Used by 5 million creators
We've updated the look and feel of CLIP STUDIO PAINT for 2019! CLIP STUDIO PAINT, the leading comic and manga creation software worldwide developed by Celsys Inc., is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish illustrations, comics, manga and animations. Invigorate your artwork using realistic feeling sketching pencils and inking pens, fully customizable brushes and raster and vector colors. Easily express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons. Animate your drawings and bring them to life. CLIP STUDIO PAINT helps you draw digital art from start to finish!
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Key benefits
PENS, PENCILS, & BRUSHES
Create original sketches using your mouse or draw naturally with a pen tablet. Draw using a suite of familiar tools including pens, pencils, brushes and selection tools. With vector mapping technology and smart pen pressure sensing, CLIP STUDIO PAINT gives you incredible sensation of drawing on paper.
COLORING
Powerful coloring tools make CLIP STUDIO PAINT your all-in-one manga and comic creation solution. Choose from an abundance of preset colors, create custom color sets or blend colors naturally as if you were mixing them with your own fingers using the color blend options.
COMIC CREATION TOOLS
Use an assortment of comic and manga creation tools that will help maximize your workflow. Comic specific tools include panel (frames) creation, specialty rulers, tones, word balloons, speed lines and focus lines.
THOUSANDS OF INCLUDED ASSETS
Download over 10,000 free assets to help get your project started quickly! Browse for brushes, tones, patterns, backgrounds, 3D materials and many other types of assets. You can also upload and share your original assets with other CLIP STUDIO PAINT users.
ANIMATION CREATION
Breathe life into your existing art and make animations and moving illustrations in CLIP STUDIO PAINT. Easily export your work as a movie, an animated GIF or a series of still images. Make a short animation up to 24 frames long in PAINT PRO or create a full length animation in EX.
CUSTOMIZABLE USER INTERFACE
Customize the user interface layout and switch the interface according to your needs. Layouts created for a particular style (such as for comics or for illustrations) can be saved along with shortcuts and command bar settings as a workspace so that you can call these drawing conditions at any time.
MULTIPLE PAGE SUPPORT
You can manage manga or comic works composed of multiple pages. The Story window allows you to add and rearrange pages and change the page format between a spread and single pages.
3D MATERIALS
Pose 3D drawing figures included with CLIP STUDIO PAINT and use them as an inspirational basis for your work. The hardness and movable range of the joints are designed based on the actual structure of the human body, allowing you to create natural, unforced poses intuitively with the mouse. You can also import pre-made pose files. Easily change features of the included drawing figures such as the body shape and proportions.
VARIOUS IMPORT/ EXPORT OPTIONS
Easily integrate your CLIP STUDIO PAINT artwork with your existing graphics tools. CLIP STUDIO supports Photoshop’s PSD format for project import and export. Export to a variety of common image formats. Also export to Kindle and ePub format. Exporting functions can be used for professional level comic and manga publishing.
COMPARE CLIP STUDIO PRODUCTS
| better | best | |
| Features | Clip Studio Paint Pro |
Clip Studio Paint Ex |
| Draw comics, manga and illustrations in full color | ||
| Comic book creation with multiple pages | ||
| Export of multiple pages | ||
| Natural drawing and brush engine | ||
| Frame-by-frame animation (cel animation) support | 24 Frames | Unlimited Frames |
| Conversion of 3D objects into 2D line and tones | ||
| Reference layers | ||
| 3D pose creation with Clip Studio Paint 3D models | ||
| Customizable full color brush creation | ||
| Review and edit saved back ups | ||
| Rulers - symmetry, perspective, focus, curves, parallel lines, ellipses, concentric circles and more | ||
| Comic book panel creation | ||
| Word balloon creation | ||
| Materials library with hundreds of content items (3D objects, tones, patterns, pre-built comic panels, word balloons & effects) | ||
| Wacom tablet support and pressure sensitivity | ||
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Buy Digital $49.99 | Buy Digital $219 |
| UPGRADE FROM PRO TO EX | Buy Digital $169 |
