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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 ??? [2011-11-20 22:07:14 +0000 UTC]

Ummm to flatten the image, you have to go to Layer >> Flatten Image

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PlushYumi In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-18 17:47:28 +0000 UTC]

do you mean the Layer under your step 2? because I don't see "Flatten Image"...

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FlyAwayMax In reply to PlushYumi [2011-12-18 21:16:39 +0000 UTC]

o.o there should be a flatten image option... if there isn't I don't know what to tell you =/

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PlushYumi In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-20 01:04:08 +0000 UTC]

Oh sorry to bother you... I should'v known I didn't have the full version of PTS

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FlyAwayMax In reply to PlushYumi [2011-12-20 02:11:12 +0000 UTC]

lol don't worry about it xD

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PlushYumi In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-12-18 21:30:49 +0000 UTC]

oh wells xD

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SutekinaAme In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-11-22 10:00:57 +0000 UTC]

ohkay thanks

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TheClassicKitty In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 09:56:53 +0000 UTC]

my problem is, that the save option box never comes...
Is that because my pc is german?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to TheClassicKitty [2011-11-19 17:16:21 +0000 UTC]

It might be ^^' I really don't know why some people's save options don't come up =<

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CosmicPonye In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 00:16:18 +0000 UTC]

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FlyAwayMax In reply to CosmicPonye [2011-11-18 04:25:51 +0000 UTC]

^3^

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AliceBunny115 In reply to ??? [2011-10-20 08:51:46 +0000 UTC]

Orz, I don't get the .PNG save options when I save....Is this a problem?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to AliceBunny115 [2011-10-23 19:50:34 +0000 UTC]

ummm... well I think it is, but I dunno how to fix it >3>" sorryyy...

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AliceBunny115 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-10-23 19:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Hmmmmm, oh well, I guess I'll just use Gimp for transparency. Thanks for the tutorial though!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to AliceBunny115 [2011-10-23 20:34:02 +0000 UTC]

=/ mhmm

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Genesis55 In reply to ??? [2011-10-17 01:48:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh thank you so much for this tutorial! :'D It helped a lot.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Genesis55 [2011-10-17 02:08:19 +0000 UTC]

^3^ I'm glad!

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Dapple-Stream In reply to ??? [2011-10-12 06:02:39 +0000 UTC]

Do you know where I could find a free download for version 1.1.0? I've been hearing that this only works on this version and above. D8 I have no idea what sai version I have right now. But it must be older than 1.1.0 because I tried this and it didn't work. :c

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Dapple-Stream [2011-10-14 16:07:19 +0000 UTC]

I dunno where to get the free version =/ sorry...

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Dapple-Stream In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-10-16 22:56:31 +0000 UTC]

Aww, it's alright. :< I can probably find one.

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LanguidLavender In reply to ??? [2011-10-11 08:22:16 +0000 UTC]

That was very useful. Thank you~ ^^

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DarkMetaWolf64 In reply to ??? [2011-09-22 01:43:38 +0000 UTC]

I got every step except the last one. ono

The window that says "PNG save options" doesn't show up when I save/export ;A;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to DarkMetaWolf64 [2011-09-22 02:25:00 +0000 UTC]

;A; I'm sorry, a lot of people have that problem... I think it's probably just your version or something that's messing up^^'

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DarkMetaWolf64 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-09-23 19:30:03 +0000 UTC]

NYUUUU ;_;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to DarkMetaWolf64 [2011-09-23 20:06:47 +0000 UTC]

=< sorryyyyyyy

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Akita48 In reply to ??? [2011-09-19 01:45:00 +0000 UTC]

So so so helpful! o A o Thank you!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Akita48 [2011-09-19 01:58:40 +0000 UTC]

^w^ mhmm!

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CeruleanAzure In reply to ??? [2011-08-30 03:49:52 +0000 UTC]

OMG I was wanting to know how to get it transparent! :'D Thanks!

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Another-Hiei-Lover In reply to ??? [2011-08-28 19:55:39 +0000 UTC]

how do you get the png save options to show up?

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CeruleanAzure In reply to Another-Hiei-Lover [2011-08-30 03:48:49 +0000 UTC]

How to change it to PNG? You know how you save it? Go save-as and then there's a file format below the name of the picture. It says *sai (I think) so then change it to PNG.

I think that's it

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Melody999 In reply to ??? [2011-08-27 08:02:31 +0000 UTC]

I don't have "mode" there's just "blend mode" and no all image.....

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Touch-blue In reply to ??? [2011-08-23 00:51:31 +0000 UTC]

wow thank u!!

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NekoAllen-chan In reply to ??? [2011-08-20 07:27:28 +0000 UTC]

thx~!

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BlackStar-wa In reply to ??? [2011-08-19 12:46:20 +0000 UTC]

OMG YOU SAVE MEEEH! ~ *-*

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Miss-Mae In reply to ??? [2011-08-16 22:59:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! <3

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lozlocs In reply to ??? [2011-08-14 20:05:01 +0000 UTC]

I. Love. You.

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AiriChanFP In reply to ??? [2011-08-10 15:14:28 +0000 UTC]

the PNG- save option box doesn't show up??

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FlyAwayMax In reply to AiriChanFP [2011-08-13 03:04:06 +0000 UTC]

Maybe you have a different version than I do =<

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AiriChanFP In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-08-13 16:19:28 +0000 UTC]

okayy
well thnx anywayyss ^^

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iclouddy In reply to ??? [2011-08-10 02:32:55 +0000 UTC]

Does this work for window xp?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to iclouddy [2011-08-13 03:03:52 +0000 UTC]

It should, I think...

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PunkBune In reply to ??? [2011-08-09 17:35:09 +0000 UTC]

I think this only work's for the "actual sold" version, if you didn't buy it chances are it won't work, but I've used Gimp to edit them and it isn't too bad Great tutorial though

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FlyAwayMax In reply to PunkBune [2011-08-13 03:03:43 +0000 UTC]

yeah, the sold one seems to be the only way to make it work^^'
thanks though~

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s3v4ns In reply to ??? [2011-08-09 06:14:27 +0000 UTC]

I can't find luminosity D: (odd, I'm sure I've used it before)
Do you know any sites or any way to download that blend mode?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to s3v4ns [2011-08-13 03:03:15 +0000 UTC]

No, sorry, I don't^^' If you can't find it, maybe you accidentally deleted the file? I'd check the SAI folder if I were you, but I dunno if that'd help.

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s3v4ns In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-08-13 05:12:47 +0000 UTC]

hmm... alright well thanks anyways and great tutorial C:

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thedazedartist In reply to ??? [2011-07-23 02:42:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! My dad finally helped me get the full version (I only had the trial before, had to use a sucky way by copying it to Gimp and...It hurts my brain @A@) and I couldn't figure it out! Thanks SO. MUCH.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to thedazedartist [2011-07-27 21:28:46 +0000 UTC]

x3 of course~

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lilly-gerbil In reply to ??? [2011-07-19 14:26:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for this tutorial! But I have a question. When I try to export it as a png file, the option box don't appear .__. maybe I have another version.. but I don't know.. maybe you know why I hope so^^

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BroadbeltCamelia In reply to lilly-gerbil [2011-12-05 00:56:27 +0000 UTC]

What's your version?
The box doesn't appear for me either. =/

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