{"id":8033,"date":"2016-10-21T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T09:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2016-10-21T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T09:32:45","slug":"back-to-manga-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/10\/21\/back-to-manga-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Manga Studio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting tired of the limited options available in Adobe PhotoShop Elements, mostly the lack of tails on speech bubbles. I&#8217;m thinking that it might be time to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renderosity.com\/mod\/bcs\/manga-studio-5-amp-clip-studio-paint-pro\/108994\/\">Manga Studio.<\/a> It&#8217;s up to version 5, and it has apparently much improved since the previous version, with its obtuse GUI and complete lack of helpful documentation. There are also English-language reference books [something I didn&#8217;t encounter for version 4], such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Manga-Studio-5-Beginners-Guide\/dp\/1849697663\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1477041075&#038;sr=8-5&#038;keywords=manga+studio+5\"><em>Manga Studio 5 Beginner&#8217;s Guide<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Manga-Studio-Dummies-Doug-Hills\/dp\/0470129867\/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&#038;pd_rd_i=0470129867&#038;pd_rd_r=QCY40BP2ERQZQ6XATBFH&#038;pd_rd_w=0vQ0Z&#038;pd_rd_wg=55nn6&#038;psc=1&#038;refRID=QCY40BP2ERQZQ6XATBFH\"><em>Manga Studio for Dummies.<\/em><\/a> Hmmmm&#8230;Given that I do lots more photostories, doll and digital, than I used to, this may be a sensible investment.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Okay, I&#8217;m convinced. There were very few tutorials online for Manga Studio 4, but a search quickly turned up <em>hoards<\/em> for version 5. For example, this tutorial in <a href=\"http:\/\/webcomics.com\/archive-dive\/manga-studio-how-to-build-a-template-2\/\">template creation<\/a> is not only easy to follow, but it&#8217;s also by a fellow online comics artist who was previously using an Adobe product before switching to Manga Studio 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting tired of the limited options available in Adobe PhotoShop Elements, mostly the lack of tails on speech bubbles. I&#8217;m thinking that it might be time to return to Manga Studio. It&#8217;s up to version 5, and it has apparently much improved since the previous version, with its obtuse GUI and complete lack of helpful&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/10\/21\/back-to-manga-studio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to Manga Studio?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[705],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8036,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}