### The Work Area

Comic Life gives you an efficient work area and user interface to create your comics.

#### Getting familiar with the work area

The Comic Life work area is arranged to help you focus on creating and editing comics. The work area consists of the following components:

1. Menu bar The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example the Pages menu contains commands for working with pages.

2. Tool bar The tool bar contains clickable icons for common actions. You can customize the contents to suit your work style.

3. Page edit area The main editing area where you'll compose your pages.

4. Resource area Provides access to your photos and page templates as well as details on the selected element and the current styles.

5. Element well Contains the various comic elements such as balloons, captions and display lettering for titles and sound effects.

6. Page organizer Provides an overview of all the pages in your comic and quick access to any particular page. You can also reorder pages here.