Last night I was reading through the manual of Manga Studio EX (3). Copy and Pasting from layer to layer didn't require saving as a reference after all. It seems after you copy it to the new layer, you 'move layer' to move the newly pasted object's location, not the object. In my head, this is not intuitive at all. In the same layer, it works by moving the object, not the objects layer. Keep in mind that if you save it as a reference object, when you paste the reference object, you do move the object where you want to, not the layer. I'm thinking that this weirdness was fixed in the newer version.
Just killed my overly wordy comment. Manga Studio is designed for comic layout while photoshop and illustrator are not. In working on a single picture, adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, corel painter, and for that matter gimp ( http://www.gimp.org/ ; think photoshop 7 with tools shaken up in a can and randomly placed. ) have better tools. In working with laying out a 20 page comic book and modifying a panel while observing the layout, Manga Studio has better tools.
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