Pant Tool SAI Tutorial part1

Hello readers, in this following tutorial I'll teach you some Paint Tool SAI basics.

under following: Hardware compatibility, Maximum Canvas size, Click detection, Panel, Page Layout 

Ok here I'll be using ordinary Mouse, considering not all of us have a Pen Tablet device to draw. Maybe you'll think this gonna be hard, but NO it is REALLY EASY

First we will see the default preview of Paint Tool SAI

This is the default preview of Paint Tool SAI. I personally loves the panels on both side, in case you wanna change it go to > Window > Show Layer Panel to the right. Do some experiment with other features :D

Now we Talk about Hardware Capability, Paint Tool SAI allows user to use as large size canvas as possible, the thing is, it depends on your: RAM and Video Card. Lowest CPU I've tested this SAI is Pentium IV and newer Pentium. Higher is better, but anyway, the process of painting is recognized as graphics editing by your Hardware, therefore RAM and Video Card plays role here

Now about mouse setup (ignore this if your mouse just fine) but this is my preferred setup

Alright, now onto creating new file -> File > New or Ctrl+N. There are plenty of standard international PC screens resolution, note those resolution are based on 4:3 aspect ratio, in case you need to make a wallpaper to fit 16:9 screen, please refer to Google for exact or Click HERE

My favorite size is 2560px because I love details :D anyway for learning, you can just make a page size setup exactly same to your current desktop resolution: For example 1280x720 or 1366x768

Now once a canvas has been created, you can start your ART :D Look at the right panel of image below, there're 2 Layers : Layer 1 which is bitmap, this is where you put your Painting, Brush stroke, and so on "Can I draw line using this Layer? YES if you use Pen Tablet, NO if you use ordinary mouse" you'll notice available tools on the left panel

"But I use Mouse so I'll be suck at Drawing Line" NO You're not, you'll be just fine as good as Pen Tablet users. therefore you see on image above, there're Layer 1 and Linework1

Linework1 is the real Layer to draw Line for MOUSE User, there's icon right above it to click

as you can see, Available Tools for Linework Layer are optimized for Drawing Line ONLY, not painting.

This is the end of Tutorial Part1 see you next time on Tutorial Part2

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