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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 lightning and electricity

Another special effect that you may need for your illustrations is lightning or electricity. The results look difficult to achieve, but they're actually quite easy.

How to do it…

The following steps will teach you how to create a lightning effect:

  1. Start with a light blue, gray, or yellow color as the foreground color. For this recipe, we have made the paper color black so that it is easier to see the light blue shapes.
  2. Select a Pen(P) tool or a Brush(B) with a hard edge. Make the brush or pen tip large enough, and draw a rough shape of lightning on a blank raster layer.
  3. Use the Hard Eraser(E) tool to refine the shape of the lightning. It should be angular and have areas of thick and thin lines. Here is a screenshot that shows an example of this refined shape:
    How to do it…
  4. Using a smaller brush or pen, add another jagged line along the first one. This should not follow the main line exactly, but should overlap. Refine the line as needed with the hard eraser. The...
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