With your blossom selected, go to the Edit menu and select "Register Image as Material." You will see a dialog that looks like this: Note: If all of your brush art is on the same transparent layer, you'll either want to separate them onto their own layers or after you magic-want-select the one you want, you can go through and deselect the other images.Ģ. Use the menu option Selection->Invert Selected Area and you'll get a close selection of your artwork. Select the transparent space around your artwork, so that it makes an inverse selection. Using the rectangle select tool and trying to get as close as you can to the edges is one way. Cut out the blossom. You want to try and get as close as you can to the edges of the artwork. Now that you have your art, the next part is to make them into materials.ġ.
Sakura-blossom-brushparts] Making Materials Each blossom is also on a separate layer so they can be easily isolated. Below, the green background is on a separate layer. Some tips for the brush artwork: when making the original art, make the drawings bigger than you'll need to avoid any kind of pixelation or blurring problems that you might encounter when it's drawn by the custom brush. Also, when you make your artwork, make sure you do them on a separate layer with a transparent background. Sprayed artfully, they'll appear as if the wind is blowing them along. I wanted to get the blossoms from different angles, because the brush ultimately just sprays them with varied size and angle. I went to google images and studied a bunch of cherry blossom images and I began to sketch them. The first step was to create the artwork for the sakura blossoms. It'll help me improve for next time as well. If you are confused, please tell me in the comments and I can try and clarify the steps.
#How to add brushes to manga studio 5 how to#
I'm going to show you how to make the sakura blossom/petal brush I used for my image " Sakura Storm."īefore we begin: This is the first time I've done a tutorial or any kind of technical writing for a long time.