{"id":10964,"date":"2005-10-09T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/10\/comic-life.html"},"modified":"2005-10-09T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T10:03:40","slug":"comic_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/09\/comic_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mac developer <a href=\"http:\/\/plasq.com\/\" \/>plasq<\/a> has released an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/23485.html?cprose=daily\">updated version<\/a> of their slick, fun, and super easy <a href=\"http:\/\/plasq.com\/comiclife\/\" \/>Comic Life<\/a> application.  The tool makes it a cinch to create layouts, add text and photos, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennyjones.net\/burn2005\/comicbook2005.htm\">publish results<\/a> to the Web.<br \/>\nIf Adobe apps tend to be <a href=\"http:\/\/theatreorgans.com\/pa\/philly\/WANN\/index.HTM\">grand organs<\/a>, Comic Life is a flute.  Now, I would never want to give up any of the range and flexibility of our tools, but it&#8217;s refreshing to see a light, elegant solution for a very specific task.  This question keeps gnawing at me: As our tools grow ever more capable, do they have to keep getting more complex?  If each app&#8217;s main environment needs to strive for letting you do anything at any time, are there areas where we could focus on specific tasks?  Hmm&#8211;this deserves an entry of its own.  In the meantime, if you have ideas, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac developer plasq has released an updated version of their slick, fun, and super easy Comic Life application. The tool makes it a cinch to create layouts, add text and photos, and publish results to the Web. If Adobe apps tend to be grand organs, Comic Life is a flute. Now, I would never want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}