I read that as SA12.

I won't even do SA10. Double digits is icky.

i thought this was a journal about sonic adventure 2

fuck it should have been

Sai 2 has been coming along wonderfully so far, although personally there's not much of a reason to use it.

The new gui and rulers are nice tho. Its just the guy has to put back all the features from the first Sai.

And that's going to take a long ass time. Maybe another two years or so. Who knows.

Unless a miracle happens and the last stretch isn't much work for the guy.

I still think Sai is the best and leanest program I've ever used for years. And Sai 2 doesn't seem too much fatter.

I don't get the lag like Krita or Clip Studio does for filler brushes, which I use often for textures.

I have a quad core and 4gb ram and those two still huff and puff with brushes in the 250 px range.

But I dunno, maybe I just gotta fuck around with more settings. Clip Studio hides a lot of them.

Maybe its because Krita and Clip does more computational shit on their strokes and canvas than Sai does.

If I can't get these guys to run smoothly here, I don't know how the hell anyone gets these to run on most tablets.

I haven't really been testing it. I tried today but I got this issue. :/ I just wanted to try it, not switch to it completely. So when I went back to older SAI, it said that it had updated to a new format (the SAI2 format) and thus it couldn't open. So I'm put off from trying again.

So I agree, there's not much reason to use it. The text tool is nice so I don't have to open PS for it, but so many of the tools are still too simple. The transform tool for one-- and then the fact that it can only hold so many brushes. I have to have 4 different SAIs pinned to my taskbar just so I have all my brushes.

I agree with the being the best program as well (my fiance will always disagree, he uses PS)
PS isn't a drawing program though. SAI also has the best anti aliasing, and the best built-in stablizer. It's a little too much of a crutch though, I can't draw out of SAI without it being weird. Not as if I want to though. I'm going to stick with SAI forever :y

I haven't seen/used Krita, but in my opinion, Clip Studio is way too cluttered. I've tried it, and it's nice, but it doesn't have that simplicity that SAI has. And it's not a bad simplicity at all.

Yeah I haaaaaate how Clip Studio treats each type of tool separately. Sai just has the basic move and transform tools up front while Clip Studio you have to select it from the list. Which makes me believe Clip Studio tried to be more like Photoshop in its tool set. Although at least Clip Studio's brushes are less confusing to make than Photoshop's brush settings. I'll never know how to save settings in that.

Krita got close. Its still a little shitty tho. The layer panel is still fat. The Navigator was a shitty afterthought. The gui is ugly even after all these kick starters and attention. Now its focus is on stuffing it with more obtuse features like animation and vectors instead of polishing what it already has.

Sai just works. Its not a memory hog. Sure the textures are a pain in the ass to install, and the drivers crash sometimes.. But I found a good set of brushes and they look nice.

Maybe once I get a computer that can shoot lasers I can try those other programs, but nothing felt as comfortable and clean as Sai has.

I dunno, these people focus too much on being 'the photoshop killer', but not enough on making a smooth functional program.

Sai is old as balls, but its made with care. As corny as that sounds.