Of particular note is
the Guided View mode, which is great for reading on a small screen, as well as a new Unlimited mode that works as a «read - all - you - can» subscription.
Current
Guided View adaptation of printed comics seems authored for smartphones and I believe that the technology should be extended to allow for alternative authoring on bigger devices.
You can port over your Kindle books to Comixology's app and read them in
Guided view, too.
I am a Comixology customer (150 + comics bought so far) and I like their service in general but I am very frustrated with their «
Guided View» technology.
The Viz digital manga app doesn't have «
guided view» mode where you go panel by panel, like Comixology or jmanga, but frankly you don't miss it; the manga wasn't drawn to be read that way, after all.
I think the ComiXology
Guided View is a wonderful way to read comics, especially a comic like Blastosaurus that so strictly sticks to formal panel layouts.
The operation of a range of different formats of digital comic (webcomic; infinite canvas; malleable page;
guided view; motion comic; hypercomic; game comic; audible comic) is analysed.
I definitely tried to rein it in a little bit to make sure the art was more or less compliant within the panel, so we would have our options open — if we were going to do
Guided View, there would be ways that inter-panel movements would work with the action.
Guided View is an enhancement, having your library on demand is an enhancement, being able to build these
Guided View native style books like «Thrillbent» and «Batman» 66» and «Atomic Robo,» being able to experiment with these things, we are able to give our consumer these value added things you are not able to get with just a PDF file.»
What comiXology adds to the table with
Guided View is, for the most part, more attractive to consumers than the ability to have a DRM - free file.»
While the site is in a private beta test now, eventually anyone with a comic short story, serialized narrative or graphic novel will be able to load up a PDF of their work, have it approved by the company's team of content reviewers and see it available for purchase on the Comics by comiXology app complete with
Guided View interface soon after.
Guided View delivers a cinematic presentation of comic books, but many users would argue that having the ability to access digital content on almost any device out weighs the «awesomeness» of the feature.
Comixology said the backup content won't be compatible with its «awesome
Guided View technology.»
The Nook's Zoom View and the Kindle's Panel view are relatively equivalent to Comixology's
Guided view.
Just as important, comiXology's apps made comics easily readable across mobile devices, expanding panels to full - screen size and carrying the reader through them with the company's «
guided view» technology.
I love
Guided View, their frequent sales, and compatibility across multiple platforms.
ComiXology's immense catalog and unique
Guided View reading experience is available across the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8, and the Web — making it the best digital platform for comic and graphic novel fans worldwide.
Each digital volume, featuring comiXology «s patent - pending
Guided View ™ Technology, will also include the bonus content included in each of the print volumes, allowing for a seamless print - to - digital experience.
Digital comics ComiXology CEO David Steinberger discusses his company's comics app, its PullList app and
the Guided View Authoring Tools program.
Digital Comics Noel Murray sings the praises of comiXology's
Guided View as a way to read digital comics, using an example from Hawkeye # 6 to show how it can work well with a complex layout.
We've read some Star Wars comics on our phone on Marvel Unlimited using
the guided view, and it's passable, but it's not the same experience as taking in a full page or spread and navigating it with your own eyes.
One of the most important requirements for reading comics on a tablet is that they can be read in their original format, full - page, not in
the guided view that skips from panel to panel.
Get the latest from comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform w / over 50K titles available in
Guided View!
ComiXology isn't charging creators a fee to optimize their work with
its Guided View technology, which automatically zooms portions of a comic page when readers tap the screen.
Writers and artists now have the chance to publish comics or graphic novels on the browser, tablet or phone using
the Guided View technology.
DC Comics, for instance, created a handful of «digital first» series, while Marvel introduced its «Infinite Comics,» which leverage
the Guided View technology for storytelling.
But this could be a result of their future
Guided View Authoring Tools program which is suppose to make it easy for creators and publishers to format and submit their comics to Comixology for distribution.
The app utilizes «
Guided View» optimization, so it's easy to move from panel to panel by swiping your finger (a full - page view is also available).
«(Seriously, reading a comic on iBooks or Kindle feels so rigid by comparison because it lacks things like the panel - by - panel
Guided View feature.)
The iPhone is a great market, the iPod Touch, there are a ton of phones that handle high resolution images very nicely, and to not do
guided view at all would be bad.
For many,
Guided View will be the primary choice, which is a qualitatively different experience than reading page - by - page.
It's user friendly once the files are all prepared, but our vision is to go online, load up the PDF of your comic and process it and do
guided view work all in one place.
We don't charge our partners for
the guided view offering, and my desire would be to keep it that way, but we don't know 100 percent yet if it's practical.
While there's some latitude to read full pages on the iPad, and the Fire at 4.7» x 7.5» (or the Nooks) affords that option more realistically than the iPhone or similarly - sized devices, in all of these cases there will be situations where most readers will shift to
Guided View in order to effectively see some particular detail on a page.
In
Guided View, pages are deconstructed into panels, and larger panels and splash pages are broken into more readable elements.
For the «
guided view» panel - to - panel stuff for iPhone and Android, the distributors handle that.
That's what's exciting about getting
the guided view tools out there: We have broad audience that is interested in popular material — The Walking Dead, Kick Ass — but the newest issue of Y the Last Man was the number one comic yesterday, and Sandman does really well.
To address this problem, the comiXology reading app provides a choice between full page views and «
Guided View».
A technology like
Guided View would take much of the special challenge and experience of reading this book away, while, paradoxically, being absolutely necessary on most devices to make the text effectively readable in the first place (to view pages from Jimmy Corrigan, visit the publisher's website).
David: The whole alpha program takes the comic from a single file and puts it into the format that we need to be able to deliver it to phones and devices, and it allows [users] to set up
the guided view.
They had
the Guided View [panel - by - panel viewing system], which I thought was very simple, efficient and respectful of the artist's work, and they were very open - minded, very enthusiastic about opening up to new types of comics, and not just the core business of the U.S., superhero comics.
It utilizes
Guided View technology, which is a read anywhere cloud - based platform.
Panel Zoom not as good as Comixology's
Guided View.
And it will likely be unique, not just to digital but to comiXology, because it uses comiXology's
Guided View to achieve the effect.
They came in late, came in better — with
the Guided View technology, a great store and awesome publisher relationships — and swept up.
ComicRack's automatic scrolling isn't nearly as impressive as Comics»
Guided View, so if you're a fan of that particular feature, you may want to stick with Comixology's apps.
Unfortunately, Marvel Unlimited's Smart Panels feature isn't quite as slick as Comixology's
Guided View, which takes users from panel to panel in an elegant, cinematic fashion.
It's a very different experience, especially if you use
a guided view.
Digital comics On a related note, Shaun Huston ponders the challenges of making «comics as we know them» work on digital devices: «While there's some latitude to read full pages on the iPad, and the Fire at 4.7» x 7.5» (or the Nooks) affords that option more realistically than the iPhone or similarly - sized devices, in all of these cases there will be situations where most readers will shift to
Guided View in order to effectively see some particular detail on a page.
The other big upgrade to the app is an alternative to the Comixology
guided view system, named «uView.»