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. PAINT TOOL SAI V2 SERIESĪny 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. SAI format.īecause 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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