Tools to create manga

In my case, I have two templates which I use to draw my manga pages,
one for single spread pages and the other for double spread pages.
They were originally designed using Adobe Illustrator however.

After the design, I exported the template to bitmaps.
And to finalize them as “krita-ready files”, I opened the
bitmaps in Krita, added a few software-specific guides (check ref1)
and then saved the templates as kra files.

ref1

Since the double spread needs to match a standard print format as well,
I used the A3 size. In other words, you have A4 for the single spread
page, and A3 for the double spread page.
Because of this, there’s a bit more space on the outer margins
of the A3 document.

A4 document

A3 document

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