Illustudio

[Lamont]

Check it out. Went to the book store and saw some literature on it. Might pick it up. Watch the vids.

http://www.illuststudio.net/

[Vailias]

Wish I understood japanese enough to get the full message out of the videos, but it loops pretty powerful.

[womball]

Some translations of it are here. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=167442

I am attempting to try out the trial version, but I don't know any Japanese. eek! This looks like it would cure my shaky line issue and love the line weight tools.

[Lamont]

Check out Sai as well.

[womball]

can it do the straighten lines and different line widths? I have a trial of it, haven't fully explored it.

*edit- sai has vector tools with pressure senstivity. You can adjust the line width at the segments, so its more mechanical like working. Since I have an unsteady hand and don't have much control over pen pressure, this will help a ton. I'm surprised they don't update it, perhaps its already perfect. Although the illustudio had a really cool tool for importing and rigging meshes to use as a base layer for sketching. Shrinking characters due to volume inconsistencies would be a thing of the past.

[sinz]

Pretty old post but was wondering has anyone tried It out? I know PC was looking to change the photoshop color picker panel and this application seems to have just what they wanted, surprised they didn't see this app. already.

[talonhawk]

loooks cool I wonder if its better than manga studio

[womball]

Much and its 70$. Sai is great too. The features are incredible. I dunno why photoshop doesn't have them.

[Lamont]

The pen controls are awesome. With ANY tablet I might add.

[womball]

Are there any english videos on how to use the vector tools, especially how to get smooth transtion from wide to thin, like you can get in SAI?

[sinz]

Lamont this is a gem to have I just got it but I will have to play with it after domwar. Thanks for posting.

[womball]

The one pen has an averaging curve feature. I don't think you can select and have it propogate the select over the mirrored ruler though.