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Manga Studio line filter tutorial

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In Manga Studio 4 there was a filter called 2DLT that created a line drawing from a photo. It is not there in Manga Studio v5 but here is a trick to get an even better automatic line drawing in Manga Studio v5.

YOU CAN NOW DOWNLOAD THIS AND SEVERAL OTHER EFFECTS AS A MANGA STUDIO "ACTION" AT [link]

Or if you want to do it manually then follow these instructions ( BTW - apologies if you tried this before and it did not work... I forgot to list step 5 in my original posting)

Starting with a single layer image (e.g. a Photo)

1) Right click on the layer and select "duplicate Layer"
2) In the layer palette, click on that duplicate layer ( it will be above the original)... now change its blending mode from Normal to "Glow Dodge"
3) Now go to Edit > tonal correction> invert gradation
4) go to Filter>Blur>Gausian Blur and slide the blur and as you increase it a slightly colored line drawing will appear ... slide it until you get the best result
5) now merge the two layers
6) finally go to Edit>Tonal Correction>Binarization and slide the threshold until you get the best line drawing effect

Done !

If you know about tonal correction layers you can also do steps 3 and 6 using those non destructive layers.

Try it out... its quite simple and quick after you have done it once
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