Manga Studio questions

[amadarwin]

Is there a way to get more precise page rulers; like down to .25 inch?

Yes.

1. Turn on your grid layer.
2. Double click your grid layer.
3. select the Grid tab
4. You can set your Grid Lines and number of divisions.

Also can you set the zero point to the trim line instead of the page bleed?[/B]

You should be able to make a custom page template to do that...

[Juggertha]

guess what? We don't NEED to export. I just found this out tonight. When you Save the file, it saves a jpg for you automatically. So all you need to do is go to the saved folder, it'll have the ms page file as well as the jpeg file. Just take that file and open with PS and BAM! done.

Personally I don't know why you'd want to export layers anyhow.

To draw in MS and colour in PS. Also, I sometimes do colour holds on my lines. Far easier to do if I just have a 'line layer'.

edit: quick note - be careful which jpeg file you use. I grabbed one from my MS file folder... and it was bloody small! Better to export and ensure size... so far.

[InkDrop]

Yes.

1. Turn on your grid layer.
2. Double click your grid layer.
3. select the Grid tab
4. You can set your Grid Lines and number of divisions.

That'll do. Thanks.

Still no way to zero out the ruler. Such a silly thing,

[InkDrop]

I would suggest layers. The second panel would be the bottom layer, since the rest overlap it. The rest can be in one layer above the second. You just have to remember to 'draw through' in the second panel.

I wanted to set it up with panel rulers and eventually folders. I kept trying to just draw one panel and use the panel slice tool to do it. Which of course didn't work. Finally just started making multi panel rulers and all is well. This way you can retain the masking of the panel folder instead of drawing flat panels on one layer.

Here is quick screen cap to show how I did it. If anyone has another solution I would love to see it.

[Orphangrinder]

Here is quick screen cap to show how I did it. If anyone has another solution I would love to see it.

I hope I'm not just misunderstanding, but is there some reason you can't just create a single panel layer, and just delete the panels that you want to be open-bordered? If you don't know how to do that, you can select the panel on the ruler layer with the object-selector tool, then press Ctrl-Del.

Personally, after my first 10 or 15 pages in Manga Studio, I decided the panel folders were more trouble than they were worth, and started drawing all my panels on the same layer, with the rasterized panel layer at the top of the layer stack.

[CartoonMike]

Did a video tutorial on MS Panels rulers/folders : http://vimeo.com/30696946

Hope it helps answer some questions.

[InkDrop]

How do you rotate a perspective ruler? Trying to angle my horizon line but can't make the ruler rotate.

Nevermind.... I really need to re-enable right click on my pen.

[CartoonMike]

To adjust Perspective Rulers, Choose the Object tool, select the ruler layer that has the perspective ruler (or if the ruler is in a draw layer, just select that layer, as the ruler is in a sub layer) right click on one of the vanishing points and click on the menu item that says "Fix Eye level to horizontal" Be careful, as moving any "widgets" on the vanishing point "ray" can really spin your eye-level line. I usually just rotate the horizon line to where I want it to be, then right click on a vanishing point ray and choose the menu item "fix eyelevel to current position" and then move the vanishing points around.

[Juggertha]

Anyone have some (video) tutorials that they'd strongly recommend?

[Ace Corona]

Does Manga Studio EX4 have vector-based lettering capabilities?