Set the pen pressure with the wizard

Set up your pen pressure settings with a few test strokes, and recreate the natural, high quality lines of pen and paper. Even if it feels off, you can always change and tweak the settings to your liking.

Discover your new favorite tools

Clip Studio Assets offers pens, markers, brushes and more to cover all you need for your creations. Each brush can be further adjusted to match your style and techniques.

Draw exactly as you imagine

Drawing clean lines is hard, but you can make it easier with stabilization and correction features. Suppressing shaky and wavering lines, or even tapering the beginning and end of brushstrokes, Clip Studio Paint’s lines eliminate the inorganic look of digital drawing.

Fix vector lines when and how you want

Draw vector lines easily and change their thickness and shape at any time. Erase individual lines, delete parts up to where lines intersect, and make adjustments, without deteriorating the quality.

Compare ideas with thumbnail sketches

Create thumbnail sketches by simply dragging a panel onto the canvas and dividing it into smaller panels evenly to conveniently sketch design variations.

Improve your composition with 3D references

Set poses for difficult angles and adjust the body proportions for your characters to create stunning and unique arrangements.

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.

Draw intricate hands with ease

The hand scanner makes drawing challenging hand poses a breeze. It reads a hand’s pose live from your device’s camera and applies it to the hand of a 3D drawing figure.

AI posing from photographs

Simply scan photographs and let Clip Studio Paint automatically pose your 3D drawing figures to match them by using our AI-based deep learning algorithms.

Arrange 3D primitives for reference

Set up simple 3D primitive shapes as frameworks for drawing objects and scenes, or even use them as building blocks for more complex materials.

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.

Rule your path to new perspectives

Draw freehand along perspective rulers to create believable depth for buildings, rooms and other environments. Create intricate patterns with the symmetric ruler or draw cylindrical objects with the concentric circle ruler.

Extract lines and fills from photos and 3D data

Save time for your creation by extracting line art from photos and 3D data to smoothly integrate background into your illustration.

Convert photos into paintings

Apply artistic filters to photos of buildings and landscapes to convert them into images that mimic traditional paintings. With EX, you can extract 3D assets and images into separate line and tone layers.

Brushes for every taste

The choice of brush is yours! Delve into the nearly endless selection of brushes and pens for oil paint, watercolors, pastels, ink, and more on Clip Studio Assets. Get inventive and import Photoshop dual brushes (ABR), as well as two types of brush strokes in dual brushes.

Creative color combinations

Color palettes for approximate colors, intermediate colors, and your color history allow for a quick selection and application. Compose exciting color variations and add new swatches with the eyedropper tool by picking up new colors from inside and outside of the workspace.

Traditional color mixing for the digital age

Connect your main computer or tablet device to your smartphone in Companion mode to turn your smartphone into your own digital paint palette.
Mix, blend, and add subtle changes to the colors on your palette, just as you would with a traditional paint palette.

Complex tile-able patterns and instant decorations

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 reflected randomly for a natural result.

Quicker coloring with smart fill tools

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

Quick and efficient selection

Use quick masks to easily and precisely create selection areas and masks with the pen and eraser tools.

Coloring with AI support

Find inspiration through AI-created coloring to test base colors and experiment with color variation by using color hints.

Complex gradients made simple

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 values with gradient maps.

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.

Impressive layer effects

Apply textures, outlines, and watercolor effects to layers, or convert colors into screentones without losing the content of the original layer.

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, and more.

Boost image quality with filters

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

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 a variety of effects, like colorful shadows and stunning highlights.

Smart Smoothing to improve image resolution

Resample images and erase jpeg noise to reuse your past work in a larger format for prints and high resolutions screens.

Supports CMYK color for printing

Clip Studio Paint supports import/export of both RGB screen colors and CMYK data used for printing. Colors displayed in your workspace are even closer to the real printed hues!

For your art books and fanzines

Manage multi-page works as one file and add pages where needed. Check your layout and page arrangements with the 3D preview, then output to data that can be submitted to print.

Export to your desired format

Clip Studio Paint supports Kindle and EPUB e-book formats for commercial e-books production, including self-publishing.

Share your work

Portfolios, art books and print collections can be easily published on websites and social media, making your work more accessible to your audience.

Freely customizable interface

Adjust any UI element and settings option to optimize your workflow, be it shortcuts, units, UI color, palettes, or tool layouts.

Manage and save your favorite workspace

Create and share your favorite workspaces through Clip Studio Assets and download workspaces used by professional creators.

Quickly access frequently used tools

Register often used items such as menus, auto actions, tools, and drawing colors in a personalized palette, and access your favorite tools with a single click to optimize your workflow.

Seamless integration with other software

Load, edit, and save PSD and PSB data while maintaining the original layer structure, as well as import your favorite Photoshop brushes (ABR) and gradient files (GRD). Make the most of the natural drawing feel of Clip Studio Paint, then switch between other software whenever you want.

Your complete portable workstation

The iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, and Chromebook versions of Clip Studio Paint offer a choice between the beginner-friendly Simple Mode and Studio Mode, with all the features available on the desktop version, which pair smoothly with the Galaxy S Pen and Apple Pencil. Take your digital workstation outside and find new inspiration.

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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Optimized for high resolution displays and touch-gestures

Convenient touch features make working on the iPad and on Windows devices easy. Adjust the UI settings and use the native resolution of Apple's Retina displays.

Improve group work with shared files

With the multi-page management function, multiple creators can share and work on a single file simultaneously, to oversee progress without the worry of conflicting files.

Save and access your data anywhere

Save your work and settings directly into the cloud. Software settings can be restored manually if needed, and synchronizing your desktop, tablet and smartphone data is as easy as ever, so you can take your virtual workspace wherever you go.