Thinking of switching to Clip Studio Paint? CSP first impressions 

Csp didnt have the liquify tool and it was a huge disadvantage,but now csp have liquify and its one of the best softwares out there now.

Don't forget the instant canvas flip. Because it flips the view rendering only instead of all data structure from the layers.

That "saving recovery information" isn't normally a crash. It's CSP saving the autobackup of your file, it saves up to a couple copies of your files in case of your computer crashing or the file getting corrupt. (already doing a better job than photoshop in that regard) However on big files it can take a little while and freezes the program, so you might want to lower the frequency of them happening.

I think the best features in CSP are the asset store that are stocked by the community And the cel animation feature. The latter combined with the vector layers just makes animation feel like improved Adobe animate. I've been using Clip Studio Paint for years (Since back when it was still called Manga Studio) and whitnessed all the good updates that always make me giddy when I see them.

Definitely dig more into those settings! A lot of the complaints you have, like not having the brushes just be a pop-up, are settings that you can fiddle with and change. I use it on iPad when I'm on the go, and I was able to basically collapse everything down into a couple of bars, with everything just being a pop-up when I need it.

I feel you when I heard your final verdict. It feels a bit uncomfortable at first coming from photoshop. But I’m about 3 or 4 years in now, and almost every aspect of the painting feels better than photoshop for me. Text is not the best though.. I use affinity for that sometimes.

I'm sooooooooooo happy that you're trying Clip Studio Paint!! I was quite wistfully hoping that you would. Oh. They now have liquify tool! Major selling point for me: excellent on Android. I run it on a Samsung galaxy tab s7. I get professional results.

Awesome to see more people trying out CSP! The menus are a tad big, definitely, but you can hid them by just hitting tab, or individually minimize them. The animation feature is also amazing, and vector layers make the inking process so much smoother. Plus the regular updates always add a ton of new functionality to an already powerful program.

This is like listening to a guy that only makes a certain type of cake in a specific kitchen try to do that same cake 30 years later in a totally different kitchen... "I can't find my sugar! In my kitchen it was over here in this cabinet!!!"

I'm really glad to see you try cliåp studio, as I don't like the high price of photoshop and I've always felt a bit left out in terms of tricks and tips from higher experienced artists

Up the top on the right, next to the navigator, that vertical column of buttons - the first button with the round circle, you can set up custom pallets with your most used brushes, fills, tools, etc. You just drag your brush or tool over from the brush pallet and it's like you're making a shortcut there. It's really a must.

For glow effects I've used a duplicate layer underneath - apply a gaussian blur from filter tab with a bit of fanagling of the brightness/contrast setting. Might be better ways to do it, but this has worked for me

the fact that I learned something from him just trying out the main program I use is insane. I didn't know you could see the shape of the brush....

Just passing to point out somethings you missed but are actually present. First thing is about the separate pencil, brush and pen panels. Although separate, you can just merge them together. To do this, you just have to grab then and drop onto the panel you want them to be in - I personally merged everything into the brush panel. Persistent brush menu: you can just hide the menu and attach a key to it. To do this, grab the brush window, disattach it from the panel column and click on [X]. Then you can activate it every time by pressing your key of choice - in my case, I binded it to V. Feel free to resize the window as well. Ps: you can do this with every single window, hence the costumization you were talking about. The zoom: there is a zoom tool in the tools menu, - the one in the far left with all the icons in vertical alignment - which you can recognise by the augmentation icon (it is actually the first icon), that works in a similar fashion as your Photoshop one. Clip Studio crashing. The pop-up menu you saw is the backup configuration. It backups your file every 15 minutes or the time you selected. It freezes the canvas because it is saving, so it takes a while. If you want, you can just deactivate it The cluttered interface: I absolutely agree with you, that's why I changed my interface completely. This is the kind of thing you get the grip by using the program. Just mess a little bit with the menus, columns, shortcuts and you will have your own thing - my setup is basically a column for essential things, one on its side for brush costumization and the rest I just bind to a key. Ps: you can also create your own tools.

Ngl recent csp updates have made the program unmatched. My favorite one is the one where you’ll be able to use your phone as control for shortcuts. At first it will be only for Samsung but I’m sure they’re gonna include the iPhone and iPad soon.

I switched from Photoshop to Clip studio do to I was having issues with Photoshop, but I like Clip Studio due to all the features, there is panel customization it just takes a little bit to find/figure out. For me at least it was less taxing on my computer and was compatible with a mobile art app I use on my phone called ibis paint that I do most of my art on. It also saved a lot of money for my family too.

You've gotten a lot of comments here so I don't know what all has been mentioned but on the topic of hotkeys: Not only can you customize your normal tool/menu hotkeys but also change how modifier keys (CTRL/ALT/Shift ..whatever they may be in apple lol) to behave the way you want, with some very useful parameters. You can also save/back-up you info to the cloud (included) and so you wouldn't have to redo the hotkeys on another computer you would just have to log into your account 👍 For the Screen and menus, you were right on the money with how customizable it is, including making your own menu (quick access) where you can pin the things you most use.. you can collapse the menus into buttons that pop them up temporarily when you hit the button and collapse again once you click away I hope you take the time to really sink into the more technical features, a lot of people "review" the program on a very superficial level and miss a lot of what makes this as good as other professional programs, either way thanks for the video

Commenting on the zoom, another way to zoom is ctrl + space bar. Its easier than the + - keys and it's easier to get used to.

I love CSP, when i started i thought that the software "crashed" too often, but it just was the autosaving that froze the whole program for a solid 10 seconds, i think 30 minutes between each autosave is a good setting

I've been using CSP almost two years now. You can change the brush size easily by dragging the cursor while holding the right ALT key or left CTRL+ ALT. Also you can zoom in & out in the same way as PS.(Although, I can't remember how I set that up in the settings now😨).. Also, recently I bought a numpad and set some hotkies to numbers. It just so much easier now.( You can set things like reset rotation, gradient maps, or anything else onto your numpad that saves more time when you paint). Furthermore as I've been kinda obsessed with your art style, I think you'll enjoy the oil brushes in CSP very much. Just change the brush tip to square.😃

Hello! CSP user for almost 6 years now, basically since it launched/changed from manga studio, switched from photoshop but still use both, hope I can help you with some stuff! Im kind of confused about the zoom issue you mention, because I've been using clip studio for many years now and Z+drag always zoom in and out, no previoys setting or anything. I dont really know what you mean with the layer effects aside from blending modes, im sorry, but if you mean something similar to whats under filters > render in photoshop, im afraid it doesnt have it. as a tip, there's a quick acces window, (window > quick access) that let you put shortcuts there, like those adjustment layers, and make folders of shortcuts, name them, everything, you can also add brushes and even system stuff like a direct button for save, export, etc. its pretty useful. Also, similar to zbrush, you can drag and drop some tools in the surroundings, for example, you can drag a brush you use a lot to the top bar and it will create a shortcut immediately. and all those changes can ve saved, along with your shortcuts, window placement, everything, under Window > workspace. When you select something, you notice some icons for quick access? those are customizable too! one of those buttons lead you to the selection launcher settings, there you can add or remove stuff. I have one to "save as png" since you can save portions of the canvas without having to crop them! The crash thing is pretty rare, litertrally never happened to me, that "saving recovery info" windows its just the autosave, its kinda annoying for bigger projects, but CSP will have an update soon where that proces will happen in the background, similar to what photoshop does now. CSP behave well with layers, I remember a project with 500 layers and there was no issue. I agree with you, clip has so much unique features, but they only work on .clip formats, I do the final touches on PS because I use color lookup and selective color and I always have to combine all layers so there's no compatibility issues I think CSP is going in a really good direction, it recently added a liquify tool that doesnt open a new window and just work on the canvas itself, its animation and comic workspace are very powerful. and there's no limit to brush size when you set it to specify by size of screen. just zoom out and you'll have a 20000px brush if you want haha Of course there is a lot of room for improvement, adding more layer adjustments, it doesnt let you have another window in greyscale, its a single core program so big, textured brushes are unusable, and it gets pretty slow when working on complex scenes on 10k+ canvases, among others. but hey, been working on CSP all that time and still make a living out of it, so yeah! Hope it helps! Edit: the symmetry, perspective and special rules are awesome, check them out too!

There is a Glow effects layer in the layers options...over on the right. And a lot of people who aren't familiar with CSP think the restoration point seen that pops up is the program slowing down or freezing but it's not. It's just what it says. It's saving a restoration point so if your computer crashes you can recover. The amount of time between restoration points can be changed or turned off in the edit options

filters are the "effects" and there aren't many, and you can also set up modifier keys which can change tool specific key pressed for changing a brush to another temporarily or switching all together changing brush size and stuff. you can always change the shortcut settings as in key shortcuts, there is a bunch more, I've been using csp since 2015 so I'm well versed in the program.

On the top some panels (idk how to word it) sometimes there are 2 arrows. The one icon with 2 arrows completely hides the panel. So if you want to hide a specific panel you can just click that icon. The tools one (the one where it has "pencil" "pen" "brush" and so on) can be hidden like this. Doing this give you more space and you can hide basically all the panels like this. There's also just pressing tab but that hides all panels. edit: There's also a imo better shortcut for zooming in and out. try the "?" key on your keyboard and it works similarly to the zoom tool in photoshop.

5:52 the command for zooming in and out is hold ctrl/cmd+space and drag left or right. Other shortcuts like changing size of your brush is hold Ctrl+alt then drag left to right. Alt+spacebar then drag to rotate canvas.

Glad to see you made a plunge.

The brush thing isn't a big deal. I just count how many times I hit B. If you tap B once it's the regular brush tools, twice is the soft, hard and highlight stuff and three times is all the effects stuff. Clips studio also regularly creates those backups (at least for me it does) idk why it crashed. It can be annoying but I did add some brushes from a much older version of CSP that perhaps were a bit heavy to load or weren't optimized but I got some INCREDIBLE city/building brushes so it was worth the trade off.

Trent - Just a tip: On the Zooming issue - Set a button on the pen or express keys to Pan/Zoom in Wacom preferences (I have 3d art pen main button set). Then when you hold it down you can drag while touching the screen / tablet to Zoom, or hover and move stylus (still with button held) to pan. It is MEGA useful and once you get used to it you are flying round your art!

I got it originally specifically because I do not like subscription-based models. Back then it was still Manga Studio. By the time it became Clip Studio a few years later it was becoming a huge contender alongside Photoshop. Lots are saying with the addition of the Liquify tool it's pretty much on-par now. I enjoy it, it's simple, light-weight, lots of customization options, no subscription . . . what more to ask for?

A massive advantage CSP has over Photoshop is that you can download 3D figures and characters for free and pose them in a 3D environment. And then you can use them (trace........) as a base for your characters. You can also set the lighting to immediately get the lights and shadows down. Saves a lot of time for sure.

I was using CSP when I went through your tutorials, and had no problem following along. For the one or two features I wasn't able to replicate, I used Affinity Photo to bridge the gap.

I used Clip Studio Paint for a while and I think I can help with some of your problems. You can drag tools (pencil, airbrush subtools) into the Brush sub tool and it just makes them tabs instead of individual tools and vice versa. In the shortcuts preferences you can choose pop up menu commands and go to sub tool shortcut and assign the single key to pop up your sub tool (brushes, gradients, etc depending on the tool you are currently working in. You can also drag sub tool window (brushes panel) to the right side where there are small icons for material panels and make it pop with click just like photoshop. The freeze is because of the auto save feature and it starts working again when the save is completed. It happens to me too but you can turn it off in the preferences. When you want to save it as PSD don't use export to PSD, use Save As. I never had issues with color or layers but I don't know about text.

you should check out the marketplace more. there's worspaces you can download too, and almost everything else like gradient maps, models, you name it :D and most of them are created by users which is pretty cool. oh and do check out the new liquify tool/brush and their auto color AI. There's just so much under the hood. And the good thing about CSP is that they do add so many more features. Do check out Brian Allen's video on CSP (CSP is formerly known as Manga Studio). He shows features that existed in this software so long ago that Photoshop still doesn't have. He's got 2 videos about the comparisons between the 2 softwares. You should check em out

I really like using CSP although I'm still learning how to use it efficiently. When it comes to glowing effects it works best when you use it in tangent with other layer effects. Airbrush tool seems to work nicely. CSP seems better organized for a community and they have updated tutorials and art tips. Great for illustration but Photoshop has better editing power

" I never have Photoshop crashin on me maybe twice a year" you must be really lucky then I actually never had a single machine where photoshop didn't crash on me

CSP doesnt have the Layer Effects that Photoshop has

In the new update they fixed the problem with the text. From now on when you open it in ps its no longer rasterized

I made the switch and CSP is now my main program for drawing and painting. But, I still going back to PS mainly for layout works and rescaling the image or layer objects. CSP rescaling engine/tech/whatever isn't there yet. Even PS before 'preserve details 2.0' tech are still better (I use cs5). Many artist rely on vector layers to get around this, I'm still too lazy to learn and use vectors. Anyway, great relatable video!

Not Tommy Topping, But if you wait for the 3x per year Sale on CSP "Clip Studio Paint", Got mine for £45 For the EX Wooooopppp. Patience realy IS a Vertue. Btw it`s a 1 Time Deal, It is for LIFE + Updates.

Ever since I found out I can import photoshop brushes into Clip Studio I've been using Photoshop less and less. Honestly the only thing I find really lacking is the layer blending modes and the text editing functions. But painting itself is a lot more comfortable in most ways in Clip Studio. I basically just set all the hotkeys to match what I was used to from photoshop lol

Been using Clip for a little over 2 years now, and I've tried Photoshop and Procreate. Painting, photo manipulation, and effects wise, I think photoshop definitely superior. However, illustration wise, such as doing line art or comics; clip has many more tools and support. There is also vector support for line art, not quite on the level of programs like Illustrator, but its very useful for maintaining quality, scaling and aliasing problems that comes with line art. Lastly, I like the fact that you don't need extra plug ins for any essential features, which is one of the main reasons that I am hesitant to go back to Photoshop.

for the glow effect i used the add (Glow) in the layer properties! i hope it helps

CSP Users : now we have liquify tool me: draw in CSP refine and filters in Photoshop

Hey Trent, you mentioned you knew about Krita's existance but have you tested it? Or do you have plans to test it in the future? As someone's who's striving to become a pro with a very tight budget I can't afford Photoshop (but I've tried your tutorials and all I've made them on Krita so far). CSP I can afford tho and seeing this it does looks very familiar to me. Specially loving the quick settings panel of the brushes, that might just be the reason I could switch to CSP, tho I'd love to hear what are your thoughts on Krita, specially from the standpoint of an aspiring concept artist

Please make the switch to CSP Trent. Looking forward to seeing your future videos of you working in my most-used app

my experience with csp is: "no matter how shiny the software my hands are holding, the art is still gonna be as bad as the other ones"

Yeah, there's no layer effects like what you're thinking of. There IS a layer property palette, where it has some limited ability to add a stroke around the layer and adjusting what that stroke looks like, but you're generally just better off painting in those effects and using layer masks/adjustment layers. The recovery/autosave basically requires everything to stop because it's saving a temporary file/back up, and yeah, the bigger the file, the longer it takes. The more things you have running in the background, the longer it takes. Sometimes you gotta wait a while, but generally I've never seen it actually crash the program (usually when I see the program crash, it closes itself). If you save often and feel like you don't need that, you can go into preferences and turn it off. A thing you might want to try is manually saving and seeing how long it takes the program to save the file, and that's about how long, maybe a few seconds longer, you can expect the autosave feature to take. You can also adjust how long you want the autosave to save the file. Additionally, CSP will save to a .clip file faster than it will a .psd. CLIPs are optimized to the program, and saving PSDs usually means it has to save some extra info for Adobe to to be able to read it when switching back and forth. I would suggest checking how much RAM you're allowing CSP to use (also in Preferences). If you're running other stuff at the same time (like music or RU-vid, etc) you might want to give it less RAM so you don't crash your computer, or more if you don't run anything else on that particular machine. Also things like changing the brush tip to just a circle/crosshair will help free up active memory (there's a few tutorials around about how to optimize CSP if you feel it's being sluggish). Another nice thing CSP has, is if you have a lot of menu items that you like to use (like adjustments) you can bind them to the Quick Access panel so you can just click on it instead of having to dig through menus to find it. The text compatibility is definitely an issue/annoying to have to deal with. I'm a colorist for a comic, so generally the artist I work for has had to adjust so that when I send back the colors, she copies and pastes those layers into the "master" file in PS. I usually keep a CLIP file on my end as a master color copy, and the PSD I send her is merged down so the only blending modes I have attached to it are overlay or colordodge. Anything else just doesn't look right or gets changed/turned off. Which kinda sucks because Glow Dodge and Add (Glow) are really nice layer effects for things like magic. One thing I will say, even though CSP doesn't have a CMYK mode, you can still save files in CMYK and that transition when you bring it into PS will be more true to the RGB colors than it will be when you have PS handle that transition. imo, if you're setting pages up for print and they're not comics, I would personally paint the page sans text (or with the text dropped in as a placeholder), save a merged down PSD version, and then drop that into an Illustrator/InDesign template. There's really no good replacement for those two programs, so imo are the only ones worth having a subscription to if you need to use them on a regular basis. Having the file be an imported PSD also means that if you need to make adjustments to the art, you can do so without having to futz with the text or having huge files slow down the program. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I've been using CSP for about a decade, and I'm always happy to help explain any features :>

I'm keen to leave Photoshop, I don't want to pay Adobe for the rest of my life.

Zooming in and out of canvas is also ctrl or alt +spacebar or the Mac equivalent to those keys.

Csp also has some strong animation features that resemble the traditional paper and light table process very accurately. I use both csp and adobe suite, the latter is very expensive but after effects and Photoshop are still essential software for many things. Csp could easily replace animate though

You can hold ctrl+space to zoom in and out.

ive been using csp for years and im still learning new things...

I often swtich between photoshop and csp. CSP for lineart and photoshop for painting and reconfiguring shortcuts so they are same as the ones in photoshop was a big thing in me being comfortable with CSP. Mainly shortcut for zoom and brush

If you want to work for a gamestudio later does it matter if you use csp or photoshop?

CSP has layer effects however there isnt a bloom over glow effect tool, but you can set your brushes to have layer effects, such ass add (works like an emission or light effect sorta), add (glow) (a glow effect), multiply, overlay, ect, there honestly isnt much that isnt it doesnt have. everything is neatly tucked away in tool properties, and so forth, its intuitive... just play with bud, its all there.

If you have a Galaxy phone they just added the awesome function of using it as a shortcut pad via the the CSP mobile app. Presumably that will eventually roll out to other mobile versions of CSP, but seems like Samsung gets first dibs on their mobile features for now - at least in regards to android. It might be available for iphone sooner

Very curious to see further comparison videos. As someone who moved to CSP years ago, I wonder if PS has some features now that CSP lacks.

I like to use clip studio on my iPad as it feels more like traditional, which is the medium I am used to using. I have yet to try and set it up with my drawing tablet on my laptop.

Clip Studio > Photoshop. In so many ways.

The set up/ shortcut keeps can be saved and used on other devices.

Ive watched the video twice and cant find the codes lmao rip

Seems like you are just trying to find photoshop inside clip studio paint. Every painting software is different, has its own unique new features. I think you should look at the good features that differentiate one software from another, and see how they can benefit/improve your painting process, even if it would mean a change to your workflow. There is already a photoshop, we don't need another one. Also, I don't think csp is a pre-course to photoshop "in the industry"... thats just absurd. They are both capable software in their respective features, for the projects and workflows that would benefit from it.

I would love to see you trying out Krita. I know that the tools don't really matter to learn how to draw, but it would be interesting to see how a Pro feels using Krita. Also Krita has interesting features for doing for example Perspective Stuff, that I haven't seen in other programms as a feature (I am also not trying out that much software, but atleast I know a tiny bit about the bigger ones like PS and CSP)

I have been using clip studio for a couple of years now, and I have never had a crash like that, I often have 20 to 30 layers. The only thing I can think of that might be an issue, is if the brush engine is being taxed by the size/dpi of the brushes but that's just a random guess :-)

weirdly enough I haven't had any crash ever in CSP using it since 2015 professionally, but I've gotten a ton of crashes on photoshop over the years, with at least a dozen different setups.

Wish managing brushes was easier on CSP, like moving a group of brushes up or down at the same time, exporting an entire folder, deleting the folders. Also, miss the layer effects (fx), but usually get around those rendering manually. But overall it's an amazing program and it's much easier to blend than photoshop.

As a user of both, I see this as an absolutely neutral situation 😂

Hi Trent. First of all, thanks for sharing always top quality content. I've just bought all of your 2021 videos because I learn A LOT not only by watching you, but also by hearing your thoughts and insights. Please, if you didn't yet, I'd like to see a Procreate video. Thanks bro. Have a good day. Chao✨

Please Trent could you make a tutorial on how to use clip studio paint.The learning resources out there and especially on RU-vid are not helpful and is only helpful to people who want to paint in a anime cel shaded way with minimal detail.🙏🙏🙏🙏

press Tab to make the drawing fullscreen. When you need a new brush or something, press Tab again. It's very useful on a small screen

You actually can rotate the brush while working

I'd really like layer styles in csp. I miss using them lol

For me one of the biggest thing for me is there is an ipad version (which dynamically opens and closes panels BTW), so you can use the same software on your workstation and ipad

The mixing function you can add to any brush is very slick. it allows colors to sort of naturally mix when they hit each other with your brush like it is wet oil paint. Seems to work better than PS mixer brush without any slowdown

Would love to hear your thoughts on Affinity Designer.

Tab key hides interface, and Quick Access palettes allow you to consolidate all types of commands into one list. The cross-platform thing is really cool, too. So is companion mode (use phone as controller).

finally a clip studio video

I'm a big CSP fan and have gotten good use from the vector layers and 3D mockup tools. It's very good at clean line art with vector erase and line thickness edits. But I think the convenience also imposes a certain limit on how far you can push your digital workflow - it's not a "power tool", and the limits are somewhat intended to drive you towards the asset store. Very good if you're aiming just to extend the traditional methods, and the UX is great. More recently I started looking into publishing in SVG format, and CSP doesn't export styled SVG, just the basic path data. This led me to look at Inkscape again and - wow! While that program has its rough edges(I find ways to crash it several times a day) it's actually become really good at stylized inks when I wasn't looking - you can stroke a path basically any way imaginable. And you can take that further and throw on procedural path effects and filters to go far beyond emulating traditional inked art and into something uncanny. Illustrator can do similar things(haven't used it) but this is a free program. Its workflow isn't fluid enough that I feel comfortable sketching in it, but it rocks at making the final results look good. Tracing over a clean sketch in it is a miraculous thing. Now I'm starting to connect a workflow with Inkscape as the final step that also employs Blender to do some of the things that CSP does with its 3D mockups so that the majority of the sketch layer is completed in 3D - while I do have some ability to construct objects traditionally, I think I can make this process both faster and more accurate. It's overwhelming to try to use Blender in depth and model everything to the depth of a production render, but I found that I could actually succeed with a "3D mockup" approach where I just rough out the largest proportions from photos using primitives and some subdivision, then loosely link them with parenting so that I can reposition the resulting form. No rigs or topological reasoning needed - in fact, those things would mostly get in the way.

It took a little research to adjust to and get my workspace to a place that worked for me but as a young artist I adore CSP, especially because adobe's monthly cost got to be too much for me. It's a great program, I love the way drawing and painting feels in it.

I'm sure someone will beat me to the punch, so, apologies for duplicate input here, but regarding the cluttered workspace experience: you can collapse the tool/subtool sidebars. the little fast-forward/rewind-looking arrows at the very top of the left side there will give you more workspace, and will be much more useful to you once the hotkeys are set/become more familiar so you don't need to hunt for every little thing like we always have to when we get our hands on new programs

As someone who's used to CSP PS doesn't feel intuitive at all. It takes forever to find features I don't know if PS even has some of the most basic features like a flip canvas button, a navigator or a color wheel.

I personally love Clip Studio for illustration and comics. So many features I still haven’t gotten around to playing with (like vector layers and making more use of the 3D models). I would highly recommend exploring the brush making engine, you may have already checked out tutorials on it and some of the amazing things one can come up with. I’m looking forward to seeing your experiments in Clip Studio!

Ha!..Ha!..😆😆.Tight Clutch...these kids don't know what a tight clutch feels like....too funny...I'm so old...😃

So far after coming from PS and Procreate I prefer Krita over CSP. But that's just me.

Very cool. I'd like to see what other photoshop essentials clip studio has. Like the gradient map stuff.

I vastly prefer CSP to PS. I couldn't navigate PS fast enough for my art class. XD

It's ok but i feel this review is like 500% biased... You say a lot that the software is not as intuitive as what you'd find in PS? I found that after "not" using PS for about 8 years, i could say the same but the other way around, PS is not as intuitive as CSP (for me) there are countless things i do in CSP that i'm having a lot of trouble reproducing in PS right off the bat. So it's mostly about getting used to the software and making it your tool. Just like moving from windows to apple, Apple users are convinced they have the most intuitive OS on earth, but as a windows user who tried iOS a little, i can say it's not that simple, i actually found iOS to be super daunting and i could not get used... Just like Maya or 3ds users moving to Blender, most of them always start the same way "how to do i do that one thing that i do this exact way in Maya, where is it in blender?" names are different, shortcuts are different, interface is different etc... but the first reflex is always "this sucks" XD Most users are gonna activate Maya shortcuts in Blender, not realizing they are missing the whole point of moving to a different software. Lots of things you pointed out like the overwhelming presence of tools and panels in CSP, is something you can get rid of super quickly with the push of a single button, i keep pushing the "tab" key all the time to make the entirety of the interface disappear to see only the canvas, also after starting to work on something, knowing i'm not gonna need the file/edit/ tabs i press shift+tab to make the top of the software disappear entirely and gain some additionnal room on the screen. The compatibility issues you had are real, but it also exists the other way around, for example, in CSP you can clip any layer to any folder, and any folder to any layer, if you import your .PSD to photoshop you lose the ability to do that. Some correction layers from CSP lose their properties when imported to PS. The vector layers i'm not sure what's gonna happen i never tried the transfer, but the 3D layers and perspective rulers and all that, it gets lost And i know that it's a lot at first because you changed from one soft to another, but CSP can do stuffs that PS can't, and vice versa. For example in CSP you can make a lasso selection of a folder, cut it, then paste it back, this creates two separate folders with the exact same layer architecture, which is great for concepts if you want to keep a face with shading and effects and paste it somewhere else for modifications. The liquify tool in CSP gives you the ability to modify your raster layer directly on the canvas, which is like 110k times more intuitive than a popup window with a grid background, like in PS --------------------------- However, CSP has actual weaknesses that are especially problematic depending on the job you are doing, as a stylized concept artist, i've never encountered any though (yet) But if i were to work for anything that requires a color depth of 16bits per channel or more, i wouldn't be able to, because CSP is only limited to 8bits per channel (for now at least) Layers effects don't exist yet, no glow or drop shadows available. Text tool is fu**ing garbage and will lag more and more as you add letters, it's quite a shame for a software supposed to be used by comics and manga artists... Various stuffs like filters are quite weak and actually destructive, you can't extract the color channels easily. Etc... Although... if i were to actually point out the biggest weakness of CSP, it would be the incoming end of its greatest strenght. I've been using the software for 8 years, paid 120€ once for the EX version, free updates, amazing animation tools addition, many other tools, interface updates etc... But in the future, Celsys is going to mimic the business model of Adobe, and CSP is going to become subscription based, they downgrade you to base version if you cancel your payments... so yeah there is that... There is not guarantee the montly or yearly plan is going to be worth it, we have no idea what we'll be paying for, i wish they just released a 2.0 version, even if it was 500€ i would have bought it without hesitation since this tool has given me the ability to make a living for so long... Anyway, great seeing you try it though XD

You can have shurtcuts for pop out windows like brushes, latyers, colors, etc, Just go to the "shortcuts settings" and there's a section that's called "pop-up palettes"

CSP's in house brushes don't do the program justice. You need to make your own &/or try some 3rd party such as Daub. * Being a certified expert in PS myself & using PS for 2 decades, getting use to a new software can be hard. * That said, CSP is very good & extremely affordable. Rebelle over Painter (any day of the week). Add Affinity's software & you do NOT need Adobe. I'm extremely close to dumping Adobe for good for my software needs. Edit: Daub super bundle costs 10-15 bucks but, is well worse it. There's well over 400 brushes of all types. Find Daub on Gumroad. * CSP is better at painting then PS. However, PS is a better image editor. Some things you're not going to be able to do in CSP & like wise you won't get the blending & other brush abilities in PS. It's a pick your poison to what suits you the best, kinda of thing. There's no right or wrong answer. * If you want to save a few bucks (depending on your needs), Affinity Photo & Designer + CSP. For less than 200 (inc. some 3rd party brushes), you have 3 programs with life time updates & no monthly fees.

I haven't tried it but I've heard even photoshop custom brushes can be imported into CSP, can you confirm that? It's been years since Adobe got a dollar from me.

The only reason I need to switch over photoshop by ClipStudio was 2 things, access to 3D models and vectors support... If CSP Crashed, maybe you add the TimeLapse feature on, head to FILE > TimeLapse and turn it off. This can make ur files hit Gigabyte sizes in a matter of a few days of work.

really do it... it is worth. Even for short time. CSP is really good and..... no silly abo

As someone who leard gimp, medibang, skchbook, krita, Clipstudio then Photoshop Photoshop works incredible backwards xD i wouldn't say hate to draw in Photoshop but i definitely don't prefer it

For the last year I see vids: "I ve been using FS for many years, but now..." more and more.

It'd be pretty cool to see you try out something free and open source like Krita. I haven't heard any professionals using the software, but the software floats around in the privacy-savvy tech sphere.

I haven't messed around with painting much in CSP, but if you're sketching or doing linework or anything like that, it absolutely blows Photoshop out of the water. Photoshop still wins for photo editing type operations or for things like layer effects.

more tutorials for CSP, this is an excelent software. I love clip studio paint

Honestly CSP is even better than photoshop. It offers sooo much more to artists who paint and make comics than what photoshop ever offered. And there is so many updates! Way less bugs and problems after each update as well. Photoshop is barely adding anything new.

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I use Ctrl/Cmd+Space for Zooming and Shift+Space for rotating. I want my hand to stay on one side of the keyboard for as long as possible lol.