
Scattering - just compare the first with the second line in the image above. Scaling makes every heart bigger or smaller).Īngle Jitter, Size Jitter and Scattering gives you more variation and affects each image individually (e.g.

When you move your pen above each category, it will give you a short explanation! But to sum up:Īngle, Scaling and Spacing affect every image in the same way (e.g. The brush settings are self-explanatory and you can see how it affects the brush in the window above. There you can select the brush shape and texture - see picture below. Now just right click on one of the empty spaces next to your brushes and add a new brush with the type "scatter".

(Re-)Open SAI 2 to make the brush work work. bmp file into the folder "scatter" I just mentioned. It has to be the exact same name as the image file! Just copy/ paste one of them and rename it. You can find them on your Computer: C:\Users\\Documents\SYSTEMAX Software Development\SAIv2\settings\scatter.

Set the image to grayscale - PaintTool SAI does not have this feature (if your software doesn't have this feature or you don't know how to do that read the NOTE* below).Įxport the image as a bitmap file (.bmp). a heart.Įdit it in a way, so that the background is black and the image you want to see is white.

) - I'd recommend GIMP, because of step 5.Ĭreate a new file with 96 Pixel/Inch and a size between 290 x 290 Pixel and 1000 x 1000 Pixel ( Feivelyn recommends 500 x 500 Pixel) - it has to be quadratic!ĭraw or paste whatever you want to make into a scatter brush, like e.g. How to create a scatter brushįirst of all, you need a drawing software (PaintTool SAI, Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, FireAlpaca. They follow your pen strokes, but can vary in their size, rotation, colour, distance, etc. Contents:Ī Scatter Brush basically copy/pastes images or shapes. Come one, come all! I have decided to create a tutorial on how to make scatter brushes for PaintTool SAI 2, since more and more people are using it, but there are hardly any scatter brushes or tutorials out there.
