{"id":1163,"date":"2010-09-08T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2010-09-08T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:56:19","slug":"laying-in-background-color-manga-studio-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/laying-in-background-color-manga-studio-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"Laying in background color &#8211; Manga Studio EX"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/laying-in-background-color-manga-studio-ex\/badapple6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"660,507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"badapple6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Snow White&#8217;s face fixed, final inking done. Starting with background color.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6-300x230.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1164\" title=\"badapple6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/badapple6.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow White&#39;s face fixed, final inking done. Starting with background color.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made some minor fixes to Snow White&#8217;s face and cleaned up the line work on the house today.<\/p>\n<p>After compressing all the inking layers into one, I removed any white so the layer was transparent. Then I fiddled around until I found the buttons needed to change the layers from black and white to color.<\/p>\n<p>This took far longer than I like, as a long time Photoshop and Illustrator user, I have come to expect things to be in certain places and to act in certain ways.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I am not finding Manga Studio&#8217;s interface less intuitive for me, but the time spent learning where all the tools are and how to make them function the way I want is taking a major portion of my &#8216;drawing&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>I feel good with the amount of progress I made today. I hope I will have time to get back to the illustration before next week, but because of my schedule for the next several days it seems unlikely. I hope the time away from the program doesn&#8217;t slow me down again.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, I am quite pleased with the program&#8217;s capabilities once I figure them out, but a good tutorial would be something I would appreciate. The tutorials I have been able to find are either too generic or assume the viewer is already familiar with the tool pallets. I would love some lessons on how and where all the tools are and how to make them work. I guess I&#8217;ll have to do it the old fashioned way. By trail and error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made some minor fixes to Snow White&#8217;s face and cleaned up the line work on the house today. After compressing all the inking layers into one, I removed any white so the layer was transparent. 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