Manga Studio Debut 4 (Win/Mac)

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Product Description

Manga Studio Debut 4.0 is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics. Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons. Manga Studio helps you create professional manga and comics from start to finish!

Fun, easy to use interface. Click to enlarge.

The Beginner's Assistant groups together commonly used tool palettes. Click to enlarge.

Draw using a suite of familiar tools including pencils, pens, brushes and selection tools. Click to enlarge.

Choose from thousands of screen tones to add dimension and character to your art. Click to enlarge.

Invigorate your artwork using color. Click to enlarge.

Customize your projects with a large collection of special effects and features. Click to enlarge.

Complete artistic control
Sketch original art with a mouse or tablet, scan in existing art, or import artwork or graphics to get started. It's easy with Manga Studio Debut!

Design with attention to detail
Choose from over 2,300 professional-grade screen tones to add dimension, depth and character to your art.

Invigorate your drawings
Easily color and fill your manga or comic using the integrated color set, advanced shading tools, and pattern brushes.

Bring your Characters to Life
Pre-designed word balloons allow you to quickly add dialog to your creations.

Apply special effects
Add focus and speed line effects in seconds to express moods or motion.

Publish your work
Output professional quality manga for print or web in various file formats. Manga Studio Debut exports JPG, BMP, PSD, TGA*, PNG*, TIFF* and PICT* files.

*Mac-only publishing format.

Get fast results
Perform complicated tasks with a single mouse click. Double your productivity by reusing design elements in a flash!

New and Updated Features

Manga Studio Debut 4.0 provides a fun, straightforward way for you to start creating your own comics today.

New--Beginner's Assistant and dynamic help
With Manga Studio's built-in Beginner's Assistant interface, commonly used tool palettes are grouped together. Dynamic help offers instant access to information about tool palettes and menu options. Getting started has never been easier.

New--Color Palette
Color your artwork using the integrated color set. Choose from preset colors or create your own and add custom effects to your artwork.

New--Built-in Word balloons
Add word balloons with ease by dragging and dropping any of almost one hundred preset editable word balloons. Freely adjust the font, size, style and spacing of the text and add a curved or straight tail.

New--Advanced Text Input
Manga Studio Debut now allows you to enter text directly on your page using a standard text tool. You can also quickly add special characters and with support for many characters such as Katakana and Hiragana, Manga Studio Debut is better than ever!

Updated--More Screen Tones and Patterns
Choose from over 2,300 screen tones, a variety of special effects and comprehensive pen and brush tools, including over 80 customizable pattern brushes. Create and customize virtually unlimited combinations of patterns to create unique effects.

Updated--Additional preset page templates
Choose from over 160 built-in page templates for your page or story, or add your own customized pages and save them as templates.

Note: Register your product within 30 days of purchase and receive the Manga Studio Debut Content pack valued at $19.99 for free. This package includes over 100 background templates and over 100 Power templates. Information regarding registration and how to redeem your content pack are included with your purchase.

Product Details

Manga Studio Debut 4 is an all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics
Sketch original art with a mouse or tablet, scan in existing art, or import artwork or graphics to get started
Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons
Export professional quality manga from Manga Studio Debut 4 to various Mac and Windows file formats such as JPG, BMP, PSD, TGA, PNG, TIFF and PICT
Dynamic help offers instant access to information about tool palettes and menu options--getting started has never been easier

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Customer Reviews

manga Studio Debut 4

Review Date: March 9, 2010

Reviewer: Mrs. Bee, Chicago,IL USA

I bought this as a gift for my niece. She has been serious about drawing anima from the first time she held a crayon. She said it was amazing program.

Perfect Program for Aspiring Comic Creators

Review Date: March 3, 2010

Reviewer: Rob Lopez, Fresno, CA

I'd been looking for software to give my webcomic a professional look, particularly my word balloons and lettering. I came across a blog online that led me to Manga Studio Debut 4, and it was a great price for the features. It's got layers, the ability to draw, paint and color, hundreds of tones and materials to give your art depth and flair, and plenty of online support, including a sizable manual you can download as a pdf. It has dozens of word balloon styles and a good number of fonts and a panel cutter to breakdown your page just how you want it. If you want to check out what I did with the program, just stop [...], by webcomic! Rated Web 14 (NSFW)!

Useful, very useful

Review Date: February 16, 2010

Reviewer: southpawami, US

Manga Studio Debut 4 is the closest thing to a perfect sketchbook replacement on the market. A 70 dollar bamboo pen tablet and a 50 dollar Manga Studio Debut 4 program, and you have enough(assuming you have a sufficient computer) to stop buying sketchbooks for as long as you want to.

Manga Studio Debut 4 is fast enough at pencil, pen, and paintbrush/airbrush(airbrush is hidden in the paintbrush options) tools. This makes it perfectly reasonable to replace a sketchbook. Add the storybook files of 32 pages, with the option of seeing your pages to your left while working on your picture to the right and you've got a tight sketchbook.

Does it do panels? yes. Custom panels? yes. Tones? yes. Custom Tones? yes. Layers? yes. Ruler layers, Grid Layer, Selection Layer? yes. Layer Opacity? yes. Layer color? yes. Advanced curve settings for pen/pencil tools? yes. Does the brush have materials that are fun to play with in B&W and color? yes. Speed lines? yes. Does it have print settings? yes, a host of them. Could you make your own comic? As easy as a comic is to make. Can the program draw for you? Actually it kind of can... you can make selections, then paste tones inside the selections, and you can subtract selections from within a selection and add selections outside of the selection... and have the program tone or material all your selections. First... this is where it's a bit slow... and two, that's kind of overusing the feature.

Weak tool points of the tools present.
Text - for whatever reason... text rotation seems only present in the EX version. text rotation?? oh, come on... you'll probably work a page at 90 degrees for comfort. Just sketch your own text, or work a page vertically. Balloons? yes. Sizing? yes. Multiple language input? yes. Vertical text? yes. So everything that made sense with text except rotation was included in the text tool.
Line tools - there is no such thing as a decent pen tool in this program, nor in the EX version. However, you can use the polygon line tool to create custom panels. And the Curve line tool makes tracing possible for Ruler work on the Ruler layer(a custom layer of saved paths for line work that is unique to Manga Studio)

Conclusion: Amazing digital sketchbook... better in page organization with 32 page story files than any program on the market. With it seemingly overpowered, the lacking rotation on the text tool is a hair puller.

Tips: With all that sketching practice in your tablet, you may want to animate your sketches... and a free program called "Pencil" will do that for you.

Excellent

Review Date: February 15, 2010

Reviewer: Mlle Lindsey Jones, France

Great service, product came a couple of days later, in time for Christmas. Manga studio itself is all I hoped it would be, easy to use, full of interesting tools.

Manga Studio Debut 4

Review Date: February 10, 2010

Reviewer: R. Simos, Hayward, Ca

Good software... But you need to get a good tablet so you make your work much easier...