Maybe Graphics isn't their bag and they want to go back to their back-end enterprise guff ? Smith Micro seem to be pulling back from all their graphics products at the moment, perhaps Smith Micro's is moving it's whole unwieldy carcass to pasture.Īfter All this forum is not managed by them, SM could step away from its graphics assets as though they were hot potatoes. Moho seems to be in some sort of caretaker mode, maybe SM may be looking to sell? If I were to pull this apart and extrapolate some very lose assumptions, I might think something like this.Ĭelsys may have been unhappy with the marketing of Clip Studio in the west, it does seem to get sold off as bargain basement fair, when it is fact of the highest quality, a powerhouse application. My only minor quibbles: a few UI elements are small and difficult access and English language updates don’t come as frequently as their Japanese counterparts.Īlready a bargain at just under $50, the software is regularly discounted by 50% or more.Īs a big Clip Studio Paint (formerly Manga Studio) enthusiast, I worry about the software’s future as more and more free alternatives become available.Looks like the makers of the awesome digital art app Clip Studio ( Celsys) have decided to take over customer service and support for English speaking customers.Ĭlip Studio is MASSIVE in Japan, but westerners seem to only follow the' one god' of Adobe photoshop, which is not actually all its cracked up to be (caveat: for digital drawing and painting that is, not photo retouching, which it is the master).

The software every Windows tabletPC owner must own. My go-to application, an absolute workhorse.

Draw complicated patterns with one stroke.

Smith micro clip studio