CELSYS Clip Studio Paint Pro

Description

CELSYS Clip Studio Paint Pro 2D drawing tool is used to create manga (Japanese-style graphic books and graphic novels), as well as comic illustrations and animations. The program is developed by CELSYS but distributed by Smith Micro and was formerly known as Manga Studio before it became Clip Studio Paint in 2015. Clip Studio Paint is available as Pro and EX, with the EX version featuring more capabilities than Pro but at a greater price.

Clip Studio Paint Pro supports a variety of image formats including JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, and Targa. The program supports Photoshop documents, IllustStudio pages, and ComicStudio pages files. It also features the Clip Studio, Clip Studio Paint formats that allow you to save your compositions in an editable format. The application is backwards compatible with Manga Studio 4 EX and 4 Debut files, allowing you to import CPG and CST files.

The program provides a variety of pens, pencils, and brushes (including brush effects) to create your illustrations. It comes with advanced coloring capabilities that include preset colors and the ability to create custom color sets and blend colors. Advanced text features allow you to adjust the spacing between letters, words, lines, and fonts. Other features include raster, vector, and correction layers, a vector toolkit to view the centerline of vectors for smoothing troubled areas, templates to save time on projects, and comic page panels that can be customized to comlement your artwork.

Clip Studio Paint Pro features an animation timeline for controlling display and timing adjustments of your animations. The program supports cel animation, also known as frame-by-frame animation, for animating characters or objects. When animating your scenes you can view several cels, or frames, at once with the onion skin display, which helps you determine how to adjust an image based on previous images in the sequence. Once you are done animating your scenes, you can export them as sequential images or GIF files.

Clip Studio Paint Pro is designed specifically for manga, comic, and graphic artists. It supports both vector and raster layers and has powerful tools. If you are looking to bring your stories and illustrations to life in comic book form, then CELSYS Clip Studio Paint Pro is a good place to start.

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