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The relationship between these two is as complex and delicate as the relationship between those four organisms that make up the Portuguese Man O War.
The layers palette has been broken into two separate entities. Not change! Now, when you chop things up, all the artwork is behind one mask.ĥ. Perhaps someone knows why.ĮDIT: You can turn the nested folders off (you'll still get one big nested folder) - in the tool properties for "divide frame folder", select "not change". Panel cutting was a very neat and tidy operation in version 4, but it's reverted to the complicated setup I think I remember from version 3, generating nested folders and masks. The straight line and shape drawing tool, panel ruler tools and ruler tools are all under one icon. CMD-click on the blocks, select 'show slider'.Ĥ. Good luck remembering which grey box you clicked, and what numerical value it denotes.ĮDIT: You can change this.
MANGA STUDIO 5 EX SERIES
Instead of numerical sliders to change settings, some options are represented by a series of slightly different grey blocks. Feel free to play with the other settings - bezier curve is the one that restores the familiar behaviour.ģ. You'll now get straight, relatively uniform lines like MS4 when correction is switched on. Click the check box (the little eye) so the 'post correction' option is visible on the tool menu. Select 'correction' from the menu on the left. Click the spanner (bottom right) to bring up tool settings.
MANGA STUDIO 5 EX HOW TO
If you relied on that feature to quickly draw lines, you won't be doing that any more.ĮDIT: I worked out how to make it work like it used to.
Now, no matter how you tweak its numerous settings, the super-corrected line shrinks to a razor-thin line. One of the best features of MS3 & 4 was that if you turned correction right up to 20 and drew a stroke, it was a straight line with a variable width based on how hard you pressed down - as if you'd drawn a nib line with a ruler. Good luck digging the mess it is now out and reinstating it. Correction has been taken out of the pen menus. Perhaps the pastel lobby is more powerful than the pencil lobby.Ģ. Of course, should you wish to draw with a pastel, that has its own cursor. So if you switch between the two with your shortcut key, as I do all day long, you can't tell immediately which one you're using. Here are ten things that drove me crazy:ġ.
MANGA STUDIO 5 EX SOFTWARE
Such is the nature of the program that, given four or five hours of tweaking, you could probably make it behave the way you want it to - but it seems almost cruel of SmithMicro to offer this software out of the box with so many indiosyncratic differences from its predecessor. I list these merely as a caveat for other upgraders who may be thinking of switching.
MANGA STUDIO 5 EX MANUAL
The manual is 650 pages long, I'm sure that there is plenty more iceberg underwater.īut on trying to draw a comic with the ease I did in Manga Studio 4, I came across several issues that meant I couldn't. Huge paper sizes are now available if you need them. There are a myriad of new colouring features which will please anyone who doesn't want to colour in Photoshop.
There are new perspective rulers which make a mockery of MS4's fiddly version (though these are retained for those who are used to them). They can be tweaked to your heart's desire. Herein lies the contradiction that makes the struggle seem somewhat worth it - at the heart of the madness is an excellent program with which to draw comics. It's a melée of menus, submenus, optional customisations, and interface contradictions so gnomic that one is frequently sent into the seven-fold preference menus to try and right things. Were this version of Manga Studio a masterpiece of usability, I don't think this would matter. Menu options are sometimes offered in a lousy pidgin English that, while close to comprehensible, still leave one in doubt. Sadly, it has not been localised very well. The new version is a different program - Clip Studio. Earlier versions were a westernised version of Celsys Comic Studio. What I found was, to put it mildly, a mixed bag.
MANGA STUDIO 5 EX UPGRADE
The upgrade from version 3 to 4 had been a great pleasure, so I had held on for the pro EX version, which included the story management features I use to keep myself organised. Manga Studio 5 EX was released last week and, having used version 4 EX ( which I reviewed here for MacWorld) every day for the last four and a half years, I was keen to get my hands on the new version.