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TaiKatsu05 β Tutorial: Transparency in SAI
Published: 2013-12-05 18:54:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 8576; Favourites: 274; Downloads: 60
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Just a short tutorial on how to make transparent backgrounds in Paint Tool SAI.
I do this instead of doing all the hassle of clicking and adjusting in Photoshop orz
*as requested by *StarBunniie
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Ohh I thought it could only be done in photoshop but in Sai it's much easier 
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THANK YOU I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THIS AT ALL AT FIRST BUT I FIGURED IT OUT YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER *HUGS YO FACE AND RUNZ*Β
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I tryed it, and... I just keep having a white background.... I don't know where I'm wrong... I drew a simple stick figure, and created a layer that I filled with the transparent color and exported as .png, but I only have my drawing with a white background...
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Do you have Photoshop?
If that happens to you, you can do the same steps but save it as .psd then open it in Photoshop. It'll have the transparent background in there and then save it as .png in Ps.
It's much easier than cropping the image manually for transparency in Photoshop.
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Yes I have Photoshop, indeed. Use it to save my drawing as png alrealdy, but I often have problems of almost transparent lines... But, now I'll try with your advice. Thanks !
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Oooh! very very helpful tutorial thanks for posting this!
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Thank you so much dude
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Wow o.o i didn't know transparent bg is possible in sai o.o
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There are a lot of things you could do in SAI that a lot of people think are impossible. o3o
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Yes that's true xD I still discovering new things in sai @_@
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All you gotta do is explore xD
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another way is to save it as a .psd and save it as a png on photoshop, thats what i do atleastΒ
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Yep, that works too.
I do the same when SAI keeps on bugging for me and fails to get the transparency saved in the exported .png format.
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so thats how you do it!!!! i thought people crop their artwork! thank you soooooo much!!!
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thank you so much....i will try it...so difficult make transparent background with SAI because usually the eyes got transparent Β
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Do you do the Luminance to Transparency in the Layers Tab?
That makes all the white color turn to transparent and sometimes even make luminous colors turn into grayscale...
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umm sorry...i try to do like the tutorial but i am confuse when input background image...should artwork before save or after save???
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Either. It works as long as the layer filled with transparent color is separated and is the bottom layer.
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ok i will try later...thank
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well i don't know how to setting that...could you tell me how to change that setting???
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Nope... that's just how Luminance to Transparency works. It's different from making the bg transparent.
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hooo...i see.... i guess first it like setting stuff
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Or just don't draw anything in the background and save it with 32bpp ARGB.
What is the easiest way.
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32bpp ARGB?
How do you do it with that? o.o
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If you don't use a cracked version, you just click "save as", choose the png and save it.
You have two options at this way. The lower one is 32bpp and this is transparent if you draw nothing in the BG.
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ASDFGHJKL THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT MADE MY DAY
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