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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By : Liz Staley
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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By: Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Clip Studio Paint, the successor to Manga Studio, is used by over four million illustrators and comic creators around the world. This book will guide you through every step of learning this software, from system requirements and installation, all the way through to exporting your work for print or the web. Learn how to create new documents, customize tools to fit your working style, use ruler tools to create anything from straight lines to intricate backgrounds, add 3D elements, create comic panels using the specialized panel tools, utilize screentones and materials, add text and word balloons to your comics, create sound effects, easily flat and color your comics using reference layers, and bring your drawings to life using the animation features. By the end of this book, you will be able to navigate the Clip Studio Interface and program preferences, customize the various tools, and be able to create your own black-and-white and color illustrations and comics from start to finish.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Making Comic Panels

Clip Studio Paint is a program made with comic and manga artists in mind. As such, it has many features that are useful to comic artists, such as the screentone materials and the ability to easily create word balloons.

Also included for comic artists are a variety of tools and options for making frame border Layers. These frame borders make comic panels – the individual boxes that each piece of sequential art in a story is drawn inside of. These frame border layers can be created easily, edited in just a few clicks, and even set to mask out any content outside of the panel – which makes for a much easier drawing experience.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

  • What are frame border layers?
  • Creating frames
  • One layer and many panels, or one layer for each panel?
  • Dividing and editing panels
  • Using Framing template materials

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