Manga Studio Natural Media Pattern Brushes

Thank you so much Ray!

Happy to help!

May look at re-creating some of these for photoshop – unless they’re already available somewhere?

Great freebie man!

Go ahead; let me know if you do! It’d save me some work. :)

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I would love these brushes for Photoshop CS4 for Mac…

Help!!

Thank you so much ,Ray!! teach me more

oh no..I have trouble to intall the brush…tell me more detail about it..
allready download your brush but have trouble to install it

Awesome, thanks Ray – these are great!!

I haven’t played with these much before, but tried making a little stubby brush of my own…

http://tinyurl.com/27mudd3

Also of interest…the Japanese company that makes Comic Studio has a new program called IllustStudio that does a lot more on the color side of things… http://tinyurl.com/2ec4jkj

sorry, that brush link is…. http://tinyurl.com/27mudd3
i mangled it in the last post..

Mike, I’ll probably not be porting them to CS4 any time soon. I have a few other similar brushes in CS4, but most my other custom brushes are for Painter. I’ll likely release those soon too.

Freaktone, if you could describe what’s going wrong, that would help.

Damian, checking out your stubby brush now (I fixed the URL in your comment).

I’ve seen CelSys’ IlluStudio; I’m tempted to get the Japanese version and throw it on a Windows box. Smith Micro does the localization and porting to the Mac platform, so I’d have to wait to see if they picked it up for release here before being able to install it on my Mac.

Thanks, Ray. Awfully nice of you to do this. Hey, I’m also McLovin’ the web site redesign… cool.

Thanks. It’s been a while in the making. I suck with CSS.

halo again Ray…in your design above!..what kind of brush did you use,oil or bristle for inking{black} and for the lighting,what kind of brush you used?

oh yes! I have the brush allready,Thank you!!
sorry for my english and hope you understand it
Thank you

Don’t worry about your English. I’m in no way multilingual, so I admire any capability to speak someone else’s language that others have.

I used the bristle almost exclusively. The oil brush is good for blocking in basic shapes and values, but the bristle brush is what I used for almost all of the rendering.

My brush for doing comic style inking is the default “G” brush that ships in Manga Studio with IN, OUT, and CORRECT turned off/unchecked.

you are awesome!!thank you

comic style inking is the “G” brush,what’s default “G” brush?

It’s one of the bundled, default, preset brushes that is included with all copies of Manga Studio under the “Pen” tool.

oh yes sorry!:)
mr.Ray!!most of my recently artwork done @ Manga without knowing all the tools inside,it is stupid but that’s the way…haha
more question I guess…
is it possible if I exported the artwork to Illustrator{vector} and the layers keep separated?

It’s a raster program, so exporting to illustrator is not going to do you much good. Even the vector drawing layers in Manga Studio export as raster so far as I know.

Thanks for fixing the link! – side note on Illuststudio, Celsys is planning a Mac release this year. I asked SM on ‘MangaStudio’ on twitter if they(SM) had plans to release it in English, but sounds like there has been no mention of it.

Thanks for the brushes. Very helpful — can’t wait to try them. Only thing is, I lost all of my tools in the custom tool palette that I labored over for hours. The custom settings are all still there thank gosh — that’s what took the time. The tools on the palette simply disappeared.

Strange! There /shouldn’t/ be any correlation between the two.

Thanks so much for the nat media brushes. Had no problems installing them. Works like a charm. In fact the Don Seegmiller book about character painting can be used for ref. in painting with MS — use the ‘oil’ brush instead of his smeary/blending brush and so on.

One thing, I put a “7_” as a prefix for the folder name in the CustomTool folder and the brushes show up in alphabetical order with the other brushes (i.e. every brush is in alphabetical order) and not at the bottom of the list. BTW, I used “7″ in the title because the highest number in the folder was “6″ — so ymmv.

Now if only the actual individual brush setting had real names, instead of the 3 digit number followed by “brp” and “.itp” extensions…

These brushe are really nice and go a long way to making me forget I’m not in Corel Painter. This way we get the best of both worlds.

Thanks again for sharing them!

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That was absolutely my intent. I’m a big fan of Painter but I like the stability and file size economy/efficiency of Manga Studio.

Mike, glad you didn’t have any major hiccups. Hopefully there’s a better brush management system in future Manga Studio releases.

Hey Ray!

Love your work, love this program, and LVE that you were so kind to offer these up to the masses. One question though: I follow the steps, launch MS, grab one of the brushes from the dropdown, use it for one stroke and MS crashes. Any thoughts?

Thanks again amigo, keep hope alive!

JB

LOL, not 2 seconds after I got done messaging you, I closed Photoshop down and low and behold, all the brushes work fine now. Crap like that is why I’ve moved away from using adobe exclusively. Viva Smith Micro! Viva La Revolution!

Les Sigh

JB

thanks, I’ve been looking around for MS brushes, wish they were as common as photoshop ones.

I’m having some trouble instaling the brushes. Could you please help me?

What’s going wrong?

Awesome stuff Ray. Just picked up Manga Studio, about to give this a shot.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses Manga Studio for something other than manga, :P Though now I use it in conjunction with Pain.net.

Did you know you can use Photoshop brushes with Manga Studio? All you have to do is get an ARB file reader/converter and convert Photoshop brushes into pngs. Then you paste them into Manga Studios and make a custom brush! It took me forever to figure that out. :I

Hope that little tidbit helps some people.
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what are you talking about? i googled ARB file converter and nothing came up. ????? is it called something else?

hey nate um i did have the same problem as u..heres a program that helped me convert my RB files to png’s..
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/abrviewer/abrViewer.NET2_2.0/abrViewer.rel.NET2 .. hope i helped you…

ei blackfirexd13 ..im new to manga studio and all..i did have my ARB files converted to pngs however i dont know how to make a custom brush out of manga studio..can u help me out? thanks..

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Hey guys.

I’ve got the same problem as gwen. I’ve got already the png’s from the original photoshop brushes. And nor: What’s the next step? Renaming the png’s into brp, itp and tpf data didn’t work. Can anyboy help?
Thanks

Sorry, I don’t watch this topic.

Anyways, all that I know is that it’s possible. You do the same thing as making your own custom brushes. I did it once, but I didn’t get to do it again. :C I now use GIMP a lot more then MS because I understand it better and it’s free–and it fits on my laptop. I still use MS for lines, though.

I’ve got it ;D Thanks anyway. Your hint helped :)

Hey, these are really great, thank you. I really think Manga Studio has the potential to overcome Photoshop, but it can’t happen without great customization options like this. Cheers!

i’ve had the same version of manga studio for about three years and i recently loaded it onto my new laptop. i’ve downloaded all the sample data like screen tones, and speach bubbles but for some reason the pen types and brush paternes are not showing. if anybody reading this knows what happend to the brush patterns and how i can get them back i would be so gratefull. i’m really at a loss here and i really don’t want to have to buy a new version of manga studio or download most-likely virus-infected data just to have it not work and crash my comptuer. i’ll could any information

thanks, I have started to play with the studio, I use Photoshop a lot and hope this will make my lay outs faster.

Thanks for posting these Ray, I’m new to Manga Studio but I’m loving the feel and movement of the brushes.