
If you click on the dotted square when you have something selected, there will be buttons to transform, scale, deform, rotate, and flip the selected area.Tutorial - Pointing Hands, Beginner's Tutorial: Draw Clothing Folds, Drawing Tutorial - Feet & Shoes, Tutorial - Crossed Arms & Legs, Tutorial Part 2 of 4: Eyes, Tutorial - Drawing with a Mouse, Tutorial 1 - Paint Tool SAI for beginners - Keyboard Shortcuts, Beginner's Tutorial: Side/Profile View (Part 2), Tutorial 3 - Paint Tool SAI for beginners - Editing (hue/sat.
There are two brushes called "Select" and "Deselect" as well as a dotted square, a dotted lasso, and a "Magic Wand", these are all used for selecting areas to move, rotate, scale, or paint without going outside the boundaries. Clipping group is similar to preserve opacity but it is based off hat is on the layers below it instead of itself and and everything out of the visible area still exists it's just hidden until you uncheck the box or add the the layer below.
Preserve opacity prevents you from painting any where on the layer that isn't already painted. Mode effects how the layer interacts with other layers. Scale changes how big the texture appears and the slider to the right changes how strongly the texture appears. Above the layer options you will find drop-down menus called texture, effect, and mode as well as a slider for opacity and some check-boxes. Double-clicking the layer will let you change it's name. Under the new set button there's a button to clear the layer you have selected and next to that you can press the trash can to delete the layer entirely. These 12 brushes include styles of a pen, Copic marker, brush, hair, rough brush, cloud, dirt, watercolor, and blur. Underneath the new layers there are two ways to merge a layer into the one beneath it. Paint Tool SAI Brushes Creator Matysia from DeviantArt has made these incredibly good brushes for the benefit of all SAI users. Next to that is the "New Layer Set" button, pressing it gives you folders you can put groups of layers in and control them as if they're one. This gives you a special kind of layer that has a different set of tools. Next to the new layer button is the "New Linework Layer" button. Above the list of layers there is an icon of a blank page with a folded corner, clicking that will give you a new layer. On each layer there is an image of an eye, clicking the icon will toggle the visibility of the layer. They allow you to change parts of an artwork without touching the rest and change how things overlap in your artwork. On the side of your window, there should be a large grey box with a small purple box inside it that says "Layer 1." Layers are like painting on sheets of glass and placing the sheets on top of each other to make a picture.