comic business / commercial software for mac

Comic Maker 1.4 provides you a powerful tool which has the ability of making comics easily that can be saved as files on your hard drive or compiled as applications for others to view. It is a convenient and easy-to-use software. Download to enjoy it now.

ComicBase 7.0.1 gives a perfect and popular program for comic collectors. ComicBase a professional inventory system on CD-ROM for your comic book collection with cross-indexed descriptions of over 165,000 issues, with price histories for the past four years. Unlike other programs, it can automatically price your comics according to their condition and lets you take note of autographed copies, special covers, multiple printings and of course, your cost, in your inventory. Creates price labels and a wide variety of reports to help you buy, sell and evaluate your collection. Best of all, however, may be its industrial-strength search feature, which lets you find comic-book characters' first appearances, second appearances, deaths, origin stories, or trace a certain storyline or find work by favorite writers and artists.

Desktop Comics 1.0.1 is released with an aim to decorate your desktop picture with the current day's comic strips, develop your own personalized funnies page by easily choosing among dozens of hilarious, web-based comics.

Desktop Comics will then update your desktop picture each day with the newest strips. If your desktop is cluttered with icons, with the press of a key Desktop Comics will display a semi-transparent overlay showing the day's comics.

Featuring a plug-in architecture, Desktop Comics is incredibly expandable and can easily be modified to add support for the most arcane of comics. A plug-in builder is included with the application to facilitate the creation of comic plugins.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

ComicBookLover 1.3 build 821 uses the latest technology and science to enable you to easily view, collect and organise digital comics.

Find comics by browsing cover art. Create smart lists. Edit information quickly. View comics with an Apple Remote in full-screen mode, on laptops and external displays. Supports CBZ, CBR and PDF comic archives.

Major Features:

1. View Comics
   • Read in Single page, Western and Manga double page mode
   • Full screen mode with support for external displays
   • Auto-sense oversized pages and auto-resize facing pages
   • Scale and rotate display
   • Adjust colours, sharpen images
   • Bookmark and re-order pages
   • View details of all page images including EXIF tags
   • Drag pages to Finder to export page data
2. Collect & Organise Comics
   • Import your comic archives
   • Browse cover artwork
   • Create lists and smart lists of favourite comics
   • Search and find comics quickly
   • Edit comic information in any language
3. Comic Archives supported
   • CBZ, CBR, ZIP, RAR and PDF archives
   • Folder of comic pages
4. Original Comic Files Are Unchanged
   • Comic related information is stored in ComicBookLover's internal library.
   • Cover artwork can be set as the icon for the comic file in Finder

Composer FX Image 2.0.2 is an effective and convenient image application for adding visual effects to your photos. It's the perfect companion program for iPhoto 08/09. Composer FX Image comes with over 400 realtime effects that include Comic Book, Hearts, 3D Video Wall, Plasma, Glass, Sky, Aquarium, Snow, TV, Pencil and many more. Demo version comes with 100 free filters.

Major Features:

1. Just drag and drop your photo.
2. Select the effect.
3. Drag to desktop.

Enhancements: Added over 60 more effects.

Requirements: Mac OSX 10.5(460 Filters)/10.4(270 Filters)

Composer FX Filters 1.9.4 is a useful program created for adding visual effects to Apple's Photo Booth and iChat.

Composer FX Effects comes with 400 add-on effects for Photo Booth that include Comic Book, Hearts, 3D Video Wall, Plasma, Glass, Sky, Aquarium, Snow, TV, Pencil and many more.

Requirements: 10.5/Apple's iChat or Photo Booth applications.

AKVIS Sketch 8.6 is a simple to use, yet sophisticated plugin for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch.

Major Features:

1. The efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
2. In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.
3. AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.
4. Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt.
5. The Photoshop batch mode support introduced in version 2.0 allows you to automatically convert a series of images. Just create an Action in Photoshop and apply the plug-in with the same settings to a folder full of images. You can even create comics from home videos in this way!
6. The program can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet.