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Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

You're reading from  Manga Studio EX 5 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785881077
Pages 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Liz  Staley Liz Staley
Profile icon Liz Staley

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Manga Studio Ex 5 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating and Manipulating Pages and Page Templates 2. Customizing Brushes 3. Getting a Handle on Vectors 4. Using the Layer Modes 5. Making Selections and Layer Masks 6. Using New Rulers and Line Tools 7. Adding and Creating Tones and Materials 8. Playing with Color Palettes 9. Creating Special Effects 10. Using 3D Objects 11. Exporting the Finished Product Index

Importing a palette from Photoshop


Perhaps you've been using Adobe Photoshop to create your art and you are just switching to Manga Studio 5. There's no reason you can't take your custom color swatches with you, though! In this recipe, we'll import Photoshop color swatches into the color sets in Manga Studio 5.

Getting ready

You'll need to save your Photoshop swatches as an .aco file before completing this recipe. Go to the Swatches palette in Photoshop and click on the menu (it will likely be in the upper-right corner, depending on which version of Photoshop you have). Next, click on Save Swatches in the menu. Save the .aco file in a folder on your computer, with a descriptive name.

At times, you can find pre-made .aco files available for download on the Internet.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to import a color swatch set from Adobe Photoshop to Manga Studio 5:

  1. Open the Color Set palette. It can be found by navigating to Window | Color Set.

  2. Click on the menu icon, circled...

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