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Mastering Manga Studio 5

You're reading from   Mastering Manga Studio 5 An extensive, fun, and practical guide to streamlining your comic-making workflow using Manga Studio 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849697682
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liz Staley Liz Staley
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Familiar with the Story Features FREE CHAPTER 2. The Right Tools for the Job 3. Palettes of a Different Color 4. Setting up Your Space 5. Living in a Material World 6. It's Only a (3D) Model 7. Ready! Set! Action! 8. Rulers and Speech Balloons 9. Putting It All Together! Drawing and Inking 10. Finishing Touches A. Recommended Reading Index

Creating custom actions


In order to understand how to create our own actions, we must talk about three things: An Action Set is a category of actions. An action is a series of steps. A Step is a process within an action, such as creating a layer, expanding a selection, or adjusting a combine mode or color value. We'll talk about Action Sets first, then we'll talk about making an action and recording steps in the next section.

Action sets

Remember back in Chapter 3, Palettes of a Different Color, when we discussed making custom color sets? Action sets are pretty much the same thing—a folder storing different actions. You could make an action set for each project that you're working on, or just make one set named Custom where you store the ones that are unique to the way that you work. Or maybe you want to divide them out into Print and Web actions, with different steps for resizing images for display on the Internet or for publication.

For the time being, let's make a set just to store the custom...

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