Fortunately, the price of screens is more and more affordable today, because Manga Studio displays plenty of palettes! Fortunately also, you can close some of them. The Photoshop users shall be at ease: Toolbar, Navigator and even History (20 undos, not more)! However, the Layers work very differently in the two softwares. A quite necessary accessory of this marvelous drawing program is a graphic tablette, even a small one. This portrait, "Silvia at the bowling" was made nearly entirely with the mouse, but at the price of a noticable time loss and of small irregularities of her arm and leg curves.
