CLIP STUDIO PAINT Portable is the ultimate software for creating comics and manga, offering a powerful set of tools tailored for every artist. Whether you're looking to refine your traditional pen-and-paper sketches or create an entire manga or comic digitally from start to finish, this software has you covered. With seamless sketching, inking, and coloring features, bringing your artistic vision to life has never been easier.
What’s New in Clip Studio Paint EX?
Frame-by-Frame Animation Support
Also known as cel animation, this technique allows characters and objects to move naturally by drawing each frame individually. Artists can create layered transparent sheets (cels) that, when played in sequence, simulate smooth motion.Advanced Animation Timeline
The timeline gives precise control over frame timing and adjustments, helping to achieve fluid and natural movement in animations.Light Table Functionality
The light table feature makes layers semi-transparent, making it easier to reference multiple frames. This is especially useful for in-between animation (transitions between keyframes) and for refining clean line art in both illustrations and animations.
Onion Skin Display
Onion skinning is an essential technique in animation and video editing that allows animators to view multiple frames simultaneously. This helps in refining movement by making it easier to adjust the current frame based on the previous ones, ensuring smooth transitions and natural motion.
Multiple Export Options
Easily export your drawings and animations in various formats, including sequential images, GIFs, and movie files, giving you flexibility in how you share and use your work.
CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX Features
Originally known as Manga Studio, CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX Portable includes all the features of CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO, along with professional storyboarding tools and exclusive enhancements. It’s the ultimate creative suite for comic, manga, and graphic artists looking for a complete illustration solution.
Powerful Coloring Tools
CLIP STUDIO PAINT offers an all-in-one coloring experience for manga and comics. Choose from a vast selection of preset colors, customize your own palettes, or blend colors naturally—just like mixing paints by hand—using its intuitive color blending features.
Pens, Pencils, Brushes & Tools
Whether you're sketching with a mouse or using a pen tablet for a natural drawing feel, CLIP STUDIO PAINT provides a full range of tools, including pens, pencils, brushes, and selection tools. Thanks to advanced vector mapping and smart pressure sensitivity, every stroke feels as precise and responsive as drawing on paper.
Panels Made Simple
Speed up your workflow with easy-to-use paneling tools. Quickly add and customize panels or create unique layouts with Bezier curves to fit any artistic style.
Advanced Brush Effects
Achieve realistic brush strokes with the new dedicated airbrush tool, offering a variety of airbrush effects. The tone brush expands your creative possibilities, allowing you to produce and share a broader range of visual effects.
Vector Tools for Precision
The Vector Toolkit enhances flexibility, speeds up your workflow, and allows you to view vector centerlines—making it easier to identify and smooth out problem areas. With vector snapping tools, artists can now create precise, clean lines with ease.
Enhanced Features for a Faster Workflow
Take advantage of powerful new layer effects, including Screen, Overlay, and Multiply, for more dynamic artwork. Even brushes can now incorporate effects, adding another layer of creative control.
Time-Saving Templates
Speed up your projects with a variety of pre-designed page templates, helping you focus on creativity rather than repetitive setup tasks.
Seamless Import & Export
CLIP STUDIO PAINT Portable supports popular file formats, including layered PSD files, ensuring compatibility with other software. Resize images without losing quality, making it easier to adjust and refine your work.
3D Support for Enhanced References
With 3D object and figure support, artists can use 3D models for reference and backgrounds. Adjust 3D objects directly on the canvas, use preset poses, or drag and drop additional elements for a more dynamic composition.
Full Compatibility with Previous Versions
Easily import files from Manga Studio 4 EX and 4 Debut, including .CPG page files and .CST project files, ensuring a seamless transition to CLIP STUDIO PAINT PRO or EX.
Advanced Text Editing
Customize text like never before with fine-tuned controls for letter and word spacing, font mixing, anti-aliasing, italics, underline options, and line spacing, giving you greater typographic flexibility.
Optimized for Speed & Performance
With 64-bit architecture and multi-core CPU support, CLIP STUDIO PAINT is faster than ever, allowing you to handle high-resolution projects and multiple layers with smooth performance.
The Ultimate Tool for Comic Illustration
While Adobe Photoshop is widely used for illustration, it’s primarily a photo editing tool that lacks many essential comic-focused features. CLIP STUDIO PAINT is built specifically for manga and comic artists, offering all the specialized tools needed at a more affordable price.
Multiple-Page Story Layout (EX Only)
Easily manage your entire comic or manga project with the Multiple-Page Story Layout, keeping all your pages organized in one convenient workspace. This feature streamlines the creative process, making it easier to visualize and edit your story.
Release Notes:
All Grades
When a 3D layer is selected, the camera will now rotate in 90° increments when you turn on Adjust camera with touch gestures in the Sub Tool Detail palette.
(iPad / iPhone / Android) The message that appears when importing an image in Studio Mode to confirm whether or not to extract lines now has three options: “Skip”, “Skip (Do not show again)”, or “Extract lines”. If you select “Skip (Do not show again)”, the message will not be shown from the next time onward.
(Android) Clip Studio Paint page management files have been added as a file type in the file picker. When selected, only page management files (extension: cmc) will be shown. If “Clip Studio formats” is selected as the file type, page management files will not be displayed.
(iPad / iPhone) When a movie file is imported from File menu > Import > From Photo Library, the audio layer is now created with the same name as the movie layer.
(iPad / iPhone) When entering text in the search bar of the Quick Access palette, you can now input the ” symbol (straight quotation mark) even if Smart Punctuation is enabled in the OS settings.
Auto actions including Quick Filters and Quick Effects operations will now work correctly in OSes in a different language from the one in which they were recorded.
When using the movement manipulator to snap and move 3D materials with a parent-child relationship, the materials will now snap to the correct position.
When editing a 3D primitive, if you set the texture as a file that is saved in a different folder than the current file and save it, you can still open the file even if you move the file that contains the 3D primitive to another folder.
(iPad / iPhone / Android) In Simple Mode, the app no longer crashes if you repeatedly tap on the display area of the HEX value in the Color palette.
(iPad / Android) In Simple Mode on tablets, the layout of the introductory screen for the tutorial has been adjusted for small screens.
(Android) You can now select files that were downloaded in a certain way when opening the file picker and selecting “Open from storage”.
(Android) Files saved in the Clip Studio folder within the Documents folder will no longer be shown in the File operation/Share dialog box.
(Android) When you restart Clip Studio Paint, the file picker will remain in its prior display state.
(Android) When the file picker is set to block view, long file names containing certain characters are now displayed correctly.
(Android) The file picker now scrolls back to the top when you change the displayed folder.
(Android) When the file picker is opened on, it now scrolls to the selected reference folder in the directory list.
(Android) When Clip Studio Paint is not running, if you delete a folder that was registered in the directory list of the file picker using the OS files app, the directory shown in the file picker will now return to its initial state the next time it is opened.
(Android) When saving or exporting a file with the same name as a canvas that is already open, an error message will appear, and then you will be returned to the file picker screen.
(Android) If you select Settings file as the Type in the file picker, color gradient files (extension: cgs) and Photoshop gradient files (extension: grd) will be shown.
(Android) If you select Other as the Type in the file picker, files in the digital exposure sheet information format (extension: xdts) will now be shown.
(Windows / macOS) When a corrupted file is loaded in the Sub View palette, an “Unsupported file format” message will appear.
(iPad / iPhone) On iPadOS 18 and iOS 18 and later, downloaded system fonts are now shown in the font list.
(Android) On smartphones, the appearance of the directory list is now maintained even when you tap the bottom of the file picker’s directory list.
(macOS) The colors in the dialogs of Quick Filters and Quick Effects will now be updated to match the monitor when they are moved to a monitor with a different color profile.
(iPad) If you try to drag and drop multiple files from an external app while the tutorial is open, the error message will now be shown only once.
(iPad) On a canvas that includes a tone layer, the preview for Quick Filters or Quick Effects will no longer display horizontal lines.
EX
If you select a page and use Combine Pages then open the Story Editor, the text on the left and right pages will no longer alternate.
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