Clip Studio Paint now supports drawings made with ibisPaint, the standard drawing application for smartphones and tablets.

 

You can now open ibisPaint files in Clip Studio Paint!

Works drawn in ibisPaint (smartphone/iPad) can not be exported and then imported into Clip Studio Paint (smartphone/iPad/PC) while retaining your layer organization. This means you can now use your smartphone to draw a rough sketch of your work on the go and then import it to another device at home for finishing touches... and more!

 

In this article we will explain how to open drawings made with ibisPaint in Clip Studio Paint.

 

Note: Please update Clip Studio Paint to the latest version to use this feature.

 

For details on ibisPaint, please refer to the ibisPaint official website.

 

[1] Uploading ibisPaint works to the Clip Studio cloud service

To import a work drawn in ibisPaint into Clip Studio Paint, upload it from ibisPaint to the Clip Studio cloud service. To use the cloud service, you will need a free Clip Studio account.

 

 

 

1. Open ibisPaint on your smartphone and from [My Gallery], tap and select your drawing (1).

 

 

 

2. Tap the [Share] button (1), and when the file type dialog box appears, tap [CLIP STUDIO (CLIP)](2).

 

 

 

3. Tap [Sign in] on the Clip Studio login screen.

 

If you do not already have a Clip Studio account, tap [Sign up] and follow the on-screen instructions to register for free.

 

 

 

4. Enter the email address (1) and password (2) registered to your Clip Studio account, and then tap [Login].

 

 

 

5. When uploading to the cloud service from ibisPaint for the first time, an access authorization screen will show. Tap [Authorize] to go to the next screen.

 

This screen only appears on your first login. On subsequent logins, this screen will not show and will proceed to the next screen.

 

 

 

6. The upload will begin. When the "Uploading..." message at the bottom of the screen disappears, your work has finished uploading.

 

[2] Opening ibisPaint drawings in Clip Studio

After the upload is complete, access the Clip Studio cloud service from the device where Clip Studio Paint is installed and open the work in Clip Studio Paint.

This article uses an example of a drawing started on another device and then touched up on a computer.

 

Note: Please update Clip Studio Paint to the latest version to use this feature.

 

 

 

1. Double-click the Clip Studio icon on your computer’s desktop.

Note: For the tablet version, Open Clip Studio Paint, tap the Clip Studio Paint icon > [Open CLIP STUDIO].

Note: For the smartphone version, launch Clip Studio Paint, tap the Menu icon > [Tutorials / Materials / Files / Support].

 

 

 

2. In Clip Studio, click [Login].

 

 

 

3. Enter the email address (1) and password (2) registered to your Clip Studio account, and then click OK.

 

 

 

4. Select [Manage works].

 

 

 

5. Click [Cloud] on the Manage Works screen to see a list of your works in the cloud.

 

 

 

6. Click the Download-as-new icon (blue cloud) under the work uploaded from ibisPaint to the cloud service. It will start downloading as soon as you click on it.

 

 

 

7. Click [This device] (or [In this app] for smartphone/tablet version) to see the works you have downloaded.

 

 

 

8. Double-clicking on the thumbnail of the work will launch Clip Studio Paint and display the work. Now you can edit the work you drew in ibisPaint in Clip Studio Paint.

 

Note:

・When opening files in Clip Studio Paint, text layers will be rasterized.

・When opening files using Clip Studio Paint Debut, note that tone layers will be rasterized, and selection layers can not be imported.

・If you edit a work Clip Studio Paint, you will not be able to return to editing the same file again in ibisPaint. To make further edits, use Clip Studio Paint. Clip Studio Paint can save files in other formats such as Clip Studio Paint (.clip) and Photoshop format (.psd). Files can also be saved as formats for posting online such as png and jpeg.