This also means you'll find less resources available as well. Most people who use this do so as hobbyists thanks to Adobe. Negative: It has far less features than what Adobe has got going on, and it's not an industry standard at all. I think lines in this look really smooth and it does a better job at mimicking how physical paintings actually look than some of the bigger name products out there. It's more popular in Japan than in the west, but there is a small community of artists in the west who love this program too. SAI Ver. The WinTab driver of Microsoft Surface) does not support WinTab API specification strictly. CAUTION 3: WinTab drivers for N-trig pen tablet(e.g. If you use SAI Ver.1 with a high DPI monitor, you have to change the screen resolution less than about 1920x1200. BIG FILE All the Inking bushes are made from creating a new 'Pencil' All the Paint brushes are made fr. SAI Ver.1 does not support high DPI monitors, and Windows 10 does not apply DPI scaling for SAI Ver.1. It doesn't have all the extras some other art software might, because it focuses primarily on the digital painting aspect. A few brush settings I made for Paint Tool SAI. Pair it with a decent tablet and you'll be making nice pieces easily. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Adobe has to offer, but for digital painting, you honestly don't need most of that stuff anyway.
I prefer how pieces come out looking using this, and honestly wish Adobe didn't have so much of this market cornered so that more art programs could really flourish.
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It costs less, and you can find the older versions for free which still work great.
Summary: For digital drawing/painting, I actually prefer this and many other lesser known art products out there over what Adobe has to offer.