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Hi all [smiley] I just got this new software called Manga Studio EX. It's this software for making manga. It has all these screentone features and such. I'm just starting to play around with it. I was just wondering if anyone here has ever used it and what they thought of it, etc.

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Never heard of it...

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I have it. What's the problem? ^^

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I have it ^_^ It was very confusing at first but I did fifnaly get the hang of it lol

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I nearly ripped my hair out trying to figure out how to put a new tone down XD It works alot differently to Photoshop and illustrator too which can be a pain ^^;

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Yeah the interface is pretty confusing. I was just wondering if anyone had tips or links to tutorials and whatnot.

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Spubba is pretty good- I think I learnt off this tutorial

It's havign issues with me embedding this tut [smiley]

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I've been thinking about checking that out, but toning is so much work already... not to mention learning to use a whole nother program. I might buy it when I have more time in my life. LOL

But if I did have the time, I'd be SO on it.

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http://www.pencilkiller.com/tutorial.html is a tutorial site. Pretty good. I personally dislike the fact that it takes up so much space. I just tone in photoshop.

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Once you get to know manga studio, it makes alot more sence

I can imaging toning in photoshop would be difficult cause of tone overlapping and erasing (I assume you use masks?)

Manga studio is ool cause it automatically masks and unmasks every tone layer you make so if you make a mistake, you don't have to match the pattern again- this is not only cool, but it means that the tone layer can ALSO be stretched, shrunk, tilted, and shifted to where-ever you want without relaying the tone- cause the MASK doesn't move, the TONE does. For this reason alone, I'd rather tone in MS

Bad points- VERY incompehensible to learn without a tut, and you need to learn the shortcuts cause there's about 5 windows you constantly need.

Good points are also that it works well with photoshop cause you can import and export to photoshop easily (you need to open programs manually so it's not automated, but that's ok) and you can convert pictures to tones too which I thought was cool. MS comes complete with a bazillion tone bases which is great once you've got a memory of WHAT tones you have to chose from, and you can change the colours of the tones to white or any colour you want- yes. Colouring in tones (would rather use photoshop at that point, but some think it's nifty- right?)

You can also do professional speed lines and zoom lines too. EASILY. MS is made SPECIFICALLY for a manga artist so the whole buis it there- I still use illustrator for speech, but that's cause it's in vectors and that's just HANDY.

Don't knock MS- I'm likeing it despite it's tough knocks. It's like Professor Mcgonagall- tough to please, but she'll stand by you till the bitter end if you play by her rules [smiley] Hope you're enjoying it BR! ^^

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As soon as I can tear myself away from coding [smiley] I'll get back to drawing and playing around with the software.

You're right about the interface being hard to use.

I already knew about the pencil killer site. I actually met the girl who owns that site in person. She was at Siggraph giving demos of the software.

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