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Plasq Updates Comic Life for OS X

plasq today announced the immediate availability of Comic Life 1.2 (Update) for Mac OS X.
Comic Life – Expand what you can do with your digital photos!
plasq announces the latest 1.2 update to their award winning “Comic Life” comic creation software. The update brings a range of new features and improvements; including highly-requested ‘curly tails’ for speech balloons allowing a much more authentic ‘comic’ look.
This release adds a significant collection of new built in ‘styles’ (for objects like speech balloons and lettering), templates, as well as a selection of 6 new built-in fonts. Fixes and improvements encompass image handling, text handling, graphics export and iPhoto library integration. Smarter file saving now decreases file storage requirements. Teamed with a bunch of bug fixes and little improvements, it makes this version snappier and even more fun to use.
In June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, San Francisco, Comic Life scooped the coveted ‘Best Product New to Mac OS X’ Apple Design Award. “This win really sets plasq off to a great start – having its virtual doors only open since late February this year. Really exciting” mentions Cris Pearson, User Experience and Graphic Designer at plasq. In addition to this, plasq has received volumes of excited feedback from educators (pre-school to tertiary) who use Comic Life to teach language, illustrate grammar and as a presentation aid in schools around the world.
This is a free update for all existing users.
About Comic Life
Comic Life is a highly-acclaimed, fun, easy and powerful application that expands what you can do with your digital photos. With Page and Panel layouts, streamlined image selection, cropping and placement of authentic speech balloons, captions and special effects lettering – each with saveable styles.
Comic Life offers full Integration with .Mac (including RSS feeds), iPhoto image library and exports to TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, HTML, iPhoto and Quicktime. Taking advantage of Tiger’s CoreImage, it contains image effects that transform your photos into Comic Life images and more. Capture images directly from your iSight or DV Camera within Comic Life – drag and drop elegance.
Comic Life costs $24.95 USD (single user), $19.95 (for education users) and $39.95 (household – multi user & computer). Volume Licensing options are available. The 1.2 update is free for all existing registered Comic Life users.
The product is available for download and purchase directly from plasq at https://plasq.com with a 30-day unhindered demo.
About plasq
plasq is an exciting new thinktank of developers and user interface designers brought together to make software more intuitive, powerful and fun. Known for its world wide online collaboration, plasq brings together leading innovative talent from the United States, Australia, Switzerland and France. plasq works across borders to make beautifully-designed, fun and useful tools.

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