Colorful World With SAI
Let your creation be colorful with Easy Paint Tool SAI
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. The
software's final revision, 1.1.0 was released in 2008. SYSTEMAX has not
published any new information or updates since, and 1.1.0 is considered to be the final release.
The painting application is available in both Japanese, and an official English translation. An unofficial fanmade translation for the software also exists. It can be purchased directly through the developers' website, and purchases through PayPal are now also accepted in addition to the BitCash and TelecomCredit payment systems that have been available for Japanese users.
FEATURES
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.
There is also a pen movement and pressure smoothing feature which can be manually configured as to how much effect it has.
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.
There are two caveats with using the transform tools that often confuse
new users and are not made clear by SAI's sparse included English
documentation.
First, SAI includes several tools for creating a selection, but only
the rectangular (rubber band) selection tool shows the transformation
options. But it does not matter how a selection is initially created,
selecting the rectangular selection tool will then show the
transformation options which will work fine with it. Effectively the
'rectangular selection' tool button (a dotted rectangle in the tool
palette) is also the 'make transform tools visible' tool button.
Second, to apply the transform tools to a selection on a vector layer requires a non-obvious additional step. After creating a raster selection by whatever means, the user must click selection on the menu bar and then click either select points or select strokes
from the drop down menu after which the selected points are highlighted
and are affected by the transformation tools as expected. Those points
remain selected until the menu is opened again and clear selected points
is clicked, even if another raster selection is made. Many fairly
experienced users assume that the transform tools do not work at all on
vector layers. This has been erroneously repeated in some review
articles and user provided tutorials around the web, including this
Wikipedia article at one point.
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.
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