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PaintTool SAI
Product Overview
PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.
Details: - Fully digitizer support with pressure. - Amazing anti-aliased drawings. - Highly accurate composition with 16bit ARGB channels. - Simple but powerful user interface, easy to learn. - Fully support Intel MMX Technology. - Data protection function to avoid abnormal termination such as bugs.
Minimum Requirement
Computer
PC/AT (Not virtual machine)
OS
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11
Platform
32bit
CPU
Pentium 450MHz or later (require MMX support)
System Memory(RAM)
XP
... 256MB
Vista or later
... 1024MB
HDD
512MB free space
Graphics
Resolution 1024x768, "32bit True Color" screen * Does not support high DPI monitor
Support Device
Wintab compatible digitizer with pressure support
Download & Installation
You can download "PaintTool SAI" from below links. This software has 31 days trial period. You can use this software with full function without fee during the first 31 days. (CAUTION: This software disable the file open/save functions immediately when 31 days trial period expired. It means that you lose the painting from the last save point.) If you'd like to continue using this software after the 31 days trial period expired, you need to purchase the "Software License" from this site.
Before downloading the software, you should accept the license agreement linked below. Downloading this software signifies your agreement to the "Software License Agreement". And this agreement is adapted to previous beta release of this software too.
*** Software License Agreement ***
Important Notification
This software requires basic knowledge about Windows operation. Especially, basic knowledge about the following are indispensable.
Concepts and basic operations of file downloading by web browser.
Concepts and basic operations for file and folder management on Windows.
Concepts and basic operations for Windows application.
We cannot provide support for basic knowledge about Windows operation.Please do not buy the license for this software if you do not know basic knowledge about Windows operation.
Installation Note: The full installer of Ver.1.2.0 or later will install SAI Ver.1 into "C:\PaintToolSAI" in default settings. You can preserve brushes, textures, swatch and license certificate through which of following way. - Overwrite Ver.1.2.0(or later) to Ver.1.1.0 folder by installer of update files only. - Copy all folders, *.conf files, *.ssd files, *.slc file from Ver.1.1.0 folder to Ver.1.2.0(or later) folder.
CAUTION 1: On Windows Vista or later, please do not install SAI Ver.1 into "Program Files" folder because SAI Ver.1 may malfunction due to UAC.
CAUTION 2: SAI Ver.1 does not support high DPI monitors, and Windows 10 does not apply DPI scaling for SAI Ver.1. If you use SAI Ver.1 with a high DPI monitor, you have to change the screen resolution less than about 1920x1200.
CAUTION 3: WinTab drivers for N-trig pen tablet(e.g. The WinTab driver of Microsoft Surface) does not support WinTab API specification strictly. SAI Ver.1 does not work correctly with WinTab drivers for N-trig pen tablet in the default setting. It may work with WinTab drivers for N-trig pen tablet if you change "TabletMouseSimulation" to 1 from 0 in "misc.ini" in SAI's program folder.
PaintTool SAI (Full installation) (Ver.1.2.5, 32bit, Installer, 2016-04-25, 2.4M) For new users, all required files of PaintTool SAI are included in this installer. In the first time, SAI will automatically start setup process, this will take a few minutes. SAI will start without setup process from the second time.
PaintTool SAI (Update files only) (Ver.1.2.5, 32bit, Installer, 2016-04-25, 1.2M) This installer contains minimum update files for previous version users, you can use this update overwriting all extracted files to the existing application folder.
Update History
In Using The Software
For any items, tooltip with simple description will popup, or pressing F1 key with pointing items shows help documentation about pointed items. If you couldn't get answers for your question by these tooltips or help documentation, please read FAQ linked below carefully.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PaintTool SAI
Development Room
Beta version of PaintTool SAI will be distributed in the following page if it is available.
Development Room2024-08-14 The technical preview version of SAI Ver.2 is released.
Purchasing Software License
After the 31 days trial period expired and if you'd like to continue using PaintTool SAI, you need to purchase a "Software License".
"Software License" is shipped as digital certificate. When your order is completed, you will receive download password for your software license certificate, and you can download your software license certificate from "Download Software License Certificate" page linked below.
if you downloading and installing your software license certificate to your SAI's program folder, you will remove trial limitation of SAI in current version 1.x.x, and you can use this version software without any trial limitation.
(This license include for all minor upgrade in current version 1.x.x, and not include major upgrade fee like ver.1.x.x to 2.x.x. Exceptionally, we will release SAI Ver.2 as free upgrade because we have canceled the improvement of SAI Ver.1.).
Important Notification
This software requires basic knowledge about Windows operation. Especially, basic knowledge about the following are indispensable.
Concepts and basic operations of file downloading by web browser.
Concepts and basic operations for file and folder management on Windows.
Concepts and basic operations for Windows application.
We cannot provide support for basic knowledge about Windows operation.Please do not buy the license for this software if you do not know basic knowledge about Windows operation.
$ Purchase Software License for PaintTool SAI Ver.1 $
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Purchase Summary
Product
PaintTool SAI Ver.1 / Software License
License period
No limitation in using this major version (for Ver.1.x.x)
Price
5500JPY (Include sales tax) per 1 software license.
The product is priced at JPY (Japanese Yen). PayPal and AXES Payment will exchange your currency to JPY automatically. However, the exchange rate always changes. Please confirm the accurate price through the following service if you need. XE Currency Converter (by XE corporation)
Email (Include information for software license certificate downloading)
Delivery date
As soon as we confirm your ordering and payment.
Return Policy
Software License is not returnable, before purchasing please evaluate this software carefully.
When The Email of Your License Information Does Not Arrive
If the email does not arrive to you, the cause is probably one of the following.
- The email arrived to your mailbox but it was isolated into SPAM mail folder. Please see the SPAM mail folder.
- The email is delaying. Email sometimes obtain a delay with some network problem. Please try to wait few hours.
If the email of your license information does not arrive to you at all, please try to reissue the email from the following page. Reissue Software License Information
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Fortunately, you can discover if PaintTool SAI has the right features for you. There is a free trial of the program available for 31 days, which lets you access all features. After that, you can obtain the license for SAI with a one-off purchase. If your focus is drawing and painting, this program has plenty to offer.
Paint Tool SAI is not compatible with Android, iPad OS and Mac OS devices. SAI is only available for Windows desktop, laptop and tablets that run on Windows operating systems.
Overall, PaintTool SAI provides a fast workflow for quick sketches or creating something to send to clients without sacrificing quality. User-friendly Interface: Many users appreciate PaintTool SAI's user interface, which is straightforward and easy to use.
The popularity can also be attributed to how the lightweight painting software has been optimized to run with minimal resources and rarely crashes. Drawing tablets are essential for artists painting in Paint Tool SAI.
- Maximum number of layers up to 8190. - Supported layer properties: BlendingMode, Opacity, Protections, ClippingGroup, MovingGroup, PaintingEffect, PaperTexture, Visibility, LayerName.
Please make sure before installation of this software license certificate you need to complete installation of PaintTool SAI. Note: If you want to install this software on your own two or more computers, you need to download the software license certificate for each computer with each computer's system ID.
It takes a bit longer, and it means more tweaking and care was put into it to make sure it looked fine and lined up. But frame-by-frame animations can be very fluid, and with other techniques like smear or squash-n-stretch, you can end up with something super impressive!
Method 1: Converting Photoshop Brushes to Paint Tool SAI Using ABR Mate. ABR Mate is a simple yet powerful tool that facilitates the conversion of Photoshop brushes to Paint Tool SAI. Follow these steps to convert your brushes using ABR Mate: Download and install ABR Mate from the official website.
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