This is a quick tutorial on how to use Comic Life. Comic Life is a simple yet very smart program that lets you create comics, graphic novels, and storyboards quickly and easily. So let's start. Opening the program, you can choose any format (horizontal and vertical) and any size for your story page, which will be maintained for all subsequent pages. You can also choose the color and shade you want for your page. In the two examples below you can see a horizontal page with the color of old parchment and a vertical page with a dark color. Then you can quickly create the layout of your page by adding panels. Each panel can be easily resized and repositioned whenever you want, and you can choose the fill color and border thickness. After that you can drag and drop your images into the panels . At any time, you can resize both panels and images separately, so you never have to worry about the image and panel size matching perfectly. Here's how the panel images on the two pages above can be modified . At this point, we can easily add speech balloons and captions . The program offers a wide variety of speech bubbles and comic fonts, both for speech and thought. You can quickly and easily adjust the size, position, and fill color of the bubbles, as well as the font and size of the text, as desired. There is no need for bubbles to stay inside the panel. The bubble tails can be easily positioned and curved. You can add multiple captions, changing their shape and size as you like . The program offers several lettering options for creating titles and other effects. There are many geometric shapes available, so it's easy to add a number to each page, for example inside a circle. For each element, you can choose to place it above or below the others . Finally, when you're happy with your page, you can export it to one of the most common image formats. Here is an example of a completed page. This great program offers many other options, but I think I've shown you the essential ones . Although it is a paid program (it costs less than $30), it offers a one-month free trial if you want to test it.
Tags: speech bubbles, comic book, graphic novel, professional comics, comic program
Comments (4)
faerierealm
Oh wow, Comic Life sound great! We're not into comics (or graphic novels, as some insist they be called), but if we were, we would definitely prefer this to letting GPT-2 create all the images and text. I mean, this allows the creator to tell EXACTLY the story they want to tell, not the APPROXIMATE story that GPT-2 would tell. Thanks for posting this excellent tutorial for those who are into comics! ✨
antares
Be my guest! Comic Life is a real time-saving tool for creating pro or semi-pro comics, with the certainty of getting the desired results right from the first try. 😎
DavidP
Thanks for introducing us to that programme. Does look to be an excellent app.
antares
It's easy to use, quite effective, and a great time saver if you want to create a near-professional-level comic! 😎