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secret-pony — Paint Tool Sai: Tips and Tricks
Published: 2012-04-26 21:27:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 74753; Favourites: 1465; Downloads: 1960
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This is a tutorial I made a whole while back, before my brony days
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You can also read it here: [link] (you might need to log in on a gaia account to see it, please don't post in that thread!
)It's not really a tutorial on the progress of drawing, but just some tips on how to use Paint Tool SAI more efficiently. It's also a great time saver for people who begin using this program or who want to try it out.
Not everything is in there though, I discovered more things since I made this.
It's uploaded originally on my old account:
Since I wasthinking about doing a tutorial on pony art anyway, I figured it would be a good idea to re-upload it here as well ^^
The drawing used in this tutorial is this one:
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Comments: 192
where do you get the sai program?
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either buy it or...
(Choir
[link]
tell me if it works
-Pumpz
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The settings for the magic wand and bucket tools are gonna be very useful! Thanks a ton!
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how can be perfect the line and the sharpness?
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These are some pretty great tips, especially the details on how the stabilizer works. And I didn't know it was so simple to use masks in SAI. Thanks for posting this!
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Great stuff but about the pen stabilizer...Does it have to be pen?
cause it's not sharp to me :l and I have paint too trial
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Nope, it doesn't have to be the pen tool :3
it works with any drawing tool
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very helpful, there were a couple of tricks I didn't know
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Very helpful! Although I don't completely understand the clipping tool...
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Just try to mess around with it a bit,
it'll become clear enough soon ^^
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SO HELPFUL THANK YOU AAAAAAAAAAAAH
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I knew it! I knew there was some kind of tool that let people draw godly-perfect straight lines!
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it's not really a cheat for straight lines, but it sure does help!
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I knew some of the things, but not all 
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Ah really good explaining of the basics of Sai and some useful tricks.
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Great looking tutorial, looks pretty clear. I hope I can get around to SAI sometime and try it.
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show us your secrets dear
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is Great!
if will help me to improve more!
thanks Secret Pony!
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Wow, I never even knew about stabilizer or clipping! I already did the rotation thing, but everything else was completely new! Thank you so much!
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great! they're so usefull, I'm sure you'll love those features ^^
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Lol just tested out the Stabilizer, it's neat! At the part where you have settings, (before I tested it) I thought you said you had the setting at 5-7 even thought it looked suspiciously like an 'S'. Now I realize it was an 'S' lol.
I think now I'm going to try to use that tip for coloring lineart, I want to see how good it is. If not I can just use the other way to color it.
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I didn't know about the clipping layer concept, I'll have to try that out. As it is I use the selector/deselector tools for all of my coloring, because I usually keep all of my color fill on one layer below all my linework, and just overlap the outline a bit with the selector. ^_^
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great, I'm sure you'll love using it, it's so usefull and time saving ^^
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Thanks I'm still pretty new to sai. Very helpful c:
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Very very helpful, thank you so much. I hope you do more of these with other new tricks you've learned. This is exactly why I wanna get SAI instead of photoshop, cause I know how to do some tricks with SAI, and now you've taught me more. Thanks
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Soon SAI will have no more secrets!
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good tutorial for sai basics
the stabilizer is an awesome feature 
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Still confusing for me, but I guess that's ass I haven't put much time into the program so far.
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well, it does take some time to get to know a new program
but I'm a die-hard fan of SAI, so i really recommend it ^u^
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I should get to trying some more on it soon as currently inside the free trial period so shouldn't waste it to much
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Just voted on the poll, and now I see this.
How conveinent.
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