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Our Comic Art Effect becomes an Action adventure

Due in no small part to the wildly popular Comic Life application for making comic pages out of your images, our own Comic Art Effect tutorial has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence.

Lance McCord found the tutorial via a link on LifeHacker and contacted me about producing a Photoshop Action to produce the effect. Well, I’m here to announce and make available just that…

The MacMerc.com Comic Art Effect Photoshop Action.

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The effect is slightly different than the one detailed in the written tutorial and had to be dumbed down for automation’s sake. But, I think you will agree, it still looks pretty slick. Download it and give it a shot. It should work with Adobe Photoshop 7 and above for Mac (or even PC). If you have any trouble drop me a line after reading the FAQs and the caveats of the original effect.

Note:Thanks also to summer2005 for the link to the original tutorial on digg.

If you loved our Comic Art Effect tutorial, check out Comic Life

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Last year we brought you the Comic Art Effect tutorial and inspired a new breed of photo-comic artists.

New on the scene is Plasq’s Comic Life application which will aid you in turning your comic themed pictures into comic book pages–complete with dialog balloons, “sound” effects and captions. Very cool–very impressed.

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