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Friday, August 19, 2011
shadow people..
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Manga Studio Debut 4
Oh my it have already been 2 months since I first installed Manga Studio Debut 4. A friend of mine gave me this program as a present because he believed that I would put it to good use. Well to say first, I greatly appreciated the gift and also his support in my works. Thanks Rhapsody!
So what to say about this program? One thing to make clear, I've never worked with any version of Manga Studio before so I have nothing to compare with except from what I usually do in Photoshop.
I mainly work on illustrations and craft works but have been wanting to work on a comic. Going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator prove to be a bit annoying and also slowing down the system a lot. As much as the version I got is the Debut and not the EX I am still getting a good amount of features.
I have a tendency to work in the highest possible resolution that my MacBook can take before slowing down. For something that I want as a large print I work with 11" x 14" and I set it in 1200 dpi. Least to say Manga studio manages my illustration pages really well and at a faster performance because it takes lesser RAM to run than Photoshop. Just simply for cleaning and inking my sketches it run exceptionally smooth. My whole system was running without any lags or even hints of exhaustion. On the other hand, when I try to clean in Photoshop I have a fear that it will suddenly just crash and lose my work. Fortunately that haven't happened with MSD4.
This program have given me better line work (digitally) than in Illustrator because it easier to control as if you are actually inking on paper! Clean up is just as easy and the precision is great with erasing line (goodbye white-out!) One of the most interesting thing, and I mean interesting that I have not seen until CS5 is the rotation of the canvas. Maybe it was featured in CS4 but I sort of jumped from 3 to 5 but that is another story. I know, it is something that is not shocking but definitely shocking to me because I always have to turn my arm an odd way so just so I can get my stroke correctly.
Okay I'm done raving about MS for now. Someday I might just pick up the EX version when I get more into my comic.
Thanks for reading. =)
So what to say about this program? One thing to make clear, I've never worked with any version of Manga Studio before so I have nothing to compare with except from what I usually do in Photoshop.
I mainly work on illustrations and craft works but have been wanting to work on a comic. Going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator prove to be a bit annoying and also slowing down the system a lot. As much as the version I got is the Debut and not the EX I am still getting a good amount of features.
I have a tendency to work in the highest possible resolution that my MacBook can take before slowing down. For something that I want as a large print I work with 11" x 14" and I set it in 1200 dpi. Least to say Manga studio manages my illustration pages really well and at a faster performance because it takes lesser RAM to run than Photoshop. Just simply for cleaning and inking my sketches it run exceptionally smooth. My whole system was running without any lags or even hints of exhaustion. On the other hand, when I try to clean in Photoshop I have a fear that it will suddenly just crash and lose my work. Fortunately that haven't happened with MSD4.
This program have given me better line work (digitally) than in Illustrator because it easier to control as if you are actually inking on paper! Clean up is just as easy and the precision is great with erasing line (goodbye white-out!) One of the most interesting thing, and I mean interesting that I have not seen until CS5 is the rotation of the canvas. Maybe it was featured in CS4 but I sort of jumped from 3 to 5 but that is another story. I know, it is something that is not shocking but definitely shocking to me because I always have to turn my arm an odd way so just so I can get my stroke correctly.
Okay I'm done raving about MS for now. Someday I might just pick up the EX version when I get more into my comic.
Thanks for reading. =)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Oooopsie Daisy!
So for some of you that actually reads my blog or follow my updates you may have wondered why I have been posting pictures of just food findings. Well here is the funny story. The funny story started one day when I decided to download the blogger app for the Android phone. What a better way to get a good use out of your smart phone that to do all your book keeping, communications, gaming and all other miscellaneous things? All at the same time I actually started another blog to record my food finding. I spend 2010 taking pictures of all the food that I have enjoyed and liked just posted on my facebook that I finally decided to start a blog just for that. It is called "A Foodie's Love from A to Z" It was intended just for me but I also have fellow foodies that enjoys taking pictures of their meal and I invited them to contribute their photos while keeping to the criteria. Anyway, back to the story, I got the app so I can easily post pictures of my sketches and artsy fartsy things that I find interesting via my phone. In the midst of posting I didn't realize that my food was being posted to here instead of the other one. So there, that's the funny story.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
something with a kick.
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Friday, February 25, 2011
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