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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 focus lines with the Dark saturated line tool


With this tool, we can make darker, more powerful focus lines in an instant. Instead of a circle, this tool has us placing a curve to show where to focus the lines.

Getting ready

Again, you will need an open file to work in. The size and resolution don't matter.

How to do it…

The following steps will teach you how to use the Dark saturated line tool:

  1. Select the Figure(U) tool from the toolbox. Then go to Saturated line| Dark saturated line.

  2. Click with the mouse button to start the curved line.

  3. Continue moving the mouse and clicking to draw the curve. The following is the curve we'll be using for this example. Note that the lines will be stopping before the character's face, where we want the focus to be.

  4. Double-click with the mouse on the final point to end the curve and generate the lines.

How it works…

We can change the settings of the existing lines by selecting them with the Object tool, then going back to the Scattered saturated line tool,...

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