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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

I love the quick perspective tools in clip studio paint, I believe it's like no other program. I also love that there are so many free brush packages out there available to artist Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

Industry wise photoshop and illustrator are preferred over clip so there are times when I don't use it and to relearn the program takes some time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Try actually connecting with people in the community so far everyone has been really nice. I suggest playing around in the program first before trying anything complicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

Drawing quick boards or comics is super easy in clip studio. The benefits of this program I would said is its supportive community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clip Studio Paint Overview

What is Clip Studio Paint?

Clip Studio Paint is the artist’s app for drawing and painting loved by beginners and professionals, packed with innovative features to help you enjoy creating more. With dedicated tools for illustration, comics, and animation, Clip Studio Paint is your complete digital art studio. Available for Windows, macOS, iPad, Android, iPhone, and Chromebook.

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German, English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Standard paint tool for Manga drawing.


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"Easy and professional drawing program"
I love CSP for its customizable artboard. You can really personalize it to be something only you know. It also holds similarities to photoshop and ...
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"Impressive Software"
For me, Clip Studio Paint has unique pencil tools. I primarily use CSP for sketching and making clean lines. The Timelapse record option is an impr...
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"I love Clip Studio Paint"
I love all the features Clip Studio Paint offers, some of the features I love are the 3d models and all the assets that are free to use, also I lov...
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Clip Studio Paint Demo - Clip Studio Paint tablet interface
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Clip Studio Paint interface on desktop
Clip Studio Paint Demo - 3D posing function in Clip Studio Paint
Includes posable 3D models with customizable body proportions. You can also import poses from photos to 3D models.
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Use gradient maps to test out color ideas and make color adjustments.
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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

I love CSP for its customizable artboard. You can really personalize it to be something only you know. It also holds similarities to photoshop and illustrator which I already have experience in so it works out for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

Nothing, The have a great community and best thing of all is you only have to pay for it one time. You can get their premium version which is monthly but you dont have to, you have the option of a one time price, which is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having the use of completely rigged 3d models for positioning and posing to help nail the idea in my head. also the pen sensitivity settings are very in depth, so I can get my drawing pen feeling just right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

For me, Clip Studio Paint has unique pencil tools. I primarily use CSP for sketching and making clean lines. The Timelapse record option is an impressive feature that greatly aids me in recording my progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

1. Lifetime license: It is not actually a lifetime license. You will be limited to version 2.0. To receive further updates, you need to subscribe monthly or annually.

2. Prior to the release of version 2, the previous versions worked smoothly on my laptop. However, since the release of the new version 2, I have been experiencing lag issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have a future plan for a web-comic project. Clip Studio Paint offers great features for manga/comic creators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

I love all the features Clip Studio Paint offers, some of the features I love are the 3d models and all the assets that are free to use, also I love to accumulate clippy coins to get more Clip Studio Assets. I also love the Clip Studio Tips and The Contests offered by the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

What I dislike is that the software is a bit heavy to run, it would be very useful to create a lite version of it, with as many features as the original version provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clip Studio solves a huge issue that is to have an art software that offers a one time payment, and also includes many professional features for creating art masterpieces. I feel that Clip Studio is a very good alternative to subscription payment options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

This is for my Samsung Galaxy Tablet S7. It is my art and design studio on the go. It was an affordable program, the Samsung version of Procreate for Apple, and the reason I got my tablet. I can create wall-sized art in high resolution if I want. But what I like most is I have the access to the S Pen by Samsung and can create anything I want on my tablet. It is like Photoshop, GIMP, Inkspace, Krita, and more all rolled into one! I can create art anywhere in the world with just a tablet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

I had watched many videos about Procreate and how to design anything I wanted and in the videos, the program is so seemingly simple and the features are phenomenal. In this program, Clip Studio Paint, it has a lot more capabilities but that is what makes it so difficult. I have used it for almost a year and I am still learning. In one way it is like all the applications of all the art programs I have all together but clutters up the screen. I know the program well but there is so much to choose from and that makes the text and menu smaller to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

My Lenovo desktop AIO beast of a touchscreen computer is loaded with art programs but they never had the right pen available because it is a gaming laptop. I got that because of the 4K and a 24-inch screen. I could never draw on the screen unless I used a mouse, which is not always easy. My Galaxy Tab having the S Pen solves that problem. I have a digital, working pen! I can design on the tablet and send the file to my computer and do what I van on a larger screen that requires only a mouse. It is all about that pen! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

The flow, the brushes, the canvas, the export options. Clip Studio even lets you animate having everything on a single screen.

You can create a whole comic and export to platforms directly or design for a print.

Clip Studio also has a whole set of brushes and they have a market where you can buy brushes created by artists who really use them. They have regular webinars where you can interact with artists and you can be amazed on how different each one of them uses this software to create amazing things.

You can draw in vector and correct the whole drawing without having to re-draw. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

You can't export drawings in SVG. You can draw in vector but can't do anything further with it. If you want to create an SVG, this isn't for you.

Updated: Clipstudio recently decided not to fulfill the lifetime license. So now they decided to hold the Clipstudio version 2 and if you want to use it, you have to go into a subscription business model as Adobe. If you upgrade to version 2 and for some reason you don't keep paying, you must uninstall everything and downgrade to version 1.

This is a dishonest way of doing business. I paid 300$ for that lifetime license. This is not good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves every problem I experienced with similar softwares before. It is really easy to use, easy to understand, easy to start using.

You can jump from format to format and clipstudio helps you during the whole process like keeping the frames/boxes when you are making a comic for example and it is aimed for professionals but a beginner like me felt welcomed.

This is for version 1 only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

Has many features similar to photoshop and paint tool sai with an added bonus of a community page brushes and 3d models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

Only some people use Clip Studio Paint, and not collaborative-friendly. You'd have to convert your file to another program for another person to look at or edit the file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clip Studio is great for creating anything from illustrations to graphic novels/webtoons to animations. With their community page available for everyone, users can upload or download brush sets, backgrounds, colour palettes and etc, for their personal use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

I love how easy it is to access all of the tools, brushes, poses, and many other items within the main panel. Everything is just a click away, and the best part is that it still doesn't feel crowded. I think that the pre-sized pencil brushes are also a great idea because it means less fiddling around so that more time can be focused on actually creating the art. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

Clip Paint Studio has moved to the subscription-based model, which I'm definitely not a fan of. That being said, I try to look past this issue only because of the great tools the application provides to help beginner artists create beautiful art. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the features that I love the most is their poseable mannequin-like models. They act as a great reference when I'm trying to draw human figures, and having the ability to adjust the poses is a bonus. This is something you don't see that often in other illustration software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

The most helpful thing that caught my attention was how many brushes were available for my use. Yes, other drawing software offers brushes, but the difference with clip studio was the brushes they provided were so similar to what you would find in a traditional setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

A few default keyboard shortcut keys for clipstudio was difficult to figure out at first. This led me to going into the settings to change it to what am most comfortable with. The second issue I encountered is clip studio animation timeline is very difficult to use if you dont have a guide to show you how it works. The animation timeline is not user friendly which will not allow you to easliy figure out how to work with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Clip Studio Paint:

If you're looking for tools that give you any artistic look you desire, give this software a try, I promise you won't be disappointed with what you find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having brush and pencil tools that mimicked the look of the physical counterpart, made it easy for me to produce a specific traditional look to my drawings without having to go through all the tediousness of having to figure how the look I want in the edit tools section. Having it readily available to me saved me time when it was time to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Clip Studio Paint?

One is accessibility. It's got an interface similar to Photoshop but less cluttered and more down-to-earth for illustration and the best pen engine and stabilizer I've felt in ages. The second is performance; it's been steadily beating Photoshop's consumption rate on my pc, even running in one with four gigabytes of ram, which is impressive. After that comes the pricing, accessible as well, at 50 for illustration, and 220 for the more premium experience, bundled with animation software built-in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Clip Studio Paint?

There are things that I dislike, and for the most part, it has to do with the animation side of the software, where I would love for it to expand further. That and making saving slightly faster, in that regard, it's matched one to one with Adobe's overpriced PH square, being relatively slow if you have a lot of layers on your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Clip Studio Paint solving and how is that benefiting you?

A ton, but it's relatively hard to explain just what problems and benefits I've realized without saying to anyone 'see for yourself.' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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