Difference between manga studio 4 debut and ex

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You need to nail that circle in one line and if you're varying the weight of the line along the way, you have to think in two directions at once. The biggest problem I've had so far is in drawing longer lines, particularly circular shapes. ( See my 'Paper' app review earlier this year.) Higher-end tablets include more sensitivity than mine, but there's enough there for me to be dangerous. The Wacom tablet I use is pressure-sensitive, which puts it leagues ahead of the iPad, where apps compensate for lack of pressure sensitivity by tracking your speed and adjusting the line accordingly. That problem gets doubled with digital inking, I think. Doing it with a brush gives the best results, but they're harder to handle and learn properly. Every thickness counts for something, and every line can be used to show depth in subtle ways.

Suddenly, your art is whittled down to the essential lines, and every one counts. The second you lay down a solid black line, though, that forgiveness is gone. The looser the line, the easier it is to get away with mistakes. Taking out a pencil and loosely sketching something is easy. I've always known that, but walking a quarter mile in their shoes is enough to give me a headache. If nothing else, Manga Studio will give you new respect for inkers. It's stupidly simple: Push the button on the layer and all your light black pencil work becomes a light blue color, so it'll be easier to ink over. There's a neat trick to turning all the pencil art into blue line art. They've thought through to the small things that show comic book fans that SmithMicro understands its audience well. For a webcomic, though, it'll be fine if done as a large size to begin with. I haven't played with the mechanics of lettering too much yet, but it's not vector-based, so it couldn't possibly live up to Illustrator for industry standard quality. There is a lot of repetition across emotions, but there are enough overwhelming differences to make this option attractive. That's coming from the manga world, and it's brilliant.

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The lettering section offers a series of balloon shapes to pick from, organized by the emotional state of a character. The sample format I've seen are nice grid layouts, two or three or four tiers, depending on how many panels you're looking for. You can always lay them out however you wish.

Tell it how may panels you want in your page, and it'll give you several examples to pick from, if you need the help. The panel borders process even has things built in to help organize your layers and eliminate lines from bleeding out. There's a Beginner's Mode that makes this all the more apparant, but you can walk through the process with steps that take you from first sketches to finished inks, then tones, panel borders, lettering, and more. More importantly, the workflow is tailored to comics creators. You can lay out page numbers as you like, as well as some meta-data. You can add pages to a project, so that your final comic is one big file containing all 22 pages, or however many you wish to use. The pages are adjustable and you can even adjust the safe areas, too. Each page includes the blue lines for show the guaranteed print boundaries (the safe areas). These files are laid out as comic book projects. You're not just drawing on blank canvases. The program is laid out specifically to create comics, as its name no doubt clued you in. If I had to relearn all those commands from scratch, my initial impressions of the program would be a little more frustrated. Circling through the drawing tools with the 'P' key and adjusting their sizes with '' are huge jumpstarts. The layers window is laid out the same way, though with its own functionality that's specific to Manga Studio. There's even a tool palette that's laid out similarly to Photoshop or Illustrator.

Many of the keyboard shortcuts are the same, and the modular window system will be familiar. If you're familiar with Photoshop, you'll have a jumpstart on Manga Studio 4 Debut. You need to provide your own art skills, though.

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And while some of the limitations of this hobbyist version of the program are frustrating, it is still packed full of features and is well thought out from start to finish. It's built to specifically make comics, but blends in lots of the kinds of general tools you're used to from other drawing apps.

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Manga Studio 4 Debut ( SmithMicro Software, $49.99) is the consumer friendly entry-level comic book creation program for both PC and Mac.

Difference between manga studio 4 debut and ex