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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

Making action lines with the Scattered stream line tool


If you read comics, you will be familiar with action lines. They show the path of an object in motion. With the Scattered stream line tool and the Dark stream line tool, we can create action lines quickly and have the flexibility to edit them—something that's not available when we draw action lines by hand!

Getting ready

You will need an open file to work in. The size and resolution don't matter. In the following recipe, the demonstration will be on the image shown here, in which we will be adding action lines behind the flying superhero:

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to use the Scattered stream line tool:

  1. Select the Figure(U) tool from the toolbox. Then, navigate to the Scattered stream line subtool, which is under Stream line.

  2. Click with the mouse at one point on your image. Then, double-click at another point. In the case of the hero image, these points were spaced diagonally and at the width of the character's body...

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