First, set the pen pressure with the wizard

Set your pen pressure curve automatically with a few strokes. Access the full range of your pen tablet's hardness and softness with this simple procedure. You can fine-tune these settings at any time if you're not satisfied.

Expressive pens for all your creation needs

Customize your pen’s line weight, analog feel, texture, and more to suit your style. Use preset brushes for an expedient solution, import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR), and create combined brushstrokes, or head to Clip Studio Assets to choose from a wide range of unique custom brushes from the Clip Studio Paint user community and grab whatever you need!

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Draw exactly as you imagine

Use the inbuilt stabilization functions to draw clean, accurate lines without shakiness or wavering, exactly how you’re picturing your creation.

Fix vectors when and how you want

Experience new freedom with vector layers - layers that allow you to edit lines after you’ve drawn them without affecting the line quality. You can move lines, make them thicker, thinner, erase only one line, or erase to intersections.

Ideal resolution for printing and publishing

With vectors, drawings stay high-quality and free of distortion, even when resized. With Clip Studio Paint, post your creations to the web, print posters and other large-scale formats and more with no loss in image quality.

Clip Studio Paint makes human figures a breeze

To show the relationship between the design and users, sketches often include hands and people in specific poses. Clip Studio Paint's adjustable 3D figures allow you to freely change pose, proportions, and body type as needed.

3D support for drawing faces

Create your very own facial reference with our adjustable head model.
Fine-tune overall shape, eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears, mouth, and other parts.
The base head can also be transformed into various styles, such as realistic, chibi, and anime.

AI posing from photographs

AI features enabled by deep learning algorithms enables you to simply scan a photograph and let Clip Studio Paint automatically pose your 3D drawing figure to match.

Perfect prototyping with 3D models

Import your own files or download pre-made buildings, furniture, crowds, vehicles, and many other materials that are ideal for use in prototyping work.

View 3D materials from all angles at once

When placing a 3D material, you can view from four angles simultaneously. You can also change the position of the camera and the focal point on the 3D layer. When you change the camera position from the All sides view palette, the model also adjusts on the canvas.

Incorporate photos and 3D assets into projects

Extract edges and colors from photos and 3D models and create a base for drawing and painting to boost efficiency and put a personal touch on works.

Convert photos to illustrations

Photos can also be converted into painterly styles with the Artistic filter. With EX, you can extract 3D assets and images into separate line and tone layers.

A ruler for every occasion

Draw accurate lines using high-quality rulers. Use perspective rulers that snap lines to vanishing points, symmetry rulers that are perfect for pattern making, and circle rulers for clean ovals, and much more.

Brushes for every taste

Clip Studio Paint's brushes are highly customizable, letting users tailor strength, randomness, texture and more. If you're in a hurry, Clip Studio Assets puts unique, quality brushes at your fingertips anytime.

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Color quick with smart fill tools

Clip Studio Paint’s fill tools are smart enough to fill spaces without spillover, even if there are gaps in lines. Drag to fill multiple spaces consecutively or fill missed spots all at once, all with our smart fill tools.

Gradients how you want them

Efficiently create gradients with multiple dedicated tools. Create your basic gradient with the Gradient tool, control the shape of your gradients with the Contour line paint tool, or apply colors based on a gradient and values.

Realistic color mixing

From precise color mixing to running paint and wet watercolor style brushes, experience realistic color mixing rarely seen in digital software. Ver 2.0 allows for more natural color mixing while maintaining color brightness.

Go wild with patterns! - Hundreds of decoration brushes

Draw repeating textures such as chains, accessories, textile patterns, and flowers with a single stroke. Multiple images can be applied to a single brush and randomized for a natural result.

AI Colorization

Compare color schemes with AI-based automatic colorization.

Smooth color selection

In addition to the usual circles and sliders, Clip Studio Paint comes with four other color palettes: Color Sets, Approximate Color, Intermediate Colors, and Color History. Create original color sets, or import swatches as color sets... All these features combine to make color selection smooth, efficient, and enjoyable!

Make colors your way

Fine-tune hue, saturation, brightness, and luminance to create a specific color, map out the intermediate colors of four colors, and track the variation of a single color without all the guesswork.

Selection can be made efficiently

Selection tools abound in Clip Studio Paint. Choose from the basic rectangle, circle, lasso, polyline, advanced selection pen, erase selection and more, or try the unique Shrink Selection that selects enclosed areas inside of the selection.

Text

Add, rotate, tilt text, edit line and word spacing, flip vertically and horizontally, and combine multiple fonts. Font ligatures can be used to seamlessly create designs with text.

Arrange and Align

Handy alignment and distribution features are a must for web and graphic design! Multiple objects such as drawings, text, balloons, and frame borders can be aligned together or neatly arranged with equal spacing.

Simple layer effects

Non-destructively apply textures, outlines, watercolor border effects and more to layers, or convert them into screentone dots. Transform any image into a halftone format for black-and-white printing, or to simulate classic comic and pop art.

Get expressive with blending modes

Use blending modes on your layers to add a variety of interesting effects to your image. Select from 29 blending modes to create specific effects or compositions.

Precise adjustments with Liquify

Make precise adjustments with the Liquify tool
Intuitively push and pull parts of the drawing without affecting its texture or brushwork. Select multiple layers to liquify them all at once.

Experiment endlessly with Tonal Correction Layers

Use Tonal Correction Layers to add finishing touches. Leaving the original layer untouched, you can adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and luminosity, or apply posterization, level correction, tone curve, color balance, gradation map, and more.

Boost quality with filters

Apply effects to images such as blur, sharpening, clouds, and mosaic with filters.

Image resolution up-conversion

Resample images and erase jpeg noise to reuse your past work as a larger image.

Many materials useful for decoration and depiction

Clip Studio Assets is a one-stop shop to help you quickly create artwork and designs. Access tens of thousands of materials that can be used immediately for commercial use. There are plenty of free assets available, too!

Input and output in Photoshop formats

Clip Studio Paint supports input and output in Photoshop file formats, so you can deliver files to clients and printing companies without changing your existing workflows.
Load, edit, and save PSD and PSB data while preserving raster layers, and export files with text layers created in Clip Studio Paint for easy editing and in Photoshop.

Enjoy desktop features with Clip Studio Paint for tablets and smartphones

Create on the go or at your favorite cafe with Clip Studio Paint for tablets and smartphones. With the same functionality as the desktop version, enjoy smooth drawing with complete compatibility with the Galaxy S Pen, Apple Pencil and more.

Optimize your creative flow with your smartphone

Connect your iPhone or Android smartphone to your main computer or tablet device over Wi-Fi in Companion mode and transform your smartphone into a handheld shortcut remote, for a better creative experience.
Companion mode makes use of your smartphone to get the most out of your creative process! It comes packed with multiple modes to shortcut frequently used functions, pick and mix colors, manage tools, preview projects in real-time, and even control the canvas with touch gestures, making it the perfect studio assistant for whatever you create.

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Peace of mind with cloud backup

Save your work and settings directly to the cloud. Software settings can be restored manually if needed, and synchronize your computer, tablet and smartphone data to take the virtual workspace you enjoy at home wherever you go.

Streamline repetitive operations

Perform frequent or repeated operations with one click using Auto Actions. Customize shortcuts and recreate your favorite shortcuts from other programs.

Easy access to your most frequently used functions

The Quick Access Palette gives you access to menus, Auto Actions, tools, and colors from a single palette to customize your ideal virtual workspace.

Optimize your workspace

Save and recall your customized palette layout, shortcuts, command bar and colors whenever you need them!

Perfect for Mac Retina and touch control

Clip Studio Paint is optimized for the touch control interfaces of iPad and tablet devices running Windows 8 and later. UI elements are also easy to see and use on native resolutions of Retina display devices.

Manage multi-page works

Manage multi-page print documents with ease using the management window to check page layouts and order.

See your work before you print with 3D preview

See the binding and finish of the final product with the 3D preview feature.

Supports CMYK color for printing

Clip Studio Paint supports import/export of both RGB and CMYK data used for printing. Colors displayed in your workspace are as close as you can get to real printed hues!

Export anywhere

Supports Kindle and EPUB e-book formats, including commercial e-books and self-publishing.