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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 2. Customizing Brushes FREE CHAPTER 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 colored line work


Colored line work or color holds can be used for a variety of effects. They can highlight an area or make it blend in more with the coloring, or make a background element fade away and leave just the foreground in the spotlight. Color holds are very easy to do and can really punch up your illustration!

Getting ready

You will need line work done on a transparent layer, as shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

The preceding image is a scanned ink drawing, with the white from the paper taken out. Manga Studio 5 can remove the white automatically with just the push of a button, and here's how! Open your scanned drawing in Manga Studio 5. If needed, adjust the brightness and contrast to make the inked lines in the scan stand out sharply from the paper color. This will also make the conversion much cleaner. Then, go to Edit | Convert brightness to opacity. Manga Studio will make the brightest areas transparent and the darkest areas opaque.

How to do it…

Let's make some color...

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