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. It is available in Japanese, German, and English.
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.
Work can be done on separate layers, which can be grouped and have opacity masks. In addition to this, layers can be masked by clipping them to a lower layer. This allows one to add shading and highlights to an area without creating new masks for the additional layers.
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.
Because the program does not focus on image editing, the only adjustments present are Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation, and therefore no support of level editing, channel extraction, etc. Users may use another program for more complex editing, but when the image is brought back to SAI, its properties may be changed.
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.
Various settings and features can be accessed and edited by the user either from the built-in Options dialog, or using the provided misc.ini file in the installation folder which allows additional options and customization. Existing brush presets can be edited, and the user has the choice of adding custom ones by placing bitmap files into the "elemap" folder. New canvas presets, as well as custom brush textures may be added by the user, in the form of grayscale bitmaps.
I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about 10 years now and the software just keeps getting better. It's perfect for drawing webtoons because there are great organizational tools. Also, it's super easy to export the entire webtoon at a suitable size.
One of the reasons I had to try Clip Studio Paint originally was the perspective rulers. And now, there is even a fisheye ruler! The 3D materials are also very helpful for reference.
Last but not least, I have to say that I really love the brushes. They are just great to work with and easy to draw illustrations and comics with, be it in color or black and white.
* Miyuli's comment is not meant as a direct endorsement of Clip Studio Paint by WEBTOON.
All of the features and the entire user interface are well thought out, can be customized to any artist's individual needs, and allow for an easy and intuitive entry into the program.
My favorite feature is the 3D character models, which are easy to position, light, and adjust in proportion.
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I just wanted to know if there is something new in our painting universe. Actually i am hunting accolades and dont spend some time with creating new stuff. But sometimes i take a look in other creative hubs just to see new cool paints etc. As i looked the top 10 of the hall of fame i found some vinylgroups that looks fantastic and photorealistic. So if i see something like that quality stuff i Download it and zoom just to See what Vinyls other painter use.
Ok i didnt want to hurt someone and i really not Sure if i miss sometink but it is very strange for me because i never saw a painting style like this before. Every Single shape is used, is just done with a circle. Just with a lot of different sizes and colours.
In answer to your question, yes I beleive the images you are talking about are made with A.I. hence only 1 shape is being used (usually a circle) I would say yes it is definitely cheating as it is using external software to create ingame content
Yes, you are correct about software making those vinyls with all circles. I am told that T10/PGG is aware of it and working on it. I sure hope they are. Cheaters are ruining almost every new game on the market these days and it is sad.
I am glad to see you are still around. I miss the good old days of our Fm3/Fm4 collaboration designs. I will never forget that yin yang S15, or the blue one with the feathers! I hope you are well, Happy Holidays to you and your family/friends.
Thx for your Kind words. Very happy to know you still remember me.
About this fact that there is an a.i. that ist used it is a bit unfair for those of US who paint without. I think i will report these guys. Sadly i found a lot of more creative hubs with that cheated Vinyls. But it is good to know that some of you Talented guys can create quality stuff without cheating.
I was going to use the editor, but replace the mouse with Ai. Mouse movements are just X/Y/Z movements that you can control in other ways such as with a controller. Basically all you are doing is making an automated controller.
What this tool is trying to do is something like auto-aim in fps.
And while these tools are vastly inferior in quality to human operated, they reduce the time required to create a vinyl group to a level that is impossible to achieve with human.
These bots will be able to produce dozens of different types of vinyl groups while a skilled painter is using his full time off to produce one excellent vinyl group.
Given these facts, I would be surprised if you think it will not be banned.
If I have a part of a wall that needs a specific color, I use the Modify > Paint tool to add a special material. Right now I have to navigate inside Revit to find that specific wall i want to paint, witch is a pain - so it would be very helpfull if I could paint the face directly in the enscape view. But I don't know is Encape has this kind of communication with revit?
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