Mastering Manga Studio 5电子书

Mastering Manga Studio 5

Table of Contents

Mastering Manga Studio 5

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Familiar with the Story Features

Creating a new file

Creating and saving a custom page template

Navigating and rearranging pages

The Story management menu

Summary

2. The Right Tools for the Job

The benefits of using custom tools

Making a custom pencil tool

Making a custom inking pen

Paint away with a custom paintbrush

Make a custom text tool

The custom sub tool options explained

Brush size menu

Brush size

Specify by size on screen

Atleast 1 pixel

Ink menu

Opacity

Combine mode

Mix ground color

Anti-aliasing menu

Brush shape menu

Brush tip

Spraying effect

Stroke

Texture

Border of watercolor menu

Erase menu

Correction menu

Starting and Ending menu

Anti-overflow menu

Importing and exporting your tools

Summary

3. Palettes of a Different Color

Using the preset palettes

Color circle

Color slider

Mix color

Approx. color

Color set

Editing existing color sets

Making new color sets

Summary

4. Setting up Your Space

Moving things around

Customizing the Command Bar

Left- and right-handed setups

Left-handed setup for regular tablets

Left-handed setup for onscreen drawing tablets

Right-handed setups

Making a coloring workspace

Switching and managing workspaces

Summary

5. Living in a Material World

Navigating and searching your materials

Editing materials

Creating custom material

Speech balloon

Getting splashy with sound effects

Making plaids

Finishing an image with materials

Summary

6. It's Only a (3D) Model

Inserting and positioning models in your canvas

Controlling the 3D camera

Positioning the model

Using the character models

Striking a pose

Altering proportions

Importing models

Summary

7. Ready! Set! Action!

Using existing actions

Creating custom actions

Action sets

Recording an auto action

Easy cel-shading coloring with auto actions

Making line art from a photo

A few last thoughts on actions

Playing part of an action

Setting keyboard shortcuts

Importing and exporting action sets

Summary

8. Rulers and Speech Balloons

Rulers

Other functions of perspective rulers

The other rulers

Using concentric ruler tools to make word balloons

Text and word balloons

Balloon tails

Summary

9. Putting It All Together! Drawing and Inking

Creating our file

Using materials to lay out frames

Drawing

Using actions to set up sketching layers

Using 3D elements for sketching

Inking

Summary

10. Finishing Touches

Screentones

Coloring – the comic book style

Coloring the hair

Coloring the skin

Backgrounds and you

Special effects

Shine

Using photographic patterns

Reflections

Summary

A. Recommended Reading

Helpful websites

Podcasts to listen to while working

Final thoughts

And finally...

Index