I really like inking with Paint Tool Sai :) The pressure seems to be a bit better than photoshop, imo.

Seconding. It resizes really well, also, without messing up the lines. c:

And just, in general, lots of great inking options with SAI!

Thirding. SAI is just amazing!

*mourns her expired trial version*

SAI!

Yeah, joining the choir here.. Sai has the best pen tool I've ever used.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR! lol vectors, im joking
really at first its down to what feels most comfortable. years up till recently i did everything in photoshop myself, now i use 95% photoshop, then hop over to sai to just ink.

manga studio has always been my fave, i am surprised you didn't dig it!

i think anything with correction or smoothing fucking sucks and dehumanizes line work, i tend to recommend against SAI for that reason (STRONGLY STATED OPINIONS!)

Really?
I totally respect that, but I've always felt that inking digitally in general is what dehumanizes line work. I guess I like sai because it puts that human fluidity back into brushstrokes that I can't get with my tablet and photoshop. Yeah, its obviously not as good as inking traditionally, but its not the same jumpy, jagged result I've seen from Photoshop.

yeah, photoshop is complete shit for inking. i only use that for colour.

i think auto smoothing and anti aliasing is exactly what dehumanizes digital line work. the computer is doing half the work for you, correcting 'mistakes'. problem there is that mistakes are what lead to personal style and learning. i do everything digitally but i am still asked now and again if my drawings are real media. i attribute that to not using smoothing, vectors, or anti-aliasing (i also work at approx 5x the size that the final image will be). if i need a long smooth line i just zoom out and do it in a stroke or two. for precision, i zoom in.

traditional inking isn't any better than digital, they're just different.

I don't see how anti-aliasing dehumanizes line work. Unless I'm confused, anti-aliasing is only really so the lines aren't completely pixelated (like if you use the line tool in MS paint). It's not fixing any of your mistakes, just making it look more like a real pen.

But there might be some secret artist lingo for anti-aliasing I'm not aware of, so correct me if I'm wrong!

it gives the lines a soft blurry look that is unique to computer line work (OpenCanvas and SAI in particular). if you take aliased lines and shrink them down, you don't need to use anti-aliasing.

for example!
this pic at final resolution: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6645364
compared to a sample at full resolution: http://i.imgur.com/zWhNZ.jpg
in the full one you can see that there is no anti aliasing at all, but when the image is shrunk for the final product it's not at all apparent, and it keeps the lines nice and crisp!

Oh, that's pretty interesting! I never realized that. Thank for the insight c:

i agree! i hate anti-aliasing >:C

oh I loved manga studio's pen/inking tool, but I never got 100% used to it, also I was generally disenchanted with the layout of the software since it was made specifically for comics. I didn't know SAI had autosmoothing, I hate autosmoothing :(

yeah the layout is WEIRD as HECK!! and stupid. i pretty much exclusively use the pen and the panel making tools and just ignore the rest, heh!

sai is alright, but honestly i am loving manga studio for inking. a little finagling and the brush ink is a real joy to use. there's also a few "comic brushes" for ps i've been using a lot and really like. i've been using sai less and less now a days.

sai hands down. Moved to a mac a few years ago and not being able to run sai any longer is my single biggest regret.

I always liked OpenCanvas for inking. Inking has a SAI-y feel but without the stabilizer. C: At least like 6 years ago it did..haha.