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DAT EYE (AGAIN).
I'll probably be doing a lot more of this sort of thing. I'm going to stick to monochrome grayish-blue until I can get the hang of painting values (lel).
I dunno, SAI is okay so far. I guess I'm the one responsible for my brush ineptitude, not [image editing software]. I'm still doing the same thing -- pick a brush, tweak the opacity settings, then manually adjust the size slider whenever I need to. It's a bit quicker in SAI, but it still doesn't feel right.
How frustrating :<
Edit: her neck length varies like fuck, doesn't it.
I'll probably be doing a lot more of this sort of thing. I'm going to stick to monochrome grayish-blue until I can get the hang of painting values (lel).
I dunno, SAI is okay so far. I guess I'm the one responsible for my brush ineptitude, not [image editing software]. I'm still doing the same thing -- pick a brush, tweak the opacity settings, then manually adjust the size slider whenever I need to. It's a bit quicker in SAI, but it still doesn't feel right.
How frustrating :<
Edit: her neck length varies like fuck, doesn't it.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Hyper
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 1024 x 1024px
File Size 279.6 kB
Rotating seems pretty smooth, but I haven't actually tried it in practice because I haven't "inked" anything in SAI yet.
(God, I can't call it inking. I just can't. It's digital tracing, damnit.)
The interface is nice. I've been using Photoshop for years, and already I almost like SAI's better, the color wheel especially. It's not very customizable, from what I've seen, but their layout'd be difficult top anyway. Everything is nice and streamlined. It's pretty, too.
Unfortunately, in my resolution, viewing the advanced whatever brush options requires me to full-fullscreen and expand the bottom half of the brush settings area so that it pretty much eclipses the brush-choosing area: pen, inking pen (same thing, as far as I can tell), water (opacity control with blending), brush (basically just a paintbrush texture), marker (opacity control without blending; used for most of this), eraser, airbrush (lol), and some other stuff. There's a little button next to the primary and secondary color box things that basically reverses the opacity of whatever brush you're using, which is really fucking neat. You have to hotkey it, though.
The hotkey menu is vast and difficult to search through; setting hotkeys is easy, but finding out a pre-existing hotkey for something (and there usually is one) can take work.
It saves and loads .psd's just fine
I know it has vector tools, but I haven't tried them yet. From the brief tutorial I read, they seem on par with Photoshop's.
SAI's got some convenient shit. It's easier and more intuitive to change brush settings around, but it handles those settings a little differently. Blending values without tacky airbrush shit is freaking effortless, since as far as I can tell you can make any brush blend to any degree. There are also different shapes for the ends of the brushes -- kind of hard to explain, but the rounder your shape, the softer the brush. It's pretty intuitive once you see it. You can flip the image horizontally without actually flipping the canvas. There's a palette box thing that you paint inside and take colors from, and SAI saves it to memory. And there's probably other stuff I don't even know about.
tl;dr, try it if only because it forces you (or allows you, I guess) to paint in a different style as you get used to it. Also, the entire program is like 3 fucking megabytes, so there's not much reason not to.
(God, I can't call it inking. I just can't. It's digital tracing, damnit.)
The interface is nice. I've been using Photoshop for years, and already I almost like SAI's better, the color wheel especially. It's not very customizable, from what I've seen, but their layout'd be difficult top anyway. Everything is nice and streamlined. It's pretty, too.
Unfortunately, in my resolution, viewing the advanced whatever brush options requires me to full-fullscreen and expand the bottom half of the brush settings area so that it pretty much eclipses the brush-choosing area: pen, inking pen (same thing, as far as I can tell), water (opacity control with blending), brush (basically just a paintbrush texture), marker (opacity control without blending; used for most of this), eraser, airbrush (lol), and some other stuff. There's a little button next to the primary and secondary color box things that basically reverses the opacity of whatever brush you're using, which is really fucking neat. You have to hotkey it, though.
The hotkey menu is vast and difficult to search through; setting hotkeys is easy, but finding out a pre-existing hotkey for something (and there usually is one) can take work.
It saves and loads .psd's just fine
I know it has vector tools, but I haven't tried them yet. From the brief tutorial I read, they seem on par with Photoshop's.
SAI's got some convenient shit. It's easier and more intuitive to change brush settings around, but it handles those settings a little differently. Blending values without tacky airbrush shit is freaking effortless, since as far as I can tell you can make any brush blend to any degree. There are also different shapes for the ends of the brushes -- kind of hard to explain, but the rounder your shape, the softer the brush. It's pretty intuitive once you see it. You can flip the image horizontally without actually flipping the canvas. There's a palette box thing that you paint inside and take colors from, and SAI saves it to memory. And there's probably other stuff I don't even know about.
tl;dr, try it if only because it forces you (or allows you, I guess) to paint in a different style as you get used to it. Also, the entire program is like 3 fucking megabytes, so there's not much reason not to.
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