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If you're afraid of Clip Studio because you only know Photoshop then I have good news: it's EXTREMELY SIMILAR. It has almost all the same things and setup as Photoshop, but with a bunch of things more useful for comics/illustration/painting/etc.
CSP STARTER thread:
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Photoshop is made for...photos. CSP is like if Photoshop was called "Paintshop". If you just want to start and not learn? Just pretend it's Photoshop. Use layers. Tab around in the brushes, pick one, figure out what the shortcut key is for it and just draw.
As you go you'll have thoughts like "well usually at this stage in Photoshop I do X". Then go look where you normally would in PS and see if it can do that. It probably can and will be where you think.
Here are what I consider the biggest differences that are built for digital artist methods:
Transparent color. Photoshop has Foreground and Background color. So does CSP. CSP also has Transparent. Tapping it (or hitting C) converts whatever you're using into an eraser.
Transparent color. Photoshop has Foreground and Background color. So does CSP. CSP also has Transparent. Tapping it (or hitting C) converts whatever you're using into an eraser.
Panel tool: for making comic book panels. You draw a shape and CSP makes a folder with a mask of that shape. In that folder, every layer you put in there is only visible where you drew the shape.
Layer Options: many of us sketch and then make the layer blue or something and then a new layer that we make cleaner lines on. In the layer property window you can tap that blue buttons and it makes the layer blue.
In this window you can also tap that checkered button and the layer will look like tone. Tap again and it's back to normal. And you can adjust that tone, too.
This window can also make the layer in black and white, like if you want to make a bg out of a photo real fast.
This window can also make the layer in black and white, like if you want to make a bg out of a photo real fast.
Direct Draw: Lasso Fill: you know when you make a selection and then fill it with a color? What if you could just automatically fill whatever you were selecting? This guy does that.
Selection Launcher: when you make a selection a menu pops up under it. This is your best friend. These buttons do all the shit you normally want to do with a selection. Delete it, delete inside it, invert it, expand/contract, cut and paste or copy and paste, etc.
The only thing it doesn't have that you might miss is the liquify tool and it's text editing system isn't as robust.
Asset library: giant repository of free and paid tools and assets (mostly free, tbh) ranging from brushes to 3D objects (never draw a fucking chair or car again). Curly hair brush. Tree brush. Zipper brush. Shoe laces brush. I saw a FINGER brush the other day.
Anti aliasing adjustment: Every brush lets you switch between levels of antialiasing so it can be pixely or softer edged.
There's a lot more but I think these are the most crucial and game changing and once you know this stuff you'll just discover more on your own.
i was not expecting this to be popular, i thought most people knew they were very similar programs already 
oh my GOD you poor things...!!! i also thought most people used CSP already...?!?!?!
oh my GOD you poor things...!!! i also thought most people used CSP already...?!?!?!
ok one more thing people don't usually know. you know how we all spent our lives separating our scanned lineart out? So that just lines were left with no white from the paper? CSP has a thing that just...does it.
AHHHH OK ONE MORE THING. it has timelapse now, as of the most recent update. you can export videos of your process (make sure you turn it on at the start!!!). this is something that helps a lot of artists monetize/get more followers. people love videos of people drawing.
