Manga Studio -- Bargain Price!

[Jim_Campbell]

MangaStudio EX4 at a bargain price of £20, tonight only! This link should have both Mac & Win buy links:  http://t.co/zpGzRVmV

Seriously: I'd pay full price for the EX version. £20 is a complete no-brainer.

Cheers

Jim

[Andy Smart]

Thanks, Jim.

I wanted to give Manga Studio a go especially after I saw D'Israeli using the perspective lines for his last cover. £20 is an absolute bargain. Well spotted.

[Darren Stephens]

Jim, you saved me 70 quid with your tweet about this last night. My girlfriend was getting me this off amazon for Christmas, at 89.99.  Thank you!

[antodonnell]

I was just coming here to post this. You beat me Jim. I nabbed it yesterday at work. Now I need to figure out how to use it.

What's with the lines "breaking" up when you zoom in ? I've dealines at the moment so I won't get to put Manga Studio to good use yet.

[Jim_Campbell]

What's with the lines "breaking" up when you zoom in ? I've dealines at the moment so I won't get to put Manga Studio to good use yet.

How do you mean? Black lines will look jaggy compared to Photoshop because they're deliberately aliased -- the idea is that to enable you to create digital art files that would be the equivalent of scanned traditional inks, which should be aliased (ie - hard edges, rather softer, slightly blurred edges) to enable a colourist or a flatter to make quick, clean selections.

Think of it very specifically for layout, pencilling and inking -- I'd still advise colouring in Photoshop and lettering in Illustrator.

(I think we've got a Manga Studio Q&A thread somewhere -- I'll see if I can find it and bump it back up to the first page of the Active Topics list…)

Cheers!

Jim

[Andy Smart]

What's with the lines "breaking" up when you zoom in ? I've dealines at the moment so I won't get to put Manga Studio to good use yet.

How do you mean? Black lines will look jaggy compared to Photoshop because they're deliberately aliased -- the idea is that to enable you to create digital art files that would be the equivalent of scanned traditional inks, which should be aliased (ie - hard edges, rather softer, slightly blurred edges) to enable a colourist or a flatter to make quick, clean selections.

That's dead handy. I'm really looking forward to using this.

[Kerrin]

I got this yesterday and I think they've extended the offer for the whole weekend.

It's a seriously impressive drawing package and for £23.02 including the VAT it's ridiculously good value.

I've just got to work out how to tell my tablet that I only want it to work on the one screen so I can use more than half of it on the drawing space. Ooh, get me, it's like a supervillain's bloody command centre here mate.

[kylestrahm]

I bought a copy. Thanks!

[pauljholden]

I have to keep stopping myself from clicking "BUY" as I already own a copy of it. It's hard, man. Real hard.

-pj

[Mardroid]

It's still showing. I'm tempted. Unfortunately... my hard disk space is minimal...

[Mardroid]

Heh. Ordered. Didn't hold out for long...

I can store it on a flash-drive until I sort out the hard drive situation. (Spending more than I intended this month. Silly brilliant deals cropping up! )

[SuperSurfer]

I bought it as well. During a period where I am trying to concentrate on pens/brushes on paper.

[JTurner]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Missed it. I cannot believe it. I troll the forum every day, then take a weeked off and look at what I missed!

Now excuse me while I throw things around.

[Dark Jimbo]

No you haven't! Keeps getting extended. Check the link, it's still $29.99.

[Jim_Campbell]

No you haven't! Keeps getting extended. Check the link, it's still $29.99.

Not when you get to the check-out, it isn't. :-(

Cheers

Jim