Clip Studio Paint's Gallery View

If you’re creating a graphic novel or comic that contains dozens of images, Clip Studio Paint EX is worth the extra money it costs over plain Clip Studio Paint Pro. CSP Ex organizes all of the images into a single folder and names all of the file uniformly by page number. When you want to export all of the images, you can do a batch export as either JPG, PNG, PSD, orPSB. You can also export a Kindle ready e-book if you want.

CSP has an excellent vector-based text bubble tools, vector layers, and a good set of basic brushes that can do pretty much everything you need to do for comics. I should mention CSP’s frame capability that allows you to divide pages into image frames of any size and shape. There are many more features that I haven’t used yet.

Add it all up and CSP EX is like a combination of some of the desirable features of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator in one package.