Balloonist!

jason

Balloonist has been released!
http://www.smithandtinkers.com/balloonist/index.html

It looks very interesting and probably deserves a full review here, but it's a tool for laying out word balloons and panels. Has a lot of really thoughtful touches in generating the balloon shapes, and seems to be designed more for writers who want to focus on creating their dialogue, rather than spending their time with layout and lettering. (I'm interested in it because it's in a similar vein to what I'm working on for thesis purposes.)

If you have a chance to check it out, please post about it here...

FangédFaerie

Hey, that's really darn cool. If it works as good as it looks like. I'll have to try that.

mario

I'll have to give this little doohickey a try. I probably would have thought this to be immensely cool if they'd created it as a Photoshop plugin, but I'll settle for "pretty damn cool".

Apathy

Isn't it standard to do the word-balloons last anyway?

It's not like you'd have to switch back and forwards a dozen times.

mario

I just meant I like the word bubbles being on separate layers, whereas this program has no support for Photoshop layers at all. It appears to pull in your comic as a flat image.

Preliminary testing: I can't get the word bubbles to be the frontmost object above the image I've imported. I'll have to play with it more after work.

Apathy

Ah that makes sense.

I lose at thinking more than one step ahead.

mittens

I should have known that this wasn't going to be the official-OB-dirigible-pilot-thread, but it was such an exciting concept.

kukopanki

mittens, you have one awesome avatar. Really.

Apathy

mittens wrote:

I should have known that this wasn't going to be the official-OB-dirigible-pilot-thread, but it was such an exciting concept.

Well it'd be hard to fit a dirigibles into a conservatory.

mittens

With that attitude, of course it would be.

Lang

You have to purchase a license for "its use in a business endeavor or hobby"?

Lame.