how to add brushes and textures to paint tool sai

HOW TO FIND WHERE PAINTTOOL SAI IS INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER My approach is to explain how SAI works instead. #HOW TO INSTALL PAINT TOOL SAI BRUSH TEXTURE HOW TO# Locate the PaintTool SAI icon with which you launch it on your computer. It can be located on your Start Menu, or your desktop. Right click on the icon and you’ll get a menu like this. Click on Properties.Ī window will appear. Click on the Open File Location button.Ī new window will appear. This is where your SAI is installed with all its system files. The only folders that interest us are blotmap, brushtex, elemap and papertex. If you open any of these folders you’ll see they contain BMP files, which are image files just like JPGs or GIFs.īlotmap and elemap contain the brushes shapes (“maps”). There are two types of maps which behave differently, which is why they are kept in two separate folders. They are the ones you choose here, on the brush panel:īrushtex contains brushes textures. A brush can have a certain shape and it can have a texture.

They are the ones you choose here, right below the brush shape: For example, a simple circle brush shape can have a “dirt” texture.

Papertex contains paper textures. Unrelated to brushes textures, these are textures you apply on a layer. On SAI they can be chosen on the Layers panel: We are only interested on these configuration files: nf, nf and nf. What are these files? They are lists of the things we described above.

SAI handles three things: brush shapes, brush textures and paper textures, remember? Well, these three files are the master lists of those.īnf – Like its name says, this file contains the list of brushes forms (i.e. shapes or maps).īnf – This file contains the list of brushes textures. nf – Pretty straightforward, right? This one has the paper textures.ĭouble-click on a conf file to edit. If there’s an “Edit” menu item, click it.Try these methods, in order, until one works on your computer: If that doesn’t work then right-click on the conf file you wish to edit. If there’s an “Open with…” menu item, click on it.Notepad should open with the file contents. If there’s an “Open with…” menu item, but a new window appears instead, choose “Notepad” from the list of programs.If a submenu opens, choose “Notepad” from that submenu’s items.

#HOW TO INSTALL PAINT TOOL SAI BRUSH TEXTURE HOW TO#.

How to add brushes and textures to paint tool sai