Cre's Sai Tutorials

[Cremuex Levier]

POST FIVE: COLOUR CHANGE

  Spoiler: For when you want multiple colours of the same pet. 

First of all, you want to keep the different colours, seperate. By this I mean, have fur on one layer, hair on another, bands on one, eyes on the other, where ever the pet has different colours. Like so-



Once you've got that, you can save your first colour for that pet. Then, go back to the layer, now, you can always select the area again with your wand tool, or, you can make a new layer, clip it and bucket tool the colour there. The coloured lines tutorial has info on clipping groups if you don't know what I'm talking about.



And that's how you make new coloured pets without much effort. You can do a whole set in only a few more minutes then the original!

[Cremuex Levier]

POST SIX: TRANSPARENCY

  Spoiler: Showing you how to save your image so that it has a transparent background 

The first layer of Sai is always transparent, even if it looks like it's white. Ok, once you have your cute little hurriedly drawn butterfly, or whatever image you want to save-



It doesn't need to be flat either, you can even put a half opacity layer on, make it kind of look like a glow (with the airbrush tool)



All you need to do is go to file, save as and choose Png format.



From there choose 32bpp. Choosing 24 will save the image, but not as a transparent image.



The image should then save as transparent.



You can even have fun with the image below this by dragging it across your screen and seeing through it :3