Try it for yourselfįortunately, you can discover if PaintTool SAI has the right features for you. It cannot also print directly from the app, although you can export your work as PSD or BMP files. It’s a compact and lightweight program, after all. SAI works well with creating textures and colors, but adding text or gradients isn’t included. There are also limits on what you can add to your canvas. The main focus is creating new artwork, so it isn’t suitable if you are looking for a tool that will also give you photo-editing capabilities. That is down to the fact that there isn’t an extensive number of features. The interface of this paint tool is easy to navigate, so finding the tools and functions you need takes no time at all. It’s useful for adding the finishing touches before saving your piece, as you can soften any hard edges. There is an eraser tool that takes on the properties of the different brushes. This enables you to erase a layer, move it to a different part of the drawing, or lock layers together. Creative capacityĪs well as the main tools for adding color, SAI also has features for adding and editing layers and selecting areas of your artwork. You can adjust the pressure of the brush, so it responds differently to your touch. Different effects are achieved by using different brushes when drawing, including airbrush, watercolor, and pen. There is also an option to change the luminescence. You can change the appearance of a color by adjusting saturation. The choice of colors is excellent, which means if you can imagine it, you can create it. Picking up the way it works and the different tools is easy, so the learning curve is a fun experience instead of a challenge. Anyone who likes to get expressive with their digital pen can be creative with this program. It works on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. One of the reasons it has earned so many fans is because it offers full digitized support.

If it’s not appearing for you, go to the place where you installed sai and click on start-sai, which will update sai so it shows up.SAI is a popular product among online artists communities, including DeviantArt. They were not made by me, they were made by / and … Link to download the blotmap and all that stuff: /file/d/0B9Sme…Īfter downloading, move the blotmaps, elemaps, bitmaps, and papertex into their respective folders. That way it feels more like I’m using a palette, therefore feeling more real.

Speaking of palettes, I also keep the scratchpad on and put my “pure” colors there. It’s rather like dipping your brush in water, or dabbing it on a paper towel, or adding more “pure” colored paint on your palette. It may sound like a hassle that will interrupt your workflow, but it’s not really a big deal. Also, as you add more layers of acrylics, the canvas texture gets covered over, another reason for not setting canvas as the bitmap. This is why I didn’t set the bitmap to canvas. And when you don’t need it, you can set it to 0 or no texture. Keep it low, around 10, and you’ll achieve the look shown next to Round Large in the picture shown. Also, for a drier look, you should set the bitmap as noise. In order to achieve the exact “property” of acrylics that you want as you work, you must manually adjust the blending, dilution, and persistence. Those who’ve used acrylics know what I’m talking about. Acrylics have great covering and blending power, and are able to have a watercolor-y transparent look. I’d like to explain how to use these brushes in order to achieve the most realistic look. Sorry to those who would prefer oils, I’ve only used acrylics on canvases. I made each size and shape separate because 1) I’m lazy and 2) having separate size/shape brushes feels much more realistic than having one brush. I’ve been making lots of custom brushes on Paint Tool Sai and decided to share it to the world! These are acrylic brushes that I created.

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