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Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Rhodes
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Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide

By: Michael Rhodes

Overview of this book

<p>Using Manga Studio 5 to create comics is an enriching experience. Instead of using graphite and ink, we can get creative with digital marking tools. Once you've got to grips with the basic use of these tools, creating comics digitally is just as expressive and fun as creating them on paper.</p> <p>Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide is for beginner and experienced comic artists who are new to Manga Studio. The book delves into the methods of creating a comic, from an idea, character, script, and rough layouts, all the way to the finished art. No matter what character you are creating—superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy, real world, or Manga—Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide will be your go-to book for creating comics.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exporting from Manga Studio


Like with most things that relate to computers and are digital, if we have a solid foundation to work with, our work will be easier and much less frustrating. Throughout this book, we've mentioned the need to name things, whether they're layers, documents, or folders with meaningful names, names that will describe what they are better than Folder 1, Layer 1, or untitled.lip. This is where all the work in naming files and folders really shows how important this concept is. The following image shows an illustration of a folder structure used for my comic story called "The Quantumneers":

A method when organizing our work isn't just a theory or some kind of OCD thing; it's a good work habit to get into. It will save us a lot of trouble as we create more stories and artwork.

In one of my hard drives, there's a folder named Comic stories. Within this folder are many different folders that mirror the setup in the previous screenshot. The advantage of subfolders is that...