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| From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $245.99
You Save: $54.00 (18%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 4868
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Pro
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: mse-w30-de-r
Model: MSE-W30-DE-R
UPC: 814956022074
EAN: 0814956022074
ASIN: B000CABE4O
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Easily create professional manga from start to finish. | | • | Quick start using your own sketches, digital photos, scans or illustrations, import and export with popular graphics programs. | | • | Includes collection of page templates, line tools, and text balloons, customize toolsets, reuse layers and pages from previous projects, makes using a tablet feel like drawing on real paper. | | • | Drag and drop from over 3000 print-quality tones and shades makes possibilities endless, vector based tones eliminate resizing issues and improves print clarity. | | • | #1 Software for creating Manga in Japan and worldwide. |
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Product Description
Manga Studio 3.0 EX is the leading manga illustration and comic art software in Japan. It gives you the power and precision to create professional-quality comics, manga, and illustrations with ease. Expand on your ability to reach an audience using the features and tools included here -- they'll help you create artwork you could never duplicate on paper!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Calling All Artists: Buy This product! September 29, 2008
W. Jackson
Manga Studio EX is a great software product. All up and coming artists will find the amount of customization to be thrilling. Even a novice could create professional works with this program.
Let me layout the advantages of this software.
-Time Reduction: It allows an faster more efficient production
-Cost cutting: especially if you use screen tones (which I believe are hard to find without the internet), paints, or specialty pencils. Obviously because it is digital it can not run out so create all you want.
Editing: Once again digital media can be edited freely, unlike traditional pen and paper methods
Customization: Highly customizable tools and it even allows the traditional hand draw art to be scanned.
Ease: Almost right out of the box it is easy to use and to make things better even has preset standard paper sizes and templates such as B4.
If you are hesitant to plunk down the green for this product, just think about the total cost of replacing all your paints and pencils and tones on a regular basis
I got my copy for $143 (which is a bargain)
Shipped in no time and was in prime condition
My only grievance is that the program is a little old (it even looks it),
but a new version may be coming out soon. I definitely be getting the upgrade.
 Only commenting on the drawing interface and execution... September 6, 2008
T. S. Rockwell (Prison City, USA)
Ive been drawing with this software off and on for about a year now.I have some small gripes with the interface but nothing major.... just small quirks I have to put up with.
There are no major issues that I have experienced that should prevent anyone from drawing professional quality work with this software. Aside from one.... the complete and total lack of any capability to make use of colour. But thats to be expected, as anyone who is familiar with manga knows that most manga is all in B&W and screen tones. The only way I can see to apply colour to work created in Manga Studio, is to transfer your drawings made in MS to another program.
At its core MS is sound, reliable and relatively intuitive software for a program of this calibre. I would highly recommend this software for anyone interested in this type of program.
WELL worth every $$ February 23, 2008
Echo (FL, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hesitated at plunking down $200 for this program, but the online reviews (not just here) were just too hard to ignore, as well as the demo version I had on my PC.
I've been using Manga Studio EX for almost a year, and It's been exactly what I was looking for in digital art production. I'll never go back to paper & pen again for drawing or even sketching; why bother when I can do the entire thing right on my computer screen? The 'rough' layout and final layout versions make the idea of mistakes laughable. I actually learn much more from them and are thus able to quickly correct them than if I'd done the sketching on paper.
While it's true that MS Ex doesn't employ colorization, I don't feel this takes away from the software's appeal at all. The conversion to .jpeg & other file formats easily recognized by Photoshop (my personal choice) & other editing programs will make it appear quite seamless. Also, the ability to put in captions & balloons so easily was a great Plus for me. With Manga Studio I'm actually able to see a comic page from the blank white screen to colored completion with minimal fuss.
My only warning would be to watch the file sizes as your comic pages get more detailed; my PC isn't new, but I have plenty of free space & adequate RAM (512) but saw some slowing in response time as the pages were filled w/ detailed drawings.
The best part about buying this from Amazon (as another reviewer posted) is that you get BOTH versions on a single disc; once I can afford a Mac station, you better believe Manga Studio EX is gonna be the 1st program installed!
A really excellent software purchase January 1, 2008
Manuel C. Hernandez (Deer River, MN USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought Manga Studio 3.0 EX, not really expecting to do much more than be able to publish comix. But if you want to extend its value it is on par with a desktop graphics studio for advertising or logo design as well! With the supplemental tones disc and all the controls one has to work with,.. I was initially overwhelmed. And now that I have Adobe Flash CS3 Pro as well, my use for Manga Studio is integrated into a full desktop production studio. It iterfaces with Flash, The GIMP, PhotoShop and Illustrator (Haven't tried it in PaintShopPro, yet..). And my Wacom Intuos3 tablet works seamlessly with it as well! I would suggest putting the manual (which comes with the software) on the desktop for easy access during the initial try-outs. I also did myself a favor and purchased "Manga Studio for Dummies"[[ISBN-10: 0470129867 ISBN-13: 978-0470129869 Manga Studio for Dummies (Paperback)]]... it never hurts to have another view by a user of the software. This app. just blew me away! I am so glad I got this! (I hear Waashuu's voice "I'M SO HAPPY!") No you cannot color in it, but the specialty of this software is that it is for inking and desktop OR printshop production of fine manga art reproduction, bar none (you can do the coloring in other venues such as PhotoShop)! So you want to produce your own comix? Get this software and start drawing! NOW!
Great manga program May 8, 2007
Hiyonochan (NJ, USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a great manga program. Really makes your manga look like "manga" with all their tone options and the 3D models are great if you can't figure out how to draw a certain pose.
One problem though: Does not properly work with Windows Vista. Lots of missing strokes. I'm stuck having to now draw my manga in Photoshop and import PSD files into MS in order to be able to get anything accomplished. Very upset about this, I hope they release a patch for this or a fix or something. :(
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