That can't be good. O.O

Verity needs the exercise anyway. ;)

-TG

Don't we all? :)

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DANGER DANGER DANGER!

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as Tony Stark would say. I see it still kinda working on believing it.

Looks like you're making good use of that Cintiq!

I really need to sit down and focus on learning Manga Studio. I finally figured out how to set US comic page sizes for templates, but panels still elude me. I can create and resize them, but making some that are inset or in 'L' shapes isn't something I have figured out how to do yet. I figure with luck, I can use MS to pencil out the comic, panels, etc, then jump over to Photoshop for quick color.

Actually, I haven't been able to get the Cintiq properly up and running. Or I should say, the Cintiq works beautifully by itself, but it won't bear the presence of another tablet on my system, even its own little buddy. So I'm still using my regular tablet for the moment.

Hopefully I'll be able to get it fixed sooner or later. :)

The secret to doing inset panels, L-shaped panels etc: you need to create the unusual shapes manually on a separate layer and trim them to fit. For instance, the circular panel borders on this page, I simply started a new layer, drew two concentric circles with the marquee tool, then filled in white between them with the paint bucket. Then I erased spurious bits of the original rendered panel layer.

If that doesn't make sense, let me know, I'll post some screenshots to show you what I mean.

-TG

Huh, using a different layer should work, yes. Plus since once they are rasterized, they are just lines, I could edit it at that level.

That's how you do "breakout panels," too. Draw the art on your regular inking layer, then on the rendered panel layer, just erase everything that blocks the breakout art.

Took me a while to figure that one out!

-TG