PaintTool SAI is a lightweight, Japanese digital painting programme and is popular among artists because of its vast range of tools and simplicity of apply.

With that said, shortcut keys are essential for virtually avant-garde artists, as y'all go along 1 hand on the drawing pad and the other on the keyboard. They make your workflow more than efficient while cartoon digitally.

If y'all'd similar to learn more than about shortcuts in PaintTool SAI to make your life easier, then go along on reading.

Shortcut Activeness
Ctrl + N Opens a new canvass
Ctrl + O Opens a saved canvas
Ctrl + S Saves electric current canvas
Ctrl + Shift + South Saves canvas every bit
Ctrl + W Closes the electric current canvas (it will inquire y'all whether y'all want to save your progress)
Ctrl + C Re-create
Ctrl + X Cutting
Ctrl + Five Paste
Ctrl + "+" Zooms in
Page Upwardly Zooms in
Ctrl + "-" Zooms out
Page Downwards Zooms out
Home Zooms out to fit the working space. Information technology will also straighten and unflip your canvas
Tab Toggles the toolboxes on and off
Ctrl + Tab Jumps to the open canvas on your right (if yous have multiple canvases open)
Ctrl + Shift + Tab Jumps to the open canvas on your left (if you accept multiple canvases open up)
Right-click Picks up the color under the cursor
Ctrl + Alt + Drag Changes the size of the tool you are using
Ctrl + Click on a pixel + Drag Allows you to movement all the pixels within that layer of the pixel that you clicked on (not affected past your current layer)
H Flips the Canvas (saved files are not mirrored)
Ctrl + A Selects everything on the current layer
Ctrl + D Deselects everything on the current layer
D Deletes all pixels in your current layer
Shift + Left-click Draws a straight line betwixt the last click and the new one
Delete Rotates the canvass counter-clockwise
Stop Rotates the canvas clockwise
Spacebar + Alt + Left-click + Drag Rotates the sail

Keep in mind that you lot can change the shortcuts of nigh of the tools in PaintTool SAI. All you accept to do is double click on the tool in the toolbox, and the Custom Tool Holding window will pop up. Here, y'all can change the Shortcut Key to anything yous want, every bit well as rename the tool.

PaintTool SAI changing the shortcut keys

You can also customize your shortcuts by clicking on Help > Shortcut Keys.

PaintTool SAI Shortcut Keys

In the Shortcut Key Assignments, yous can select the keys on the left, and select an appropriate activity in the right cavalcade to change information technology.

PaintTool SAI Shortcut Key Assignments window

Shortcuts Brand Everything Easier

PaintTool SAI is a simplistic digital art program that gives you a lot of freedom. Past getting used to its shortcuts, drawing in PaintTool SAI will exist then much easier. Use the default shortcuts that PaintTool SAI offers, or customize your ain!