I have Comic Book Creator, and I need to say it's cool over all because the amount of time I don't spend now in composing panels and text balloons. The software isn't perfect and I thing it needs some improvements, over all in final type files (if it would save the works in layered photoshop files I would sing and jump...)

But my old system (taking in mind I have PS7 and no other software like Illustrator) was:

-rendering scenes taking in mind how I need the different panels in a previous paper sketch

-resizing them to adjust in a previous page template

-when it was finished, drawing balloons over the panels layer

-next writting text parts over each balloon...

Each page had over 30-40 photoshop layers. A single wrong movement and I needed to repeat a lot of steps

Not that's the past. I take a page template (or create one in CBC with the panels I need), I create the balloons with the text in them, I render ever in the same size (1200 x 900) and resize de drawings directly inside each panel, moving my ballons, etc

You can try it, they have a  downloadable test version that is the same than the registered software (the difference is that you can work with it, but you can only save your work in the registered one)

These are two examples of my comic SHADOWS (pages 2 & 26 - published by Renderotica Magazine). I could do the same in photoshop but spending more time. All the panels rendered at the same size but resized IN the page, etc...

**warning - nudity **

http://www.rafacasette.com/forums/Casette_Shadows.jpg

www.rafacasette.com/forums/Shadows_by_Casette_page26.jpg

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