The entire webcomic community disagrees.

10 Minutes? 20 Minutes? 456 Minutes?

Why can't we all just play Quake? :P

Well does the idea of throwing the entire active staff fo the DS.com forums into a bloody warzone actually appeal to anyone here? :P

Whats the link for comic life, perhaps if i can download it I could give it a personal test. because i've never heard of it untill now :)

As for credits, i guess it depends hwo we go about things, i've done a few plots, we have someone on animation, it's just the humor side of things now who we need someone to chip in: Over to you RV :P

Yes.........

It's for Mac.

So start your stopwatch and give me the results.

I have a similar, if not identical, program that came with my drawing tablet. There's no point using Comic Life. The time it saves is negligible if we want full creative control of the production of the comic. Areas of your image that leave the comic frames, interwoven frames, inter frame action etc. are likely not possible in Comic Life, and would have to be done manually and eventually somehow mixed into your pointless proprietary program.

Only someone who has no idea what they're doing would want to use the creative equivalent of a just-add water solution.

Also, check this out. Adobe owns :cool:.

Whatever. I like Comic Life. It's good enough for me, I don't need any more control than it offers, and I frankly would not be bothered to make comics using anything else as it would take too much time and effort. If you want me to make a comic, I would only do so using Comic Life. If you want someone else to do it, they can use whatever the hell they want.

Well, I guess you're not going to be the one making them then.

If it's a DSF comic then anyone in the DSF should be able to contribute. And since we've not all been integrated into the Cult of Jobs, using a proprietary just-add-water program is silly.

That does not logically follow from my statement.

Yeeess.... Your point?

It's by no means proprietary. Nor is it just-add-water. I wish you'd stop insulting something you've never used. It's quite versatile and I have not yet fully figured out how to use everything it offers.

Also, after visiting the company's web site, apparently they make a Windows version as well.

Also, stop with the Mac cult bullshit, now.

As soon as you give up your role as an Official Apple Propaganda Pusher :P

I push no propaganda. I push facts.

I never thought we needed to draw things outside the comic panels personally ;)

Facts, progranda, no difference. Danny just loves his Macs and I can't blame him :P

A quick thing I rustled up in the Windows version of comic life (took about 7 or 8 minutes, and this was my first try at using it.)

http://img.photoamp.com/pa/07/10/30/bKo5wWi.png

Thats quite good =) An encouraging first go in my opinion :)

I wonder just how many topics are Danny and RV gonna butt heads? I'll tell you how many, everything that even remotely involves computers and software. RV is sure Apple and all its fans brainwash helpless consumers, Danny defends it with his life. Oh yes, it's an age old battle. These are long and bloody, and nobody wins. ... it's very fun to watch though.
*play Star Trek battle theme*

Also, nice one Rat. :)

I apologize for the double post but I thought I'd bring this up:

There's also GIMP, which is entirely free, open source, and can do almost anything Photoshop can do. The UI is different, but the features match up. It can work on Macs, Windows, AND Linux. ;)

Of course you do. So do I. So did Hitler. George Bush does as well. Your local pastor says the Bible is fact as well.

Participating is the real kicker.

I've used the GIMP quite a bit in the past, sort of hoping I could use it to replace Photoshop. Unfortunately, it isn't really that good in comparison. I'm sure that will be rectified over time though, they're planning some overhauls, including the UI, that might turn it into a real contender (I'm hoping so). For now though (or at least, a few months ago when I used it last), it's pretty sucky.

Although, it can read PSD files, so it might be good for those who don't want to appropriate Photoshop while those of us who do use Photoshop can and we can still swap files.

Um, yeah, except I actually do.

I will be the first to admit that the GIMP is not a full-fledged Photoshop replacement. Far from it, in fact. It's great to have, especially, as RV says, if you don't want to "appropriate" Photoshop, but it really doesn't measure up in almost any key area.

So do I. So did Hitler.

The definition of fact is blurry, that's why science doesn't use the term fact, but theory.

One day Open Source will kick corporate ass. They say socialism is dead, but it's not. It just moved to the internet :cool:.

No, the definition of fact, like the things it describes, is quite clear. A fact is, and I quote, "a thing that is indisputably the case."

I provide those. You do too, sometimes. And I'm sure Hitler used facts as well.

I hope so.

I think you're going to need to word that a bit better or that can be very misunderstood. o__o