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Manga Studio EX 4.0 delivers powerful, cutting edge features for Manga and Comic artists alike. Manga Studio EX 4.0 offers thousands of screen tones, professional coloring tools, built in 2DLT and 3DLT rendering capabilities, advanced vector tools and image filters. Manga Studio EX is the leading comic software worldwide, making it the ideal tool for professional Comic and Manga artists.
 Industry standard, intuitive user interface. Click to enlarge. |
 Manga Studio EX 4.0 offers more versatility and flexibility than any other application when creating manga and comics. Click to enlarge. |
 Access over 3,000 screen tones to add dimension, depth, and character to your artwork. Click to enlarge. |
 Customize your projects with a large collection of special effects and features. Click to enlarge. |
 Choose from an abundance of preset colors or create your own colors and custom color sets. The possibilities are endless! Click to enlarge. |
 Manga Studio EX 4.0 consists of a suite of advanced creative filters. Click to enlarge. |
 Choose from large library of built-in word balloons and enter and edit the text for your entire story using the Story Editor in Manga Studio EX. Click to enlarge. |
 The 2DLT Rendering function in Manga Studio EX allows you to convert images into customizable screen tones with just one mouse click. Click to enlarge. |
 Use the 3D Line and Tone Rendering feature to convert 3D objects to backgrounds and props for your comics. Click to enlarge. |
 Save time and increase your productivity with customizable Manga Studio tool palettes. Click to enlarge. |
The leading comic and manga creation software worldwide.
- Choose from over 3,000 screen tones or create your own.
- Resize with no loss in quality by converting your bitmap drawings to resolution-independent vector images.
- Export to a wide variety of formats such as BMP, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TGA, EPS (monochrome only), TIFF, PDF and PICT (Mac only).
- Draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper offering an incredibly natural drawing experience.
- Simplify your layout and design process with easy to use features such as a variety of built-in rulers that save you time.
- Color artwork using the integrated tool set enabling you to mix and blend for custom color work.
- Convert 2D images to line and tone data by using the 2DLT Rendering function.
- Import 3D objects and easily transform them into tone and line drawings by using the 3DLT Rendering function.
- Add speed line and focus line effects in seconds to express motion or moods.
- Work with precision using unlimited layers.
- Select from a suite of advanced filters to quickly apply distortions and special effects to your artwork.
New and Updated features
Manga Studio EX 4.0 allows you to create professional, ready to publish manga and comics.NEW! Professional Color Set
Choose from literally millions of colors and create your own color sets. Includes dodge, burn and color blend tools.
UPDATED! Additional Word Balloons
Add word balloons with ease by dragging and dropping any of almost one hundred preset editable word balloons. Freely adjust the font, size, style and spacing of the text and add a curved or straight tail.
NEW! Vector Toolkit
Speed up production using the built-in vector tools such as "Show Center Line" which makes spotting trouble areas in need of smoothing, a breeze.
UPDATED! Additional 3D Objects
Manga Studio EX comes with over 550 built-in 3D Objects. Quickly, position, rotate and adjust them on your page. Convert them to line and tone data and use them as backgrounds and props for your drawings.
NEW! Professional Filter Set
Manga Studio EX now offers a suite of advanced creative filters. Quickly distort images, adjust hue and saturation, or add rain and sparkle effects to your artwork.
UPDATED! More export formats
In addition to the existing BMP, JPEG, PNG, PSD and TGA formats, Manga Studio EX 4.0 now offers the ability to export your artwork as TIFF, EPS (monochrome only), PDF and PICT (Mac only) formats.
NEW! Story Editor
Enter and edit the text for your entire story and distribute across pages using the Story Editor in Manga Studio EX.
NEW! Advanced Text Input
Manga Studio EX now allows you to enter text directly on your page using a standard text tool. You can also quickly add special characters and with support for many characters such as Katakana and Hiragana, Manga Studio EX is better than ever!
NEW! Mesh Transformation
Use the Mesh Transform tool to modify screen tones to better showcase clothing textures by giving them a wrapping appearance.
NEW! Special Rulers
Choose from a variety of rulers, including symmetry rulers, radial line rulers and concentric circle rulers that speed up production.
UPDATED! Extra Pattern Brushes
Choose from 80+ customizable pattern brushes. Adjust the size, color and angle quickly using the sliders to create an almost unlimited number of unique effects.
Note: Register your product within 30 days of purchase and receive the Manga Studio EX Content pack valued at $39.99 for free. This package includes 20 3D models, over 100 background templates and over 100 Power templates. Information regarding registration and how to redeem your content pack are included with your purchase.
Product Description
Manga Studio EX 4 the world's leading ic and manga creation software delivers powerful art tools for every manga and ic artist. Save time and increase productivity with customizable tool palettes. Draw naturally with a pen tablet and invigorate your drawings using color and built-in special effects. Import 3D objects and render them as backgrounds for your artwork. Import and export to most popular file formats and publish professional quality manga for print or web. Manga Studio EX 4 offers thousands of screen tones professional drawing and coloring tools and in depth layout and rendering capabilities making it an essential tool for professional Comic and Manga artists.Features:Sketch scan or import your artwork!Digital inking: Ink your drawings with precision using unlimited layers!Choose from over 3000 screen tones or create your own. Resize with no loss in quality by converting bitmap drawings to resolution-independent vector images.Draw naturally with a pen tablet.Save time by simplifying your design process with built-in rulers and other easy-to-use features!Color artwork using the integrated tool set enabling you to mix and blend colors!Add speed line and focus line effects in seconds to express motion or moods.Apply distortions and special effects to your artwork using advanced filters.Convert 2D images to line and tone data by using the 2DLT Rendering function.Import 3D objects and easily transform them into tone and line drawings by using the 3DLT rendering function.Output professional Manga and Comics to a wide variety of popular file formats.System Requirements:Windows: XP Home (SP 2) Pro (SP 2) or Tablet PC; Vista Ultimate Business Home Premium or Home Basic; [XP] 500MHz or faster [Vista] 800MHz or faster; [XP] 256 MB RAM [Vista] 512 MB RAM; 2.6 GB or more hard disk space; XGA (1024x 768) SXGA (1280 x 1024) 16-bit color display; Pen Tablet (remended) Wa FAVO Bamboo Intuos Cintiq PL series etc.; TWAIN 32 flatbed scanner (optional);DVD-ROM Drive
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
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I work as a graphic designer for a living, and my typical tools of the trade are illustrator and flash. I've also used photoshop and opencanvas, opencanvas being my usual tool for digital painting. Being that I'm always drawing for others, I never have the time to do any drawing for myself, which includes figure drawing. If I happened to have the extra time to spend on drawing for myself, that time was spent sketching the figure and inking it, which took many hours and usually resulted in me never getting around to getting past the sketch phase.
BUT this program, I've discovered, is a MASSIVE time saver. If I don't want to sketch out a figure (laziness)or am struggling with a perspective, all I have to do is use the 3d model option in this program, tweak it as I please, and then trace over it (for people who aren't used to working in 3d, it may be somewhat frustrating at first to pose a figure yourself. For beginners, the program comes with many preset poses). Of course you won't find any sort of muscle tone on the 3d models (aside from a few arms and legs that cannot be posed), and the anatomy is pretty much anime, so if you want a realistic figure you need to know a thing or two about anatomy. Draw just anime? I's already poifect!
Using a 3d model as an aid, I was able to sketch out an accurate figure in under a half hour. It ordinarily might have taken me two or three hours with constant erasing, considering the difficult perspective I was using. You can also tweak your light source, which aids in shading while using weird perspectives.
And then of course the inking tools are AMAZING! The strokes produced are absolutely beautiful, look real, and it auto corrects, too, which is great if you don't have a very steady hand. This results in very little erasing. Another excellent feature is a tool that allows you to draw a straight line and then bend it to exactly where you want it over your sketch lines. This tool is perfect for drawing long flowing hair or folds in fabric It literally saves HOURS. Do some tweaks with that tool's settings and you can make it look like real ink strokes. Also, don't like a line width and want to tweak it? So long as you inked using vectors, you can use a tool to adjust the line's position or width. It's awesome! And if you don't like hard lines and prefer a pencil-like feel but still want to have the control? You can simply reduce the opacity and apply a blur to the outlines, making them look like gorgeous pencil strokes.
The only major downside with this program is that digital painting can be somewhat difficult, since it really seems to lend itself to cel shading. You have to be extremely careful and liberal with layers (which is okay because they are unlimited) to get the painted effect you like, in addition to turning the opacity of the brush tool way down. Patience is an extreme virtue, especially if you use the blend tool on your colors, which will muck your work up fast if you don't pay very close attention. It's the one thing that annoys me, since in other programs I've used, painting is easier. And I've seen many people export their line art into other programs just to paint them. However, once you get the hang of the tools, you can do some gorgeous shading. Also, you can do selective gradients with COMPLETE EASE, a feature that I've never really gotten the grasp of in other programs; it adds richness to all of your shading and highlights, lemme tell you.
I have yet to use any screen tones or a lot of the tools for the use of making comics or manga, but I suspect they are very good.
Oh, and this program comes with a perspective ruler that'll give you your horizon line and all of that other good stuff, so if you are doing backgrounds containing stairs or whatever you please, you don't need to go through the trouble of measuring things out. It does it for you. SAVES HOURS.
All of those features and more allowed me to complete a very intricate digital painting in 8 hours as opposed to 20+. If you want to be efficient, I suggest you buy this program, because it'll pay for itself in the long run.
BUT this program, I've discovered, is a MASSIVE time saver. If I don't want to sketch out a figure (laziness)or am struggling with a perspective, all I have to do is use the 3d model option in this program, tweak it as I please, and then trace over it (for people who aren't used to working in 3d, it may be somewhat frustrating at first to pose a figure yourself. For beginners, the program comes with many preset poses). Of course you won't find any sort of muscle tone on the 3d models (aside from a few arms and legs that cannot be posed), and the anatomy is pretty much anime, so if you want a realistic figure you need to know a thing or two about anatomy. Draw just anime? I's already poifect!
Using a 3d model as an aid, I was able to sketch out an accurate figure in under a half hour. It ordinarily might have taken me two or three hours with constant erasing, considering the difficult perspective I was using. You can also tweak your light source, which aids in shading while using weird perspectives.
And then of course the inking tools are AMAZING! The strokes produced are absolutely beautiful, look real, and it auto corrects, too, which is great if you don't have a very steady hand. This results in very little erasing. Another excellent feature is a tool that allows you to draw a straight line and then bend it to exactly where you want it over your sketch lines. This tool is perfect for drawing long flowing hair or folds in fabric It literally saves HOURS. Do some tweaks with that tool's settings and you can make it look like real ink strokes. Also, don't like a line width and want to tweak it? So long as you inked using vectors, you can use a tool to adjust the line's position or width. It's awesome! And if you don't like hard lines and prefer a pencil-like feel but still want to have the control? You can simply reduce the opacity and apply a blur to the outlines, making them look like gorgeous pencil strokes.
The only major downside with this program is that digital painting can be somewhat difficult, since it really seems to lend itself to cel shading. You have to be extremely careful and liberal with layers (which is okay because they are unlimited) to get the painted effect you like, in addition to turning the opacity of the brush tool way down. Patience is an extreme virtue, especially if you use the blend tool on your colors, which will muck your work up fast if you don't pay very close attention. It's the one thing that annoys me, since in other programs I've used, painting is easier. And I've seen many people export their line art into other programs just to paint them. However, once you get the hang of the tools, you can do some gorgeous shading. Also, you can do selective gradients with COMPLETE EASE, a feature that I've never really gotten the grasp of in other programs; it adds richness to all of your shading and highlights, lemme tell you.
I have yet to use any screen tones or a lot of the tools for the use of making comics or manga, but I suspect they are very good.
Oh, and this program comes with a perspective ruler that'll give you your horizon line and all of that other good stuff, so if you are doing backgrounds containing stairs or whatever you please, you don't need to go through the trouble of measuring things out. It does it for you. SAVES HOURS.
All of those features and more allowed me to complete a very intricate digital painting in 8 hours as opposed to 20+. If you want to be efficient, I suggest you buy this program, because it'll pay for itself in the long run.
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC/Mac
This is really terrific stuff. I was impressed by EX3 but this new release blows that out of the water. EX4 is exceptionally feature-rish and powerful.
My only one complaint - that cost it from getting 5-stars (for me anyway) - was the situation with the Manual. Using this software is bordering on taking a University course and to expect us to traverse the package via a PDF manual is ludicrous.
I shot off the PDF Manual to Kinkos and had a double-sided, laser color copy made made within a few hours. And yes, of course that then cost me MORE than I paid for the software itself (the manual is hundreds of pages long) but I have no regrets whatsoever. No books on Manga Studio that I could see - unlike Smith Micro's other packages such as POSER and Anime Studio, which I also own.
Classy, solid software that performs.
My only one complaint - that cost it from getting 5-stars (for me anyway) - was the situation with the Manual. Using this software is bordering on taking a University course and to expect us to traverse the package via a PDF manual is ludicrous.
I shot off the PDF Manual to Kinkos and had a double-sided, laser color copy made made within a few hours. And yes, of course that then cost me MORE than I paid for the software itself (the manual is hundreds of pages long) but I have no regrets whatsoever. No books on Manga Studio that I could see - unlike Smith Micro's other packages such as POSER and Anime Studio, which I also own.
Classy, solid software that performs.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC/Mac
This is "better" version from Manga Studio Debut 4. It has more features and is much more professional. Although the price is quite steep if you're serious about art and creating authentic looking manga this is the best tool. Even if its not for a manga, the built in patterns and different pens and brushes is worth the price. It's better than Photoshop because its not at all complicated to understand, but more complicated than Open Canvas, Corel Painter and SAI.
However if you can speak Japanese or is willing to wait for the English version - I recommend IllustStudio. From the same creators but with more tools and 3D imaging added. It's like SAI mixed with Photoshop and Poser. It's a lot less expensive BUT it is geared more towards regular artists rather than mangakas.
However if you can speak Japanese or is willing to wait for the English version - I recommend IllustStudio. From the same creators but with more tools and 3D imaging added. It's like SAI mixed with Photoshop and Poser. It's a lot less expensive BUT it is geared more towards regular artists rather than mangakas.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Even great for a newbie
This software is designed so friendly that I can easily make my own manga-style comic...this tool is truly a godsend. Thank you.
Published 7 days ago by imdbing.of. J
Awesome but maybe not perfect
"So, which is better, Photoshop or Manga Studio?" I'm sure you've heard this question before, or similar ones. Read more
Published 14 days ago by J. FELLA
LOVE IT
I have both this version and debut they are both amazing. This one supports vector graphics. For my use which most closely follows the process of making manga by hand both packages... Read more
Published 2 months ago by PersonReviewing
All-in-one goodness
I use GIMP and Inkscape for my comics. Since getting this product, I've been able to consolidate everything into one neat package. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Piotr Zaremba
Works With Windows 7
I won't bother repeating what everyone else has said about this cool program - it is quite powerful and features several tools that Adobe Photoshop users may be familiar with. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jinxed Warrior
Manga Studio Ex 4 is a great drawing software...
While directed at the graphic novelist and comic book creator, Manga Studio Ex 4 is a very capable software. Read more
Published 3 months ago by H. R. Merritt
bullet points
Bought this in UK, so paid double, like we have to for everything over here.
pdf manual is disgusting. Read more
pdf manual is disgusting. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ivan Bradley
Great
We bought this for our Grandson for Christmas, who loves animation..it worked well for him and he was thrilled he has been using it everyday since he got it.. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Karen L. Pedigo
If you're drawing a comic in something else, you're wasting time!
I bought Manga Studio because I've been drawing a comic for almost two years and saw some of the tools available in this program that would save me time. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elizabeth Staley
Takes a bit of time to learn, but worth it
Luckily I was able to find a demo version of this program on Cnet. I came to this product directly from Photoshop, looking for a way to streamline comic book creation. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Min27
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