Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio tutorials
Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio tutorials for brush outlines and instant transparency
These things might be common knowledge and I’m just oblivious, but I saw a tweet with a really neat hair brush and wanted to find out how to do it myself, My Japanese is abysmal and Google translate was no help at all, so I played around, with the help of the OP’s screenshots, until I figured out how to get it working.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/katocham_pe/status/664401823202017280
The outlines themselves are a part of “Layer Properties,” which applies an outline to everything on the layer that the effect is applied to. I prefer vector layers for lining, but this requires rasterizing the layers to achieve opacity.
Examples of the border effect and achieving transparency!
- Effect: outline, tone, color – these can all be active at the same time
- Border effect: solid line, watercolor line – the latter replicates the watercolor outline option that is in individual brush settings, as far as I can tell
- (solid line option) Thickness of edge: the minimum width of the outline is 1px
- (solid line option) Edge color: this is an oooold school color picker, but it can be any color you want
- Expression color: color, gray, monotone – I believe the gray and monotone work similarly, except the choice to pick the color range with monotone, but I’m not sure it differs from the “color” options in layer effect?
- Vector tools: the normal vector tools that apply to vector layers, rasterized layers lose these options
There’s a few images, so I’ll put the rest under a cut. I’m only explaining the solid line option, and then how to convert those outlines to having what they contain to being transparent.
Another tutorial I found for Clip Studio Paint that I thought might be helpful!
(via: @syri_blazefury from Twitter)