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”MediBang Paint” is a handwriting raster image editing application

Introducing MediBang Paint, a raster image editing application specialized for hand-drawn illustrations such as manga. It is free.

MediBang Paint(https://medibangpaint.com/)

Operating environment

Works on various platforms. For details, see "System Requirements" for various platforms in Download - MediBang Paint.

Windows Mac iPad iPhone Android

Functionality and operability

It has a rich set of brushes whose thickness and density can be controlled by brush pressure, functions that add smoothness and expression to lines such as shake correction and rulers, drawing modes/clips in layers equivalent to Photoshop, and functions that enhance the texture of the paint such as the abundant screen tones that are added every day.

Example of MediBang Paint editing screen

Interesting features are the screen tones and script brushes. Using screen tones to turn clothes into polka dots, or using star-shaped radial brushes to draw colorful backgrounds, these features are unique to manga production apps and can be used to create a comical look.

Example of MediBang Paint editing screen : Cloud brush/tone

Competitive comparison

ibisPaint

A free manga creation application that is twinned with MediBang Paint is ibisPaint.

However, I do not use ibisPaint because it displays what I write as blurry1 and I cannot properly judge the quality of my work.

Example of MediBang Paint editing screen : Comparison of display with ibisPaint

Difference in functionality between free and paid versions

A paid version is also available, but it is equivalent to the free version in terms of editing functions. For more information, see MediBang Premium - MediBang Paint.

MediBang Premium - MediBang Paint(https://medibang.com/medibangPremium/)

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  1. I have not checked if it is blurry on other than Android. 

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