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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

Breaking out with a broken glass brush

One of the great things about working digitally is that you can save time by utilizing the features of the software you use and making them work for you. In this case, we're going to add some broken glass around the falling figure in this drawing:

Breaking out with a broken glass brush

How to do it…

This recipe will walk us through creating a custom material and then using it to make our brush:

  1. Open a blank canvas, preferably of 300 to 600 dpi resolution.
  2. Using your preferred drawing tools on an empty layer, draw the outlines of several jagged shapes. These will be our shards of broken glass.
  3. Create a new layer beneath the outline layer. Select the glass shapes and fill them with solid white.
  4. Lower the opacity of the white layer to 50 percent.
  5. Merge the outline layer with the 50 percent transparent white layer.
  6. Make sure that the background of your image is transparent. Your image should look something like this:
    How to do it…
  7. Go to Edit | Register Image as Material.
  8. In the Material property window...
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