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PaintTool SAI

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PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.

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  • Windows
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (10)
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Properties

  1.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Pen Stabilization
  2.  Texture for brushes
  3.  Color blending
  4.  Sketching
  5.  Support for Layers
  6.  Pressure Sensitivity
  7.  Audio lessons
  8.  Stabilizing
  9.  Brush Stabilizers
  10.  Out Of The Box
  11.  Drawing 2D
  12.  Workflow Automation
  13.  Tablet support
  14.  Vector strokes
  15.  Vector-like
  16.  Alpha lock
  17.  Tabbed interface
  18.  Advanced brush settings
  19.  Ghost Mode
  20.  Curve Manipulation
  21.  Unlimited Canvas Area

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PaintTool SAI information

  • Developed by

    SYSTEMAX Software Development
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $49.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    88 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about PaintTool SAI, and it has gotten 135 likes

PaintTool SAI was added to AlternativeTo by Journeyman on Apr 21, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 27, 2021. PaintTool SAI is sometimes referred to as Paint Tool SAI, SAI.

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Comment summary: PaintTool SAI is praised for its smooth and fast brush engine, making it a favorite among artists, especially beginners. Users appreciate its simplicity and adequate features for drawing, like line-art layers and vector tools, though it lacks advanced features like filters and animation. Some users note its compactness is perfect for laptops and casual drawing, while others express a wish for Mac support. The software is often recommended for its ease of use and straightforward customization.
Top Positive Comment
lauraess1
May 6, 2017
4

It wasn't until I used Paint Tool SAI, that I had fun learning to use my Wacom tablet to draw. That's because the program is compact, with just enough features that are easy to learn and use. So, you'll find things like line-art layers with simple vector tools, masks, clipping and layer groups, but you won't find guides (except when transforming a selection) or rulers. But not everyone needs extra design features like that, just to draw what they want. SAI is a good application for a notebook or laptop, where you just want to draw something on the spot, and save it as a PSD file to import to other programs later. For what it is, SAI is a **gem **of program, but if you want extra features like guides, animation, or even filters, this is not for you.

Mursku
Jun 20, 2021
1

Paint Tool Sai is legendary for how fast its brush engine is. All other art programs feel sluggish by comparison. It has perspective guides and nice vector art tools for line art. And nowadays it finally has scatter brushes (although making your own custom brushes is giant pain in the ass compared to ANY other art program)

If those are enough for you or if your computer lags while using other art programs, then Paint Tool Sai might be for you. If i had a powerful computer, i would rather use Krita, CSP or Photoshop, rather than Sai. But as it is, all those other programs lag so much, they are practically unusable (i either have to limit myself to 1500 x 2000 sized canvases or accept that my brush strokes will appear on the screen seconds after i make them. In comparison, in Sai i can paint on a 8000 x 8000 canvas, and it will still feel snappy)

Guest
Sep 8, 2020
0

I like it because it’s easy to use when it’s on youtube

Guest
Jul 16, 2020
0

Used it for years, easy to use. Get SAI2 if you want other options like gradients, text, blur, etc.

Guest
Nov 10, 2019
0

Because I never used it before and I wanna check it out to see how it goes when I edit

Guest
Aug 22, 2019
0

Cause I love to draw and I really want to edit and draw

ytasmaplaysmsp
Apr 18, 2019
0

Where do i download it? emphasized text

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What is PaintTool SAI?

PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.

Details:

  • Fully digitizer support with pressure.
  • Amazing anti-aliased drawings.
  • Highly accurate composition with 16bit ARGB channels.
  • Simple but powerful user interface, easy to learn.
  • Fully support Intel MMX Technology.
  • Data protection function to avoid abnormal termination such as bugs.