Reset Paint Tool Sai To Default Definition. Below is a basic tutorial to get you on your way to creating your own brushes in Paint Tool SAI: Creating.
There is other software you can use that is free. When I used Sai it had defects, and nobody was doing anything to fix it, and it is possible they see this thread because they have an account here to get more artist to by it. So it isn't a good idea to ask something like this. If someone mentions your account name you get a message so when you mention Sai by their full name they see it.
This is an artist community where companies with something to see hang out to sell they products like tablets, art supplies, and even print services besides the DA print services. One company that is not here is FireAlpaca. They don't have anything to sell because it is a free program, and it is good, and does not need most of your computer to run it like a few other programs.
I love SAI, with very few dislikes. One of my biggest pet peeves is that the shift tool is different from Photoshop and other programs. It's great in a way because it goes in any direction, but if I want strict horizontal and vertical lines, at least when sketching, I would have to use a rectangular selection and kind of trace along the border of it. So to do panels more neatly I would have to switch to Photoshop or something.
I think it's great for getting concepts down without memory-hogging, and some inking if you're doing comics. The coloring side is a bit awkward sometimes but I've seen some people do some great colored pieces in SAI. Hey, does anyone know if Sai supports CMYK mode? I did a painting in Sai but when I printed it the colours came out different. Any fix for this.
Is there something I can do in Photoshop or another program before/after so that it prints the same as displayed on the monitor? Pretty sure my monitor's colours are accurate. Other than that I like Sai it seems to have good brush control - although I'm more used to Photoshop still! With practice you'll instinctively know what colors print and which don't, you could make a CMYK safe color palette too.
Either way colors will always look slightly different in print than they do on the monitor, SAI has little to do with this, unless colors look different than they do in Photoshop, which if that's the case it's a color management issue. Is there something I can do in Photoshop or another program before/after so that it prints the same as displayed on the monitor? Sai just like any other programs that don't support color management (ArtRage, Sketchbook Pro, MyPaint.) is using your monitor colors instead of a non device dependent color profile (sRGB, Adobe RGB.). So, you need to convert your work (once you have finished your image) from monitor colors to sRGB since most of monitor are aiming this color space.
Now, using Photoshop for this job, you have two options depending on your Photoshop color settings: 1- If your Photoshop color settings are set in such way (the default settings) you will need to add your monitor profile to image coming from sai (sai images are untagged since it does not support color management). From the edit menu, Assign Profile: And you will need to find from the list your monitor profile. Its name can be anything so you need to find it: -in your Windows Color management Settings -or from your Photoshop Color Settings (do not change color profile) Now you know the profile name, you can select it from the list: The next step is after the 2- 2- If your Photoshop color settings are set for working with non color managed programs, it will be easier: All untagged images will be seen with your monitor colors (so, they will be identical to what you see in Sai): You have nothing to do comparing to option 1- and you can directly go to the next step. >>>> You are coming from option 1- or 2-, you are finally there: -If you need to print on your home printer, you will need to convert your image to sRGB from the Photoshop edit menu, choose convert to profile.
And choose as destination profile sRGB The conversion will modify definitely your image (and your image will not have anymore right colors in Sai) Of course, keep your original Sai image with a backup of your monitor profile if one day you need to change your monitor There are techniques also to fix unprintable colors in Photoshop but since it is not specific to Sai or any other non color managed program, I will not post them here. -if you need to save for web, that's easy, just check the box convert to sRGB in 'Save for Web & Devices' Panel.
Few last words.once converted, the colors will look different if you don't display them in sRGB condition. The usual mistake is to display them with your monitor color. Only few web browser are completely color managed (Firefox and Safari) and none of them are able to display by default untagged image as sRGB.that means if you don't embed a color profile, everyone will see your image with their monitor colors (wrong colors). At the moment, only firefox can be set to display untagged image in the correct way using hidden settings. Last edited by hecartha; August 21st, 2011 at 06:47 AM.