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EDIT 2: Some people have noted that their SAI does not do this. It is because it is not an updated version of SAI that supports transparency. There used to be a journal/ link that I had in the comments which led to a Transparency-supporting SAI, but this link is now down. I do not have a new link; please research and find a transparency-supportive SAI by your own means.ΒMy first tutorial lolol //fail
A lot of people have been asking me how to do transparent backgrounds in Paint TOOL SAI. There weren't any tutorials on dA that seemed to be as simple as how I did it (there were barely any in the first place so.)
If you have some trouble understanding the summarized pictures, here's some more info on it.
Basically, in SAI everything you draw is automatically "transparent". When you save as JPEG, which doesn't support transparency, everything "transparent" is turned to white, like how you see it when you are drawing in the program.
Adding a new layer underneath and making it a different color allows you to see things you missed, preferably the whites. Let's say that when I added the yellow, Casey's white hoodie turned yellow also. That means I need to go in and color it white or else it will become transparent as well.
Saving it as 32bpp makes all the areas you didn't draw on turn transparent.
Some tutorials say that you have to merge all your layers into 1. That is not true. I could have had 3 or 4 layers on that Casey picture, it doesn't affect transparency.
I hope you guys find this helpfull!
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Chill dude. Its not hard to understand. Have some respect and maybe someone will tell you....
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i know my butt is smart. thanks
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I tried it, it worked, then second time I didn't use second layer and just save as png. Still working, so there's no need for use layer as invisible background, if it's naturally white, I think.
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I'm pretty sure the purpose of the colored layer is just so that you can make sure any white parts of your drawing are actually filled in with white, and wont end up transparent too. The reason the tutorial exists is to show that SAI shows transparency as white, and if you save your files wrong then the transparency will turn into white, thus misleading people into believing it doesn't support transparency when it in fact does.
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It kinda helped for me even that i have the cracked version for mac... Thanks a lot
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You have my eternal gratitude Β
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YEAH
COOL
BUT LIKE
ITD BE GOOD TO HAVE A JOURNAL THAT WORKS
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the other journal doesn't exist anymore
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the link to the separate journal doesn't connect anymore. was it deleted?
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Thanx! I really needed to know how to do this. Favorited!
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Thank you, this was very helpful!
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The journal isn't there so I can't see what I need to do if the window doesn't pop up.
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hhhhhΒ thank you so muccchhhhΒ
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I can't get onto the page of the journal. xD
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What should we do if the window doesn't pop up?
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Thanks. I ended up messing up my saves and couldn't figure out why it no longer saved my stuff with transparent backs.Β
I'm such a noob with sai omg. ;w; love you for this.
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I know you didn't want any more questions about the window not popping up but the link in your description is dead. Please update. Thanks for this, by the way.
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I know you said you won't answer the "it doesn't pop up for me" ...but I just wanted to inform you that the link to the solution does not work :c The deviation has been delted I guess?
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same! ;-; I really would like to see the link but it doesn't work
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Luckily I already found the problem: I had an old version of Sai on my computer! (I downloaded the program about three years ago) and the old version doesn't support transparent backgrounds!
Try donwloading a newer version and it should work just fine ! c:
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I'll see what I can do c: thanks
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No problem! ^^ If you have any other problems/questions, feel free to ask, maybe I can help xD
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nudges u
i have windows 10 and sai doesnt work on windows 10 but i found a version that works and it doesnt support transparent backgrounds Help
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Try Nyapapa's version. I got this to work on 10, so..
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aight ill try it out
thanks yo
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This saved me ... I have a project due this Sunday for my Creative Presentation class. I've looked at a lot of the YouTube videos and they never explained the bucket tool >. Β
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So usefull! Thank you so much! <333
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what if you import your drawings from paint is there a way to remove the BG?
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The journal just says "404 not Found" ;A;
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it just says that some people saved it as a photoshop file then exported it from photoshop into png I think
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love you bby
ill give you my life forreaaakkakdajd
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Just so you know, your linked journal is gone.
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the png save options doesent come up when I try to save it as PNG D: do you know how to fix that?
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