If you have decided to set a New Year’s Resolution to do something new with technology like I suggested in my last post, I’ve got a great place for you to start. Comic Life.

Comic Life is an inexpensive software ($25) that works both on Macs and Windows that lets you make a comic book out of digital pictures.  You can add comment bubbles (e.g. “Help, save me from the big bad meanies!!”) or add the bam-wham-pow-kaboom bubbles that adds sound effects to the action of the plot.

You can add text boxes  Rotate the boxes.  Skew the boxes.  Manipulate them to your heart’s content.  Change fonts.  Change colors.  Use templates.  Change templates.  Create templates. Use styles.  Change styles.  And all of this is VERY easy to do.

You can print your work and take it to your local copy center to get it spiral bound into an ‘official’ book.  Or just staple the pages together — which is cheaper if this horrible economy is pinching your purse.  Or, you can save your work as an HTML page to post on a website.  You can also save it as an AVI movie and post to your blog or send the movie as an e-mail attachment.

I’ve made two sample pages so you can see what the end product can look like.  Comic Life Page 1 and Comic Life Page 2.

So, grab a grandchild (or two or three), hunker down with your computer, and let your creativity go wild as you create your own personalized comic book.

Enjoying the comic life (both digital and real),
Digi-Gram

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