2 Beta / 2MB Available in, (30-day trial) Website SAI or Easy Paint Tool SAI ( ペイントツールSAI) is a lightweight and software for developed and published by Systemax Software. Development of the software began on August 2, 2004, and the first alpha version was released on October 13, 2006. SAI's official release (1.0.0) was on February 25, 2008, and an update preview was released shortly after.
The painting application is available in both, and an official translation. An unofficial user-made translation for the software also exists. Paint Tool SAI is available on,,,,,,, and. Features [ ] S.A.I. Is a lightweight painting application. The user interface allows multiple documents to be opened at the same time. The drawing canvas can be both zoomed and rotated using the sliders on the navigator or the hotkeys configured on the keyboard.
The Paint Tool SAI app allows users to edit and enhance their photo files into the highest quality products using Paint Tool SAI’s enhanced editing features, templates, and options.
The toolbar on the top part of the screen also includes a button to mirror the drawing view without mirroring the actual drawing. It is also possible to open multiple viewports to the same document. An application-wide scratchpad (which can be used as a color mixing panel) is provided, which is saved between sessions.
Colors can be stored in the swatches panel. Various raster drawing tools are implemented, such as the Airbrush, Watercolor, Pen, and Marker, which can all be easily customized, and stored in slots in the user interface of the application. There is also a set of vector drawing tools intended for inking, which, like the raster tools, can be configured to be pen pressure-sensitive. It´s very useful for line art. Work can be done on separate layers, which can be grouped and have opacity masks. In addition to this, layers can be masked by clipping them to a lower layer.