Thank you very much for your patience whilst we got this organized.
Remember it is still a beta. So remember anything can still go wrong! We do try our best to make it as reliable as possible - but as it is a beta, we do ask that you are cautious and don't recommend using it for time-critical work in case anything goes awry.
If you come across any bugs, please report them to us using this thread. If you have any crash logs or screenshots to send that will help with your report, please email us:
clwinbeta@plasq.com
Download Comic Life Windows B2 here: b3 has been released. Check it out here.
Using the new beta serial will disable the 'Please Register' watermark until the 1st of September, 2007.
Thanks and have fun beta testing Comic Life for Windows!
Post edited by: Kramy, at: 2007/08/27 18:03News, hints and sock puppet antics - Sign up to our mailing list: http://plasq.com/register
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Kramy
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Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/26 16:06Release notes for 1.3.3 B2
Fixed bugs
* 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
Known Bugs/Limitations:
* Printing to the Adobe Acrobat PDF Virtual Printer Driver or any other Print-to-PDF service is not supported * No TGA, PSD or PDF file type support * Some computers running Vista can't register using 'All users on this Computer' - please let us know if this still occurs with b2 * Help file still needs updating before final release * Computer is temporarily out-of-action ('hanging') when printing * Computer Hard reboots after going to color palette - had one user report (can others confirm?) * Attempting to install to a non-present drive letter - had one user report (can others confirm?) * Performance issues when scrolling through Photo library (slow if a folder has many items)
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Clare
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Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/26 18:05First of all, thanks for making such an excellent program available. Making comics is becoming a bit of an addiction !
I have been using the temporary beta 2 as well, and the good news is that they both installed fine and have not crashed at all.
The only thing I've noticed is:
I'm making a comic using my own images which I have created in PaintShop Pro and saved as .gif files. Sometimes I change the images in PaintShop Pro while I'm in the middle of a comic. However the changes or new files only show up in the Explorer folder window in Comic Life if I completely restart the computer.
I have to remember to do all the changes and create the new images before I open Comic Life for the first time, or I will be rebooting all the time.
Everything else is fine.
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Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/26 18:52Clare wrote: I have to remember to do all the changes and create the new images before I open Comic Life for the first time, or I will be rebooting all the time.
Thanks for your kind words - glad you are enjoying it!
Restarting Comic Life or creating a new project doesn't work? What version of Windows are you using?
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/26 20:14Have just done a few experiments. No, the changes don't show up if I restart Comic Life or if I open a new project. Rebooting seems to be the only way.
Windows XP
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Clare
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Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta 2 - 2007/06/27 00:00Also, I can't get it to export to an image. I've tried different formats and different dpi, but it always makes the computer hang on the little taskbar which shows that it is working on the first page. I didn't have any problems with this on the first beta. I've got it to export to html no problem.
