There is a free trial of the program available for 31 days, which lets you access all features. Try it for yourselfįortunately, you can find out if PaintTool SAI has the right features for you. It also lacks the ability to print directly from the app, although you can export your work to PSD or BMP files. It is 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 artworks 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. Keep in mind that flattening the layer means that you won't be able to change it later as you could on Vector Layer and also changing it back to Vector Layer won't be possible as well, so you may want to keep a backup layer with the curve in a vector form (duplicate the layer and hide it).The choice of colors is excellent, which means if you can imagine it, you can create it.

You can change the Vector Layer to Paint Layer with 'Flatten Layer' (click right on the layer name in Layers docker).

You can use the curves also on Paint Layer, but they won't be changeable later.

Then select the curve (click two times to get to the points to edit them - first click selects the whole curve as an object to move around). Just click the arrow beside the plus sign in the Layers docker and choose 'Vector Layer', then use the Freehand Paths (not 'FreeHand Brush'!) Tool or Bezier curves Tool (choose from Tools docker the one icons of tools like assistant tools and brush tool and reference images tool and all the shapes). There is a vector layer that you can paint with Bezier curves and freehand paths.

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