Introduction

The features of story files and the ability to create entire chapters or books all at once, rearrange the pages, and give a full overview of your comic story, set Manga Studio EX 5/ Clip Studio Paint apart from most other graphics packages. This feature will save your time both in your production stage and in editing the page, and with the new text editor, in the scripting phase as well.

Story files are only available in the EX version of Manga Studio 5. If you are using the regular version of MS5, you can still create page templates and custom page setups, but the multiple page files will not apply to you. This means that the recipes on Story Editor, page numbering, two-page spreads, creating cover pages, accessing the Page Manager, rearranging pages, deleting pages, story information, and making multi-page files in this chapter will not apply if you have Manga Studio 5. If you have Manga Studio EX 5, all the recipes in this chapter will work for you.

Also, if you have Manga Studio 5 instead of EX, most other recipes in the entire book will also apply. So don't feel bad if you can't follow along with a portion of this chapter; the rest of the book will still be useful. If you ever upgrade to Manga Studio EX 5, you will already know how to use these features.

If you have purchased the digital download of Manga Studio 5 or EX 5, you may have a program called Clip Studio Paint Pro or Clip Studio Paint EX. These are the same as Manga Studio 5 and Manga Studio EX 5, respectively; they just had a name change for the digital files.

A full chart of the differences between Manga Studio 4, Manga Studio 4 EX, Manga Studio 5, and Manga Studio 5 EX is available at the time of writing this book at http://my.smithmicro.com/manga-studio-ex-5-compare.html.

The recipes in this chapter will get you familiar with everything about making pages and using the Story Editor menu. Let's get started!