#Sai paint 2 update
#Sai paint 2 windows

#Sai paint 2 windows

Failing to be updated to take advantage of newer Windows APIs and paradigms, no 64-bit version in sight, and newer, more robust programs like Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio coming out, many of us were ready write it off as a program no longer viable for the modern age until out of nowhere, in 2013, came the announcement of version 2.0.

#Sai paint 2 update

Worse yet, during the latter parts of the last decade, development almost completely ceased, with an update drought that lasted years. Unfortunately, it's also been missing some useful features, like text tools and perspective guides, which often made it hard for it to be an 'all-in-one' painting program in the same way that Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio now is. Where it lacked in features, it made up for being being very fun and intuitive for the task of digital painting. For this reason, it's gained a horde of loyal fans around the world. To that end, its very much a 'do more with less' kind of minimalism. This is because it has always been focused squarely on 'digital painting' rather than 'image editing'. In fact, it's been doing many of these things long before some of its more heavyweight competitors had. It even features inking layers for scalable, modifiable flat vector graphics. Rotating/inverting canvas views, skewing/scaling/transforming layers and selections, magic wands/buckets, clipping layers/masks, layer folders and blending modes, brush stroke stabilization, and some of the best inking brushes in the business, and more. While obviously not as comprehensive as Photoshop's or Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio's, its feature set carries all the bare essentials you'd expect out of a modern desktop painting app. It's not like its wanting in features either. So too is transforming pixels, panning, zooming, and virtually everything else. Creating and manipulating layers is instantaneous. Everything loads quickly even on older PCs. Going hand-in-hand with its lightweight nature is an extremely fast painting app. The program can be downloaded for under 3 MB of bandwidth, and when installed, inflates to an almost microscopic 5 MB. Going hand-in-hand with its lightweight nature is an extremely fast painting app. When I say lightweight, I mean it quite literally. Systemax's PaintTool SAI is a popular lightweight Japanese painting program that has an official English translation.

You'd be forgiven thus for not really being familiar with the name PaintTool SAI. There are tons of heavyweights in the digital painting arena, many of which you probably own (or begrudgingly rent). Manga Studio 5 (also known as Clip Studio Paint, which I've discussed previously).