Book Image

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)

Using Framing template materials

As you may know from reading Chapter 8, Vector Layers and the Materials Palette, the Material Library has tons of useful resources that can save lots of time when working on your creative projects. Included in the Materials Library are a large number of framing templates that can be used to easily and quickly set up a comic page.

The comic panel templates can be found in the Materials Library, under the Manga Materials folder and in the Framing template sub-folder. This folder is shown in the following screenshot:

The icons on the right-hand side of the Material Library show a preview of the layout of the comic panels. To add one of these to your page, locate the desired Framing template and click on it to select it. The selection will be highlighted in blue. To add the material to your page, click on the Paste selected material to canvas icon...