Comic Maker
Price: Free
Description from iTunes:
Design your own comic easily and quickly with various layouts, characters and much more…
TOOLS: Comic Maker HD’s editor workspace provides you most of the tools with many settings of each tool support you creating a storyline easier:
+ Image tool lets you choose cute pre-made image from built-in gallery or import image from many sources: your Photo Library, capture from camera, import from your computer, download photo assets from our server, from shared servers… Once you import image to your comic book, you can easily adjust image: change size, position of the image, flip the image vertically or horizontally, crop the image, coloring the image with effects mono tone or sepia,…
+ Text tool lets you type directly on the workspace with full settings of speech bubble borders, many cute custom comic fonts beside all system fonts, font size, font color, text alignment, text underline…
+ Drawing tools let you draw your own objects, characters by drawing free-form shape or specific shapes like rectangle, ellipse, line, polygon, poly-line with many settings: line color, fill color, line type, line width, opacity, shadow…
FEATURES: Ease of use and following features of Comic Maker HD will help you create your own comic easily.
+ Layering function lets you compile images, text, backgrounds items into one storyline easily. You just drag-and-drop item to specific position, change order of each item as you need.
+ 42 pre-made page layout templates along with option of portrait/landscape mode and paper size will help you easily organize content into most comic book formats: comic book, comic strip, comic graphic novel…
+ Cute pre-made image gallery at your disposal: many cute characters with variety of action, state, mood; many categories of background scenes; props; artwork of text and sound effect… Those will help you create cute comic in the fastest way.
+ Fully gestured functions to zoom in, zoom out, rotate, resize, drag-drop image, text, draw objects…
+ Support Retina display and zoom text, draw object without distortion. Images are depend on
+ Sharing feature let you sharing your comic via sending email, uploading to Facebook, uploading to shared servers: webdav, dropbox, box.net straight from the workspace.
+ Support export comic file to other formats for sharing: PDF, PNG, JPG
+ You can print out your comic straight from the app via air-print function.
In my classroom… I would use this app for introducing new units or topics to students, similar to how I did in this example. I am really excited to use comics in my classroom in this way, especially because it is a good way to engage some of the boys, and I’m sure girls too, in the lesson in a fun way that relates to things that they are interested in.
Using this app was pretty straightforward, my only complaints are that the free version has occasional ads and it also crashed on me twice and didn’t save my work. Aside from those issues and the fact that you cannot re-select and erase or edit the lines that you draw once you click away, I really liked this app and would definitely use it again in my future classroom!