Product Description

Manga Studio 3.0 EX Professional allows graphic artists and illustrators to create professional manga art, and easily control the entire creative process from sketching their characters to publishing exciting, high quality graphic novels. The Professional Solution for Manga and Comic Artists! Strongly focused on realism, productivity and inter-operability, Manga Studio EX is perfect for professionals looking for efficiency and flexibility in the design process. EX includes more than 3,000 screen tones and many built-in features, including 3D object import capabilities!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4801 in Software
• Brand: Curious Labs, Inc.
• Model: MSE-W30-DE-R
• Released on: 2006-02-27
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Easily create professional manga from start to finish.
• Quick start using your own sketches, digital photos, scans or illustrations, import and export with popular graphics programs.
• Includes collection of page templates, line tools, and text balloons, customize toolsets, reuse layers and pages from previous projects, makes using a tablet feel like drawing on real paper.
• Drag and drop from over 3000 print-quality tones and shades makes possibilities endless, vector based tones eliminate resizing issues and improves print clarity.
• #1 Software for creating Manga in Japan and worldwide.

Customer Reviews

A great comic creating software
You don't have to be a Manga artist to find a use for this program. With the ability to make custom frames and use dozens of tones, black and white comics are a snap to make. The interface is easy to use and familiar to anyone familiar with Adobe Photoshop. I stumbled upon this program while surfing around Amazon. While intrigued I was disappointed at the lack of user reviews for the product so I went digging for information. Hopefully I'll be able to help everyone else who stumbles across it.

As I said before the interface is easy to use and well remind you of Photoshop. Many of the tool bars (windows) are the same or similar to those in Photoshop, such as navigation, history, and layers. The program also comes with a Beginners guide to help you get started. Tablet users well be overjoyed to know that this program supports the WACOM products: Graphire series, Intuos series, Intuos2 series, Cintiq series, and PL series. (Other products aren't guaranteed to work)(taken from Beginner's Guide.pdf)

The biggest difference between Manga Studio EX and Manga Studio Debut (besides price) is the tools available. For a full list of tools a features avalable, please check this website [...]

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Excellent Comic and Lineart Drawing
I am animation student at Brooks College and someone mentioned Manga Studio. I tried it out and liked it enough to get the Professional version recently; I have not been disappointed. The interface is reminiscent of Photoshop and so most of the functionality is inuitive. While I have yet to delve the depths of the program I have been very pleased at how natural the drawing tools feel with my Wacom. I find myself using it more and more for sketching rough ideas or for cleaning up line art. There are also a lot of goodies in the form of motion lines, background textures, text and page layout features aimed at the comic book or graphic novel artist.

If you like to draw comics, storyboards or want to scan in and clean up your hand drawings you definetly want to take this for a test drive.

Great manga program
This is a great manga program. Really makes your manga look like "manga" with all their tone options and the 3D models are great if you can't figure out how to draw a certain pose.

One problem though: Does not properly work with Windows Vista. Lots of missing strokes. I'm stuck having to now draw my manga in Photoshop and import PSD files into MS in order to be able to get anything accomplished. Very upset about this, I hope they release a patch for this or a fix or something. :(