Comic Life: A Review
Yesterday's Mandy: Moore, Please entry (I didn't think to call it that until this morning, hindsight is a bitch) was supposed to be more of a review of Comic Life than a tribute to my BFF, Mandy, but I got so into it that I worked on it till 6:20, and if you know me, you know I stay late at work for nothing. NOTHING! Perhaps that in and of itself is my review. It's so much fun that it will make you stay late at work.
Basically, as soon as you open it up and take a gander at the interface, you already know how to use it. I mean, a computer wizzz like me knows how to use every application in the world after a quick looksee, but I'd venture to say that any goon out there can figure this one out. Here, Download your free 30 day trial, you goon, and see for yourself.
Comic Life won the 2005 Apple Design award for Best Product New to Mac OS X. It comes with the new Macs now.
If you like it enough to buy it, it's only $25. It does everything you could want it to. There are about 80 page layouts to choose from, but if you are a big baby and you hate them all, then you just go on ahead and make your own. It's remarkably simple. Your finder is right there for you to drag pictures into the panels, and it automatically fits it to the panel shape and size. Don't like the way it fit it? you have complete control over everything. Change the shape of the panel, change the shape of the picture. There are plenty of word balloons to pick from, and then change the shape of it, the direction that the arrow is coming from, the size of the text, the color, the font and the shape of the text. It really is so easy that my description of what you can do is a yawn. Or maybe I'm just bad at writing reviews.
You can get the Pro Version too, but it seems the only difference is more fonts and more templates. But you really don't need the fonts since you can use any font in your font book and if you're a computer wizzzzz like me, you probably have already downloaded a complete arsenal of all the coolest fonts in the world.
I pretty much love it. And now I invite everyone on That's Plenty to quick download this gem and make a comic and post it. It's even seemlessly intergrated with your webcam, you narcissist you, so it can be all about your special face. Yeah, that's right, I'm challenging you, thatsplenty, to a comic-off. And if you don't do it, then your a big baby. With a pacifier. And a blankie. And if you make the best comic, then I will make you a comic all about you. What a prize! (and readers are welcome to send in links to their comics as well, but they have to be made by Comic Life) This little company, Plasq, developed it, and it's always good to support the little guys.