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Chapter 1Getting to Know Manga StudioIn This Chapter Understanding what Manga Studio can and can’t do Getting familiar with the Manga Studio workspa

Table 1-2 (continued)Icon Name DescriptionCustom Zoom Allows you to manually enter the size of the viewing area by percentage.Fit to Window Resizes th

Icon Name DescriptionSnap to Snaps drawing tool to any focus line rulers Focus Line on the page.Rulers *Snap to Snaps drawing tool to any parallel

You can access any of the tools from your keyboard by pressing the shortcutkey noted in Table 1-3. As you go through the table, you’ll notice that som

Icon Name Shortcut DescriptionMarker P Used for inking a drawing.Eraser E Used to erase a drawing.Fill G Fills an enclosed area of a drawing with fore

Exploring various palettesWhile the Tools palette is probably the one you’ll use the most in MangaStudio, it isn’t the only one available. When you op

LayersLooking at the Layers palette, you can see a whole slew of layer types thatyou can (and probably will) use as you create your pages. The Layers

The History palette keeps track of a set number of previous actions (whichyou can set in the System Preferences of the program) in a list. You just lo

Custom Tools (EX only)While the Tools palette provides all your important drawing tools, EX userscan take that idea a bit further. The Custom Tools pa

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Finding out what Manga Studio can do for youOver the years of producing art digitally, I’ve tried out a lot of different pro-grams. Each program would

What I found when working in Manga Studio is that comfort level. It was thefirst program that I felt let me take advantage of the digital medium, whil

Having thousands of screentones at your disposalManga Studio comes preinstalled with thousands of screentones (patterns ofdots or other shapes that ar

Knowing what Manga Studio can’t do (easily)The one thing Manga Studio can’t do, at least as easily as other drawing programs can, is color work. That’

or shrink your artwork to whatever size you need, without any loss ofquality. (The Debut version, by comparison, is raster-based only. Thismeans that

This is as good a time as any to familiarize yourself with the basic tools, func-tions, and palettes that you’ll be using in Manga Studio. You’re goin

Table 1-1 (continued)Icon Name DescriptionSave All Saves all of your open Manga Studio files.Cut Cuts a selection from the page to the computer’s clip

Icon Name DescriptionGray Opens/hides the Gray palette.palette *Materials Opens/hides the Materials palette.palette *Custom Opens/hides the Custom