Are you a comic book lover? Maybe you’re already involved in the creation of comic books. Or perhaps you’ve always dreamed about making your own comic or graphic novel. If so, you’ll definitely want to check out Manga Studio Pro 5, the newly released comic creation software by Smith Micro. If you’re thinking that Manga Studio only allows for the creation of comic books in the manga style, think again. Whatever your style, you can use Manga Studio to create it. Perhaps a better name for it would be “Comic Studio Pro” since you can work in any style. Then again, considering that the program was developed in Japan, perhaps Manga is the right name after all.
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- One brush pen and two pencil brushes for Manga Studio 5 and Clip Studio Paint. I've been toying with these for the past two years and use these brushes almost exclusively in my illustration work. Use the sketchy pencil to compose your image, the soft pencil to plan details, and the brush pen for a smooth, natural finish.
Clip Studio Paint aka Manga Studio 5 does not natively support color management and if you intend to make professional print jobs that require CMYK as color space, it’s good to be aware of this limitation. Clip Studio Paint is optimized for drawing and painting, making it ideal for illustrators. The painting brushes are highly customizable and easy to use. There's a thriving community of users who constantly contribute to the online materials library. Clip Studio Paint is. Please Note: Manga Studio 5 was rebranded to Clip Studio Paint by the creator, Celsys. The two application titles had always shared the same features, function, and performance. Only the Title and Activation Process is different. The two Titles have now been merged into the single title of Clip Studio.
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Smith Micro also publishes a remarkably versatile 2D animation software application called Anime Studio Pro, a program I think has a lot of creative potential, thanks to its spline based animation capabilities and skeletal bones system. It’s a good choice for anyone who wishes to do 2D character animation. Once again, don’t get thrown by the name used, the app is flexible and won’t hold you to the style of Anime.
Manga Studio 5
Recently, Smith Micro representatives gave me a demo of Manga Studio 5. What first impressed me was that the software contained a complete creative environment for developing comic books. The app includes advanced painting tools with customizable brushes; steady stroke stabilization; vector tools with a variety of spline types to choose from; and Photoshop style layers with things like masking and opacity. Naturally, lettering capabilities are included in the program. I also liked Manga Studio 5’s redesigned user interface, which seems like it should be more intuitive for new users to take up.
Another feature that I appreciated is that the app contains fully articulated 3D humanoid forms that you can easily pose and use as reference. Here’s how you might use this approach: After posing the model, you can move in for close ups or rotate the view until you get the exact framing and angle you desire. Then, paint over it to create your art and simply hide or delete the 3D model when you’re finished. The models helpfully contain guidelines on their surfaces that you can use to properly position key anatomical features. This approach definitely beats having one of those old fashioned wooden figures that I always thought were much too stiff to work with.
Manga Studio Pro also contains a couple of textured Manga-style characters–a boy and a girl–that you can use in your story. Perhaps in the future, more characters will become available. Then you’ll have the option assemble entire comics from pre-defined characters that you drag and drop onto painted backgrounds, posing and rotating them into position. Add some lettering and you’ve got yourself a comic book.
If 3D is not your strong point, you can attach a Qumarion to your computer and pose Manga Studio 5’s 3D models with it. Don’t know what a Qumarion is you say? Don’t worry, I didn’t either until Fahim Niaz, senior product manager for Smith Micro Software, showed me one. Qumarion is a mannequin developed in Japan that you can use to pose 3D models. With some 32 sensors across its16 body joints, the Qumarion device translates that data and sends it to the computer via USB. Just rotate the arm of the Qumarion and the arm of the model rotates. Move the Qumarion’s leg, and the leg moves. I’m pretty comfortable navigating my way around 3D space, so I probably won’t need one. But it is tempting since the thing looks darn cool.
For the occasion of Manga Studio 5’s release on January 29, Smith Micro will unveil a limited edition printed poster created by Ethan Nicolle, a Manga Studio artist and creator of Axe Cop, an online web comic series. You might also want to check out the online contest which offers a chance to win a signed copy of the print, as well as a Wacom Cintiq tablet, a must have tool for creating comics in Manga Studio 5. To enter the contest, visit here.
One more thing you’re sure to like about Manga Studio 5 is the price: $79.99. Not bad for a piece of software that lets you design, create and publish professional quality comic books. According to Niaz, Manga Studio is becoming an industry standard in many comic book publishing companies. If you’re into comics or graphic novels, that might be the inspiration you need.
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2015/04/16Update 23.10.2017: Some people in Twitter suspected that since this is an article written in 2015, things in CSP might have changed, that some improvements has been made. Fear not! 😉 Tested it today and the program handles things as well or rather badly as before.
Clip Studio Paint aka Manga Studio 5 does not natively support color management and if you intend to make professional print jobs that require CMYK as color space, it’s good to be aware of this limitation. I’m no expert in this field; this article looks at how I deal with Manga Studio, and I’d love to get comments on how others tackle the problem. Are there better solutions?
Note to Finnish readers/Huom suomalainen lukija: Tämä artikkeli on käännös, voit lukea jutun suomeksi tästä.
You can make some tests yourself, if you own also for example Photoshop. Start by setting up both programs color options the same way. These are also good general settings if you want to make print jobs with your programs. (-> here in Europe. But always ask your printer- they might want you to use a different/their own profile)
In Manga Studio go to File/Preferences/Color conversion
And in Photoshop Edit/Color settings
The Rendering intent is by default Perceptual in MS. I tend to use Relative colometrics in PS because it maintains more of the original colors in the image than Perceptual. But there is no possibility to set black point compensation in MS that Relative colometrics needs, so I’ll ”settle” for Perceptual in both programs. (And the difference is usually not that big which ever intent of the two you use.)
If you open up an image in MS and don’t make sure that the profile attached to it is in preview use, the colors will appear wrong. Take a look at the two images below. The first one is opened in PS (image has AdobeRGB profile) and colors are as they should. The image beneath it is opened in MS without activating the preview profile. Colors appear clearly muddy and too dark.
You have to activate the color profile preview every time from View/Color profile/Preview. From the Preview settings above it, you can set which profile you need. You’ll know the profile is in use with your image if you can see its name in the head of your image.
And here’s our example image with profile preview in MS. Looking better:
If your intention is to color in MS using precise CMYK values, be aware that color values change in images made in & exported from MS. They change even if you use CMYK-values to coloring, use a certain CMYK color profile preview and export with that certain CMYK profile. For example a pure Cyan (100, 0, 0, 0) gets other values with it as well when exported. Party animals rugrats.
MS just can’t handle CMYK colors. If you open a CMYK-image made in Photoshop in MS, it will always be converted to RGB at import. (You get a warning window from MS). If you want to convert it back to CMYK, you have to do so by exporting the image. This is never good for the colors in your picture.
Manga Studio 5 Cmyk Color Chart
Mixing of color values never happens in PS, color values are preserved as they were when made, if you work consistently with a certain CMYK profile. I personally like coloring illustrations directly in CMYK-space using my Pantone color reference cards. And by doing so I have to be able to trust that a program does not change those values by it self randomly.
I nearly recommended using the free Krita for coloring, but noticed that it has the problem that you can’t set up CMYK-values by percentage (as color reference books do) but on a scale from 0-255, where pure cyan is 255 and other values 0. Converting every color from these values to % is a too big and slow job. Which is a pity, because images exported from Krita maintain their color values. The cyan mentioned is still pure cyan when opened in PS.
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If I absolutely wanted to do my coloring in MS in CMYK, I would not even try to mix any colors by any predefined values. (You can try it yourself: make a simple Magenta 0/100/0/0 or Cyan 100/0/0/0 and export it. Then check those values in Photoshop, and you’ll notice that for example the cyan is now a mix of cyan and magenta… So, no. I’d paint by ”eye” (ie just mix colors that please me on the screen) and then try to get my hands on PS or some other reliable program with color management and check the results for at least couple of the first jobs.
A good, even better solution is to do the coloring in MS in RGB-space and then export the image as CMYK. By using this method, there is no difference in doing this in Photoshop or doing this in Manga Studio. It would be good though to have a calibrated monitor and remember that it is not possible to print all RGB colors with the CMYK process. Avoid for example very saturated colors as they will propably get muted.
Here’s a RGB image made in Photoshop
And here are the CMYK versions made of it. On the right is Manga Studios version and on the left Photoshops version (a CMYK screen proof of each) :
Exactly the same when measured with the color picker.
I will post a real world example of coloring an illustration in Manga Studio in RGB and how to export it to CMYK in my next article.
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