What are the main improvements of Manga Studio EX 5 to the previous EX version? Is it worth the upgrade?
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From friends of mine who've had both (and also advised me to purchase this product. The number of upgrades are quite numerous and some of the best ones are subtle (like huge improvements to the interaction of strokes to emulate a real brush/pen feel for example.) From where I am sitting, I would say that it is very much worth the upgrade. In case you're still curious as to what all is actually different, here's a link to a list of what each version has. http://manga.smithmicro.com/comparison.html
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3.0 is the best, it took me a long expensive while to find a new disk, 4.0 isn't bad, both by same authors. After that nothing communicates with past versions, and commands are horrible. Problem is, need to find compatibility mode to run, Bouderbund needs to get the ORIGINAL guys back together to write a new version of 3.!!!
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I am not sure about the upgrade or not. We have had this machine before and not much different really. We bought our first one 5 yrs ago and seems to be the same as I remember.
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Hi Christina R, I am sorry but I do not know. I have had so much trouble getting version 11 to work that they would have had to pay me to take version 12. I had only had version 11 about a month when version 12 was offered at 100. I would not have given 0.01 for it. I still wouldn't. I still have not managed to produce an edited video either to a Blu Ray disk or to a "produce" file. (Cyberlink term) I am sorry I can't help you in this matter, but I wish you well with whatever video editing system you end up with. Nick.
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Well i never owned a 5.5 generation but alot of my friends has them after using both i would say sound quality has improved cosiderably for ver. 6 also the user interface has improved and now includes coverflow album art. you also get alot more storage for the old 5.5 price...........overall for the PRICE this is definiely a good buy.
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It does come with software, that seems to be up to date. I did look online for updates from the manufacturer website and could not find anything I didn't already have. As far as photo sop is concerned I'm not sure. I use Manga Studio EX and it was pretty much plug and play. I would think this would be good for PSE11 since its design is to be a mouse alternative and basically allow you to use the stylus for everything.
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You are going to like LR5 after using LR3. The prevailing idea in the photo community is to leave the older version on your computer until you have installed LR5. I always leave the "older" program on for a week or so after installing the update, unless the directions specifically say to uninstall first or right after installing the new version. Hope this helps
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I am not really familiar with version 4 but I can tell you that between Photomatix 5 and Photomatix Pro 5, about the only real difference is that pro allows you to work in batch. Each of the two can be run in either 32 bit or 64 bit. Each allow the user to make a quick photo-style selection (default, balanced, photographic, smooth ... etc) then manipulate manually from there to suit your taste. The results for the most part are generally pleasing. More recently I have added Pro Photo Editor and find that it is as easy to use but has a LOT more bells and whistles for even more pleasing results. Between that and Elements 11, There is little that can't be done to enhance a photo to exactly the shot you were looking for and are proud to publish.
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Chris, I do not believe that this is a upgrade for Ultimate. Question, why would your license have expired? You can now download VS 2013 community edition.
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The one I got in Dec 2013 is 1.0 :-(, but it was on sale so maybe they cleared out the old ones, not sure how much a difference it makes as the 1.0 one ROCKS!
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To Pat and J.Crosby, In my opinion, do youself a favour and don't go anywhere near Photoshop Elements 6 (PSE6). I paid for an upgrade from an earlier version and have wasted my money. The program crashes continually to such an extent it is unusable. From my googling on the internet this is the experience of numerous other people. There are no solutions I can find on the Adobe site and although these complaints seem to have been posted since PSE6 was first brought out there are no upgrades or patches to fix what are a myriad of problems. A number of people have complained that the program worked initially and then started continually crashing and that has been my experience. I won't be buying more Adobe products until they show a bit of customer care and isuue fixes for this mess. I have downloaded and installed a trial version of Pro Photo X2 and so far it seems stable. PSE6 may have more bells and whistles but that is not much use if they are unusable due to continual program crashes.
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Hi Sandra, I love Printmaster and when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, I found that Printmaster 18.1 would not run on the new Windows platform. Through much research I was advised to download and install Net Framework 1.1 and all would be well, not so. I then purchased PM Plat. 6.0, believing that this newer version would be the answer, not so. I have had crashes in the middle of projects losing hours of work, I am extremely frustrated to say the least. I have been using PM for many years and it has always been head and shoulders in performance above the rest. I sincerely hope that Encore works on this problem and gets it right. It almost caused me to go back to drinking again! :) Hang In There!
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The version you have is the most recent version. I have the oldest version 1.01. Which I am planning to ordering very soon. I hope that helps. It's great software, don't you think?
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In my opinion it is not significant of an upgrade to change. The only real differences are an increase of 5 megapixels and an slightly increased shot rate. Not enough to ditch the older model. Neal
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I would agree with the other comment here, except to add that MS5 has many more features than SAI. Version 5's updated brush engine comes with presets which very closely match SAI's excellent "watercolor" and blending tools. MS5 also has things like a wide variety of tones, accepts the direct import of 3D models and has numerous other tools that are similar but more expansive than SAI. To me, I would say that Manga Studio 5 is like SAI/Photoshop, but WITHOUT all the non-art related tools AND high price (of Photoshop). Also, if you are especially interested in producing "comics" of ANY kind, consider getting the "EX" version, which has MANY tools for page and story management, and is &lt;$90.
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it comes with some software like Anime Studio Debut, corel painter 12 (demo), and autodesk sketchbook which it works great with! I personally use Photoshop and Illustrator with it and it's amazing!
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What difference do you see between the old and new version, Brian (besides the cartridge life?)