Comments on: Manga Studio vs Photoshop Part 1

By: laurie

laurie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:46 +0000

scanning and turning to blue, I find PS to be fast. I dont scan and print any larger then 100 dpi anyways. Then I scan in in solid black (auto drops blue or any light colors/pencils) 600 dpi then resize the dpi to print size. I dont see how Mstudio can be better or faster. I like PS for all its automated actions and hot keys.

Now drawing the pencils digitally, Mstudio wins for program size, pdf capabilities, and creating stories instead of single files.

Panels… like you said its kind of annoying to get working. Especially when you start with extended panels and odd shapes in Mstudio. In PS I just draw a large marquee box up to the safety area, then unselect the gutters (always eye balled this even in pencils) then stroke all on a separate layer.

I dont even like toning in Mstudio and I draw what people would call manga. (they need to fix that airbrush/ tone etching tool)

By: Barry Keegan

Barry Keegan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:30:31 +0000

Ah right cool thanks PJ

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:25:26 +0000

Hey Barry, it’s probably the subject of a post on its own, but as long as you maintain the correct aspect ratio – it doesn’t really matter what sized you draw at. Comics are, typically drawn about 40% larger than print which makes US comic size SMALLER than A3, but 2000AD page sizes slightly larger than A3 (only marginally at the left and right).

-pj

By: Barry Keegan

Barry Keegan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:15:39 +0000

PJ I loved reading this but I have one question that maybe you can answer? You print out your blue lines on A3 to ink. By my understanding American Comic book size is a little larger than A3. Are you just resizing your document to fit A3 and sacrificing a little size?

By: Matt Timson

Matt Timson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:14:34 +0000

Still toying with this…

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Photoshop vs MangaStudio Part 2 – PJ Holden::Blog — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:15:41 +0000

[...] vs MangaStudio Part 2 Part 1 (yesterday) covered everything up to the printing of a pencilled page – or at least my particular [...]

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:15:04 +0000

MS 4 EX is COMPLETELY different for colour than MS3 – in some respects, I loved the idea of MS3 but MS4 was the first version I felt I could use…

-pj

By: Terry Ricketts

Terry Ricketts — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:08:42 +0000

ah ok, i see, lol – i always have to change stuff i do so try and go vector where i can. I did have a go at manga studio but found it was a nightmare to add colour.

…another quick way to create frames is to create a layer and simply draw boxes (any colour) then set a layer style stroke to the thickness you want….then adjust the fill for that layer to 0%

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:54:58 +0000

Hi Terry, I think I’ve wrapped my head around what you’re suggesting. Suspect it’s probably more useful than mine if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m always drawing my panel borders over pre-drawn pencil layouts, meaning I never really need to correct anything…

-pj

By: Terry Ricketts

Terry Ricketts — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:33:23 +0000

Add Panel Borders – Why not use the pen tool for borders in PS, draw a box (black fill) then another one over it making sure both paths are in the same layer – select them both and hit the exclude overlapping shape areas icon, this’ll give you a nice boarder which you can change anytime with the pen tool…you can also make any shape you like.