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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

Importing a palette from Photoshop


Perhaps you've been using Adobe Photoshop to create your art and you are just switching to Manga Studio 5. There's no reason you can't take your custom color swatches with you, though! In this recipe, we'll import Photoshop color swatches into the color sets in Manga Studio 5.

Getting ready

You'll need to save your Photoshop swatches as an .aco file before completing this recipe. Go to the Swatches palette in Photoshop and click on the menu (it will likely be in the upper-right corner, depending on which version of Photoshop you have). Next, click on Save Swatches in the menu. Save the .aco file in a folder on your computer, with a descriptive name.

At times, you can find pre-made .aco files available for download on the Internet.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to import a color swatch set from Adobe Photoshop to Manga Studio 5:

  1. Open the Color Set palette. It can be found by navigating to Window | Color Set.

  2. Click on the menu icon, circled...