Clip Studio Paint
Powerful drawing and illustration tool.
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Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about Clip Studio Paint, and it has gotten 96 likes
- Developed by CELSYS, Inc.
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $50 and $219.
- Average rating of 4
- 101 alternatives listed
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- FChiisaia21 Upvoted a comment on Inkscape as an alternative to Clip Studio PaintInkscape is primarily a a Vector Graphics Editor, not predominantly bitmap like Clip Studio Paint. While CSP does have "Vector Brushes" and uses a selection of vector objects to create speech and thought balloons, these are really ways of applying brush tips and shapes in a rescaleable way, and a full set of vector manipulation is not available. Inkscape is more an Alternative to Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator, NOT Clip Studio Paint.
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- vesterlay Upvoted a comment on Inkscape as an alternative to Clip Studio Paintinkscape is nothing like manga studio at all
Although Clip Studio Paint, or CSP, was originally targeted towards manga and comic artists, it has many features that are just as good or even better than popular competitors like Photoshop, SAI or Krita. For one the brush engine is great, has a big library of stock brushes and the big advantage that you can create vector strokes with any brush and any texture. This makes retroactive corrections pretty easy (NOTE: vector strokes are stil rasterized!).
What sold me was the incredibly natural feel of the brushes and blending functions. It works realisticly, actually blending the strokes and not just overlaying it, like in many other softwares. This makes painting really fun and the only programs I encountered, that did this better were Corel Painter and Paintstorm Studio.
So don't be fooled by it's label as "manga studio", it is high level software for illustration, sketching, concept art and even traditional frame by frame animation.
CSP always has a big sale during the summer (and I think every season? Not sure if I'm correct) which makes it very affordable during its sale.
The asset store is THE BEST, lots of user-created brushes up for grabs for free! Some are paid but I haven't found the need to buy anything. There's brushes, 3d assets, texture images, background images, fx images.
Built-in timelapse function makes it easy to export with various settings!
Has a pretty garbage licensing scheme, limiting you to 2 installs per license. It's fine for people who only have a single machine they dual boot on or have two separate devices, but anyone who runs multiple dual-boot systems are in a heap of trouble with the licensing scheme due to the limits on deactivations.
As the sofware is pretty cheap (15 US $ promotion price), I don’t think it deserves one star for this point.
Reply written about 3 years ago
It's missing liquify/warp from Photoshop, but is a superior painting program to Photoshop.
After going from Photoshop, to Krita, to Corel, to Mischief and various other software, I have settled so far with Clip. It has so far the best brush engine (in my opinion) and supports a wide range of features. The documentation is also rather good, and if you ever need assets (brushes, images, 3d models etc), the community hands them out for free. If you draw, this is your call.
Not the most easiest to use, but there is many really good features. And best of all it's fast and not laggy!
Unusable on any LCD display tablet with small screen if you turn the UI scaling in Windows any other value than 100%. You get then a huge desynchronization of position between pen tip and drawing cursor. It's a shame that they still didn't fix such an app-breaking problem…