Comments on: Manga Studio Speaketh, I Listeneth

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:18:51 +0000

I regularly interject neato and keen into regular conversation. Also, using the modifier “highly” before any of the aforementioned words is recommended.

By: Jim O'Neill

Jim O'Neill — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:57:16 +0000

It’s nice to see you bringing back the word “swell” too. Welcome aboard the Swell Train, bound for Swellville.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:18:03 +0000

I’m flip-flopping between the two. Until a universal binary comes out for V. 4, I’m still stuck in Windows XP. Arrrgh.

By: RCL

RCL — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:35:12 +0000

So there is an update for MS! It is working for me again. Are you still running painter X or have you gone back to MS?

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:38:31 +0000

Leopard has run swell for me. I love the features it introduced.

By: GC

GC — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:36 +0000

Fortunately for me, I never “upgraded” to Leopard. I think Apple made so many basic mistakes that I decided to stick with 10.4.11 for about a year (should be enough time to work out the bugs).

By: GC

GC — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:02:17 +0000

Good call, Mike R.

By: Mike R

Mike R — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:18:18 +0000

Smith Micro has released the update to fix Manga Studio on Macs running leopard — it’s on the Smith Micro site, under updates, it’s Manga Studio 3.0.2
Link:
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/manga/updates.html

Hope this helps.

By: GC

GC — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:24:24 +0000

Oh, and thanks for the “Alligator Wrestling” comment. :)

By: GC

GC — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:23:40 +0000

Hey, Ray. I’ve had some major problems with my external hard drive the past several days… I thought I was going to lose almost 50 GBs of YEARS worth of work…. what a nightmare. Went out and bought a new LaCie d2 500GB external for under $200, which just blows my mind.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:07:12 +0000

GC, I've been looking for some way to sell prints. INPRNT, Thumbtack Press, something. I even bought my own Ultrachrome, archival, Epson. I think that Imagekind looks like it could be the best of the bunch. Blueflip is a close second. BTW, REALLY nice. Do me a favor. Send me an email, wouldya?

By: GC

GC — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:00:39 +0000

If you’re interested in seeing an example…

http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=80e96a9b-15cb-4728-baf8-0a41c43eccc3

By: GC

GC — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:29:19 +0000

Ray, I just discovered this through a link on Flickr.com…

I’m going to create a gallery of my work, and I think almost any artist here would love to do the same. Look into it. I see no downside so far.

http://www.imagekind.com

By: Mukinese

Mukinese — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:25:31 +0000

I’m also liking the look of MS4, I always liked the line tools they work very well and all the options available mean you can customise them to fit the way you work. I’ve been playing with the Japanese demo of MS4 (Comicstudio 4) and you can now have full colour layers and a proper airbrush! There are lots of new tools and functions – all with the plethora of options that MS piles on top, so I’m pretty sure that MS 4 will probably cover a good 90% of my production needs. Can’t wait to get my hands on the English language version.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:43:15 +0000

I have to say, SM has been very great with me. I’m excited to see MS4 come out now that we know things are cooking with gas. I, much like all of you, was just getting antsy waiting for some word.

GC, MS and I just clicked. It’s one of the few apps where everything makes sense to me. That is why I have had an on again, off again relationship with it post-Leopard/Vista. I just can’t put it down.

Mez, that PDF looks downright exciting. I’m checking out the app now.

By: GC

GC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:30:20 +0000

Good for getting a response out of Smith, Ray. Keep the pressure on ‘em. I personally bought a copy of Manga Studio EX based on your recommendation and agree about the line quality being second to none, but virtually everything else being a non-intuitive nightmare when integrating it into a production pipeline.

By: Mez

Mez — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:22 +0000

Yo Ray, I don’t know if you’re familiar at all with a program called Drawplus,by Serif Software, but it does offer customizable brushes that might be comparable to MS. The link info below should take you to an overview of how to work with its brush engine walk you through its customizable features.It is a vector program so it’s resolution independent, that is;of course, until you start rasterizining the lineart.
I’m mentioning this as an alternative, not so much as a solution to your delima.

Buena Suerte.

http://www.serif.com/community/tutorials/drawplus/dp8/use-the-natural-media-brushes.PDF

By: d!

d! — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:07:18 +0000

schweet …

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:35:41 +0000

Thanks, Mukinese. That’s awesome to hear.

D!, I will try and feature the finer points as I find them. It’s been a long while since I used Painter.

Mike, I’m thinking Mukinese is right – the forum isn’t a place they’re dipping into as of yet, it seems.

By: Mukinese

Mukinese — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:12:35 +0000

Well, I’m not surprised that they contacted you rather than post on the forums, for one I don’t think they monitor the forums. If they did, surely they would have posted something to quell the growing resentment and secondly you have been a one man sales team for MS – at least as far as linework goes. I don’t think there is another site that features MS art and videos as much as yours does.

By: d!

d! — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:51:12 +0000

before you go back to manga studio. could you go over some of what you think are the finer points of PAINTER X?

thanks, this is an amazing blog! -d!

By: Mike R

Mike R — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:07:47 +0000

And yet, there’s no official word about Manga Studio on the Content Paradise Manga Studio forum.

sigh.