This program makes experimenting easy and efficient. It automatically fits the text perfectly into any balloon shape. “I love Comic Life because it allows me to size and resize balloons and balloon tails so easily. ⇒ The program only costs as much as a Blu-ray disk. ⇒ The program comes fully loaded with commonly used balloon shapes, popular comic fonts, and even Sound Effect lettering options. ⇒ Balloon tails are highly adjustable, and only take seconds to tweak. ⇒ Text is designed to maximize the space inside a balloon, and text is automatically reformatted every time you make a change to balloon size and placement. ⇒ By creating your own custom Styles in the program, you only need to set up your favorite font, stroke and color preferences once. ⇒ Professional looking word balloons are just a drag and drop away in Comic Life. So why haven’t I moved onto Adobe Illustrator, yet? I’ve been using Comic Life for eight years since, Issue #1 of The Dreamer. See what Lora has to say about Comic Life for lettering her pages: What Comic Life Gets Right: Titles and sound effects are easy to add and customize with powerful editing tools including a gradient builder, 3D effects, image fills for lettering and more! Easily access precision editing tools for balloons including tail warping, hundreds of balloon varieties, and stroke options for a hand drawn look. It’s just so easy to size, resize, make a style and reuse it! And, it looks GREAT!Ĭomic Life provides comic creators with essential tools for lettering and layout, helping you work quickly and professionally. I use a program called Comic Life to letter and love it. Read Lora’s tutorial on digital lettering with Comic Life to see just how easy it is! Once she found Comic Life she never looked back. It got me genuinely excited about what you can do with the comic medium and left me jonesing for more.Lora Innes, creator of The Dreamer comic, uses Comic Life as her go to app for lettering her pages. When beginning The Dreamer Lora knew she would need a good lettering tool, one that she could quickly and easily use herself, to make her pages look professionally finished. This issue left me seriously inspired not only with pushing myself with my own artwork, but also with writing and telling a story with both together. I’m having a hard time putting it in words how amazing I found her work to be here. Coupled with the starkness of it being in black and white, it just left me blown away. Cloonan is obviously a comic goddess because the detail she put into this (particularly St. Talk about a creative team that just “gets” what the goal is and how to accomplish it, and just works so seamlessly together. That’s something that a lot of miniseries can’t pull off. At no point did the story or art feel rushed or in need of a quick and cheap wrap up. Everything that needed to be said was done in a single issue. From what I gathered from the material at the back of the issue, this is pretty much what Demo is all about (I haven’t read the first volume, but if anyone knows where I can get it, let me know) and I truly like that idea. In very much the same vein as a short story/film, “The Waking Life of Angels” is a self-contained story. I very, very rarely ever feel this strongly about a single issue of a comic series but, man, did this knock it out of the park for me. She drops/leaves everything in her life to do this. By the time we enter the story, she has already become obsessed with finding out what the dream meant, where it happened, stuff like that. She hasn’t slept in about 9 days because of a nightmare that keeps looping in her mind. The story follows a woman through the course of a day or two in her life.
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