Clean line art, Lazy Nezumi, Photoshop line art and Manga studio inking, which is best?

Something I know a lot of people wonder when it comes to digital painting / working on a graphics tablet ( including myself ) is how to get clean line art, by that I mean smooth lines that are not all over the place. If you have used a graphics tablet before you will probably know, slow careful line work usually looks very shaky due to graphics tablets being so sensitive. So the general advice here is long fast stroke to get a smooth line, and to be fair, it does work!

That being said I work in Photoshop CS6 and I have to say my line work and inking is absolutely terrible. I had heard of a program called Lazy Nezumi which works with Photoshop to smooth your lines, it has many presets with the option to adjust the settings. I will admit I haven't played around with the settings yet but I made a quick video with my initial thoughts and the results of the line art too. I think the program works but aside from the string pull option it didn't do as much as I was hoping - see the video below -

After making this video I decided to use the same image to make a comparison between Photoshop and Manga studio for line art. Photoshop CS6 VS Manga Studio 5 to be exact, and I think the results are pretty impressive, I will definitely be using Manga studio over Photoshop for inking and clean line art from now on. In Manga studio I used the G pen for inking, works really well with a pressure sensitive tablet and is great for varying your line weight too. I have also heard that in comparison with Photoshop, Paint tool SAI and Corel Painter are pretty good, I haven't tested that yet though.
Anyway.. I have posted a video comparison of Manga studio Vs Photoshop for line art so be sure to check it out and let me know what you think to the results :)

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How do I rotate my canvas in Photoshop CS6 and other versions tutorial + How to flip my canvas

A few people have recently asked me how to rotate the canvas in photoshop. I use Photoshop but the process should be the same in all versions. I also made this video for the 'help I accidentally rotated the canvas in photoshop and can't get it back!' people, and that was me when I first started using Photoshop :P so I thought a super quick video tutorial only a minute long will help people. Although I know there are a lot of videos out there like that already so I am not entirely sure if mine will get viewed or not haha.

anyway I show you a few quick tips in the video and it's only a minute long so I hope you guys like it, alternatively if you have been linked to this page / blog post and just literally want to know the hotkey / keyboard for rotating the canvas in Photoshop, then just press the 'R' key :)
Whilst you have the rotation tool selected you can also press a 'reset view' button along the top toolbar which will straighten your page back up. :)

http://youtu.be/ADCxjDQLCro

Whilst I am posting this quick video on my blog I may as well post one of my other quick tutorial that is related to rotating the canvas, and that is, flipping the canvas in Photoshop! Or even better then that I actually show you how to create a shortcut to flip your canvas in Photoshop whether its horizontally or vertically, that way you only need to press one key / short cut on your keyboard and your canvas will flip, simple :)