One feature I really like that no other app has is the ability to paint with edge detection. So instead of using layers or selecting boundaries, it can automatically detect your line work and won't let the paint go beyond it. It feels like coloring within the lines naturally and is very enjoyable.
Fun fact, the original name for Clip Studio Paint was NOT Manga Studio. Clip Studio Paint is the original name. "Manga Studio" was a rebranding of a string of unrelated but kind-of-related programs made by the Japanese company Celsys. E Frontier and then SmithMicro rebranded them as part of their North American localization deal. Clip Studio Paint 1.0 was the first version of this brand new program in 2013. But SmithMicro rebranded it as "Manga Studio 5", because it was similar to the other programs they previously rebranded. The deal has since expired and Celsys now does localization under their own name. That means it's just "Clip Studio Paint" for everyone, whether you use freedom units or not.
well Clip Studio came from the merge of Comic Studio (A.K.A Manga Studio 1/2/3/4) and Illust Studio (only Japan) and recently they added parts of RETAS (Animation)
Vector Layers are life changers!! I didn't use them for a while, but when I finally understood how to use them it made a huge diference in my art. It made it so much easier to edit my line art without completely redrawing it
Let me clarify something about the software. Clip Studio was originally called "Comic Studio", and was created in the early 1990s by a company called "Celsys" in japan, the creators of Retas pro, which still used in anime studios. A use company called Smith Micro licensed Comic Studio and re-branded it as "Manga Studio" and their last version under that name was Manga Studio 4 or 5. In Japan Celsys killed Retas Pro and merged Retas with Comic Studio and re-branded it as Clip Studio Art. the rest is self explanatory
One thing to mention is that Clip on PC or Mac is a one-time purchase, whereas the mobile versions charge a subscription fee. You can still draw in the mobile versions for free, but you'll be unable to save anything.
Your videos are always so interesting! You actually helped me to get back into digital art! I had been watching a ton of videos on what to buy to start and had spent several hours across several days trying to decide and it was finally your video on the Surface Laptop Studio follow up that gave me exactly what I was looking for! I purchased it and have been practicing as I've been a physical medium user my whole life and drawing digitally is a bit of a learning curve but I also purchased your class and it has helped me as well! I just wanted to say thank you so much for creating such accessible and wonderful content! It is inspiring and helps give people like me the inspiration to try things they've been wanting to for years but didn't know where to start. 💜
You like that reference-paint bucket tool? WELL GOOD NEWS: You can do the same thing with the wand tool, so you can wand tool the same way you were paint bucket-ing but without randomly filling everything on a lower-ref-sensitivity setting. Yes, even click-n-drag.
Also one thing I love about CSP is that its not a heavy software. It works smooth even with my laptop unplugged to the charger. Photoshop tends to lag and crash a lot especially if you are using it on a laptop without connecting the charger.
#11: It comes with a fully-featured vectorial speech bubble tool. And you can even create favorite lists of fonts so that only the installed fonts you actually need show up (I'd really like that in Photoshop to be honest), no more spending half an hour looking for that special font.
So i started watching you yesterday when i got my tab s6 lite, and i tried ALOT of apps, i have clip studio for pc (gifted by a friend) and so i was looking for something i didnt have to re buy as i didnt realize the monthly subscription was as cheap as it was, and nothing compared to clip studio, i ended up signing up for it again today using my own email discovered i could get a free 3 month trial and i jumped right in knew how to use it knew my way around it and it just felt so familiar and comfortable to use!
I have this program and I've yet to really dig into it. That stuff about the frames and divisions blew my mindddddd. I'm sooo excited for my next project (if any, haha)!!
Love your videos! (I bought the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 plus last month partly based on them!) :) Right away, downloaded the six month free trial of Clip Studio Paint. Been having a blast ever since! Surprised at how good it is even for "classical" artwork that I do, and is very "painterly". Thanks for all the work you do and the info you provide!
Hello, I'm still between buying the galaxy or ipad... and Im stuck between procreate and paintsudio... I read your content and would like to know if you have also researched ipad and procreate before buying your galaxy.
Started with OpenCanvas way back in the 2000's then moved on to Sai pain about 10 years ago. Just started using CSP now. It's really a great art program!
Excited for this series! Man i really gotta dig into learning csp more. All those features! This was definitely helpful learning some of them, thank you
Man! CSP is awesome. I was *so* on board when it was announced, there wasn't even a board. -I bought a Japanese version, (which wasn't easy back when Google web page translate wasn't a thing), and had to run an insane fan-made English hack to make the menus readable. Good times! It's so nice to see how the program has grown and become very stable. It never crashes now! Pretty amazing. CSP rocks, -though it's still missing a couple of pretty basic selection features for some reason. Meanwhile, I'm still hoping that Paint Tool SAI 2 (with touch) comes into being; its brush engine is actually superior to the one in CSP...! (I know, eh?) But SAI is written and published by a single guy who is no longer piss & vinegar in his 20's, so I feel like it may never happen. Though.., he still updates the beta package every few months with little changes... I'm only waiting for one big update... It just needs a finger touch interface and it'll be a major contender for best drawing package. -If he wants it to be. It's small and efficient as hell; the whole package is only a couple of megabytes big, and it's as full-featured as any big name brand. If he ports it to Android and charges a couple bucks.., he'd be a very wealthy man. I'm keeping my hopes alive.
I really love Clip Studio Paint: I've the EX version both on my PCs and my iPad Pro, I actually use only it, because in it I can find everything I need. ❤️
The vector capabilities are the thing that keeps hitting me to buy a license, because every other app I use for work (Krita, blender and opentoonz, with the last one having vector based drawing almost good, but stills meh) has what I want
Inkscape is the best free vector program. And since 1.0 the UI has drastically improved (the development version, 1.1 is even better). It looks like a professional piece of software now. I suspect that it wouldn't go into an animators workflow very well though.
I’ve only been using CSP since June 2021 but it’s quickly become my favourite drawing software 😂 I even caved and bought a separate license for CSP on my iPad
Great video, very informative... just got clip studio and this helped out a lot as feeling my way around the program. I'll definitely be checking out all your other videos about clip, thanks
I have been using Clip Studio for almost a year now and I didn't know most of that stuff! Thanks for this video! I'm going to be using that reference layer thing ALL THE TIME.
I tried out the colorize tool but accidently picked the wrong layer on my portrait drawing... and I believe I will now have nightmares about mounstrous figure it turned my drawing into 😅
If you're filling in linework for example you don't need to set a reference layer. If you set the fill tool to refer to other layers it just refers to every visible layer
My dad got me a xpen innovator 16 for Christmas and got me the Ex version of the program, and it’s amazing! My absolute favorite things about it are the vector eraser (MY LORD AND SAVIOR.) the free 3D models, and how it has an animation feature.
Finally I can make pro level artwork with huge files and up to 60 layers on my tab S4 with almost 0 problems...this app is the best if you're on android
I’m transferring over from drawing on an Ipad gen6 and procreate to a refurbished wacom cintiq and csp and the learning curve is hugeee, but I think it’ll be worth it.
A Japanese user name K96 on the Assets store made this: assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1759448 Will help paint your local colours even faster (with the help of the reference layer) with the lasso tool
I like the program too. Although getting it on tablet means a new license and monthly payments, where as desktop is just a one time payment. Having one means you still need the other, licenses don't transfer over.
I usually hate subscriptions but for only $20/year, that is a good buy. I used the 6 month free trial and think I will pay the $20 because I really like the software.
Thanks for making this video! I like that the way you explain stuff seems to be beginner friendly! While I do want to try Krita, I had been thinking about getting CSP EX.
The way you demonstrated, the fill bucket will actually reference ALL other layers, not just the reference layer. If you want to reference just the reference layer, you have to go into the tool properties and under "refer multiple layers," select "reference layer"
I have been using iPad 6th Gen. At times I get some freelance job that required 300dpi and size larger than A4. I use Procreate most of the time, and the larger the size the less layers I am able to have on Procreate. Sometimes I can't even create the large size that the client required in Procreate. I recently had the same problem with the sizes again for Procreate. And I tried using CSP on my iPad, it worked pretty good so far. At least for line art stage. Not sure how it will be when I need to do coloring. And I'm slowing getting used to using CSP. But this is huge for me, as I don't need to upgrade my iPad (yet). I wanted to use iPad / pencil as my main drawing device for work seems to be achievable with CSP ! It's cool that it has the swipe panel that has the shift, option, command, space. I don't even need a bluetooth keyboard. And I can even use the photoshop brushes here! WOW :D
Thanks for the video! I'm trying to switch from doing illustration in Photoshop to actually using Clip Studio. It intimidates me at the moment, but there are sooo many wonderful features that I would love to learn and use. I hope I'll get a hang of it. Thank you for explaining a few of those, it's very helpful!
main gripe I have with CSP is the licensing model. Needing a separate license for each instance you install, and then having to pay a monthly fee for it as well on some platforms, is not nice if you're using both a PC and/or Mac, AND 2 tablets. Still cheaper than Photoshop, I know, but less flexible.
AI Colorization, Tonal Correction, and Line-and-tone extract requires an internet connection. The same goes to the assets library when you are trying to download something
I love this program. To think I bought it as Manga Studio 5 on a whim, just looking for a cheap program that allowed me to easily make speech balloons and it ended up being my go-to software for all sorts of art. I've tried Photoshop, I've tried Corel Painter, I've tried a whole bunch, and they all have a bunch of flashy effects and all that, yet none have the versatility of this one, despite many of them being far more expensive. That said, there are a couple of things on this video I had no idea I could use and could have saved me an immense amount of work. I use CSP Pro and I really, genuinely thought those were features exclusively to the more expensive EX version. I can't believe I could have been using 3D models all along. I feel like an idiot.
Clip Studio is available on Android, Windows 10, and iPad OS, right? Do they all work equally well? Asking because I have an Android and Windows Tablet, but no iPad.
you don't need to use the vector eraser to get it to erase those cross sections of the line. just need to have "vector eraser" checked. it works for all eraser types on vector layers.