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Description 101 favorites you guys And I made this on a whim at 2 in the morning ^^" Lol I'm so glad it's actually helping people >w<

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Anyways, this is how i do it. I pretty much took bits of advice i scraped from across the internet to develop my own method to doing this... it's probably not the only way to get transparent backgrounds, but it's the way I do it, so... it works for me^^'

If you finish a project and go 'oh crap, the parts I meant to be white in the picture turned transparent too!', no worries, just place a new layer between the transparent layer and your art and fill the white spaces in.
Also, since SAI detects the pixel opacity, it's a good idea to color in white behind parts of your image that aren't completely saturated with color.

Aaaaand you don't have to flatten your image first. But a few times, when i finished this process, there were odd white chunks that I couldn't get to go away, and when I flattened the image and THEN went through this process, it resolved itself perfectly.

If you have any more questions, I can try to help, but I am by no means an expert. Just another learner who found a neat trick i wanna share^^

Hope this helps~<3
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Comments: 342

Thira1999 In reply to ??? [2013-02-14 10:17:30 +0000 UTC]

well, that's because you need to find the newest SAI. The old one doesn't have the PNG option

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AngeliqueArtistry [2012-12-22 19:27:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I've been wondering how to do this on Sai :3

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kemodji In reply to ??? [2012-11-03 22:32:09 +0000 UTC]

cool ..!! thank u so much

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NeoGenusis In reply to ??? [2012-10-30 07:37:44 +0000 UTC]

OMG THANK YOU SOOO MUUUUCHHHHHH

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Emanoni In reply to ??? [2012-10-01 07:18:21 +0000 UTC]

It doesn't work. Why?

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ArtisticMii In reply to ??? [2012-09-21 01:50:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks ^^ this worked with the correct sai
thank you for journal link

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FilleDePatriote In reply to ??? [2012-08-17 04:57:36 +0000 UTC]

Well me it didn't show the 32 pixel thing... wut should i do??

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sora-jimonitos In reply to ??? [2012-08-11 20:12:10 +0000 UTC]

oh god! thank u so much for this >w<

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FlyAwayMax In reply to sora-jimonitos [2012-08-13 01:31:42 +0000 UTC]

^^

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crowrley In reply to ??? [2012-08-07 10:18:58 +0000 UTC]

atleast you could just tell what to do if the box doesnt show up. I cant say youre actually helping. you cant be so busy that you dont even reply to help people....

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FlyAwayMax In reply to crowrley [2012-08-09 04:34:31 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude. I don't actually know what to do if it doesn't work, as my knowledge on the matter is limited to what's in the tutorial, pretty much... I have tried offering suggestions but I'm no expert, and some people figure it out by just tinkering? So yeah.

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crowrley In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-08-09 07:01:15 +0000 UTC]

I am really sorry I got agressive. I spent weeks trying to find a tutorial like this. Your tutorial was the most helpful one and when it didnt work, I got agressive. Im sorry, its not anything personal....

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FlyAwayMax In reply to crowrley [2012-08-09 20:24:18 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh no, it's fine xD There are people down in the comments that can help, though- I spotted someone linking a different free version of SAI somewhere.

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InspectorLlama [2012-08-01 17:15:34 +0000 UTC]

the option box doesn't come up ;A;

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Jahpan [2012-08-01 05:24:39 +0000 UTC]

i followed all of this and mine didnt work ~ [link]
but that box did not show up for me and everytime i do do a transparency thing that box doesnt show up for the 32bbp

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halcyon-moon In reply to Jahpan [2012-08-12 08:28:27 +0000 UTC]

Ahaha, the box didn't show up for me, but I found a way around it.
But you need gimp.
After you all the stuff in the tutorial, export/save it as a PSD file, instead of PNG.
Then, open it in Gimp.
Just save it as a PNG, and make sure all the setting say stuff about keeping opacity of pixels.
Then it will allll be fine~ :'D

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Sammi-sama In reply to halcyon-moon [2012-08-28 22:46:47 +0000 UTC]

You my dear, are Amazing.... I wuv you forever -cries happily-

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halcyon-moon In reply to Sammi-sama [2012-08-29 02:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Ahaha, nah.
But I'm glad it helped! ^^
I love you too~ :'D

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Sweet-Hime [2012-07-29 03:31:55 +0000 UTC]

This was so helpful <3 Thank you so much

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McWeetbix [2012-07-28 05:56:08 +0000 UTC]

The box where you tick 32bpp etc doesn't pop up for me, no matter what option I choose, save, export, etc.

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FilleDePatriote In reply to McWeetbix [2012-08-17 04:58:11 +0000 UTC]

Same here D:

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bestdog0 In reply to ??? [2012-07-26 21:33:42 +0000 UTC]

What if the little .png save options box doesn't pop up?

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Im-Busy In reply to ??? [2012-07-23 20:55:30 +0000 UTC]

I have the option but it doesn't work ;-;

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Succubesje [2012-07-03 12:34:32 +0000 UTC]

Finally Transparency with SAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Silverthistle [2012-07-01 15:27:50 +0000 UTC]

where is the place you can turn the mode to luminosity?

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Silverthistle In reply to ??? [2012-07-01 15:13:03 +0000 UTC]

imma try it out now.

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LuckyEye [2012-06-24 04:29:21 +0000 UTC]

ahhh thanks! this is so helpful to me now

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FlyAwayMax In reply to LuckyEye [2012-06-24 07:08:51 +0000 UTC]

^^ coolio~

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necrosisjuice [2012-06-17 09:49:13 +0000 UTC]

doesnt work ;3;

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Skizze-Filadelfo In reply to ??? [2012-06-08 04:13:41 +0000 UTC]

"Does not work with older version or the CRACKED version"

; u ; .......

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CheenBeans In reply to Skizze-Filadelfo [2012-07-06 16:22:23 +0000 UTC]

I have the free version. here : [link]

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aphiexify In reply to CheenBeans [2012-11-24 03:24:18 +0000 UTC]

((what do you do when you save photos? doesn't the free version expire?))

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CheenBeans In reply to aphiexify [2012-11-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC]

I've had that version for half a year already, and no problems uwu
It doesn't expire, It doesn't crash, It doesn't give any viruses.
It's perfectly fine ovo
For transparency, you just need to save as a png and choose 32bpp

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aphiexify In reply to CheenBeans [2012-11-25 21:46:06 +0000 UTC]

hehe, I meant that when it expires, how do you save? I've had the free version until it expired, and it wouldn't allow me to save anymore. I guess I should install the one you gave a link for!

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EdiTHOR In reply to CheenBeans [2012-11-11 02:07:13 +0000 UTC]

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CheenBeans In reply to EdiTHOR [2012-11-12 01:35:49 +0000 UTC]

vuv

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Skizze-Filadelfo In reply to CheenBeans [2012-07-06 16:39:01 +0000 UTC]

THIS IS TOO COOL. THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU

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Ninjasker In reply to ??? [2012-05-28 22:06:38 +0000 UTC]

ITS NOT POPPING UPPUUUU

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Asqard In reply to ??? [2012-05-25 20:19:44 +0000 UTC]

The png save option doesn't appear for me.

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watermelon-clock In reply to ??? [2012-05-13 21:04:42 +0000 UTC]

My sai doesnt have the luminace to transparency option! O: what do I do? ; n ; I have the popping out png option that everybody seems to be missing though...

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Orin-Chan In reply to ??? [2012-05-11 00:26:11 +0000 UTC]

does not have png save option popping out D:

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x-Vernissa-x [2012-05-06 09:00:32 +0000 UTC]

what do i have to do if the png save option dont pop-out ? D:

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Lioashu In reply to x-Vernissa-x [2012-05-12 18:41:13 +0000 UTC]

You'll have to uncheck the "layers" option, then try again. It should work.

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deckbyte In reply to Lioashu [2012-07-27 23:21:02 +0000 UTC]

What do you mean by uncheck the layers option? I feel dumb for asking but what do you mean. xD

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Lioashu In reply to deckbyte [2012-07-27 23:32:18 +0000 UTC]

Um...sorry but I don't even remember, that comment was too long ago xD; sorry owo;;

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deckbyte In reply to Lioashu [2012-07-27 23:35:50 +0000 UTC]

It's alright, I figured it out. c:

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x-Vernissa-x In reply to Lioashu [2012-05-12 18:44:22 +0000 UTC]

oh its okay already, thanks anyway :3

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Lioashu In reply to x-Vernissa-x [2012-05-12 18:47:55 +0000 UTC]

Welcome owo

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monobani [2012-04-19 19:02:07 +0000 UTC]

Oh I LOVE you for posting this...*u* <3 Thank you so much D (no more DA-green filled backgrounds BI NEVER again XD)

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Succubesje In reply to monobani [2012-07-03 12:34:55 +0000 UTC]

Bwahahah that's what I always do

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