POWERFUL COLORING TOOLS
Color Your Artwork

DRAW NATURALLY
Pencil and Ink Options

Manga Studio offers more versatility and flexibility than any other application when creating manga and comics. Create original sketches using your mouse or draw naturally with a Pen Tablet. Use scans of your existing paper artwork or import images or photos for use in your manga and comic creations. Draw using a suite of familiar tools including pens, pencils, brushes and selection tools. With vector mapping technology and smart pen pressure sensing, Manga Studio gives you incredible sensation of drawing on paper. Manga Studio allows you to work on vector layers to create resolution independent images.

SAVES YOU TIME
Create Panels in a Snap

Easily add and customize panels for your pages, saving you the hassle of having to redraw artwork if a panel is not quite right the first time. You can also create panels of all shapes and sizes using Bezier curves.

SIMULATE REAL WORLD BRUSHES
Paint Brushes Created Just the Way You Like

MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY
Vector Toolkit

SPEED UP YOUR WORKFLOW
Amazing New Effects and Tools

Amazing updates to Manga Studio make it comparable to other popular Photoshop and Painter. Manga Studio 5 provides several advancements over Manga Studio 4 to help you create a much more professional and polished look. These new advancements include new layer effects such as screen, overlay and multiply. Even brushes can now have effects of their own. User controlled anti-aliasing allows for a wider range of painting styles. New support for 3D objects and figures allows for reference and background materials.

DESIGN WITH ATTENTION TO DETAIL
Page Template Options

Save time on tedious projects with tons of page template and create stunning manga and comics.

MORE POWER AND CONTROL
3D Options

COMPLETE ARTISTIC CONTROL
More Import and Export Capabilities

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. Quickly and easily output professional manga and comics. Finished artwork can be printed from your desktop, sent to professional printers in digital format, or output in popular graphic formats for digital use such as posting them on your blog or social networking site. Manga Studio imports and exports to common file formats including layered PSD files. Resize with no loss in quality. Export your bitmap drawings to resolution-independent vector images.

INVIGORATE YOUR DRAWINGS
Bring Your Characters to Life

1. Preset pen sizes that behave like real Japanese manga pens. (In Photoshop you have to set the sizes yourself and they are not specifically designed for inking and coloring.)
2. Support for pen tablets, ie Wacom, and high-quality pressure sensitivity that really mimics drawing on paper.
3. Huge variety of screen tone patterns from basic dot tones to fancy backgrounds and effects. (In Photoshop, you'd have to make/draw tones yourself.)
4. A panel tool designed specifically for comic creation. You can also make a panel extend past the bleed point as well as set the panel border thickness for emphasis to certain scenes.
5. Perspective rulers - you don't have to draw your own perspective lines like in Photoshop.
6. Premade word balloons in all kinds of styles and fully customizable.
7. Tons of included content that will speed up your comic creation process.
8. Import a variety of 3D formats. Manga Studio 5 also includes 3D characters that can be manipulated for the ideal pose.
9. Supports both raster and vector layers, and includes specific vector tools giving you amazing control.
10. Manga Studio's tools are based on real world comic and illustration tools such as inking pens, and rulers. There are many different pen tip types to choose from, unlike Photoshop whose primary design is for painting and digital editing.