> ## Knowledge Base Index
> Fetch the complete knowledge base index at: https://help.comicink.ai/sitemap.xml
> Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further.
> Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash).

# Page Layout and Panels

**There is no "Page Layout" setting in ComicInk, and no Grid / Dynamic / Cinematic switch.** If you have been told to change one — by another AI tool, a tutorial, or a blog post — that setting does not exist here.

That is not a gap in the product so much as a different design. The shape of a page comes from the **script**: how many panels the page has, and what each panel's description says. Change those and the page changes. There is nothing else to set.

## How to get the look you want

**Fewer, wider panels read as cinematic.** A page with three panels, each described with wide framing, produces a filmic page. Write descriptions like *"wide establishing shot, low horizon, the city stretching to the edges"* and you get a letterbox panel.

**More, evenly-sized panels read as a grid.** Six or nine panels on a page, each a similar kind of shot, gives the formal, steady rhythm of a grid page.

**Mixing panel counts across pages creates pace.** A six-panel page followed by a one-panel page makes that single panel land hard. This is the main rhythm tool you have, and it costs nothing to try — editing a script is free.

**One panel is a splash page.** Give the page a single panel and describe it as the full-page image it is.

To change any of this, open the [Advanced Script Editor](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/the-advanced-script-editor-1r66589/), and add, remove or rewrite panels. You can also ask [Sidekick](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/sidekick-your-ai-collaborator-1dct3ek/) — *"make page 4 a single splash panel"* or *"split page 2 into six panels"* — and it will restructure the script for you.

## What the layout terms mean

These are real comics terms. They describe pages, not settings, and they are worth knowing because they are how artists talk about pacing.

**Grid** — every panel the same size in a fixed matrix, usually 3×3 or 2×3. *Watchmen* is drawn on a nine-panel grid from beginning to end; the regularity is the point, giving the story a steady, inevitable beat.

**Dynamic** — panels vary in size, shape and angle, and art sometimes breaks out past the borders. Panel shape carries meaning here: a tall narrow panel slows a moment down, a tilted one puts the reader off balance. This is the default grammar of modern comics.

**Cinematic / widescreen** — wide, short panels, fewer to a page, with the story spread across more pages. Often called "decompressed" storytelling. It reads like film, and it costs more pages to tell the same events.

**Splash** — a single image filling the whole page. Used for arrivals, reveals and endings.

**Montage** — overlapping fragments sharing one background. Good for compressed time, memory, or a rush of events.

## Art styles are a separate thing

Layout is the arrangement of panels. **Art style** is how the drawing looks, and that *is* a setting — chosen when you create a comic, and changeable later. ComicInk has twelve:

American Comics · Manga · Manhwa · European BD · Cartoon · Realistic · Noir · Watercolor · Digital Art · Vintage/Retro · Chibi · Pixel Art

There is no style called "Modern Graphic Novel". For that kind of look, **American Comics**, **Noir**, **Realistic** or **European BD** are the closest. See [choosing an art style](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/choosing-an-art-style-2ctuxj/).

## Why there is no layout switch

A layout setting would have to decide panel shapes before knowing what is in them, and a page's shape should follow its content — a fight page and a conversation page want different structures even in the same issue. Describing the panels you want gets you closer to the page you imagined than picking a preset would, and it works at the level where you are already making decisions: the script.