JClark
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Re:Comic Life Classic -v- Magiq? Help. - 2008/09/25 20:53
Personally, I think that which one you pick should come down to how each application "feels" for you.
For myself, I'm sticking with Comic Life for now. I have plenty of fonts, and you can recreate any of the preset styles using the Details controls, so it all comes down to features and interface for me, rather than content.
Personally, I prefer the interface in Comic Life, which seems a lot more intuitive and clear. It's probably a matter of familiarity, but I also simply prefer the look of it.
As for features, for me Magiq almost has too many. I have several image editors, so I don't really need the effects in Magiq. I also like the simplicity, for example, of being able to choose a straight or curved balloon tail without having to set the curve for each balloon every time I add one. There's also the matter of a more intuitive interface. For instance, I had to look up how to add a second tail to a Magiq balloon (and even then it took some experimenting, since the tools in the reshape menu are not labelled), while it's obvious and simple to do this in Comic Life (click the + next to the tail and you're done). Now, obviously, this is a trade off since I'm losing a certain amount of control and flexibility, but it works better for the way I like to work.
They're both great products, I'd recommend actually putting together a finished comic in each to see which one will let you work the way you want to work the most easily.
By the by, it's a really a shame that CL and CLM can't share project files. If they could, I'd pick up a copy of CLM just so I'd have the extra power when I wanted it.
I think the confusion there is a mistake in branding. Calling it "Comic Life" makes it sound like a companion product, or an enhanced version, not a completely different application. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements can share files, for example, as can AutoCAD and AutoCAD Revit (I'm a drafter by day). The CL and CLM icons even use the same fonts in the same colors, which helps to reinforce the expectation.
I can't think of another example of two products charing a name and released by the same company that can't open each other's files. Just saying.
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