Theoriginal Comic Lifemade a splattering with its Mac debut seven years ago , by necessitate a specific labor — turn your pic into comic book - style layouts — and perfectly balancing ease of use of goods and services with a sensation of fun . The follow - up from developerPlasqcontinues that fine custom while adding some welcome feature to the mix .

Previous users will feel right at home inComic Life 2(Mac App Store linkup ) . So will neophyte to this specialized image editing app . That ’s a testament to how easy it is to get started with the app , as well as how uncomplicated Plasq makes it to discover Comic Life 2 ’s many tools .

Getting bulge with Comic Life 2 is as simple as choosing a template — the software supplies 25 different themes , along with a couple of blank guide if you ’d prefer to fashion your own path . Comic Life ’s main window include a photo picker that makes it easy to drag image out of your iPhoto library or track them down through the Finder ; a Camera choice even let you click pictures with your Mac ’s built - in - camera for exposure on the fly . From there , it ’s simply a matter of dragging in different speech bubbles and stylize text to give your final project the spirit you desire .

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There ’s an incredible amount of depth in those prick as well . Add a speech bubble or thought balloon , and you may cook the size of the balloon , where it seem in your photograph , and even the swoop and slant of the bubbles and line leading from the speech house of cards to the person ’s mouth . you may alter the size of it and font of the text within the bubble — Comic Life offers a host of comic - friendly fonts — and you may bend and twist free - float lettering to your liking . you’re able to even lend filter to your photograph to give them a distinctive look as well . There ’s stack to explore and the event are so loose to conform , even an artistically - challenged person like myself can whip up a reasonably decent layout .

Comic Life 2 is a dandy app for parent , providing a fun direction to liven up all those pictures of the kids you ’ve shoot .

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