Creating a custom-sized page and saving a preset
While it provides Japanese and European comic sizes, Clip Studio Paint doesn’t come with the sizes that are common to American comic books. We are going to create a standard American comic book size page and save it as a preset for use later. Follow these steps to complete this activity:
- Go to File | New or press Ctrl + N to open the New dialog box.
- In the Project section, click on the Show all comic settings icon.
- Change the Unit drop-down menu to the right of the Preset dropdown to in (inches).
- In the Width entry box, enter
7.00
. - In the Height entry box, enter
10.50
. - Set Resolution to
300
dpi (or more, depending on your computer hardware). - Set Basic expression color. I usually leave this as Color, but if the majority of your work is in black and white or grayscale, you may wish to choose a different mode. Individual layers can be adjusted later in the file, so even if we choose...