Clip Studio Paint for Mac
All-in-one solution for ready-to-publish comics and manga.
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Clip Studio Paint overview
Clip Studio Paint is the world's leading comic and manga creation software. It delivers powerful cutting edge drawing and coloring tools, making it essential for professional comic and manga artists.
- 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.
What’s new in version 4.2.6
All grades:
- If the license verification has already been completed, a dialog box informing you of this will no longer appear after the splash screen when you launch Clip Studio Paint.
- (Windows / macOS / iPad / Android) When using Clip Studio Paint in doodle mode, if the selection screen for doodle mode does not appear at startup, a Continue offline button will now appear. Tap this to launch Clip Studio Paint in doodle mode. (This excludes smartphone devices.)
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) A confirmation message for animations will now appear when you're editing an animation in Simple Mode and switch to Studio Mode.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) The way animation timelines play in Simple Mode has changed. Each frame is now easier to view.
- When flipping the pose of a 3D drawing figure or 3D character horizontally, the center point has been changed from the angle of the hips to the vertical axis from the ground.
- Operation is now more stable when dragging on the canvas to adjust the scale of a 3D character.
- When the Downloads tool or sub tool group is registered to the Command Bar, Selection Launcher, or Quick Access palette, the icon will no longer change when a different sub tool is selected in the group.
- If the Downloads tool is deleted while downloading a sub tool material from Clip Studio Assets, and then the Downloads tool is added again with Auto-install downloaded materials turned on in the Sub Tool palette menu, the deleted sub tools will not be added to the Downloads tool.
- When you import a gltf format file or a PBR material in FBX or OBJ format with the Realistic (recommended) setting, the base color and reflectivity of the 3D model will be correctly applied.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) When editing an animation in Simple Mode, the brush list or color palette opened from the toolbar will no longer be hidden even if it overlaps with the Timeline palette.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) When editing an animation in Simple Mode, the Layer palette and Timeline palette will display correctly if you switch back to Simple Mode after switching to Studio Mode and performing certain operations.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) Improved responsiveness for actions such as adding, duplicating, and deleting frames when editing animations with a high number of frames in Simple Mode.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) Onion skins now appear immediately when returning to Clip Studio Paint after switching to another application while playing an animation in Simple Mode.
- (iPad / iPhone / Android) When Simple Mode is set to Dark mode, the Dark mode UI will now be used for progress dialogs too.
- (Windows / macOS) Materials that are currently being viewed with the Material property dialog in Clip Studio Paint cannot be deleted from the Clip Studio material management screen.
- (iPad / iPhone) Fixed an issue where unintended lines were drawn on the canvas when opening or closing the Layer palette in Simple Mode.
- (iPad / iPhone) Fixed an issue where unintended lines were drawn on the canvas when using reference images in Simple Mode.
- (iPhone / Android) On smartphones, the Apply only to pages with “color” as the basic expression color setting is no longer cut off in the New dialog.
- (iPad) On iPadOS 26 or later, double-tapping the top of the screen below the status bar no longer toggles full screen view.
- (Android) Clip Studio storyboard files (extension: .cdnf) can now be imported correctly.
- (Android) On Samsung Galaxy series devices with One UI 8 installed, Clip Studio Paint now opens with the tablet UI when launched on an external display using DeX mode.
- (Android) On Samsung Galaxy series devices with One UI 8 installed, the display is no longer corrupted if you relaunch Clip Studio Paint after closing it from a pop-up view.
- (Android) Embedded color profiles in standard image files are now reflected in thumbnails in the File Picker dialog shown from the File menu > Open.
EX / PRO:
- When using Mesh Transformation, there are no longer gaps or distortion to the image when dragging the transformation handles while the Interpolation method is set to Hard edges (Nearest neighbor) in the Sub Tool Detail palette.
EX:
- When using Convert layer to lines and tones on a translucent 3D object with Use texture turned off in the Rendering settings dialog, the lines of the 3D object will be correctly output when 3D lines > Mode is set to Standard.
Clip Studio Paint for Mac
$58.50
In English
Version 4.2.6
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Jan 5 2014
Version: 4.2.2
Where is the entry for MangaStudio 5?
At rev 5, this gets to be a serious application that can be
Where is the entry for MangaStudio 5?
At rev 5, this gets to be a serious application that can be recommended. I’m not going to rate 5 in the 4x entry.
I came into 4 with high hopes, but cynicism.
I couldn’t recommend version 4, though I bought it. Unless you score it at a hefty discount, it just isn’t cutting edge in 2013: At the right discount price point, its still worth a buy.
However, version 5 is a PLAYER. What you get at the entry level is very good. 5 EX I have not tried, but the increased feature set there sounds like its a true professional tool.
You can do much of this in Photoshop, but MangaStudio is now becoming a benchmark application at a better price.
In 5, they changed muddled menu names - into a better translated function names, revamped the structure a little & in 5.03 the vector conversions make this quite nice.
I have to correct my comment about not being qualified for updates. At current writing, MS 5 is at 5.03 & the upgrades from 5.0 have been free.
I couldn’t recommend version 4, though I bought it. Unless you score it at a hefty discount, it just isn’t cutting edge in 2013: At the right discount price point, its OK & still worth a buy.
However, version 5 is a PLAYER. What you get at the entry level is very good. 5 EX I have not tried, but the increased feature set there sounds like its a true professional tool.
In 5, they changed muddled menu names - into a better translated function names, revamped the structure a little & in 5.03 the vector conversions make this quite nice.
I have to correct my comment about not being qualified for updates. At current writing, MS 5 is at 5.03 & the upgrades from 5.0 have been free.
Apr 30 2010
Version: 4.2
Manga Studio is by far the best application for digital inking, far superior to Photoshop or Corel Painter. It is most suitable for drawing with a Wacom and the closest thing to draw on a sheet of paper. It's almost perfect.
Worth its price.