Working with Styles

Styles are a handy way to make uniform changes to the look of your comic — want all panels to have a particular color and border width? Want Captions to have the same background gradient fill? These are all editable in a single place — the Style Attributes in the Details tab. All the styles settings in a comic are called a "stylesheet".

You can save and load stylesheets independently from a comic — allowing you to easily create multiple comics with a standard look. If you want ALL elements to be created in a particular style then Update the 'Default' style.

Creating a new style

  1. Create a new comic
  2. Place an element (for example, a panel) on the page

  3. Bring up the Details interface by choosing View->Show Details or by clicking on the Details" tab

  4. All the attributes for the object, and the style for the object are displayed  — lets change the background color to green

  5. Change the color and watch the panel background color change. Notice now the pencil icon next to the style name.  This shows there is a variation to the style

  6. Press the 'Save As... +' button, and a pop-up menu asks you to name your new style. Lets call it, "Big Green".  Click OK
  7. You can now use this style for other elements
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Updating a style

  1. Create a new Panel by dragging it out from the Library

  2. Now set its style to the new red filled style we just created by choosing it in Style Attributes (In Details). You can see the style we just made
  3. Make a change to the panel, for example, lets make the frame thicker
  4. Now there is pencil icon next to our style. That means we have made a variation
  5. We like our change, and we want all elements with the same style to change as well, so we click "✓ Update"

  6. The pencil icon badge now disappears. Also, our first panel now has a thick border as well — as it uses the same style

Reverting to a style

At any point you can revert back to the original style chosen by selecting 'Revert'. A pop up menu will remind you that you will loose your changes to the style — to prevent this you should update the current style or create a new style.