What is Comic Life Software?

Series Summary

Comic Life is a graphics software program designed for Macintosh computers running OSX that allows users to create comic books and graphic novels. Users can drag and drop photos from the Apple iPhoto program into the panes and grids they create in Comic Life. Once the photos have been added, they can add voice bubbles and create their own comic dialog. This program is popular among family scrapbook enthusiasts and internet users. The photo-sharing website Flicker has a section dedicated to files created with Comic Life.

In this free graphics software tutorial, our Macintosh expert will show you how to use this fun and easy program. Matt Nichols starts with an overview of the interface, then guides you through the creation of your first Comic Life pages, demonstrating how to create panels and add photos. Then he show you how to add text bubbles and edit the panels. He concludes this series with a lesson own how to export your Comic Life files to other programs.

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody! My name is Matt. I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to be teaching you about a program called Comic Life. For those of you who don't know what Comic Life is, it's a program that allows you to create comic books from photos. First thing you do is create a page and layout. You can then adjust it. Then you just drag and drop your photos into your panes. You can create word bubbles and thought bubbles. You can create some pretty cool comic books based off your photos. Comic Life is exclusively for the Mac. It's for OSX. If you have Mac, you probably already got Comic Life on your hard drive. If you go to your applications folder, you're probably going to see a Comic Life icon. That's how you get to it. There's a couple of different versions of Comic Life, but they all function pretty much the same. No matter what version you have, these tutorials are going to be helpful. Let's go ahead and get started learning about Comic Life."