In Manga Material, we create onomatopoeia materials with customization elements for various scenes.
On this page, we will show how to use it for wider range of onomatopoeia materials with Clip Studio Paint software.
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Basic usage of onomatopoeia materials
The onomatopoeia materials has all the katakana sounds + α necessary for creating an onomatopoeia.
You can copy and paste the necessary characters, create an onomatopoeia by transform and position adjustment.
The same letter can change the impression by free transform or mesh deformation.
You can freely create any characteristic for onomatopoeia materials.
It is more convenient to register the created onomatopoeia as material.
Utilization of White Border, Black Border and Tone
Impression changes by adding white border or black border to the onomatopoeia.
First, put the usual onomatopoeia on the screen.
Hold Ctrl key + left click on the onomatopoeia layer to take the selection area.
Save the selected area that created at this time by clicking in “convert to selection layer”.
It will be useful for work later.
Create a new layer with the selection area taken, choose ‘Outline Selection’ and create white border on new layer.
※The example size here is 0.50mm.
White borders are completed.
An example in which the solid(beta) was replaced with a tone.
A transparent tone for onomatopoeia is useful when you do not want to hide the background or person.
You can change the onomatopoeia from black to white with “Change color of line to drawing” from the Edit tab.
Add black border to the onomatopoeia converted to white with the same procedure as the previous work,
or you can also use ‘Thickness of edges’ on ‘Layer Property’.
※The example size here is 0.50mm.
Black border are completed.
Next we will arrange the onomatopoeia using Expand and Shrink selected area.
※The example size here is 0.50mm.
Shrink the selection area of the base and cut the contents.
An example of adding white border to an onomatopoeia which already cut out contents.
An example in which a new layer is created under an onomatopoeia and a tone is put on the contents.
Example of solid(beta) content.
By using the white border, black border and tone conversion like this, the same onomatopoeia can also correspond to various scenes.
Decorate Onomatopoeia
The impression of the onomatopoeia is further changed by decorating them.
An example of adding white sputtering on a solid(beta) onomatopoeia.
Example of adding white stain with brush on the tone.
Decorations of onomatopoeia show various effects by using it for action scenes and specific expressions.
Please give it a try.
