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		<h1>Comic Life Templates</h1>
		<p>When you first open Comic Life the Template Chooser window is revealed presenting a variety of scripts and layouts from which to choose.</p>
		<p>Pick a Script or Layout template that best first your needs. To learn why you might want to start with a Script template or a Layout template see <a href="Script.html">Script Templates</a> or <a href="Layout.html">Layout Templates</a>. After selecting a template, click Choose to work with a new document based on the selected template.</p>
		<p>The new document will contain sample text and, if you picked a layout template) panels which represent elements of the finished comic:</p>
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			<li><i>Sample text</i> shows you how your text will look on the page. In the script editor you can just delete the text you don't want and type in your new script. In the layout editor you can select a text element and just type to replace the text or double click on the element to enter text editing mode and make more subtle edits.</li>
			<li><i>Panel placeholders</i> provide spaces for your images. Dropping an image on a panel will cause it to auto-size and align so that it fits the panel perfectly.</li>
			<li>Sometimes text and graphics such as page numbers appear on pages. These objects are <i>master page objects.</i> If you cannot select an object in a template, it's probably on the master page. To learn more, see <a href="../../topics/editing/master.html">Using the Master Page</a>.</li>
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