The Inspector is your best friend for getting to the powerful editing tools in Comic Life 3. Now that your image background is transparent you can use the Inspector to create a dynamic background. Note: the more uniform the background the easier it is to knock out. Here is a full post about using Instant Alpha if you are unfamiliar with how it works in Comic Life 3. It’s super easy: select your photo, click the Instant Alpha icon in the menu and then click and drag on your image to select the portions you want to knock out. To get the full effect of the speedlines showing behind the image you will need to use the Instant Alpha tool to knock out the background of your image. To get started I like to get my image in place, that way I know what kind of space I have to work with for my lettering.ĭrag and drop your preferred image into place and add a filter.
You can built this comic cover from scratch very easily, so for those of you who want to start clean, use the “Blank” template. The design of this template puts a texture to the page that makes it look like an older paper. One of my favorite templates is the “Future” template, so I decided to use that as my base for this comic. And the image is a placeholder image we have, with a filter. The background makes use of our built in speedlines and gradient builder. All of the words are variations on the same lettering style with different fill colors. There are three basic parts to this comic: Lettering, Fill and Filter.
I’m going to walk you through who to build this cover too, ’cause it’s easy! You can also watch the video at the bottom of the post to see these steps in action. See this cover to the right? That was built in Comic Life 3, inspired by the DC Superman Vol.
Today, my friends, we are going to learn about some of the cool graphics work you can do in Comic Life 3.
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