Comic Life is great for sharing those funny little moments from school, in the office, or while on worldwide progressive-rock-legends tours.
Robert Fripp and Tony Levin have been sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands - on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour.
Ever wished you had the fun of Comic Life handy at all times? Ever been out at a party, family gathering or on public transport and wished you could add your 'comic touch' to a photo? Now you can!
We're giggling with glee to announce Comic Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch. Add various speech balloons and captions to your photos. Choose a fun special effect to warp and bend your family and friends, then email the results to them!
'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour!
plasq is proud to announce that we are sponsoring authors
James McCann and
kc dyer on their 'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour.
The tour will go through Western Canadian Rocky Mountains from July 7-15th, 2008, with stops in Banff, Calgary, Red Deer, Cochrane, Kamloops, Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Click here for tour dates.
If you live nearby make sure you go along and say "Hi" for us! You may also enter a draw to win a copy of Comic Life Magiq or Comic Life Deluxe at each stop!
You can follow the authors travels on their websites - James McCann and kc dyer - where they will be doing a comic for each stop when they have a chance, using - you guessed it - Comic Life!
Cranium Comics has recently launched their first four color comic, Brawn #1.
"I used Comic Life on my Mac exclusively to lay out the storyboards, then later when I created and colored all 24 pages of the issue," recounted Anthony Rezendes, the owner of Cranium Comics and co-creator of Brawn.
The comic 'Brawn' focuses on a dockworker named Sam Ross who was reborn as the hero "Brawn" after he was nearly killed in a drunk driving accident.
"Being an illustrator, it saved me quite a bit of time from having to lay all the text bubbles out manually. It made the process of actually creating the comic that much more enjoyable," Mr. Rezendes added.
We think this comic is great! So check out 'Brawn' on the Cranium Comics site or read the first 5 pages on our Comic Life gallery.
Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? ... Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email.. Skitch is the Internet age's Camera and it Rocks!
Andrea Innocent is a freelance illustrator and designer who often works with clients abroad. She says: "Skitch has become an integral part of my design process. Working from home I can quickly grab a shot of an image I am working on, throw it into an email and get feedback".
Skitch saves her the repetitive process of exporting, finding the file and sending. It saves those lengthy explanation emails - she just points at what she means.
Executive (Bruce Lang)
Bruce Lang uses Skitch dozens of times every day to communicate exactly what 1000 or even 10000 words cannot. His phone calls, email and video conferences can now be supplemented with pictures, scribbled on with 'back-of-the-envelope' simplicity.
Bruce can share these images on Skitch.com with a hundred people across the corporation, and get feedback right there eliminating long, confusing email threads. And he can now post images anywhere — like text-only feedback web-forms. Skitch is, in his own words, "Quick, simple, efficient".
Skitch has hugely changed his workflow for the better. Ideas travel fluidly from Mathieu's head to his screen and then to colleagues, with Skitch becoming a natural point-of-call for most simple graphics tasks.
For example, Mathieu drag-and-drops annotated images into essays, visual class notes. In his personal life, Skitch has removed many steps of getting images online, on to flickr, his blog and his mySpace account.
Kirsten uses Skitch extensively for teaching and fun at home too.
"When I showed Skitch to my elementary students (and my own kids), it wasn't a matter of teaching them how to use it, but simply putting it in front of them.
They especially love using Skitch with the iSight camera and dropping their creations into our school newspaper and Comic Life creations."
Skitch can drag and drop directly into Comic life, making this a great duo in the class room. (not to mention the many other possibilities!)
The developer - Us!
"For the global crew of plasq, Skitch was born out of a need. Every single member of plasq works from their home, spread all over the world; in the USA, Australia, France and Norway. Skitch is an essential tool that makes this approach possible.
LOLCATS!
"kitty inside your skitch, making yews laugh"
Yep, Skitch happens to be the best way to make LOLCATS too. You gotta have some play time too you know?
System Requirements Requires Mac 10.4.6 or later.
Feature Highlights
See it…
Snap a website
Capture a chat moment
Screenshot an application
iSight snap your bad hair day
Quickly sketch an idea
Tap into your iPhoto Library
Re-open images from your Skitch History
Say it…
Annotate with circles and gorgeous arrows
Add text that always stands out
Scribble and jot... it's automatically smoothed
Re-size and crop by simply dragging a corner
Drag the file to wherever you like, no need to save
Return to what you were doing — in seconds — not minutes!
Share it…
Skitch + Skitch.com + one click = your image online!
Or, use your own FTP, SFTP, Flickr or .Mac account. Paste your Skitch.com link into any web-page, forum or chat, then wait for your friends to ask how you did it so quick!
What people say
...bone-rattlingly awesome.... Skitch, by plasq.... Oh my God, it's such a cool application for capturing screen stuff....
Merlin Mann - MacBreak Weekly podcast - listen (about 42 mins in)
I have a new love, and its name is Skitch ... I can say this is the coolest thing I have seen at Macworld that isn't an iPhone
Scott McNulty, TUAW - tuaw.com
I used to think a Mac was not a Mac without QuickSilver. Now it's not a Mac without QuickSilver AND Skitch. It's been like growing a thumb for the first time -- how on earth did I ever live without Skitch before?!
Chris Messina, Citizen Agency - blog | snaps
I am finding it invaluable. Another great product from plasq
Adam Christianson, maccast.com
The main thing that separates the good applications from the great applications is attention to detail. Skitch has a few ‘little things’ that both surprised and impressed me... ...Happy Skitching!
Colin Devroe, Community Evangelist for Viddler - cdevroe.com
With toooooo many graphics programs you have to do lots of tedious selecting of tools or guessing of image modification numbers, but with Skitch it's just click click click - finished. All very intuitive :)
David Bowers, wowinsider.com
It is just as ingenious as Comic Life and is designed for sharing, annotating, managing and generally having fun with images. It is amazingly powerful yet simple to use and should find a ready market, not only among consumers but in schools and professional studios. Garry Barker, The Age - read article
Andrea Innocent is a freelance illustrator and designer who often works with clients abroad. She says: "Skitch has become an integral part of my design process. Working from home I can quickly grab a shot of an image I am working on, throw it into an email and get feedback".
Bruce Lang uses Skitch dozens of times every day to communicate exactly what 1000 or even 10000 words cannot. His phone calls, email and video conferences can now be supplemented with pictures, scribbled on with 'back-of-the-envelope' simplicity.
Skitch has hugely changed his workflow for the better. Ideas travel fluidly from Mathieu's head to his screen and then to colleagues, with Skitch becoming a natural point-of-call for most simple graphics tasks.
Kirsten uses Skitch extensively for teaching and fun at home too.
"For the global crew of plasq, Skitch was born out of a need. Every single member of plasq works from their home, spread all over the world; in the USA, Australia, France and Norway. Skitch is an essential tool that makes this approach possible.
"kitty inside your skitch, making yews laugh"
Yep, Skitch happens to be the best way to make 
