Convert CLIP to PNG: Clip Studio file to PNG (Beta)

Convert a .clip file to PNG

Clip Studio Paint can export PNG itself, but only when you have Clip Studio at hand. Upload the .clip file here and you get the whole picture as a full-size PNG, plus every layer as its own PNG in a ZIP, without opening Clip Studio.

Which picture you get

Clip Studio stores its own picture of the canvas inside every .clip file. When that picture is full size (the usual case for illustrations of a few megapixels), the PNG is exactly that picture: what you saw in Clip Studio, including text, vector lines, screentones and correction layers. For larger canvases, such as print pages at 600 dpi, Clip Studio only keeps a smaller copy, and the PNG is combined from the layers instead. The result page tells you which one you got.

The PNG has the canvas's resolution (dpi) set, so it prints at the size you drew it.

Transparent background

Choose Transparent under Background to leave out the paper layer. Everything you drew keeps its transparency, which is what you want for stickers, emotes, game art or anything you place on another background. The paper stays in the PSD, hidden, in case you need it later.

Each layer as a PNG

The ZIP holds one PNG per layer, all the size of the canvas, so they line up exactly when you stack them in another program or a game engine. They are numbered from the bottom layer up and sorted into folders like your layer panel. Layer masks are applied; opacity and blend modes are not, so each picture is the layer's own pixels.

Things to know

• Draft layers are left out of the PNG, as in a Clip Studio export.
• A multi-page project (.cmc) keeps each page in its own .clip file: add the pages together and each gets its own PNG.

More about what this tool reads and writes: Clip Studio Paint Converter.