![]() ![]() This doesn’t appear to slow down my machine at all. Draw a ruler anywhere that will mirror the image in real-time.Similar to Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Manga Studio 5 has some great symmetrical rulers. You can configure this brush just like any other, with different brush shapes and pressure settings.Great for painting lots of tiny highlights (when coloring with comic book style). This is a special brush that instantly makes your stroke (or strokes if you hold down shift) into a marquee selection.Great for quickly deleting large areas (when painting with transparency).Great for blocking in large areas of black or color.Great for making smooth, irregular shapes when the Stabilization is set very high.As soon as you are done drawing the shape, it fills with your foreground color automatically onto the canvas. This tool can be a free-form lasso, a polygon lasso, or a specific shape. And the same concept works for the paint bucket, along with other tools. Reference Layers in Manga Studio save me so much time. In Adobe Photoshop, I would have to constantly hide my color layer, switch to my flats layer, make the selection, unhide my color layer, switch back to the color layer, and paint. Now, as I color, I can quickly switch between the magic wand and my brush, and the magic wand makes selections based on the Flat layer. Comic book artists refer to these as “Flats.” Then I create a new layer above the Flats, and set the Flats as a reference layer. I create a flat color layer under my lineart, with no shading. Now, watch in amazement as the paint bucket fills, the wand selects, the eyedropper… uh, drops using data not from the layer you are editing, but from the reference layer!So what is this useful for? I use it all the time when coloring artwork.Choose a tool such as the magic wand, paintbucket, or eye-dropper, and make sure it is set to “Refer To Reference Layer.”.Choose any layer (or even a group of layers) to act as the Reference Layer by clicking the lighthouse icon in the layer menu.Reference layers are an incredible concept, that I’ve never experience before in any other program. Reference layers – extremely helpful tool when coloring.Great for cleaning up linework, inking with “white,” and “erasing” away paint strokes that you laid on too heavy. Manga Studio 5 easily lets you switch to transparency as a color on the fly, making any brush instantly into an eraser.Paint with Transparency – my favorite feature.Manga Studio 5 is currently only $35 on : Purchase it Here.But even at that price, it still ends up being $120/year. I’m currently using the Adobe Creative Cloud, Photographer’s bundle, which is only $10 a month (hard to complain about that).It’s hard to compile a benefits list without mentioning the fact that it’s butt-loads cheaper than Adobe Photoshop. ![]() What’s Totally Freaking Awesome About M anga Studio 5 Features that you won’t find in Adobe Photoshop Here’s a sample of some of the artwork I created in Manga Studio 5: ![]() It blends the intuitive painting and blending engines of Corel Painter with Adobe Photoshop’s intuitive interface and power. I find it far more enjoyable to use than Photoshop at painting, drawing, and especially inking. Manga Studio 5 sets out to out-shine Adobe Photoshop as a digital painting and drawing software, and in my opinion, it does that beautifully. I usually use Adobe Photoshop for any work involving text, and for certain filters. That being said, I use Manga Studio for 90% of all the artwork I create. Can it replace it? Maybe someday – but for now I think Adobe Photoshop is irreplaceable. There are a TON of things that Manga Studio does better than Adobe Photoshop. Watch the Full Video Review: In Sum mary: Manga Studio 5 Compared to Adobe Photoshop: If you’re considering purchasing new art software, you’ll definitely want to check this out. There are so many cool new tools and features in MS5, that it was really hard to fit them all in. I set out to make a quick YouTube review of it, and “quick” quickly turned into over 15 minutes of me rambling. I’ve been using Manga Studio 5 for over a year now, and I love it. Mascot Character Designs and Concept Art.
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