I haven't touched Photoshop or Paint Tool Sai in months since I got Clip. I can do all I could in PS and all I could in Sai all inside of CSP alone. I know people that have custom built PC's to run Autodesk Maya smoothly for 3D game creation and animation and Photoshop lags even for them.Ĭlip Studio is brilliant for painting hassle free.
And that frustrates me because I had a power PC and powerful laptop and yet Photoshop still lags despite all the changes. In CSP I am happy if I take a week to paint because I know in Photoshop to achieve the same thing it would take me months. All because of lag and waiting for it to unfreeze or just simply bad blending. And there has been no sacrifice in detail in switching program which is always a great thing.īlending and painting in CSP the way I like is fast and efficient and it takes me an hour as opposed to Photoshop which could take me 9hrs or even months to complete a painting. I can draw as fast as I like now for as long or as little as I like.
CSP has given me the full freedom I have always wanted. Usually I wouldn't get this far in Photoshop because I would get frustrated with the lag from the brush tracking. All because of the time it took me to create.įor this painting I used a mix of watercolour brushes, Blur tools and airbrush tool. I also tried the low opacity painting/blending method in Photoshop but it took far to long and lost me a lot of clients and business. When I would blend in Photoshop in the past, I liked to use a custom smudge tool brush and the lag was so bad my works would often be destroyed, they file would corrupt and all those months of work would be lost. As you can see on the skin, the blending in CSP is beautiful and lag free which has become extremely important to me. It's very responsive but most importantly with it's customizable user interface, I have found the tools to be less distracting that Photoshop and easy and hassle free to blend. CSP doesn't lag and for those of you that come to my livestreams, you are aware of how fast I often draw and paint. Painting in Clip Studio Paint is one of the best experiences in digital painting that I have had thus far. I haven't done realism in quite some time and this portrait is still unfinished but I have painted it enough to get my point across. Painting this portrait of Missy Elliott was a very pleasant and enlightening experience. I use Clip Studio Paint (which I may refer to as CSP in this post) because I want to support the company directly instead of through Smith & Micro. For those of you that don't know, Clip Studio Paint is Manga Studio 5.