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FlyAwayMax — SAI Transparency tutorial

Published: 2011-06-04 06:51:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 74398; Favourites: 1249; Downloads: 410
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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

ShelbieStidham In reply to ??? [2011-06-22 18:56:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh man....Not to be kinda stupid but I have a question, where it says PMG save options, how do you get that to come up? I did the exporting and set it up to PNG but those options never appeared, please help!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to ShelbieStidham [2011-06-22 19:02:11 +0000 UTC]

thats weird =. That happened to my friend, too...
Umm... I would try maybe exporting it anyways and seeing what happens... ^^' Sorry, I'm not sure...
What version of SAI do you have?

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ShelbieStidham In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-06-22 19:05:05 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm...I did...wait...out of curiousity, if i were to upload this on DA, would the background still be white?
And I'm not really sure which version i have, my dad got it for me :/

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purpledarkness769 In reply to ??? [2011-06-22 10:59:37 +0000 UTC]

when i try that, it doesnt ask me that png saving question. and i changed the lumenosity to transparent and exported it, but nothing still. it just saves it as a regular png pic oAo

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FlyAwayMax In reply to purpledarkness769 [2011-06-22 14:46:38 +0000 UTC]

D: Hurrr that's so weird... Sorry I can't help much with that, but if you get the free trial of the regular version, you can do it probably ^^"

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Concedent In reply to ??? [2011-06-21 14:18:42 +0000 UTC]

Is this for any PTS? o3o even cracked?

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Concedent [2011-06-22 00:20:22 +0000 UTC]

Ummm I haven't tried the cracked versions so I wouldn't know =. Worth a shot though I guess xD

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Night-Anders In reply to ??? [2011-06-14 23:23:42 +0000 UTC]

Very useful tutorial ^^. Mine just didn't work because when I try exporting the picture as PNG, the PNG Save Options window won't show, ugh.

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La-Anime In reply to Night-Anders [2011-08-10 04:45:19 +0000 UTC]

what does that mean if your version's cracked?? cuase I think mine is cracked... ;__; my layer modes are named differently, and 'Luminosity to Transparency' is called 'Desaturate.'
Mine didn't give me the PNG save options either, it just brought me to the saving folder.
does that mean mine's cracked??
alot of useful SAI tutorial don't usually work for me either.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Night-Anders [2011-06-17 05:10:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah my friend had trouble with that too... Her version was cracked though so I think thats why... = thats a bummer...

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Modotoy In reply to ??? [2011-06-14 22:47:54 +0000 UTC]

I love you forever and ever.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Modotoy [2011-06-17 05:10:20 +0000 UTC]

X3 awesomesauce

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YukioTakara In reply to ??? [2011-06-12 09:37:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so so much for this tut. ;w;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to YukioTakara [2011-06-12 22:15:27 +0000 UTC]

^w^ mhmm

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FREAKKATT In reply to ??? [2011-06-08 04:58:55 +0000 UTC]

This is a very useful tutorial, and you made it easy to understand >w<. I will definitely use this when I can <3.

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FlyAwayMax In reply to FREAKKATT [2011-06-08 14:08:49 +0000 UTC]

Awesome ^w^

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Melow-melow In reply to ??? [2011-06-05 19:17:45 +0000 UTC]

Oo oh my good!! thanx very thanx >w< you are a god, a sempai, my master!!! veryyyyyyyyy thanx!! *hugs, hugs** oh my god! thanx >w< I looked for it since I had him to download (isc)!! Thank you very much!! You are the best!!! VERY GOOD JOB! <3 I GIFT YOU A POKEBALL : and a

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Melow-melow [2011-06-05 20:12:12 +0000 UTC]

XD YOURE WELCOME
Lol i has a pokeball now o3o

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Melow-melow In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-06-05 21:00:53 +0000 UTC]

hihi

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StanxKyleFan In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 20:51:10 +0000 UTC]

46+ Favs! Told you it was awesome! Specially for 3-4am >w<
NOW you need to make...
Coloring Tutorial
Anatomy Tutorial
Eyes Tutorial

O3O

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Sochead21 In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 20:39:33 +0000 UTC]

very helpful. thanks for the tut!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Sochead21 [2011-06-04 21:42:48 +0000 UTC]

Mhmm^^

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ocean0413 In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 15:38:20 +0000 UTC]

Dude, thanks so much for this!

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FlyAwayMax In reply to ocean0413 [2011-06-04 18:37:18 +0000 UTC]

Mhmmmm >w<

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LilSusi In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 15:03:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much~! <33333333

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FlyAwayMax In reply to LilSusi [2011-06-04 18:37:36 +0000 UTC]

:3

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ijustloveit619 In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 10:15:29 +0000 UTC]

INTRO OF DARKNESS THEN REDNESS THEN WHITENESS!

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jameesy In reply to ijustloveit619 [2011-06-07 18:54:52 +0000 UTC]

TOBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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FlyAwayMax In reply to ijustloveit619 [2011-06-04 18:37:23 +0000 UTC]

HELL YES

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scarlettwing In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 09:33:37 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou SO much for this! ;u;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to scarlettwing [2011-06-04 18:37:32 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely ^w^

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hmc03 In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 08:06:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for this

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FlyAwayMax In reply to hmc03 [2011-06-04 18:38:06 +0000 UTC]

:3 Mhmm!

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hmc03 In reply to FlyAwayMax [2011-06-04 21:41:28 +0000 UTC]

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hyenamoxie In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 07:56:33 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful, thank you! C:

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FlyAwayMax In reply to hyenamoxie [2011-06-04 18:38:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad ^w^

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ghost-soup In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 07:56:10 +0000 UTC]

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT!!!!THANKS! I WOULDN'T HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU

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FlyAwayMax In reply to ghost-soup [2011-06-04 18:37:55 +0000 UTC]

xD It took me so long to get it right lol
YOUREWELCOME

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Berryz1cute In reply to ??? [2011-06-04 07:54:44 +0000 UTC]

GAHHHH I love you for this ;w;

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FlyAwayMax In reply to Berryz1cute [2011-06-04 18:38:00 +0000 UTC]

^w^

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