How-to

• Match a Photo's Field of View with the Clip Studio Paint 3D CameraHow to carry a photo reference's exact lens look into Clip Studio Paint's 3D assets. Covers the focal-length-to-field-of-view relationship, the conversion into the Perspective value, step-by-step input for drawing figures and background props, and lens picks — 50-85mm for people, 24-35mm for backgrounds.Published 2026-08-01
• Building a Custom Brush in Clip Studio Paint: From Tip Image to Registered BrushHow to design your own brush tip image and carry it into Clip Studio Paint as a registered brush material. Covers what makes a good tip image, the full material-registration steps, the settings Clip Studio Paint itself controls — interval, thickness, and angle — and how to prototype a tip before committing to it.Published 2026-08-01
• The Complete Guide to Bleed for Doujinshi Printing in Clip Studio PaintWhy doujinshi printing needs bleed, when to use 3mm versus 5mm, how to set the Bleed width when you start a new canvas in Clip Studio Paint, how to add bleed to artwork that is already finished, and how to fix the white edges and cropped text that come from getting it wrong.Published 2026-08-01
• Reading Illustration Color Schemes by the Numbers: Area Share, Color Difference, Contrast RatioHow to use three numbers a color palette tool reports — area share, OKLab color difference, and contrast ratio — to judge dominant-versus-accent balance, catch colors sitting too close together, and check legibility on white or black.Published 2026-08-01
• Two-Tone or Greyscale for Monochrome Manga? Fixing Anti-Aliasing Mistakes in Clip Studio PaintThe difference between two-tone (duotone) and greyscale monochrome pages, what happens when anti-aliasing sneaks into a manuscript that gets reduced to a threshold or turned into a halftone tone, and how to check and fix it using Expression color, Color Threshold, and Anti-aliasing in Clip Studio Paint.Published 2026-08-01
• Why Screen Tone Moiré Happens: Angle, Line Count, and Reduced PrintingScreen tones can suddenly show stripes or rosette-like ripples once overlaid. Here are the moiré-period numbers behind overlay angle, mismatched line counts, and reduced printing, plus how to catch it in Clip Studio Paint before printing.Published 2026-08-01

Tips

• Clip Studio Paint's 100% Zoom Isn't Actual Size — How to Check True Size Correctly100% display magnification in Clip Studio Paint maps one image pixel to one screen pixel — it has nothing to do with real-world size. Here's how View menu > Print size and Display Resolution calibration work.Published 2026-08-01
• Screen Tone LPI in Clip Studio Paint: Finding the Effective Line Count After ReductionPrint a B4 page at B5 and a 60 LPI screen tone effectively becomes about 84.7 LPI. Here is the formula for the effective line count from a reduction ratio, what happens once it passes 100 LPI, and how to work backward from your print size to the LPI you should set in Clip Studio Paint, worked through with concrete numbers at 600dpi.Published 2026-08-01

Column

• Why Your Colors Look Dull in CMYK — and How to Check It in Clip Studio PaintWhy vivid colors that look great on screen sink into something duller once printed, explained through the difference between light's three primaries and ink. Covers how to check the shift with Clip Studio Paint's color profile preview and what this site's preflight checker can tell you before you submit.Published 2026-08-01