#Paint tool sai vs photoshop full#
#Paint tool sai vs photoshop mac#

Since I used Sai for a while, I can't exacly just forget what I know from Sai.lol. The japanese artists absolutely adore this program, if you go on Pixiv (it's like the japanese version of Deviart.except 99% of the pictures on there are anime related, it's a great place to dig for fanarts if you can copy and paste japanese into the search box), everyone uses Sai and sometimes photoshop. Takes a while to get used to it.ДЄs you can see, I'm a very very very biased Paint Tool Sai fangirl. Photoshop, right click is brush resize, Sai it's colour picker. Some shortcuts are different to other art programs.

#Paint tool sai vs photoshop mac#

It's like default Windows XP theme VS MAC (whatever is the newest version of Mac, ain't a mac person here) Photoshop CS4 does have a very shiny if unpractical GUI, Sai's GUI is very very plain. Honestly, you're better off with GIMP if you're using a mouse. You're not going to find alot of Sai related brushes and so on. But it has limited support for everything else.

It has all the ones you need painting, like masking, selections. The only image adjustment it has is Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast. Lack of features, it is called Paint Tool Sai. Saves in PSD, if you do need photoshop/GIMP for extra editing, you can just use the same file.

#Paint tool sai vs photoshop full#

Cheap, it's around ВЈ30 for the full version.

Sai doesn't even use the graphics, but it can perform the task with no problems. Anyone who used CS4 knows that you can rotate the canvas/smooth zoom in/out can be quite sluggish, even with a decent graphics card. Rotate/resize canvas is really really really smooth. So maybe there is a limit, but the limit is really high, so there shouldn't any problems. I never really counted, but I never seen to encounter the limit for undos. Seriously, I don't know the limited for the number of undos you can do. Unlike photoshop, where you got to click 23424234 to get to whatever you want The GUI is definately excellent, very quick to perform the task you want. VERY tablet friendly, the whole GUI is tablet friendly. I haven't noticed any bugs up to now either. Photoshop CS4 is sluggish even without Firefox. The same picture I have (I had like 50 odd layers) runs very smooth in Sai, with firefox opening (with 60 odd tabs too). This uses SO little ram, it's unbelievable. It loads up in seconds, 2nd fastest loading art program I ever use (1st is Microsoft Paint O) Sometime down the line, I got myself a Wacom Bamboo Medium, it was quite expensive, ВЈ130. So Photoshop was much more mouse friendly. It was a wacom, but it was a Volito, its active size was smaller then A6, it was 4:3, and my monitor is 16:10. MangaStudio has a limited of brush thickness, since it is for black and white manga drawing.Д«ack then, I have a pretty bad tablet. OpenCanvas was much more tablet friendly, but it uses a fair amount of resources too. Photoshop was great, it has every single function you need, as long as you bother to google it, but seriously, Photoshop is a RESOURCE hog. It takes absolutely YEARS to do any decent inked drawing. ^_^''Д«efore I used Paint Tool Sai, I used OpenCanvas or Photoshop, sometimes manga studio, to ink my anime-styled drawings/whateveryouliketocallit. Let me sum up my thoughts on Paint Tool Sai. Lol at me making an account just to reply to this.