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How to deform the selection in paint tool sai. How to draw without leaving the edges in SAI. Additional features of the program

For example, I will use the lineart of my OS

Step 2: Paint over the area inside the lineart

You can do this by taking a pen and starting painting by hand, but it will take a long time. I'll show you a way to save your precious time
Go to the line art layer and select "Selection source" a little higher in the layers window. Your layer will highlight in green.

Then make a new layer under your line art and fill it with some color using the Bucket tool. A bright color will work better.

Now select the Wand tool. In the settings under tools you will see something like "Detection mode" and "Target". Select "Transparency (strict))" and "Selection source". Set the transparency slider to minimum value or even zero.

Go back to the layer you filled with the bright color and click with the Magic Wand tool somewhere outside the lineart. This area will turn blue (Blue in SAI indicates the selection area).

Clue:
If something is also selected inside the lineart, press CTRL + D (deselect) and try setting the slider to a lower transparency value. If the transparency is already at zero, then there is a gap in the outline of your line art and you need to close it if you want to work in this technique.

Now press CTRL+X

Now you should check the result and manually wipe the imperfections on the small details of the line art.

Now your line art is colored and it's time to move on to the main colors.

Step 3: Layer Clipping

What is layer clipping? When a layer is clipped by another layer, it takes up the same transparent areas as the one below it. This means that if you draw something on the bottom layer and then start drawing on the top layer, it will only show the visible area from the bottom layer.

Now to apply the primary colors to the lineart, create layers on top of the bright color layer and assign a "clipping group" to them. Your paint layers will be cut off by the bright color layer, and no matter how carefully you apply the paint, it will still not go beyond the lineart

Hello! Now I will tell you how to paint in sai without leaving the edges.

To begin with, I will show my brush settings for the line (suddenly someone needs it)

So let's get started!

Let's say you drew a line and you need to color it. Create a new layer below the line.

Select the Selection tool (in other words, the magic wand)

And be careful with the settings of this tool. If your line is translucent or has burrs, then you should choose a smaller value. If you have a smooth line by hand or vector, then you can choose the average value.

Select on the layer with the line the place that we need to paint

Notice that we are left with unpainted areas of a couple of pixels in size. Sometimes they can be, sometimes not. It all depends on the value of the Magic Wand tool. Each drawing is unique. But since this happened to us, we choose the manual selection tool

And paint over all the edges to make it neat

Now select the tool you are going to paint with.

And paint the selected area ON THE EMPTY LAYER UNDER THE LINE(!)

Then we on the same layer press the button Lock opacity

Now you can paint this part without leaving the edges! This can also be done with a simple selection, but for many this dotted line is an eyesore, so you can use this method.

In the same way, you can paint the line, if anything with:

Thanks for reading!

On the different platforms. Of course, the most popular program was and remains Photoshop. However, the developers have not forgotten about those who want to draw on a computer, but do not feel much desire to understand a huge number of functions and a rather complicated interface. For such users, editors have been created, which, in fact, are simplified versions of Photoshop. Among them is the recently released development of Japanese specialists from SYSTEMAX Paint Tool Sai. Its first version was published in 2006. About how to draw in Paint Tool Sai, our article. But first, let's detailed description the program itself.

Paint Tool Sai editor. Capabilities

The main advantage of this editor is that there is absolutely nothing superfluous in it. As in the Photoshop editor, working with images in this program is carried out using layers, which, of course, is extremely convenient. The possibilities of toning and color correction are not as wide as in Photoshop, but for creating sketches and draft drawings, the tools are quite enough. Pleases and large enough Drawings in the Paint Tool Sai can be created using graphics tablet. Support for these devices is implemented in the editor just brilliant.

The selected tool follows the mouse as accurately as possible, and the strokes are even smoother than in Photoshop. This makes the program indispensable for artists who create comics.

The editor interface is not particularly beautiful, but it is simple and accessible. Hot keys are provided for almost any function of the program, which can save the user great amount time.

Basic Tools Paint Tool Sai

We will talk about how to draw in the Paint Tool Sai below. First, let's get acquainted with the editor's tools. It is not as wide as in Photoshop, but for quick creation drawings and high-quality photo processing is quite sufficient. There are only eight main tools in the program:

Magic wand tool. They can immediately select large areas of the picture, painted in one color.
Lasso tool. Using it, you can make selections of the required area of complex shape.
Rectangular Selection Tool. The tool is intended, as the name already implies, to limit rectangular areas.
Scaling. For convenience, the image can be enlarged or reduced.
Eyedropper tool.
Moving the canvas.
Canvas rotation. If necessary, the image can be expanded.
Moving a layer.

If desired, you can switch to one of two layer editing modes - raster and vector.

Raster tools

Drawing in Paint Tool Sai in raster mode is possible using the following tools:

marker
airbrush;
tool "Water";
tool "Acrylic";
pens;
tool "Watercolor";
brushes;
pencil
fills;
the paper tool;
eraser.

In addition, there are various variations of these funds.

Vector tools

Tool Sai in vector mode? To create such images, this editor provides such tools as "Line", "Curve", "Polyline", "Line Modifier", "Pen", "Line Thickness Modifier", editing, pressure and line color, selection and its removal .

Additional features of the program

If desired, third-party brushes and canvas textures can be installed in Paint Tool Sai. You can also create them using the editor itself. The program opens not only sketches made with its use, but also files of other formats (tga, jpeg, png, bmp). It is also possible to work with images created in the Photoshop editor and saved in psd format.

How to draw in Paint Tool Sai?

In the event that you need to draw a soft, smooth line, you should take the Pen tool. Clear with visible pixels are done with a pencil. To create "shaggy" designed "Airbrush". When you need to make a line with a smooth start and end, you should use a brush. You can create selections not only with the Lasso and Rectangular Selection tools, but also with the Selection handle. If necessary, it is easy to remove it with a similar deselect tool. In order to paint a large area, select it and use the Fill tool.

Now let's talk about how to draw in Paint Tool Sai in vector mode. Unfortunately, created by means of this program vector lines When you zoom in, they still lose clarity. However, you can bend them by moving the nodes, just as you can in Draw them with the Pen tool, which is similar to a bitmap. If desired, the line thickness can be changed in one click. This is what the Thickness tool is for. You can draw both smooth (Curve) and broken lines (Polyline). The Line Modifier tool is designed to adjust the line itself or its nodes.

The colors required for coloring can be selected on the color palette located at the top of the program. You can select the desired shade using the Eyedropper tool.

How to install brushes and textures?

Now let's see how to install Tool Sai. First of all, you need to unpack the archive with brushes and open the folder with the editor. Next, the brush shape (bmp format) is installed in the blotmap folder. Then you should open in any text editor(for example, in the Notepad program) the brushform.conf file and enter l.blotmap/name.bmp there, where name is the name of the file with the brush. We save the file in the same folder. Now you can start using the downloaded brushes. Having drawn them yourself, you just need to save them in bmp format. Further, the procedure is the same.

Textures in this program are downloaded in almost the same way. Unpack the archive and open the folder with Paint Tool Sai. Next, copy the texture files to the clipboard and upload them to the brushtex folder. Open the brushtex.conf file in a text editor and write l.brushtex/name.bmp in it. Instead of name we put the name of the texture. We save the file and use it to create original images. You can draw a texture in the same way as a brush, in the Paint program Tool Sai. In this case, the file is also saved in bmp format.

We hope, in general terms, now you understand how to use the Paint Tool Sai. The program is unusually simple, and to understand its functionality to a person familiar with other graphic raster or vector editors, will not be difficult. Yes, and it will not be difficult for a beginner to draw with its help.

Training

To get started, we need:

1. Paint Tool SAI(1 or 2)

2. Picture drawn on A4 or taken from the Internet. (It is better to draw on A4 to raise your artistic level.)

We drag our image into the program.

Create a vector layer.