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PaintTool SAI
Product Overview
PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.
    Details:
- Fully digitizer support with pressure.
- Amazing anti-aliased drawings.
- Highly accurate composition with 16bit ARGB channels.
- Simple but powerful user interface, easy to learn.
- Fully support Intel MMX Technology.
- Data protection function to avoid abnormal termination such as bugs.

Minimum Requirement
Computer PC/AT (Not virtual machine)
OS Windows 98
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10
* Will work on 64bit Windows
CPU Pentium 450MHz or later (require MMX support)
System Memory(RAM)
Windows 98 ... 64MB
Windows 2000 ... 128MB
Windows XP ... 256MB
Windows Vista or later ... 1024MB
HDD 512MB free space
Graphics Card Resolution 1024x768, "32bit True Color" screen
Support Device Wintab compatible digitizer with pressure support
 

Download & Installation
You can download "PaintTool SAI" from below links. This software has 31 days trial period. You can use this software with full function without fee during the first 31 days. (CAUTION: This software disable the file open/save functions immediately when 31 days trial period expired. It means that you lose painting since the saved point.)
If you'd like to continue using this software after the 31 days trial period expired, you need to purchase the "Software License" from this site.

Before downloading the software, you should accept the license agreement linked below. Downloading this software signifies your agreement to the "Software License Agreement". And this agreement is adapted to previous beta release of this software too.

*** Software License Agreement ***

Important Notification
This software requires basic knowledge about Windows operation. Especially, basic knowledge about the following are indispensable.
  • Concepts and basic operations of file downloading by web browser.
  • Concepts and basic operations for file and folder management on Windows.
  • Concepts and basic operations for Windows application.
We cannot provide support for basic knowledge about Windows operation. Please do not buy the license for this software if you do not know basic knowledge about Windows operation.

Installation Note:
The full installer of Ver.1.2.0 or later will install SAI into "C:\PaintToolSAI" in default settings. You can preserve brushes, textures, swatch and license certificate through which of following way.
- Overwrite Ver.1.2.0(or later) to Ver.1.1.0 folder by installer of update files only.
- Copy all folders, *.conf files, *.ssd files, *.slc file from Ver.1.1.0 folder to Ver.1.2.0(or later) folder.

On Windows Vista or later, please avoid installation into "Program Files" folder because SAI may take malfunctions through the influence of UAC.

On high DPI settings on Aero(DWM), please disable display scaling. (Show property of "PaintTool SAI Ver.1", select "Compatibility" tab, check "Disable display scaling on hight DPI settings".)


PaintTool SAI (Full installation) (Ver.1.2.5, Installer, 2016-04-25, 2.4M)
For new users, all required files of PaintTool SAI are included in this installer. In the first time, SAI will automatically start setup process, this will take a few minutes. SAI will start without setup process from the second time.

PaintTool SAI (Update files only) (Ver.1.2.5, Installer, 2016-04-25, 1.2M)
This installer contains minimum update files for previous version users, you can use this update overwriting all extracted files to the existing application folder.

Update History

In Using The Software
For any items, tooltip with simple description will popup, or pressing F1 key with pointing items shows help documentation about pointed items.
If you couldn't get answers for your question by these tooltips or help documentation, please read FAQ linked below carefully.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PaintTool SAI
Development Room
Beta version of PaintTool SAI will be distributed in the following page if it is available.

Development Room
2017-06-07 The technical preview version of SAI Ver.2 is released.
Purchasing Software License
After the 31 days trial period expired and if you'd like to continue using PaintTool SAI, you need to purchase a "Software License".

"Software License" is shipped as digital certificate. When your order is completed, you will receive download password for your
software license certificate, and you can download your software license certificate from "Download Software License Certificate" page linked below.

if you downloading and installing your software license certificate to your SAI's program folder, you will remove trial limitation of SAI in current version 1.x.x, and you can use this version software without any trial limitation.

(This license include for all minor upgrade in current version 1.x.x, and not include major upgrade fee like ver.1.x.x to 2.x.x. Exceptionally, we will release SAI Ver.2 as free upgrade because we have canceled the improvement of SAI Ver.1.).

Important Notification
This software requires basic knowledge about Windows operation. Especially, basic knowledge about the following are indispensable.
  • Concepts and basic operations of file downloading by web browser.
  • Concepts and basic operations for file and folder management on Windows.
  • Concepts and basic operations for Windows application.
We cannot provide support for basic knowledge about Windows operation. Please do not buy the license for this software if you do not know basic knowledge about Windows operation.

$ Purchase Software License for PaintTool SAI Ver.1 $

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Purchase Summary
Product PaintTool SAI Ver.1 / Software License
License period No limitation in using this major version (for Ver.1.x.x)
Price 5400JPY (Include sales tax) per 1 software license.

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