Amazon.com: Customer reviews: CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016

I have been using Photoshop since version 1.0 and am deeply impressed by what Clip Studio Paint Pro can do that PS can't (or wasn't designed to, to be fair). I am still working through the (pretty steep) learning curve, but every few minutes, I am saying, "Oh, cool," or, "That's interesting." This seems to be the ideal software for 2-D drawing using a tablet. And I can already see ways to use Photoshop to enhance what I can do in Clip; they really do seem to be complimentary. Clip Studio Paint has amazing utilities like the built-in 3-D mannequin that let's you build a pose, rotate it in space, and trace over it. The ability to lay out any number of panels on a comics page in about ten seconds is also incredibly nice. Edge masking so you can draw only inside your panels is also cool. The ability to draw a line and then adjust its weight, tweak the curve, and so on is also a huge time saver. Downsides seem few so far. A few of the Japanese to English translations are clunky, but not really confusing. The online tutorials from the company are in Japanese with English subtitles, but not all of them are subtitled, which is problematic. It would be nice if they had English voice overs since it is hard to watch what the instructor is doing on screen while also reading the captions. But so far I have no real complaints. Nice work.

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Seung Woo Lee

Sai tool was great. It was light

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017

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I'm a long time user of Paint tool Sai.

Sai tool was great. It was light, have almost every function that other expensive programs have, and pretty easy to use. But every time I used sai tool to draw, something didn't feel right. Lines felt different from the line I actually made on my wacom tablet. It also felt less accurate and precise while coloring. I've tried every suggestions on the web to remove these problems I been having, but nothing really resolved this issue.

So I decided to give Clip Studio a try with a doubt in mind that this tool won't be far different than sai.
Then it blew my mind. No more awkward lines! Felt much accurate and precise coloring than sai. Still easy to use, Has extra features that Sai tool did not have, and plethora of resources made by other users that adds expandability of the tool! Only minor hassle was to get used to new hot key settings but then this was easily resolved by having a programmable keyboard!

If you are looking for a good paint tool that doesn't break your bank or cause awkward sensation while drawing, Clip studio paint is worth a try. Pretty sure you won't regret it!

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MR. FISH

Awesome software! Nearly everything the full version has

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017

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I wasn't sure when I bought the $20+ version opposed to the $200 version... But this is great! It does everything you have seen on YouTube, etc... It's just missing some of the fancier bells and whistles. Example: you can use 3D models to layout your scene and change their porportions, but I can't find the place to change the position of their fingers. It only has one or two 3D scenes to load for backgrounds. And I have yet to find the 3D guns, phones, swords, etc.. to put in their hands. All the cool tools are there for drawing, vector layers, coloring... You might just be missing a couple of extra functions or sliders here or there. Overall it's absolutely awesome! If you're tight on cash, buy this version! If you can afford the bigger version, by all means buy it, you won't regret it. Hands down the best software for drawing comics! I always ignored it because I don't draw Manga, but they took all the best tools and ideas from all the best drawing softwares and created the perfect jewel here. I can't brag on it enough. I've attached a couple pages I recently drew in clip studio... It has drasticly shortened my time per page.

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Kat

It's not bad for the price

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016

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It's not bad for the price. I found that drawing in paint tool sai is still far smoother than doing so in this program, and coloring, and shading, and etc. However the money was far from wasted thanks to my favorite feature, the 3d doll models. I still haven't figured out how to zoom in on the model but you can click and drag to move or rotate parts of the "doll" to get a pose you need. Way better than digging through google images for the right picture.

Now for other aspects of it:

Have trouble making comic frames?

This thing has you covered with 33 comic fram templates. It even has a bunch of word bubbles, speed/shock lines, and a couple miscellaneous things for comics.

Have trouble drawing flowers, lace, grass, chains, and more? It also has you covered with brushes that do that, or if you want to draw one thing at a time with one of said brushes all you have to do is turn off the ribbon effect.

Not satisfied with the default brushes? Well their website has you covered with a literal BUTTLOAD of individual and brush sets taht you can easily install into the program. It also has plenty of downloadable palettes as well, my faves being for skin and hair.

Want to animate? This is the stickler since in pro you can TECHINCALLY animate but only up to 24 frames. I found taht out after looking around on their site, something I had not seen listed here. You want actual animation longer than that you need to get EX.

So yeah it's definitely worth the 25 bucks so go ahead and grab it if you're just going to do illustration and comic work.

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Marissa

Used to be a good deal, now just another garbage subscription service

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024

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Back when I originally bought this, it was on sale and proved to be a pretty great program. On that front, it's been well worth it.

The problem is that buying Clip Studio now is no longer the same situation. The owners switched to a subscription service, and not only have they decided to stop updating the versions people who already bought it have unless they buy into that stupid subscription, they've also decided to lock those old versions to whatever machine you signed it up to. You used to be able to easily moved to another place as long as you had the install disk and the activation code. Now they don't want you doing that, even to use an outdated version.

I won't be buying anything from them again, that's for sure. I hate those ridiculous 'PAY US OVER AND OVER AND OVER FOR IT' business models. For now my old version is fine, and if I ever lose access or things move far enough beyond it, I guess I'll just readjust to Krita instead.

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Sam

Great Program for its Price!

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2016

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First off, this program has some amazing features that are extremely helpful. The 3D reference models that have included poses (or the ability to pose yourself) are great if you don't have real life versions of a figure you can pose, or you're tired of having to look online for reference photos. I find that if I place the model off to the side it becomes a great reference for me to follow and draw my character(s). I will say, though, that it becomes a little difficult or messy when trying to pose it yourself and it's easier to pick a pose and alter it than to completely pose the model yourself.

However, this program has more than just that feature, there are other 3D models of a Japanese classroom, chairs, desks, and even a laptop which are helpful as well. There are other helpful aspects which make this program easy to use and understand if you've used Sai or Photoshop.

But I have to say this program has its limits. You'll definitely want Photoshop and/or Gimp to help with some side effects that Clip Studio doesn't offer. Clip Studio is great for drawing, coloring, and creating your own comic or manga pages, (it even has included templates!) but it lacks in some small areas like filters and the like.

Overall, I recommend this product to anyone interested in creating comics, manga, or webtoons!

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Doug

This is one impressive child.

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016

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Super awesome program. I'm brand new to it, but I am experienced with the Adobe Suite. It is what you would get if PhotoShop and Illustrator had a baby; a little bit of each. Vectors and Raster layers working together in the same program.
. Drawing and correcting line art is so much faster and easier than Illustrator. Though, Illustrator fills the paths as shapes (solid/gradient), whereas ClipStudioPro lays out the lines, then you paint behind them on a raster layer(s). I do kind of miss that feature, but that feature in Illustrator is also a hindrance to coloring freedom, so the trade off is worth it in the long run.
. I have not even tapped into the cel animation portion of the program yet.
. The poseable figures are a nice feature. I am able to get the basic poses I'm aiming for out of them, then use a little creative license to take the figure where I want it to go.

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Scott Springer

Fun to use, easy to learn

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018

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I don't use a lot of the advanced features, but of what I do use, layers, and the pends and brushes and transform tools and such, I find the interface to be intuitive. I have used photo shop and gimp in the past, and I like this program the best. I took a tutorial on it previously, so I was ready to start using it when it arrived. One of the nice features is the vector lines. I don't believe Gimp has this feature. Also, I was able to get to creating pretty quickly and the GUI is well laid out. I think for the few dollars this costs compared to gimp, which is free, this is worth the money because of its ease of use.

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bunnyrabbit4

Smith Micro's Never Ending Marketing Scheme.

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2017

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I have dealt with Smith Micro since they bought Poser from Efrontier many years ago. While their programs have improved, their sales model and support delivery has been no less than abysmal for no discernible reason. The first time I responded to a Poser update I was sent to the Smith Micro store, told to put the update in my basket and asked for a credit card. The update was free but I had to go through the pretense of "shopping" for a simple update. I hear they have since fixed that but their general tendency to put sales where it doesn't belong continues in the Clip Studio Pro Manual.

I decided to add Paint Pro to my programs because It had the comic format. I got the disk version and had no problem loading it on my windows 7 machine. When I responded to the update I didn't have to go shopping but the update added a second Icon to my desktop for a "cloud connection". I don't do clouds. Period. But that was a minor inconvenience since I normally don't connect my work computer to the net unless absolutely necessary.

The interface is intuitive, but very feature rich, so I went to the website and watched the first tutorial to get a basic orientation to the desktop. It was in Japanese with subtitles. Yes. JAPANESE. I have no idea how accurate the subtitles were because I don't speak Japanese but little details you normally see in a training video like an arrow showing you how to TURN ON the brush pallet before explaining how to use it were nowhere to be seen.. It was hard to follow the screen shots because I was too busy reading subtitles. WHO DOES THIS TO AMERICAN CUSTOMERS?

So I downloaded the manual only to find that it amounts to an advertisement for the more expensive EX version. They combined both manuals rather than having one follow the other and you have to scroll through pages of stuff that have nothing to do with this program. It is VERY easy to get lost while scrolling only to realize you are attempting something from the other program. And some of the explanations are only found in the areas labeled EX..but are identical in the Pro version. To make matters worse the manual is over 1000 pages long, so your scrolling is imprecise at best. The shorter "Startup guide" is a little better, a little over 250 pages but has the same issue with the EX material. You get the impression that they are trying to show you how cool the more expensive program is. All it did for me was make me glad I hadn't spent more money on something I may never learn.

To make matters worse.....What I expect from a manual is a layout page that shows the desktop with numbered explanations that breakdown into precise explanations with pictures of what the different palettes do. After that I expect chapters on the various palates preferably in some sort of order. The organization of his manual is crazy. It over explain some things like showing a picture of a palette and saying basically, this is a palette, with arrows pointing to the palette's symbol and the name, saying, you guessed it, this is the palettes name!! They dedicate a page to that. But try and find a simple explanation of the top task bar and you don't run across that until page 500. You can learn about the eye dropper tool on page on page 548. Many of the pages contain very little info causing you to scroll endlessly and then pass up what you were trying to find. What was perhaps most upsetting, since I bought the program for its ability to create a comic page, was the lack of any real guidance in that area.

Having given up on the manual until I manage to learn the basic of the program elsewhere I have found Reuben Lara's Youtube video to be a good basic intro to the drawing tools. His second paint video leaves out too much but the first is 30 minutes well spent. Good Luck!

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CF Grant

Great stabilization & clean lines.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017

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I have PhotoShop CS6 and I wanted Adobe Illustrator to go with it since I needed vector graphics and something that could help me auto-stabilize my Wacom tablet pen when drawing. Unfortunately, Illustrator switched to a subscription-only format and earlier copies were either unavailable or super expensive.

I got "Clip Studio Paint Pro" --formerly the "Manga Studio" series-- on sale and love it. It has everything I wanted. I have experimented with the pose-able mannequins but despite hearing a lot of good about them, I find them to be of limited utility-- try to pose one arm or leg and it seems like you end up pulling the whole figure into some sort of freak yoga type pose (admittedly, I probably just need to practice with them more). The pre-posed mannequins are useful for maintaining perspectives and proportions though. I feel like my pen pressure is more responsive than with PhotoShop and I like the ability to influence and tweak curved lines better. If I mess up, I can hit "CTRL+Z" over and over.

I do my good, smooth line work in Clip Studio Paint Pro now, then transition to PhotoShop for the lettering and adding color. The crisp, clean lines in Clip Studio Paint Pro make adding color super easy later. I use this for a webcomic and it has made my life easier and I am more satisfied with my work now.

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