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 introductory pricing and USD$19.95 crossgrades available if you own Comic Life or it came with your Mac!

Comic Life Magiq - it's new!
 
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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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Doozla 1.1 released
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 for Windows 1.3.5 update
An update for Comic Life for Windows is now out!

This 1.3.5 update changes where default temp files are saved, to reflect the recommended guidelines; resolving some issues affecting some schools. This update also includes several other fixes.

This is a free update for all users and can be downloaded from our Downloads page.
 
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pluzzle 1.1 update
pluzzle has changed its spots so it can now run smoothly on OS X Leopard!

You can grab this free and fun app from our downloads page.

plasqy is now happy to approve pluzzle again :)
 
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Silverone
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 PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 00:23 Hi All,

1st - Really enjoy Magiq since purchasing it yesterday but here's my first question after trying to figure it out myself: If I use the advanced image editing features and let's just say created a rounded but custom-shaped, image-filled picture, possibly using the masking utility and I'm happy with what I see and would like that custom shape as a button or PNG with Alpha background to place on a website, how do I Export that. I've tried image/png export but I cannot seem to get it to stop also exporting the white background canvas as part of the PNG. Can I isolate this or change the canvas to Alpha?

Thanks guys. Love the GUI though- a nice break from Aqua-Apple appearance.
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 Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 00:37 Click on the page and turn off it's fill. Then, when you export, you'll have just your image and a transparent background as large as the page size you've chosen.

Alternately, you could select it, copy, paste into Skitch and apply a transparent background there as well. I think the same is possibe with the Preview app that comes on your computer, but I'll have to double check.
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 Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 07:09 Hi Silverone,

We'll definitely look at making that easier in future.

Also you can usually simply copy and paste the object you want from Comic Life Magiq into your graphics editing /web design application of choice. For example, Preview has a 'New from Clipboard' option which will do this.

Hope that helps!

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 Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 07:39 Just checked. While Preview can accept the input from a copy out of Comic Life, it currently doesn't have the ability to save as a PNG (or TIFF) with an Alpha Channel when starting with a PDF (the PNG's it creates have white backgrounds unfortunately ). I think the fewest number of steps to a .PNG that hugs your image is either start with a page size that's the right size for your document OR Copy, Paste into Skitch, then make it transparent there.
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 Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 08:18 Arg - KeynoteKen you're right. Preview is not handling alpha correctly.

Skitch will happily do it:

1. copy from Comic Life Magiq
2. Paste into Skitch
3. Select the custom color (the round one)
4. Set Opacity to 0% (see-through) in the color picker
5. Shift click on the custom color button



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 Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 11:00 Hi Guys,

Yeah, I had tried Preview since they added the masking tool there but that's why I was hoping your new App would take over this easily. My big concern with copy/paste with Skitch is I'm authoring for Print at least 300 DPI in Magiq settings for export so how could copy/paste into Skitch carry over these same DPI settings and then make a Alpha layer? Let me know if this is an issue as I expect it would be with a copy/paste before export solution. Thanks!
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