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Check out a list of Clip Studio Paint illustration tools

Experiment endlessly with tonal correction layers

Use tonal correction layers to add finishing touches. Leaving the original layer untouched, you can adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and luminosity, or apply posterization, level correction, tone curve, color balance, and more.

Experiment endlessly with tonal correction layers

Use filters to polish your work

Use a filter to blur, sharpen, add noise, mosaics, and more to add effects to your piece. Preview and compare multiple filters to create that perfect finishing touch to your work.

Get expressive with blending modes

Use blending modes on your layers to add a variety of interesting effects to your image. Select from 29 blending modes to create a variety of effects, like colorful shadows and stunning highlights.

Impressive layer effects

Apply textures, outlines, and watercolor effects to layers, or convert colors into screentones without losing the content of the original layer.

Impressive layer effects

Smart Smoothing to improve image resolution

Resample images and erase jpeg noise to reuse your past work in a larger format for prints and high resolutions screens.

Smart Smoothing to improve image resolution