## Making a comic

To make a new comic select the "File->New..." menu and choose the appropriate page size from the popup menu. Comic Life supports a wide variety of page sizes in order to produce ocmics for different media. Web pages and are generally wider than they are tall whereas printed pages are generally the opposite.

The page size chosen in the Preferences is selected by default.

Once a page size has been selected and the "OK" button clicked a new comic with a single blank page is created. You can now begin to layout your images or you may prefer to layout the cells that will hold the images and speech bubbles first and add images afterward. The easiest way to layout the cells on a page is to drag a page template from the browser and drop it on the page. The cells from the template are automatically scaled to fit the page.

Dragging a page template to a page that already has cells will automatically create a new page from that template and insert it after the original page. This allows you to quickly build a multi-page comic from the templates.

As pages are created in the comic page icons are also created in the page organizer to the left of the main editing area. Click on the icons to quickly select a particular page. You can also drag these icons to reorganize the pages.