MangaLabo

MangaLabo is a feature-rich illustration editor that comes in handy for a wide range of users, including beginners, amateur cartoonists as well as professional illustrators. Compared with other similar manga editors, the app comes packed all with the essential functions to offer you simple yet professional tools to make unique mangas.

The interface is modern-looking and easy to learn, displaying the working pad and other several panels, like drawing tools, navigator, color palette or layer, which can be disabled from the menu.

You have the choice to make a new design from scratch using either a template or a blank page, as well as open an existing image from the computer.

MangaLabo supports some of the most common file formats, such as JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF, CWX, PSD, TGA, along with the app's specific types: MDP and MDPS.

From the menu, you have the option to resize the photo and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise and counterclockwise. The utility lets you make a few image corrections, like hue, brightness, contrast and color, as well as apply filters (e.g. blur, pixel, render).

However, the most important part of the process is the creation of the background, characters and dialog bubbles. You can draw using the pen, a thinner pencil and an airbrush, whose sizes, colors and opacity you can easily adjust from the pane.

Plus, you have the option to insert multiple layers to get the desired design, as well as enter text in the dialog bubbles, add transparent or filled shapes (square, circle), and make free forms. The magic wand can help you select the areas you want to change. The project can be saved as a JPG, MDP, PNG or BMP file.

To sum it up, MangaLabo is a reliable application designed for beginners, amateur cartoonists and professional artists alike to create beautiful mangas, cartoons and visual novels, with characters, backgrounds and dialogs using brushes, shapes and text. The result can be saved as an image.