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Index
Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz – heading
Have a go hero – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example files
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing and Setting Up Manga Studio 5
Preparing for installation
Computer requirements
Monitor
Tablets or input devices
Workspace
Installation of Manga Studio 5
Where are those files?
Starting up Manga Studio for the first time
Not your morning serial
Palettes, toolbars, and documents
The main Manga Studio 5 toolbar
Palettes
That new document template smell!
Time for action – creating a new document dialog box
What just happened?
Have a go hero – creating a new document Dialog Box
From your hand into the computer
The Wacom tablet control panel
Manga Studio 5 Stylus settings
From a blank document to a finished page
Pop Quiz
Summary
2. Messing Around with Manga Studio 5
The dreaded blank page
Time for action – making our comic book page preset
What just happened?
Making our marks
Time for action - sketching and the digital environment
What just happened?
The marking tools
Inside a marking tool
Creating our first custom pencil
Creating our custom marking tool
Time for action - duplicating an existing tool
What just happened?
Time for action – modifying the new Sketching Large pencil
What just happened?
Drawing with our new pencil tool
Duplicating sub tools
Differences between Revert and Register
Time for action – duplicating a subtool for our second pencil
What just happened?
Creating a details pencil
Time for action – making a detail pencil, our third pencil
What just happened?
What about the brush category settings?
Making a custom sub group
Making folders and saving files
Testing out the pencils
Pop quiz
Summary
3. Formatting Your Stories
Story formats
Comic strip
Comic book
Graphic novels
Publishing
Making the page presets
The comic strip
The double-decker comic strip
The comic book and graphic novel
Settings for the new document dialog box
Tabs in the canvas area
Modifying older page presets or the character sheet revisited
Time for action – modifying an existing page preset
What just happened?
Using grids for display lettering
Using text for the first time in Manga Studio
Adding content to the material palette
Time for action – making new materials
What just happened?
Have a go hero – making new materials
Pop quiz
Summary
4. Roughing It
What are roughs?
From script to panels
Time for action – breaking down the page
What just happened?
Examining a page breakdown for the sample story
Zoom in and Zoom out
Making our page
Life with layers
Know your buttons
Time for action – using layers
What just happened?
Layer properties
Drawing our rough page
Time for action – making our mark on the page
What just happened?
Using the layer color effect
Time for making actions
Time for action – making actions
What just happened?
Time for action – adding existing actions
What just happened?
Have a go hero – adding existing actions
Filling in the panel contents
Refining the roughs
Time for action – refining the line
What just happened?
The process so far
Panels in Manga Studio
Time for action – creating and setting up a frame folder layer
What just happened?
Using the cut frame border tool to make panels
Time for action – cutting frames out of the frame folder layer
What just happened?
Setting up panels in separate folders
Time for action – creating an action to create a frame folder layer
What just happened?
Have a go hero – creating an action to create a frame folder layer
Making panels separate frame folders
Time for action – making new frame folders using the cut frame border tool
What just happened?
Time for action – bleeding out to the ends of the page
Pop quiz
Summary
5. Putting Words in My Mouth
The soundtrack of comics
Got to get them all
Font formats
Comic lettering font conventions
Categories of comic fonts
Lettering in Manga Studio 5
Preparing our page for lettering
Time for action – writing the script
What just happened?
The text tool
Time for action – using the text tool
What just happened?
Text tool settings
Font category
Text category
Settings of editing category
Time for action – creating a text tool for dialogs and captions
What just happened?
Putting down text on the page
Time for action – lettering our first page
What just happened?
Adding dialog balloons and caption boxes
Time for action – making a custom dialog balloon subtool
What just happened?
Making dialog balloons on the page
Time for action – ballooning our dialog
What just happened?
Have a go hero – ballooning our dialog
Pop quiz
Summary
6. Pencil Mechanics
The hidden hand of comics
Time for action – preparing our workspace
What just happened?
Making a basic detailing pencil
Basic pencil settings
Time for action – configuring the pencil size and pressure settings
What just happened?
Time for action – configuring ink and anti-aliasing settings
What just happened?
Establishing a look for the pencil tool
Time for action – configuring brush shape categories and settings
What just happened?
Time for action – configuring correction, starting, and ending settings
What just happened?
Have a go hero – the selection tools
Making selections and working with them
Resizing panel artwork and the selection launcher
Time for action – adding a button to the selection launcher
What just happened?
Time for action – resizing a selection
What just happened?
Rulers and curves
What good are rulers?
Rulers in Manga Studio
Creating an abstract design ruler
Time for action – setting up our document and tools
What just happened?
Creating lines and curves for the design
Time for action – drawing the straight lines
What just happened?
Types of curves in Manga Studio
Time for action – making a curved ruler
What just happened?
Have a go hero – making a curved ruler
Snapping our pencils in a good way
Time for action – snapping pencils to the rulers
What just happened?
Getting some perspective
Time for action – creating a perspective ruler
What just happened?
Managing perspective and other rulers
Interface tweaks to make penciling easier and faster
Drawing with transparency and other digital benefits
Time for action – drawing with transparency
What just happened?
Layering our pencils
Unmasking masks
Time for action – setting up our layer
What just happened?
Time for action – drawing on the mask
What just happened?
Time for action – applying the mask and merging layers
What just happened?
Using reference images
Pop quiz
Summary
7. Ink Slingers
The role of inking
It's all about the lines
Inking tools in Manga Studio
Markers
Time for action – making a technical pen subtool
What just happened?
Time for action – inking basic shapes with the technical pen
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Pens
Time for action – creating an inking brush with custom pressure settings
What just happened?
Time for action – pressure settings
What just happened?
Have a go hero – pressure settings
Brushes
Time for action – using a Bit Husky brush for fine inking
What just happened?
Airbrushes
Time for action – using the airbrush for shading
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Decoration
Making a Kirby Krackle tool
Time for action – crafting a custom Kirby Krackle tool
What just happened?
Time for action – creating the brush tips
What just happened?
Time for action – adding the brush tips to the materials
What just happened?
Time for action – adding the brush tips to the brush
What just happened?
Inking our page
Setting the tones
What's so great about tones?
Time for action – locating tones in the Material palette
Time for action – preparing artwork for tones
Time for action – inking pencils with tones in mind
Time for action – applying tones to artwork
Time for action – making our own tones
What just happened?
Pop quiz
Summary
8. Coloring the World
Using the color theory for digital works
Coloring in comics is a history
Examining the color tools
Color choosers
Manga Studio's color wheel
Time for action – using Manga Studio's color wheel
What just happened?
Time for action – shortcuts for switching main and subcolors
What just happened?
Have a go hero
The approximate and intermediate color palettes
Color sets
Time for action – making a 70s comic color set
What just happened?
The eyedropper tool
Looking at colors IRL
Using the color marking tools
A process for coloring comics
Time for action – setting up our file for flats
What just happened?
Time for action – making a flatting brush
What just happened?
Coloring our flats
Making use of overflow protection
Time for action – coloring the flat color layer
What just happened?
Laying down the flat colors
Time for action – using the auto select (magic wand) tool
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Painting our comic
Time for action – tool settings for painting
Time for action – basic painting techniques for comics
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Pop quiz
Summary
9. Adding a Third "D"
3D objects in Manga Studio
A basic primer in 3D
3D in Manga Studio 5
Dealing with 3D objects
Time for action – placing and manipulating a 3D material
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Using a 3D mannequin
Time for action – posing the 3D mannequin
What just happened?
Have a go hero – posing the 3D mannequin
Time for action – making a scene
What just happened?
Have a go hero – making a scene
Manga Studio's 3D features and the future
Pop quiz
Summary
10. Caring about Sharing
Art is just part of the process
Exporting from Manga Studio
Paper or pixels
Proofing and reviewing the work
Tips and hints about spelling and grammar
Printing our comic
Using our home printer
Time for action – setting up printing at home
What just happened?
Using a copy store
Time for action – exporting for copy stores
What just happened?
Going for print on demand
Web comics and other Internet graphics
Time for action – exporting for the Web
What just happened?
Other ways to display
CBZ and CBR
PDF
ePub
Applications other than Manga Studio
Getting the word (and pictures) out
Keeping the momentum
Pop quiz
Summary
11. One More Thing
Manga Studio 5 EX
Stories
Time for action – starting a story
What just happened?
Time for action – the Page Manager window
What just happened?
Have a go hero – story properties
Batch operations
Import
Time for action – using the batch import
What just happened?
Have a go hero – using the batch import
Export
Time for action – using the batch export on our comic
What just happened?
Process
Time for action – batch processing a story
What just happened?
Have a go hero – batch processing a story
Wrapping up the Story menu
Pop quiz
Summary
A. Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 1, Installing and Setting Up Manga Studio 5
Pop quiz
Chapter 2, Messing Around with Manga Studio
Pop quiz
Chapter 3, Formatting Your Stories
Pop quiz
Chapter 4, Roughing It
Pop quiz
Chapter 5, Putting Words in My Mouth
Pop quiz
Chapter 6, Pencil Mechanics
Pop quiz
Chapter 7, Ink Slingers
Pop quiz
Chapter 8, Coloring the World
Pop quiz
Chapter 9, Adding a Third "D"
Pop quiz
Chapter 10, Caring about Sharing
Pop quiz
Chapter 11, One More Thing
Pop quiz
Index
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