Very handy for quickly selecting the inside of your lineart, but:Ī quick hiding of the selection layer shows that the color obviously leaks through and makes the whole process pretty useless. But its more useful than it seems like it would be when coupled with the “Increment” tool.įor the sake of this tutorial we’re using horse lineart I drew 2 years ago. Selecting the outside and then inverting it leaves you with this: The selection bar has two really useful and easy to use tools that I think everybody should know about.įirst is “Invert” which is relatively self explanatory. I don’t use it much so I can’t go into detail about it, sorry!Īll of the modes and settings on the magic wand tool are extremely useful and i highly suggest experimenting with them!! And I’m not sure what Selection Source does but I’m sure it has to do with this layer setting: All Image selects things on all the visible layers. It only selects things that are on your active layer. "Working Layer” “Selection Source” and “All Image.” They’re relatively self explanatory, Working Layer is the default mode. Otherwise it can be left on and is kind of necessary for selecting things neatly.Īs for the target modes, there are 3 of them. I highly recommend turning it off if you’re doing any sort of work with the binary pen/ pixel art. Theres another feature that you can turn on and off called “Anti-aliasing.” It essentially makes the selection “spread." The “Color diff.” bar lets you choose how strict it will be.īeing able to adjust how sensitive the detection is is really useful for when you just want to select one specific colored area or when you want to select all of the colored area. Using Color Difference, it selects things depending on what color they are. The first two are almost useless for me in most situations so I highly suggest switching it to Color Difference. It has 3 different detection modes Transparency(Strict), Transparency(Fuzzy), and Color Difference. This is the magic wand tool, its your best friend for selecting things. Its very basic and is meant for people who are beginners or just aren’t familiar with the selection tools. I thought I did at one point, but unfortunately no, it was for a different tool that I actually don’t have, unfortunately.So I decided to make a tutorial/guide thing on all the wonderful selection tools that are available to you in sai. I’d provide a tutorial for more information then what I have on this tool, but unfortunately I can’t find one. While you can colour with this tool, it’s best to use it for lineart, because it doesn’t blend. You CAN do this with a few different tools though, which I’ll go over later, so if you don’t have a tablet, then don’t fret! You CAN still do this.Īlso if you look at the picture, you should see some intersecting lines, and looking at the lines, you see that colours and lines made with the pen tool don’t blend. With that in mind, you can’t really do the same thing with a mouse, because there’s no differing levels of pressure with a button, it’s either pressed, or not pressed. Here’s some examples of the pen tool at work….please ignore how horrible my lines are…Anyway, also, you may have notice the smooth transition of width in the line, this is essentially because I’m using a tablet, just in case you don’t know how I got the smooth lines. Because of that, the tool is generally good for lineart and that’s about it, you could paint with the tool as well, but I’d just suggest using it for lineart. The tool has a hard edge by default and doesn’t really blend at all.
This is the Pen tool, it’s essentially the typical brush default brush you see in just about every art program. This is the first tool I’d like to go over. I’ll likely be editing this in the future to fix it up and such). These are the primary tools you’d use in SAI. If anyone wants me to, then I may go over them later when I get a bit more experience and knowledge of them.
First though, I just want to say that you may see some tools here that you may not have, this is because they are custom made and not made by the developers of SAI, I will provide a link to them, but I likely wont go over these tools as they are optional and I have yet to use them all.
First off, you should see a black outline of one particular part, this is where I’ll be going over things at first. This is the interface/GUI of SAI, it can seem a bit daunting I know, with everything on it, but that’s what this is for, to help with that.
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