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What tools do you need for computer painting?

1, sai

SAI is released as a trial version of free software. Different from other similar software, SAI provides a platform for many digital illustrators and CG enthusiasts to create easily. SAI is very user-friendly, pursuing excellent compatibility with the handwriting board, aesthetic feeling of painting and simple operation, providing users with a platform for easy painting.

2. Adobe Illustration Studio

Adobe's software can also be used to draw pictures. Illustrator is AI for short, which is a software used to draw vector pictures. Vector diagram is based on geometric features, and vectors can be points or lines. Vector diagram can only be generated by software, and the file occupies less internal space, because this kind of image file contains independent separated images, which can be recombined freely and unrestricted.

3. Painters

Painter is the ultimate choice of digital sketch painting tools, and it is an excellent natural painting software with a comprehensive and realistic natural painting brush. It is specially developed for digital artists, illustrators and photographers who are eager to pursue free creativity and need digital tools to simulate traditional painting.

4. Comic Studio

ComicStudio, referred to as CS for short, is a professional cartoon software produced by Celsys Company in Japan (Retas software is also a product of this company). It perfectly reproduces the traditional cartoon technology on the computer, completely separates cartoon creation from paper, and greatly improves cartoon efficiency. It provides a dream-making tool for many comic book lovers and workers, so that they can enjoy their beautiful dreams.

5、Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop. It has a wide range of applications, including images, graphics, text, video, publishing and so on. In painting, PS has incomparable advantages over traditional painting.

There are not only brushes, but also PS has shape brushes (as shown in the figure below). You can choose a brush with a shape while drawing with a computer, and draw the required effect in a very short time, which is also an irreplaceable great advantage of computer drawing compared with traditional hand drawing.

6, editing studio paint

Clip Studio Paint (CSP) is also a large-scale software similar to PS. It is produced by UNICORN, a joint venture company of Celsy (a subsidiary of CSP) in inland China. The interface of CSP looks complicated, and it is very professional as a painting software. It also supports PSD file mode, and provides a certain degree of filters and adjustment layers for post-processing.