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Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes to help you create digital comics from page setup to exporting the final product

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785881077
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liz Staley Liz Staley
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating and Manipulating Pages and Page Templates FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Brushes 3. Getting a Handle on Vectors 4. Using the Layer Modes 5. Making Selections and Layer Masks 6. Using New Rulers and Line Tools 7. Adding and Creating Tones and Materials 8. Playing with Color Palettes 9. Creating Special Effects 10. Using 3D Objects 11. Exporting the Finished Product Index

Creating and saving custom materials


In this recipe, we'll take an image and turn it into a material for use in other illustrations. This can be done with custom halftone images, photos, or drawings.

One of the many applications of custom materials is the use in your comics. Say we have a character with a design on their t-shirt. We can save the design as a material and apply it to each panel in which the character appears, without having to draw the design again.

How to do it…

The following recipe shows how to save a custom material image:

  1. Open the image to be made into a material. For this recipe, I'll be using a halftone background photo, as shown in this screenshot:

    Tip

    If you are making a design for a shirt, or another image that will be used many times throughout the course of a comic, consider making it on a transparent background. In this way, it can be manipulated and transformed more easily, and the color or shading around it can be altered.

  2. Go to Edit | Register Image as Material.

  3. In...

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