Settings/Anti-Aliasing: Turn down to “Little” or “None” You may want to duplicate and/or export a brush before Here are aįew of the best ones to modify: (Note: the look and behavior of brushes Some are more processor-intensive than others. The Tool Settings window is a wealth of options forĬustomizing brushes. Your brushes may take it personally, but remember you’re in charge here. Position of Reversed Cursor: Make sure to check “NoĪfter changing preferences, it’s a good idea to Recognizing new object…”) by 100 ms, but I haven’t figured out what that does exactly… You could also turn up that long-titled setting (“Delay before Try taking it down 10-15 notches fromĭefault.
Settings: Change from 1 to 6 (I believe this option is Mac Gotta love cringing through those high schoolĮasier than changing your mind, and quicker too.Ĭheck under the hood of Manga Studio’s Preferencesįor a few speed boosts. Guess that rules out Spotify, but then there’s always ye olde Zune. Performance, but even leaving browsers open can slow things down, so best to just close it up. Streaming audio/video will drastically reduce Save your computer’s processor by quitting RAM-hoggingĪpps and tasks while painting. Yup, I’m behind the times.)īye bye, YouTube.
For what it’s worth, I’m running Manga Studio 5.0.3 on Mac OS 10.7.5.
On Windows or if you’re running the Clip Studio Paint branding of the software. Here’s a troubleshooting guide for Manga Studio if your tools are acting like molasses. Lagging brushes are an occasional problem in any But sometimes cel shading by itself is a little, well… flat. Make sure to go through and check for/manually fill in any little corners or pointed ends the fill tool couldn’t reach.ģ) Mixing gradients/airbrushing with cel shading. Here’s an example, as well as the settings you will need (I use Manga Studio 5 EX, they should be the same for Clip Studio Paint):Īs long as you’ve got closed off line work (if not, close off the gaps on your flats layer, it’ll work just the same), it should work for most of your coloring. Once I figured out to do this, it sped up the process A. (Note to self: make palette charts for background elements that come up a lot, like those darn bus seats haha)Ģ) Make flatting go by way quicker with the fill tool. The three brown colors on the left are my palette for the lighting and shading. If you have characters, objects, types of lighting, whatever that’s going to be showing up frequently, make something you can keep off to the side and Eyedropper to keep things consistent.įirst thing Atrox did before we started working on pages was made references for Sarah and Celie for both our benefits! I originally just grabbed colors off these, but even that proved to get kind of tedious, so I eventually made the charts below it. The only real difference is that handles the everything outside of the coloring in OtL, but his process for that stuff is pretty similar to mine.ġ) Palettes. I made a post about this a while ago using a page from a short side-story I did called The Ribbon and the Faerie actually! (Click on the pictures for a better look and a more detailed caption). If you want to fix it on your installation, modify the material “Simple frill”. * The non-working brush shown here is actually one of the pre-made ones. If you already knew this, cool if you didn’t, now you do.
I spent a while scratching my head over this today it’s not in the manual and it sure doesn’t seem to be common knowledge. This will work if you only need to be able to paint with the main color, but it disables any use of Combine Modes and locks you out of the sub color. I have seen (and previously employed) the following workaround: Make sure the Expression Color of the layer or image you’re creating your brush tip from is set to either Gray or Monochrome. The premade brushes* pick up the main and sub colors, but yours stay black (and/or white). But if you decided to create your own brushes with your own custom brush tips, you may have run into the following problem:
In MS5, there are some premade brushes that pick up the main and sub colors.