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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By : Liz Staley
Book Image

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)

What are frame border layers?

As stated in the introduction to this chapter, frame border layers are what Clip Studio Paint calls the specific type of layers that it makes comic panels from. Panels in comics are like shots in a movie or TV show. They contain the action and can also give a sense of the amount of time that's passed or how much weight the action contains. Panels can also bring lots of drama and excitement to a page, and can lead the reader's eye around the composition, telling them what is important and what they should be looking at.

Panel layouts can be straightforward or much more exciting. Let's take a look at a few comic panel examples, along with the way that their frame border layers are laid out in the Layer palette. All of the examples are taken from Chapter 18 of my comic, Adrastus.

Here is the first example:

In the preceding example,...