adding some general features for the comic creators and making it easier for them to create comics on Sketchbook and by that way gain more users.
Things like:
A Comic Panel Editor. something similar to Polyline in Select menu on Sketchbook. And that way make a panel. With additional help to make straight lines, like small doted lines. And everything can turn white/dark or other color outside of it if needed.
Like a manga, flashback scene. everything behind the panel is dark. something like that and gradient from white to dark or the pan line fades.
The first panel should make canvas to the color you want. panel is white, background is dark, when i add a new panel in the dark unused area it goes white. You can only draw only inside the panel but it will still draw under the dark area, said panel lines can be moved similar to Transform.
Maybe all that is overkill but there needs to be a decent tool to use for drawing panels in different shapes.
Effect Editor, something in the line of Clip Studio.
Speech Bubble Editor. either by using something like Ployline or the circle to make the area of the speech bubble. And when I say Polyline, I mean in a "I see you have marked that area, let me make a circle around that area".
Then to drag the tail of the speech bubble to where you want it to go. With having the option of making it to another speech bubble so they are connected, make two or more steps to mouth or place where sound comes from so that the tail can curve and don't always go in a straight line. And the Tail goes over other text tail so it becomes obvious who is talking first.
Then add the effect of the speech bubble. Like screaming, whispering, thinking and carefree etc.
And finally
A Better Text Editor.
Let me mark a area I want the text in and then all them current option come up with type of text and color and size, but then I type, I type it to the area so I if it is good or decent instead of the current way. And when the top of the area end and I keep typing, it just jumps down a row and remain in the area. Instead of now when you type, check, make smaller words, add rows there and redo and repeat until you are happy with it.
All these setting should be in someway very closely integrated, like the speech bubble and text. Those should be easy to Edit and change in the Layer menu. Like I move a bubble and the text follows with it, I change a speech bubble tail's direction so it overlaps with another tail and it doesn't go crazy or is over complicated. Maybe just a Separate Menu just for these, unrelated to the drawing layers unless linked or Rasterize.
Having all these thing on the same layer menu and balancing it in groups or layers would be complicated. At least if every Bubble, tail, text, effect and panel gets their own layer. The bubble, tail and text could be very closely integrated with each other and possibly react to the Panels changing place or size.
A lot of this is a programming nightmare and wishes and can never be achieved, I know that. But if the easy ones could get included or approved upon, that would be awesome. This is also the Idea/Feedback area so I am giving you it.
