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Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

By : Liz Staley
Book Image

Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

By: Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Manga Studio Ex 5 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making focus lines with the Dense saturated line tool


What if we need lots and lots of thin focus lines? The Dense saturated line tool is the go-to tool for that job!

Getting ready

You will need an open file to work in. The size and resolution don't matter.

How to do it…

The following steps will teach us how to use the Scattered saturated line tool:

  1. Select the Figure(U) tool from the toolbox. Then go to Saturated line | Dense saturated line.

  2. Click on the spot where you want all the lines to radiate from and hold down the mouse button.

  3. While still holding down the mouse button, drag out to form an ellipse around the area to focus on. In the following screenshot, the lines will be focused on the character's face. Because this tool makes such dense lines, I try to go a long way around the area that I want the focus to be on so that it doesn't get obscured by the lines.

  4. Release the mouse button to generate the lines.

How it works…

This tool also generates our focus lines based on a circle, just like...