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How to buy and install Paint Tool Sai 2 . From the conversion calculator, this should cost $45 US.
( This is a copy taken from a Reddit thread ; thought it be useful to someone . www.reddit.com/r/AnimeSketch/c…)
Make sure Not to put SAI in the program folders. Instead place SAIs' folder on the C Drive ( Hard drive alone ).
www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
For those who have been eagerly awaiting SAI2 (like me!), it's been released in a beta version with a lot of improvements, outline below which I've just copy and pasted from here (where you can also download the program from).
Please consider paying for the license, as the development team is literally one person, who has in the past, stopped developing on SAI because no one bought his software.
Canvas:
Maximum canvas size up to
100,000 x 100,000 px(64bit version)
or
10,000 x10,000 px (32bit version).
Save and load canvas as a private format (The file extension is '.sai2') (*).
Save and load canvas as a bitmap (.bmp) (*).
* These functions are locked by software user license. If you have a license of SAI Ver.1, you can remove the lock with your license certificate. Please download NEW license certificate WITH SYSTEM ID OF SAI VER.2, and put it into which of the following folder.
A. My Documents -> SYSTEMAX Software Development -> SAI2 Demo (The folder that is included 'settings.ssd')
B. The folder that is included execution file of SAI2(sai.exe).
Layer:
Maximum number of layers up to 8190.
Supported layer types are Normal, Folder, Linework, Shape and Text.
Supported layer properties are Blending mode, Opacity, Protections, Clipping group, Moving group, Painting effect, Paper texture, Visibility, and Layer name.
Multiple selection and operation for layer item.
Delete, Erase, Fill, Merge.
Selection:
Invert, Deselect
Cut and move pixels as floating
Ruler:
Straight
Ellipse
View:
Alternative view.
Alternative floating view.
Pan, Zoom, Rotation, Horizontal flip and Reset.
Brush tools:
Pencil, Air brush, Brush, Water color
Selection pen, Selection eraser
Linework tools:
Pen, Curve, Line, Eraser
Edit path, Edit pressure, Change color, Change weight
Perspective ruler:
Create perspective rulers as layer objects
Supported 1 to 3 vanishing points
About Features Request:
I will read all emails of features request but I will not be able to reply to all request emails because I am one man team for development and customer support. Thank you for your understanding.
www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
Koji Komatsu - Programmer, President
Sakiheya says -
Just checking, we're able to run SAI 1 and SAI 2 concurrently with no problems right? Like, this is an entirely separate program?
From only reading the description, this seems really cool. Perspective rulers are always awesome.
Edit: Just set it up. This is pretty nice
Edit2: Here's what it looks like i.imgur.com/KeEqUmg.png
[–]hash_m Water you doing? Says -
Yep, it's completely self-contained! SAI2 saves in a different file format from SAI anyway, so you can't get things mixed up.
I'm just happy that I don't have to click and rotate in line work mode to get a circle any more lol.
Elleranthe asks -
I have a question: It says that I can remove the feature lock with my SAI 1 license, but then tells me that I should also download a new certificate 'WITH SYSTEM ID OF SAI VER 2'. Does that mean my SAI 1 license won't work? It seems contradictory to me and I want some clarification.
hash_m Water you doing? Says -
You will need to generate another licence file on the website, based off of your purchase email and the system ID supplied by SAI2 to unlock all current features.
Your current version of SAI will have a different system ID from the one on SAI2.
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