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.
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.
Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 00:37Click 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.
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.
Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 07:39Just 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.
Re:PNG / Alpha Exports? - 2008/05/10 08:18Arg - 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
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!
). 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.
