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FlyAwayMax — SAI Transparency tutorial

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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

FlyAwayMax In reply to ??? [2012-04-25 04:21:06 +0000 UTC]

<3

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Jazninstar [2012-04-18 08:03:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks,it worked~

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Jazninstar [2012-04-19 03:16:46 +0000 UTC]

^^ awesome!

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agnam13 In reply to ??? [2012-04-08 02:34:25 +0000 UTC]

thank you~

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Amethyst-Fyre In reply to ??? [2012-03-22 01:37:57 +0000 UTC]

Okay, so I do everything in the tutorial, right? I go to post the pic, and the bg is still white. ffffffffff-

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Amethyst-Fyre [2012-03-30 04:11:56 +0000 UTC]

Whaaaaat? *so late sorry* you figure it out?

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Amethyst-Fyre In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-03-30 05:06:52 +0000 UTC]

Nope I just gave up and got Adobe Photoshop ;A;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Amethyst-Fyre [2012-04-18 02:38:04 +0000 UTC]

Aww sadness D: That's cool too though I wish I had ps xD

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Amethyst-Fyre In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-04-18 04:08:51 +0000 UTC]

XD

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HannahBeeArt In reply to ??? [2012-03-06 22:29:43 +0000 UTC]

the png save options box doesn't show up on mine x_x

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DarkAngelS2 In reply to ??? [2012-02-29 15:52:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!!!!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to DarkAngelS2 [2012-03-01 02:48:25 +0000 UTC]

^w^

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bamtsu In reply to ??? [2012-02-29 03:32:43 +0000 UTC]

Didn't work! D:

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LittleRavine [2012-02-19 20:59:17 +0000 UTC]

When I save it as a PNG it doesn't give me that Save Options window. What do I do?

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halcyon-moon [2012-02-18 05:35:27 +0000 UTC]

What if the PNG save options box doesn't come up??? Help Please!

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ChubbyOreos In reply to ??? [2012-02-05 17:56:09 +0000 UTC]

HELP! It doesn't show me the 'PNG options' pop up thing...is something wrong with my sai?!

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Cilote12 In reply to ChubbyOreos [2012-02-15 23:49:42 +0000 UTC]

the same thing happens to me!! o:

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Pirate-Reaper In reply to ??? [2012-02-02 12:55:57 +0000 UTC]

i lost my SAI trail, i got a new one ( o3o' ) but when i save as a png (or export) it wont come up with the options in the box anymore, is there any other way to save as a transparent?

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PearlDePalkia [2012-01-13 02:41:55 +0000 UTC]

It's not working... The white parts are still transparent.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to PearlDePalkia [2012-01-13 03:14:44 +0000 UTC]

Okay so put a new layer between the picture and your transparency layer and fill the white parts in there. Make sure you don't make that layer transparent

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PearlDePalkia In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-01-13 21:07:22 +0000 UTC]

Crap. now I know what I did wrong.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to PearlDePalkia [2012-01-13 21:15:16 +0000 UTC]

Well at least now you can fix it I guess xD

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PearlDePalkia In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-01-13 21:16:29 +0000 UTC]

XD

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Maybellmay [2012-01-09 07:34:25 +0000 UTC]

UHHMMM any way to make the .png option to pop up D! it won't work for me

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Maybellmay [2012-01-10 02:25:10 +0000 UTC]

Are you using the export as thing instead of save? o3o' cause otherwise I'm not sure how to help ^^"

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Maybellmay In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-01-10 03:03:35 +0000 UTC]

yes u3u

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Maybellmay [2012-01-10 05:34:48 +0000 UTC]

thennnn sorry >^>" I'm not much help lol

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AvisTheArtistGeek In reply to ??? [2012-01-01 15:15:19 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god. Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! SO HELPFUL.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to AvisTheArtistGeek [2012-01-02 05:53:29 +0000 UTC]

xD yeah

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AvisTheArtistGeek In reply to FlyAwayMax [2012-01-07 02:06:38 +0000 UTC]

Late response, but I just used this and I think it saved my life. YOU. ARE. GOD.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to AvisTheArtistGeek [2012-01-08 02:44:13 +0000 UTC]

xD thank you I think lol

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Rvkc In reply to ??? [2011-12-11 04:39:20 +0000 UTC]

I tried it, But it didn't work, The "PNG Options box" Doesn't open when i save it as PNG. Help please

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Rvkc [2011-12-11 06:04:34 +0000 UTC]

D: i'm sorry, i really don't know... a lot of people seem to be having that problem, and a lot of them manage to figure it out through tinkering... ^^" Sorry...

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Rvkc In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-11 18:30:12 +0000 UTC]

=/ It's ok

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Rvkc In reply to ??? [2011-12-11 03:26:23 +0000 UTC]

Fuck man i love you =w=

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Russian-Blue-Wolf In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 02:22:37 +0000 UTC]

xD This actually helped me to do something WAY different than one this was intended to do. I accidently saved one of my linearts without a transparent-ness, so when I opened it in SAI, I couldn't color under it, and I thought I was doomed. Thanks to you, I discovered the L -T thing, and now... I am no longer doomed! I am a happy Ringo now.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Russian-Blue-Wolf [2011-12-05 02:50:22 +0000 UTC]

XD Well! I'm glad to have inadvertantly helped! x3

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OfTheMoon In reply to ??? [2011-12-04 03:35:30 +0000 UTC]

ummm... the box doesn't pop up for me at the end.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to OfTheMoon [2011-12-04 16:15:57 +0000 UTC]

Yeahhh there are a lot of people with that problem >_>" Unfortunately I have no idea why this happens... sosorry =<

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OfTheMoon In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-04 19:39:05 +0000 UTC]

it's ok. .-.

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drawingluver123 In reply to ??? [2011-12-03 23:56:10 +0000 UTC]

Is there a way to create transparent backgrounds in Portable SAI?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to drawingluver123 [2011-12-04 16:16:39 +0000 UTC]

Umm I'm not sure what Portable SAI even is =.

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drawingluver123 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-04 16:22:33 +0000 UTC]

It's just another version of SAI... I think... >.>

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FlyAwayMax In reply to drawingluver123 [2011-12-04 17:11:29 +0000 UTC]

ah =. well idk ^^"

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drawingluver123 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-04 17:36:45 +0000 UTC]

Lol I actually figured out it's okay

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FlyAwayMax In reply to drawingluver123 [2011-12-04 17:37:17 +0000 UTC]

oh okay well that's good xD

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drawingluver123 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-04 17:41:40 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial by the way I'd use it if I could eue

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SutekinaAme In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 16:34:08 +0000 UTC]

it doesnt give me the png save options, what do I dooo D:

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FlyAwayMax In reply to SutekinaAme [2011-11-19 17:16:45 +0000 UTC]

I don't knowww D: I'm sorry... maybe try flattening the image first? That can help sometimes

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SutekinaAme In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-11-19 18:29:38 +0000 UTC]

how do you do that?

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