'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.
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Re:pixelated images - 2008/05/14 17:38hi there, I tried everything, but nothing helped to improve image quality (even that .plist thing). I think the problem is, that the "preview" resolution is the same as the export resolution.
the workaround mentioned above does not work properly, because the all the boxes and text fields had to be resized ... that^s awful.
perhaps there should be a checkbox in preferences to deactivate the (down-)resizing process.
comic life is such a nice piece of software, but with that low quality export issue it^s useless for me ...
I first thought, without checking preferences (my fault) that if I choose ISO A4, my page definition would be @300dpi.... but NO, that's why I got a A4 page but in 72dpi with 595 X842.
I decided to set directly a custom 2480 X 3508 document, wich is simply a A4 page @ 300dpi... wich make a big difference with a 72dpi doc...
I don't know why I didn't think about checking the pref I would have the solution quickly....but anyway, my job was 98% done and it was then too late and like FLOT wrote :
"the workaround mentioned above does not work properly, because the all the boxes and text fields had to be resized ... that^s awful. "
I should had to re build everything.... at this point...it would be great if we could group all the elements (with the command+L) and resize the bloc.... but for the moment when you do this , pictures don't keep the same crop size and you can increase the frame but you have rebuild in the frame the pics....
Sorry for my bad english hard day and very tired
anyway comic life is a great pleasure to work with, as well as the excellent SKITCH !!!!!!!!!
I'm having the same exported Pixelated images problem.
It only happens to images which have a style filter on. I've tried the plist trash thing, I've tried WYSIWYG tick box - this merely softens the effect to the point of not being usable. I've tried enlarging the page and importing the image then option "resize image to actual size" and then exporting with the effect - doesn;t work, still pixelated
The images I'm using are hi res and when exporting at any resolution or DPI (with the filter applied_ - they are low Q pixelated?
I am using Photoshop to compare the originals vs the exported images
Is there a solutuon to this problem?
I'm using CL v1.4 G5 PPC
Thanks
Anton123
PS - Also, most of the filters (styles) are a bit too much - why isn't there a slider in the details tab to increase / decrease the effect of the filter ? My workaround is to do this in Photoshop by opacity fading the filtered image with the original
I'm having the same exported Pixelated images problem.
It only happens to images which have a style filter on. I've tried the plist trash thing, I've tried WYSIWYG tick box - this merely softens the effect to the point of not being usable. I've tried enlarging the page and importing the image then option "resize image to actual size" and then exporting with the effect - doesn;t work, still pixelated
The images I'm using are hi res and when exporting at any resolution or DPI (with the filter applied_ - they are low Q pixelated?
I am using Photoshop to compare the originals vs the exported images
Is there a solutuon to this problem?
I'm using CL v1.4 G5 PPC
Thanks
Anton123
PS - Also, most of the filters (styles) are a bit too much - why isn't there a slider in the details tab to increase / decrease the effect of the filter ? My workaround is to do this in Photoshop by opacity fading the filtered image with the original
I don't know why I didn't think about checking the pref 
I would have the solution quickly....but anyway, my job was 98% done and it was then too late and like FLOT wrote :
hard day and very tired 
