![]() Inkscape works, but it’s a vector program, not a comic software, so it’s very cumbersome to use to make comics with. I wish I could say I found something, but I never did. I like working with vectors for something like this, although Gimp sees a lot of use by me for other works.ĭid you ever find any simple to use comic making software for Linux? I’m a primary (elementary) school teacher in a school that uses Linux and I’m trying to find easy to use comic book software for the kids to use, I know they’d love it. These days I’m happy using Inkscape for the balloon process, as well as the entire process from start to stop. My guess is it makes a bitmap balloons, rather than a vector (this is Gimp after all). I have seen that script before, but I haven’t tried it. Perhaps this might speed up your thought/speech bubble creation I know that this post is a few months old upon my finding it just today, however I wanted to point out a gimp script I found. If there were any “easy” (relatively) way to do such comics in Inkscape or another open source program, then it’d be very much worthwhile for someone to put together some tutorials and resources. I have read that Greg Dean uses Illustrator (I’m a daily reader of Real Life), and I do wonder how he does the speech balloons. I don’t know if either of these programs has any sort of scripting engine that would ease things. If there’s some way to mask SVGs that I don’t know about, and an easy way to drop images on the same layer (or in the same layer folder) in one of these programs, then that would definitely be a jump in the right direction. I’ve used Inkscape and Sodipodi for attempts at comic-making, but neither is really up to the task as far as I can tell. Maybe you can just use Inkscape… You know, like Greg Dean uses Illustrator to make Real Life. Posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 at 12:36 amġ3 Responses to “On the Lack of Open Source Comic Software”.I’m not planning on doing a series of anime comics ( others handle that), but I did have a random idea come up during a discussion on racism earlier this year. Perhaps it’s best this way, as I have no ability when it comes to comic dialogue. In the meantime, I’ll simply wish someone else would do it, let someone else serve the target market of 72 comic maker hopefuls. ![]() Maybe after NaNoWriMo, I should invest a month into learning/writing such software. Running Comic Life on Linux via a Win32 compatability layer (Wine) is a flawed implementation, and running it on Windows Vista has stability issues for me. (Well, minus those who simply pirate the software, taking it down to a target market of maybe 50 more users there.) I could probably learn where to start, but between fiction writing, anime watching, and photograph taking, my software programming’s looking rather restricted to what I do at work (which does not involve comics). Not just those 20 Linux users and two BSD users interested in making comics, but also Windows users who can’t (won’t) afford to pay for Comic Life for Windows. If only I knew where to start (using either Qt or KDE), this would definitely be the type of program that a lot of people would use. Speech balloons and their tails would be SVG images, preferably with an intelligent whitespace inner border, keeping text from bleeding over the edges of the bubble (and more control over the tail than Comic Life offers). Allow resizing both either the rectangle (preferably with grid snapping, something not found in Comic Life for Windows) or inner image (which has resulted in very bad quality in the resized image for me in Comic Life, but it only occurs sometimes, and can be worked around by deleting the image, then replacing it and resizing it again). It seems simple enough: make templates with rectangles which are SVG images using masks. I’m a software programmer, but I wouldn’t know where to start when it comes to working with images. ![]() (I can get the same kind of results for basic Comic Life functionality using a combination of Krita and Gimp, the two playing off of one anothers’ lackings, but it ain’t pretty, and it takes a few days longer per panel.) I’ve played with the latter, and found a number of limitations, but even with limitations, it’s more than the open source software sector has. For Windows users, there’s the Windows version of Comic Life, and a number of other offerings. Well, technically there’s a lot, but there’s one that I’ve oft wondered why there is no open source software for: making comics.įor Mac users, there’s Comic Life. In the world of free(dom) and open source software, there’s one type of application that’s missing.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |