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Generic Hero
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Posted: 6th May 2008 12:23
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Hey!
I was looking to be making a photo comic but I don't have a mac (no comic life), anyone know where I could get a comic creation software? Preferably free?
Thanks

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 6th May 2008 13:05
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Take publisher and make one. Make the panels, the speech bubbles, etc. You dont need a fancy program.

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
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Generic Hero
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Posted: 6th May 2008 13:21
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hmm, good point. I shoulda though of that really.
Cheers!

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Pus In Boots
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Posted: 7th May 2008 19:28
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Publisher is good for compositing the comic, but it is not suitable for drawing. Anything would be better than that for drawing. (except for paint, which just looks amateur and shoddy.) I use Fireworks for my comics, but it's expensive and it depends on your drawing style. You may be better off drawing it by hand then scanning it into your computer.

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Generic Hero
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Posted: 7th May 2008 21:19
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cool, I'll take that into account

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th May 2008 23:10
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Paint does not look shoddy if you know how to use it. You'd have to sprite everything though.


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AlanC
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Posted: 8th May 2008 07:02 Edited at: 8th May 2008 07:03
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Microsoft Publisher: $170

Mac Comic Life: $30

Big difference. I own Comic Life, and it is very excellent. But publisher I'm sure can do more....

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Manic
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Posted: 8th May 2008 12:55
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... or just use ink and scan it.

I don't have a sig, live with it.
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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 8th May 2008 13:49
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Quote: "Mac Comic Life: $30"


However, it does have the word "mac" in the title...

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Inspire
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Posted: 8th May 2008 23:33
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Quote: "However, it does have the word "mac" in the title..."


Which is a good thing.

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Generic Hero
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Posted: 9th May 2008 12:27
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Please, let's not argue whether PC or mac is better, they both can be extremely agravating at times, and also both rock. (although mac could do with having a wider range of games). Anyway, i've sorted the first comic. Not very profesionally, but it's done. I just need to convert it to PDF and I'll probably upload it somewhere.

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Pus In Boots
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Posted: 10th May 2008 17:17
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Quote: "Paint does not look shoddy if you know how to use it. You'd have to sprite everything though."


I'm sorry to say, it does. If it's made in paint, you can blatantly tell it's been made in paint and it looks crappy as a result. I know this because I spent years making crappy P+P type games on it and they all looked atrocious!

Seriously though, you cannot make professional; or even passable, quality pictures in paint. After all, it's barely changed since Windows 95.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 10th May 2008 17:21
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Actually, there are some quite good pictures to come out of paint (there have been threads around here linking to such things), as they say, good artists aren't limited by their tools.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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bitJericho
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Posted: 10th May 2008 18:26
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElrldD02if0


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Pus In Boots
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Posted: 10th May 2008 19:22
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I stand corrected.

But this doesn't mean he should use paint for his comic. It just means that some people can do some things in paint that are FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

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bitJericho
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Posted: 10th May 2008 19:46 Edited at: 10th May 2008 19:46
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I wouldn't use paint. And I certainly wouldn't use something like publisher.. ick...

I'd check out some open source stuff if you're not up for using an image editor like gimp:

http://www.tuitman.org/cgi-bin/blog.pl?command=showpage&page=pages/comicbookedit.html


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