I decided to teach myself Clip Studio Paint this summer. If you’re not that familiar with Clip Studio Paint, it’s probably the #1 app used by cartoonists these days to make comics. Except for me, I guess — I’ve always just used Photoshop. And because I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years, I wasn’t too eager to learn an entire new app when I thought Photoshop was capable of doing everything I needed. I’d also tried an earlier iteration of CSP called Manga Studio and found it difficult to learn, so that also made me less than enthusiastic to give the newer CSP a try. But… like… everyone uses CSP these days. Like… everyone. So it has to have gotten better, right? It turns out, there’s a good reason why CSP is being used by more and more cartoonists these days — while the tools it offers are similar to Photoshop, they are better designed for making comics. I still find that some things are better done in Photoshop (editing type, for one), but there’s a lot that CSP just does better (coloring is waaaaay easier). So I’m learning to switch between the two programs and Larry, the magical
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