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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

Chapter 7. Ready! Set! Action!

It's time to talk about Action! And I don't mean drawing fight scenes in your comics. I mean Auto actions, which are some of the best things you could ever learn how to use if you want to really streamline your processes and save some time doing repetitive functions.

So what is an Auto action? It's a saved set of steps that Manga Studio can play back, with the click of the mouse or the press of a keyboard key. Auto actions can do any number of things, from setting up files with layers, to changing the resolution of pages, and saving them for the Web. Have you ever had to open up a bunch of images and resize all of them, one at a time, going through the steps manually? Auto actions take away the monotonous part and play back the steps that have been recorded in them instantly.

Here's what we'll talk about in this chapter:

  • Using actions
  • Action sets
  • Recording custom actions
  • Playing part of an action
  • Keyboard shortcut assignments for...
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