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Learn more about Comics, Manga, and Webtoons!

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Comics, Manga, and Webtoons

Comic Creation Starts Here

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The standard for comics, manga & webtoons

With specialized comic features and a paper-like drawing experience, Clip Studio Paint is used by professionals and studios worldwide. Sketch, ink, color, and publish your next story, all in the industry-standard comic, manga, and webtoon tool.

Capture every detail

You can create every stroke exactly as you imagine with our powerful brush engine. Clip Studio Paint works with your device to reflect every nuance of your pen, even up to the 8192 levels of pen pressure detected by Wacom tablets.

Packed with features for comic creation

All you need to create your comic, manga or webtoon, right at your fingertips. Explore specialized features including panel tools, speech balloons, effect lines, special rulers, and more, giving you the power to create everything from black and white comics for printing, to full-color webtoons to post online, all in a single app.

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Perspective rulers for perfect backgrounds

A user favorite, make adding perspective and realistic depth to your backgrounds easy with our specialized ruler tools. Adjust the eye level and perspective as much as you need, and draw directly along the guidelines.

Customizable 3D figures with new AI posing

Place 3D drawing figures and head models directly onto the canvas.
You can also attach props to your 3D model like hats and shoes, to instantly create a reference close to your character design.
Customizable body shapes and camera angles make it even more ideal to reference. Bring poses to life with the help of the pose scanner that reads poses from photos and the hand scanner that mimics the pose of your hand with a camera.

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Support you can trust

Whether you're stuck on a new feature or need technical help, you can rely on our free customer support. We’re proud of our excellent customer satisfaction rate, and happy to be there when you need us.

Trusted by the world’s leading brands

As well as being bundled with the world’s bestselling pen tablets from Wacom, Clip Studio Paint is pre-loaded on the latest Tab S series Galaxy Android tablets available worldwide, making it the first choice for getting started with digital art.

Testimonials

Arechan Webtoon Artist

“...there is no better software for making comics than Clip Studio Paint”

My art journey has taken me through many art programs, and I can confidently say that there is no better software for making comics than Clip Studio Paint. In the several years I’ve made webtoons professionally, Clip Studio Paint’s features and tools have helped me produce weekly work without ever compromising on quality. Its webtoon feature allows me to easily work in its characteristic long, vertical format so comfortably that I’m able to create the exact pacing, look, and feel I need to tell my story in the way I want my readers to experience it.

http://twitter.com/arechanga/

Charlie AdlardComic Artist

“I can literally do everything I want to do on this single app”

I’ve been using CSP for the last few years, and I love how intuitive it is. I can literally do everything I want to do on this single app. The brushes are a special standout - even without downloading extra ones, the existing ones really do feel like the real thing. As a self confessed old technophobe, it’s incredibly easy to learn... something I really need with my busy schedule.

https://www.instagram.com/charlie_adlard/

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Dylan TeagueComic Artist

“The brushes are just amazing… and feel extremely life‑like.”

I'm a big fan of Clip Studio Paint. I've been using it since Manga Studio 4 and now use it for pretty much 100% of my professional work. There are so many features that really help my work flow in comics. The story feature is a great way to keep organized on longer projects. The brushes are just amazing too and feel extremely life‑like. I also really like how you can customize everything to suit your own needs perfectly. The iPad version is brilliant too, making Clip Studio Paint totally portable so I can easily work on print-ready files anywhere.

http://twitter.com/DylanTeague/

Kenny RuizComic Artist

“I can express myself freely in Clip Studio Paint without any restrictions.”

I have been using Clip Studio Paint since 2015. After ten years of using a pen and marker for inking, I was convinced that I would keep using them. However, when I tried the brushes, the pressure sensitivity, and the process of tracing in Clip Studio Paint, I understood that it was the right moment to switch tools. Now I work much faster and try new things. The pressure and sensitivity of the preset brushes are perfect, and I can draw natural lines accurately which makes the drawing more organic and alive. I hate the precise and clean finished works of other software because I cannot see the artist behind it. I can express myself freely in Clip Studio Paint without any restrictions.

http://www.kennyruiz.com/

Page belonging to Infinity: Outrage. Edited by Corvus Belli, written by Victor Santos, illustrated by kenny Ruiz

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KCA International Edutainment

(Taiwan, Art School)

Clip Studio Paint plays a crucial role in our manga course and the manga artist instructors we collaborate with use it for their work. Clip Studio Paint's abundant brushes provide excellent performance for illustration production that many of our students love inside and outside of class!

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Comic Express

(Australia, Comic & Illustration Studio)

Clip Studio Paint has proven itself to be both solid in art production and consistency. As a small business, I must watch my budget and monthly costs, so I appreciate its price compared to other more expensive competitors. I cannot recommend it enough for those looking to do commercial cartoon and illustration work.

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POLE 3D - ICL

(France, Art School)

We wanted to use Clip Studio Paint because it was recommended by professionals - illustrators, bande dessinée artists, cartoonists, and people who only work in Webtoon. Besides, there is a course dedicated to the Webtoon illustration sector at the school, so the CSP function is very useful. Although it was a recommendation at first, we found that the ergonomic software is quite practical and students are quite enthusiastic about using the tool!

CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO

for character art, concept art, illustration

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CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX

for comics, manga, webtoons & animations

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Create Comics, Manga & Webtoons with Ease

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The ideal drawing experience

Take the trial to discover a new drawing experience supported by our powerful brush engine, in-built stabilization options, and adjustable pen pressure sensitivity, unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

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Thousands of customizable brushes

With 1000 new materials every month on Clip Studio ASSETS, you’ll always find something to match your personal style. You can also import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR) and customize every aspect of your brushes, giving you a limitless supply of tools.

Vector lines with a hand-drawn feel

Draw your vector lines with a natural and smooth feel, then resize and edit line thickness and shape without losing line quality. Clip Studio Paint also comes with handy features like the vector eraser, which lets you erase up to intersecting lines.

Add detail with decoration brushes

Complex patterns are easy with decoration brushes, saving you time on repetitive details like clouds, plants, lace, and ribbons. Create your own custom brushes or discover what others have made on Clip Studio ASSETS.

3D models for small objects and backgrounds

No more hassle over unfamiliar objects and background materials with our range of 3D materials! Easily access movable 3D references for accessories, vehicles, buildings, and more. Use as a reference or convert to lines to use in your art.

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Photograph your next scene

Use photos as part of your next creation by importing as reference or converting to line art to use in your backgrounds. Check your camera roll to see how many images are waiting to be part of your next piece.

Enhanced Storytelling Tools

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Your story at a glance

View all your pages at once with the page management feature in Clip Studio Paint EX. It’s easier than ever to check the flow of your story with this essential feature for comics, manga, or zines.

Ideal for webtoon artists

Clip Studio Paint comes loaded tools and presets perfect for creating webtoon-style scrolling comics, such as a paneling tool for adding and removing empty space.
With the smartphone view, you can see precisely how your webtoon will look in different screen ratios from the reader's perspective. Or take it a step further and connect your smartphone in companion mode to preview your webcomic in real-time as you draw!

Lettering in style

Use the text tool for single speech bubbles or manage your whole page dialog at once with the Story Editor. Perfect for adding whatever text you need, with detailed settings for fonts and character spacing.
Justify, arrange text in relation to the text box, adjust kerning, arrange text in a circle, and combine multiple fonts for the ultimate layout flexibility.
The app also comes with an original font, Clip Studio Comic, that you can use for your commercial comic work and Webtoons.

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Create panels in seconds

Create and divide panels for your pages as easily as drawing lines. You can easily edit the shape, gutter width, and layout, as well as edit all your panels at once for consistency across your story.

Page belonging to Infinity: Outrage. Edited by Corvus Belli, written by Victor Santos, illustrated by kenny Ruiz

Effect lines with a bang

Give your manga or comic some drama with essential effect lines, with dedicated tools to instantly create action lines and speed lines. You can also download more action line materials or draw your own with specialized rulers.

Infinite screen tones

Create all the screentones and halftone patterns you need in just a few clicks. With advanced layer modes, you can even paint in halftone patterns and convert layers to screentones in an instant.

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Preview your finished book in 3D

Get a taste of your finished book using our 3D print preview complete with accurate settings for pages and binding! Now you can check your pages, margins, and page numbers before sending your data to the print shop.

Toru Terada

Coloring Made Simpler

Dylan Teague

A smarter fill tool for speedy coloring

Smart enough to fill line art with small gaps and capture tiny unfilled areas, our fill tool is the perfect assistant for quickly laying down flat colors.

Auto-shading technology

Auto-generate natural-looking shadows from lineart and filled areas and then fine-tune them by adjusting the position and angle of the light source and setting the shadow’s color.

Your art, your style

Traditional styles are easy to recreate with watercolor stain effects and paper textures. Express your style however you want, whether pencil, ink, crayon, watercolor, oil paint, or something completely different!

Dylan Teague

Lolita Aldea

Toru Terada

All the color palettes you need

Not just your standard color palette: create custom color sets, find your ideal colors with the similar-color and intermediate-color palettes, go back to previous colors with the color history palette, and use the eyedropper tool to pick up colors from your desktop.

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Publish with Clip Studio Paint

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Webtoon exporting that meets your needs

Easily split long webtoon canvases into multiple files for export, or export a multi-page webtoon as a single file with a host of export settings for easy uploading to the webtoon platform of your choice.

Complete and publish your eBook

With the desktop version of Clip Studio Paint, you can ready your manuscript for publication through Amazon Kindle, ePUB, and other electronic formats.

CMYK for printing

Import and export RGB data for web content and CMYK data for printing. You can also work in a CMYK preview to see your colors just as they’ll look when printed.

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A better viewing experience

Upload multi-page works on Clip Studio SHARE, from comics, to illustration portfolios, or vertically scrolling webtoons. Then, simply use the URL so your readers can access your work in an embedded viewer.

The Professional’s Sidekick for Stress-free Creation

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Make the most of your device capabilities

Work on high-resolution files without worry! With 64‑bit OS and multi-core processor support, Clip Studio Paint makes the most of your device’s capability, and the layer folder feature lets you manage layer-heavy files with ease.

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Complete PSD compatibility

Import, edit, and save your work in Photoshop formats (PSD, PSB), for easy editing across both programs in your workflow - now with support for exporting text layers created in Clip Studio Paint.
Perfect for when you want to draw in Clip Studio Paint and add filters, or rewrite text in Photoshop - get best of both worlds!
You can also import and export your work in a variety of formats, including JPG, PNG, PDF, TIFF, and more.

Manage and create layer comps

Make different layers hidden or visible at once by using layer comps to easily create different variations. You can also export all layer comps at once.

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Work more comfortably with a pen tablet

Use the Clip Studio Tabmate to operate the app with a push of a button, so you never have to put your pen down when drawing. Now with iPad and iOS support! (Tabmate sold separately)
Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS.

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Blend traditional and digital art

Find your perfect balance of traditional and digital techniques for a seamless workflow. Clip Studio Paint comes with features to clean up and extract line art from paper, even erasing dust picked up by scanners.

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Join a worldwide community

Connect with creators from around the world through our online services in seven languages. Discover new features with official tutorials on “TIPS,” or swap advice with others on our Q&A forum “ASK”.

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Learn from the Professionals

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Set up webtoons instantly with templates! | SimzArt

Tips for Constructing Comic Pages with Clip Studio Paint (Webinar)

Crash Course: Webcomic Basics | Vampbyte

CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO

for character art, concept art, illustration

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS only

CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX

for comics, manga, webtoons & animations

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS only

Get to Know Clip Studio Paint

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1. Drawing: Advanced

Features just for drawing so you can create comics the way you want.

Customize the way you draw

Draw smooth, crisp lines or create weighted lines without ever applying pressure to your pen! Weighted lines can be created with a function that calibrates pen pressure based on multiple test brushstrokes.

Customize the way you draw

Fix vectors when and how you want

Draw vector lines like you would raster lines. Freely adjust lines without losing image quality after subsequent processing such as scaling, moving, transforming, and altering line thickness.

Produce on point backgrounds

Use the Perspective ruler to accurately draw perspective scenes. Set multiple vanishing points and draw your ideal building or room! You can also drag and drop 3D materials to quickly match existing rulers.

Produce on point backgrounds

Create complex effect and saturated lines in an instant

Draw saturated lines, stream lines, and other effect lines by selecting the area you want them to be created around. Settings such as line spacing and thickness can be fine-tuned.

Create complex effect and saturated lines in an instant

Paint efficiently

Speed up your painting process with smarter tools. Clip Studio Paint’s fill tools can detect and ignore gaps in lines and fill minute spots you missed in one go. Lay down your color flats in a cinch!

2. Comic Creation

Clip Studio Paint has many useful functions unique to comic/manga production.

Start working from preset templates

You can start creating work immediately without worrying about detailed page settings. Choose from preset templates for color or black-and-white comics, webtoons, etc. You can also create and register your customized preset templates.

Start working from preset templates

Batch management of pages

EX has a feature where you can create a manga work containing multiple pages. You can arrange and reorder pages while viewing the entire document, reducing errors when creating your work.

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Batch management of pages

Effortlessly cut frames

Split frames or create frame borders simply by dragging a line across the page. Further edit complicated frame layouts by changing frame size or frame line thickness.

Effortlessly cut frames

Realistic pens and brushes

Pencil and pen tools reproduce realistic-looking lines, bringing your work to the next level. Customize stabilization, pen pressure, and more to your exact specifications.

Realistic pens and brushes

Abundant brush materials

In addition to presets, Clip Studio ASSETS offers an extensive library of additional brushes of all kinds, including decoration brushes that can draw continuous patterns, that can be downloaded at any time.

Guide your work with rulers

Choose from a variety of rulers to support your drawings, from lines to shapes. Create parallel lines, concentric circles, and symmetric designs.

Guide your work with rulers

Neverending screentones

Tone materials offer endless applications such as clothing patterns, backgrounds, effects, and textures. Use various tools to add, remove, paint tones, or change a tone’s pattern immediately after pasting it.
You can even convert color and gray images into tone with a single click.

Neverending screentones

Color comic compatibility

Color palettes that show similar colors, midrange colors, and your color history offer a convenient way to expedite the production of colored comics.

Color comic compatibility

Exquisite gradients

Create complex gradients using multiple colors or black-and-white gradients made of dots and lines for comic use.

Exquisite gradients

Balloons with personality

Use dedicated tools for creating balloons with a wide variety of shapes, tail positions, lengths, border thicknesses, and colors.

Balloons with personality

Batch edit script lines

Input and edit lines in the story editor in one go. You can even search and replace text as needed later on.

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Batch edit script lines

Arrange and Align

Ideal for lining up frames and balloons in comics! Select multiple objects such as drawings, text, balloons, and frame borders to align or neatly arrange them with equal spacing.

Integration with a traditional work flow

Go from traditional to digital smoothly by using a filter that removes dust from images, a function that extracts line drawings, and more.

Integration with a traditional work flow

Export your whole project at once

No matter your project, you can export with ease. Batch export your multi-page projects to standard image formats such as PSD, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and PDF for posting and printing online and sharing on social media.
Or, divide long webtoon canvases into multiple files, and export multiple pages as one single file.

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Export multiple pages at once

3. Even More Convenient

Clip Studio Paint also has functions utilizing the latest AI technology and functions that take advantage of the 3D medium.

Preview compositions with 3D models

Find the best composition before you start drawing. Import your own files or download pre-made buildings, furniture, crowds, vehicles, and many other materials to lay down your composition.

Arrange 3D primitives for reference

Simple 3D primitive shapes can be set up as a reference base for drawing objects and scenes, or used as building blocks for more complex compositions.
You can also import normal maps to express realistic textures such as mesh and cloth.

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View 3D materials from all angles at once

When placing a 3D material, you can view from four angles simultaneously. You can also change the position of the camera and the focal point on the 3D layer. When you change the camera position from the All sides view palette, the model also adjusts on the canvas.

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View 3D materials from all angles at once

3D drawing figure references

Pose 3D drawing models in detail from the head and body to the fingers and toes to use as drawing references. You can also attach props to your 3D model like hats and shoes, to instantly make it closer to your character design. Effortlessly draw difficult poses and angles that are difficult to imagine.

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3D drawing figure references

3D support for drawing faces

Create your very own facial reference with our adjustable head model.
Fine-tune overall shape, eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and other parts.
The base head can also be transformed into various styles, such as realistic, chibi, and anime.

Posing 3D drawing figures with AI

Clip Studio Paint supports drawing with 3D drawing figures posed with AI. It's as simple as loading a photo of the pose you want to set to the 3D drawing figure. Create intense action scenes in a pinch and use personal images when you can't find the right material you need.

Posing 3D drawing figures with AI

Draw intricate hands with ease

The hand scanner makes drawing challenging hand poses a breeze. It reads a hand’s pose live from your device’s camera and applies it to the hand of a 3D drawing figure.

Convert photos and 3D materials into line drawings and tones

Automatically convert photos, images, and 3D data to lines and tone. Go a step further and make it your own by adding color with a pen or a brush!

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Convert photos and 3D materials into line drawings and tones

Convert photos to illustration-style backgrounds

Level up your backgrounds and apply filters to photos of buildings or landscapes to give them an illustration-like touch. With EX, you can extract 3D assets and images into separate line and tone layers.

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Convert photos to illustration-style backgrounds

Splitting frames by hand? Use a template instead!

Immediately jump into drawing your comic by using pre-divided template frames. You can also save frame layouts you have created as templates.

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Splitting frames by hand? Use a template instead!

Over tens of thousands of materials

Clip Studio Assets offers tens of thousands of commercial-license materials such as brushes, images, tone, balloons, backgrounds, and 3D materials that can be downloaded and used them at any time.

Over tens of thousands of materials

4. Workflow and Team Management

Take advantage of the many functions that assist in team production, work management, and production efficiency.

Share and backup from the cloud

Anything you create such as materials, works, and software settings, can all be saved on the cloud. Software settings can be restored manually if needed. Use your materials, works, and software settings at home, work, or school.

Share and backup from the cloud

Teamwork support

With the Teamwork function, multiple users can collaborate with team members to create and edit different pages on a single multi-page work file uploaded to the cloud. Create multiple teams by inviting members to join your team.

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Photoshop integration

Clip Studio Paint works with Photoshop file formats and can import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR) and gradient files (GRD), so you can draw and deliver files to clients and printing companies without changing your existing workflows. Load, edit, and save PSD and PSB data while maintaining layers while seamlessly switching between programs.

Photoshop integration

5. Publish your work

Publish your work on the web, social media or even turn into a book and share it with the whole world!

Optimize your creative flow with your smartphone

Connect your iPhone or Android smartphone to your main computer or tablet device over Wi-Fi in Companion mode and transform your smartphone into a handheld shortcut remote, for a better creative experience.
Companion mode makes use of your smartphone to get the most out of your creative process! It comes packed with multiple modes to shortcut frequently used functions, pick and mix colors, manage tools, preview projects in real-time, and even control the canvas with touch gestures, making it the perfect studio assistant for whatever you create.

CMYK color support for printing

Clip Studio Paint supports import/export of both RGB and CMYK, the data used for printing. With the CMYK preview, colors displayed in your workspace are even closer to their real printed hues!

CMYK color support for printing

See your work before you print with 3D preview

Before printing check the binding and finish of the final product with the 3D preview feature.

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See your work before you print with 3D preview

Share your work with the viewer

Upload your multi-page comic, illustration portfolio or webtoon to Clip Studio SHARE to share your work in an embedded viewer to your friends, family and followers. You can even choose how your work is viewed - as a book or as a scroll - for easy reading.

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Publish your work with the 3D book viewer

Publish as an e-book

Work files can be output to e-book formats such as Kindle and EPUB.

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Publish as an e-book

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CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO

for character art, concept art, illustration

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS only

CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX

for comics, manga, webtoons & animations

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy/Android/Chromebook

Windows/macOS only

PRO

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Single-page illustrations & comics

Multi-page comics/manga & illustrations

Up to 24 frames for gifs or short animations

Unlimited frames for professional animation

Natural, customizable pen and brush tools

Vector layers

More than 10,000 free downloadable brushes and materials

3D models and drawing figures

PSD compatibility

RGB and CMYK compatible

For macOS and Windows

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Export and print multi-page files

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Convert images and 3D models into lines and dot shading

Free technical support

Free web services & community
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