Layers were game-changing for editing photos, but even more so for digital illustrations.ĭigital painting wasn’t on Adobe’s radar because it simply didn’t exist like we know it today. I’m guessing that had something to do with it. That’s the year they invented layers in Photoshop, by the way. Craig Mullins – one of first digital artists and widely considered the father of Digital Painting – was painting digitally for 10 years with a mouse before he switched to completely digital in 1994. Photoshop wasn’t built for digital artists, but that hasn’t stopped illustrators from using it from the beginning. You can use Photoshop to paint and Clip Studio to edit a photo, but there are fundamental differences between the two because of their focus. The important distinction between Photoshop and Clip Studio is what they were built for. Clip Studio Paint was designed for artists Adobe Photoshopīefore we go any further, I want you to understand why I tortured myself to learn a new program when I was perfectly capable of using Photoshop, and why I think you should too. Hopefully, I can help you skip all that and show you how to quickly adopt the tools of Clip Studio Paint to create your own works of art. I may be a lot more comfortable using Clip Studio now, but it had some intense growing pains.
It’s incredibly scary to learn a new program – especially one with a steep learning curve.
