It captures screenshots, but it also has an edit mode for the screenshots (or some file you can load from your hard drive) with some basic drawing tools, which are well thought-out and quite usable for inserting arrows and numbers into images, cropping, etc. Things you do to images to cut +paste them into presentations, after editing.
PaintTool SAI is a straightforward graphic and design software that is powerful but light in weight. It gives you access to simple vector tools and works with touchscreen devices enabling you to draw with a digital pen. Digital artists can use a variety of art tools provided in the program to make illustrations, including cartoons and anime.
SAI is a popular product among online artists communities, including DeviantArt. One of the reasons it has earned so many fans is because it offers full digitized support. It works on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Anyone who likes to get expressive with their digital pen can be creative with this program. Picking up the way it works and the different tools is easy, so the learning curve is a fun experience instead of a challenge.
If your focus is drawing and painting, this program has plenty to offer. The canvases are customizable, and you can save your color palette with your mixed colors, so you can pick up where you left off. PaintTool also provides anti-aliasing, which minimizes any distortion and jagged edges of your digital images.
For free access to powerful software, artists can experiment with the paint tools in Krita, an open-source illustration tool. You can adjust the workspace to suit your needs and explore the different brushes and textures, including packs made by other artists. The level of detail and quality that you can achieve is remarkable.
The latest version of SAI has added features and fixed some bugs. The issues with the lasso tool, opening PSD files, and converting symmetrical shapes have been fixed. A symmetric ruler has been added, which helps users achieve symmetrical lines and shapes.
The issue is still persisting. I installed the latest version, and the draw tool works fine for a while but around 10 minutes in has stopped working. Right clicking does not fill in the region I have drawn, but the paint feature still works.
I would like to know what to do to get my line art to be filled inside with the Live Paint tool in Illustrator. I have created some artwork from a sketch that I did on a sketchpad which I later uploaded and edited on my iPad. They are all separate objects. But since the version of Illustrator on iPad does not currently have a Live Paint feature, I have to use it on my PC.
The problem is that Live Paint is just changing the color of my stroke (what is supposed to be a stroke), and is not painting inside of my shapes. How do I get the line art to be treated by Illustrator as strokes and the inside of my shapes as fills so that I can use the Live Paint tool?
Please let me know, and if you have an idea about how to color inside line art in Illustrator on the iPad, let me know this, too!
Thanks so much!
Can you send an AI file so we can check it out? you need to create live paint double click on the live paint bucket to indicate that you are colrizing the fill. This look like you have no fill and thedark lines are actually the fill.
Yes, the outlines are considered as fills not strokes. What I basically want, and I had also asked this of Ton Frederiks, is just to color the inside of them. Right now the inside is a transparent part of the overall shape. I want to keep the outlines as they are, and just be able to color the inside of the shapes, however there is no way right now to do this via the live paint tool.
Yes. I was wondering if I was able to make these outlines to be strokes instead of fills, and be able to color the inside of the shapes. But the insides right now are transparent and really don't exist to be able to be filled with the live paint tool. Perhaps you know how to keep the outlines as they are and be able to color the inside areas themselves. I need to be able to choose different colors for things like the flower petals (for example, two types of pink). Do you know how to do this?
It doesn't matter that the inside shapes are "transparent", by which I assume that you mean they are empty with no fill. As long as the areas appear to be closed shapes the Live Paint tool can fill them.
I am having a bit of a different result using live paint. I did not use image tracing for myself, so perhaps that is the reason? For me, it still colors the outlines, and then I was able to color the fill area by clicking inside the shapes, but now it is using different shades of grey instead of the colors that I chose. Is there a setting or something that I need to change in order to use the colors?
If you used the bucket tool Adobe has saved you from yourself by hiding it. Future users will never know about it. It's so 1990's and when you work at Adobe and were born in the 1990's removing things is a way of advancing ones career.
Easy there, buddy, We get that you've got the whole pretentious graphic design complex going on, but us plebs might still want to use the tool for simple tasks. I wanted to use the paint bucket to fill in half shapes for a pedigree chart for my bio class, but I guess that's too 1990s of me. Thank God Adobe saved me from this egregious crime against electronic arts.
No, the paintbucket does not appear. Its like its totally missing in this update. I really need that tool! I often make selections in layer-masks and then fill them with black, white or grey to hide or to show.. I cannot do this anymore! Its really frustrating!
I get the same error spontaneously after my workspace completely disappeared. It was not a matter of long pressing or ALT-clicking the tool but going to Edit > Toolbar... (as mentioned above) but instead of resetting the toolbar, I moved the paint bucket took back to its rightful place. See visual below.
Thanks for this! How frustrating .. to go an try to drop a pattern .. only to find the paint bucket missing. [cursing removed by moderator] Adobe!
Those of us who have been using Photoshop for years .. don't have time while we are working to hen peck and figur eout where out tools have gone to! Quit moving things!
I have exatly the same problem, I was very happy when I saw this topic because I thouth it was THE SOLUTION!
But actually I have a new problem.
I bought the sofware lisence for paint tool sai and I also have crossover.
I would like to use this : "/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/BOTTLE_NAME/drive_c" to know where can I put my lisence, but I don't know where to put this "link" to access to the paint tool sai folders.
SAI or Easy Paint Tool SAI (ペイントツールSAI) is a lightweight raster graphics editor and painting software for Microsoft Windows developed and published by Systemax Software. Development of the software began on August 2, 2004, and the first alpha version was released on October 13, 2006. SAI's official release (1.0.0) was on February 25, 2008, and an update preview was released shortly after. It has been available on Microsoft Windows from XP to 11.
SAI is a lightweight painting application. The user interface allows multiple documents to be opened at the same time. The drawing canvas can be both zoomed and rotated using the sliders on the navigator or the hotkeys configured on the keyboard. The toolbar on the top part of the screen also includes a button to mirror the drawing view without mirroring the actual drawing. It is also possible to open multiple viewports to the same document. An application-wide scratchpad (which can be used as a color mixing panel) is provided, which is saved between sessions. Colors can be stored in the swatches panel.
Various raster drawing tools are implemented, such as the Airbrush, Watercolor, Pen, and Marker, which can all be easily customized, and stored in slots in the user interface of the application. There is also a set of vector drawing tools intended for inking, which, like the raster tools, can be configured to be pen pressure-sensitive.
Selection tools include the simple square selection, the lasso, and magic wand, which can be configured for anti-aliasing. There is also a selection brush tool, which can be customized like the drawing brush.
SAI comes with a full set of transformation tools that can work on selections, including move, resize, rotate, and a free (perspective) transform. Any series of transforms can be set up and then applied at once to a specific selection minimizing the softening of the image.
Some common features that exist in similar software, such as text layers, gradients, and shape tools, are not implemented, as SAI focuses on drawing and painting, while the final composition is often done using another application. SAI displays white and transparency in the same way, which may cause significant display differences when exporting to another program, such as Adobe Photoshop. There is also no printing functionality, but documents can be exported in a range of popular formats, such as .PSD or .BMP files, in addition to the native .SAI format.
SAI also includes linework layers, which can be used instead of manually drawing linework. The linework layer include different tools designed specifically for creating lineart, such as the Line, Curve, Edit, Pressure, and Weight tool.
The Paint along Path tool is a new way to paint strokes in the 3D viewport. Similar to other applications, you can create bezier based curves driven by points on the surface of your 3D object to draw patterns. Combined with Substance materials this new tool can open a lot of new possibilities.
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