How to: Get Paint Tool Sai running on a Mac with tablet pen pressure support Surprisingly a lot of people don't know that you can do this. In every stream someone asks, 'What program is that?' Artist replies, 'Paint Tool Sai' Then someone else says, 'I want Sai but I can't use it because I have a Mac,' Not true! You actually can. It's not that difficult, either.

Using virtualization software, you can get Sai running on a Mac inside a window as if it were a native Mac program. I use it to ink almost all of my pictures, in fact. Fair warning: This does cost a bit of money. You're looking at at about $150 at minimum to buy both Sai and Windows licenses, and add another $79 if you choose to get priced virtualization software.

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At that point you might want to consider instead getting Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac ($100), but if you want to run Windows software and games on your Mac as well as Sai, this would be the best option. This video demonstrates what it looks like: ESSENTIALLY what you'll be doing is installing a Windows 'virtual computer' inside your Mac, and Sai runs in this simulated environment.

In other words, Sai has no idea that it's running on a Mac; it thinks it's running on a typical Windows PC. To get this working, you'll need the following: 1. Windows license (I recommend the 64-bit 'System Builder' or 'OEM' version for $99 from or ) 2. A USB flash drive that is 8GB or bigger.

Download the you'll use this later to create a USB flash drive installer and use the product key included with your copy to activate it. A virtualization program. Your choices are: - ($79), - ($79) or (free). (I personally use and recommend Fusion) 4. Paint Tool Sai - Buy a license and download it at (they take Paypal) * Sai costs about 5250 yen, or about $50 USD as of this writing but this will change depending on international currency exchange rates. * ONLY get Sai directly from the official Systemax website. Unofficial or 'fan-made' versions are often bundled with malware/spyware (especially the pirated versions.

Don't bother, it's not worth the trouble) * Save your Sai license email confirmation that contains the license codes and store it somewhere safe where you can find it later if you need it - (e.g. To reinstall it) - Do not lose this email! Procedure: 1. Install Windows on your Mac using the Boot Camp Assistant program, which is located in the Applications/Utilities folder on your Mac's hard drive. Carefully choose how much hard drive space your Windows partition will get; if you change your mind later you'll have to erase the entire Windows partition and reinstall it all over again! I recommend setting aside 40 GB at least - you might want more if you plan on installing games, but don't give it so much that your Mac OS X partition has no space left. Switch back to Mac OS X (hold the Option key as the computer starts up to pick Mac or Windows) and install one of the virtualization programs mentioned above 3.

Launch the virtualization program and tell it to use your Boot Camp partition to create a new virtual machine (it will probably ask if you want to do this the first time you launch it). It will guide you through the process. Note you might be prompted to re-activate Windows in the virtual environment; do so using the phone-based activation method.

Connect your tablet to the Windows virtual machine (look in the virtualization program's USB options menu). Note it will no longer function in Mac OS X until you disconnect it from Windows - this is normal behavior. Download the tablet drivers from the manufacturer's website and install them inside your Windows environment (having the drivers already installed in Mac OS X is not enough - Windows needs them too). Divx Dolby Audio Plugin Serial Number. Download and install Paint Tool Sai in your Windows environment.

Enjoy using Sai on your Mac, with pen pressure support! Remember that you always need to connect your tablet to Windows to get it working 100% with Sai. To make things easier, dig through your virtualization program's settings to enable the automatic connect option for your tablet. Delta Explorer Deluxe Exercise Bike Manual. * Note: You can actually skip the virtualization program and just use Boot Camp mode to run Sai.

The only problem with this is that while your Mac is in Boot Camp mode, it's 100% Windows; you won't be able to run your Mac programs alongside Sai this way, and all files on the Mac partition of the hard drive will be read-only (basically, while in Boot Camp mode your computer becomes an Apple-branded Windows PC). Boot Camp mode is GREAT for playing PC games (it runs them as well as a similarly specced PC would) but if you want to use Sai alongside your Mac programs, you'll need to use a virtual machine. More info on Boot Camp mode is.

Any questions, I will be glad to answer. Could be a number of things.

Some suggestions to try: * Make sure the correct driver for the correct tablet is installed (from Wacom's website) in the virtual Windows environment. Installing an Intuos driver with Bamboo can cause weird problems, for example. So can mixing the drivers (e.g. Having Intuos and Bamboo drivers installed at the same time) * Tablet not working on Mac while it's connected to the Windows VM is normal behavior.

It bypasses Mac OS X entirely and is connected to the virtual Windows machine. This is how it should be when using Sai or you won't get pen pressure and the cursor movement will be erratic.

From the symptoms it sounds like you have the Wacom driver installed in Mac OS but not in Windows. Windows can handle the tablet and pressure without a driver (somewhat) but it isn't very good, so I think installing the Windows Wacom driver should do the trick.

I desperately need help. I have spent over $300 to get SAI to work on my Mac using this tutorial and no matter what I do, I can't seem to get Sai to 100% work with pen pressure.

Sometimes, my virtual Windows 7 registers my Wacom tablet as a mouse, sometimes the lines are choppy and there is no pressure, and sometimes the lines are smooth and there is pen pressure but are being processed very, very slowly. When I use my tablet on Windows, it stops working on the Mac all together. I'm really confused and on the verge of a mental breakdown because Sai is the only program I feel comfortable using for art. Please help!!!

I hope this helps! 1º) Install a Windows partition on your mac I have used Boot camp for it: Boot Camp is a multi boot utility included with Apple OS X that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on MAC. Other alternatives to have Windows running on Mac are Virtual Box, Parallels Desktop, etc. *By default, your mac will run OS X. If you want to choose the Windows partition, press and keep pressed ALT while your MAC is starting.

2º) Run Windows and install your tablet drivers without your tablet plugged. If you have the original CD of your tablet's drivers, use it, if not, go to their official website and download the most updated ones.

Follow the driver's intructions to install it and plug your tablet. 3º) If you get Paint tool Sai now and open it, you will notice your pen pressure might still doesn't work, don't panic and install:.net framework: Net framework was created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and running applications and services that use.NET technologies, such as desktop applications and Web services. (My net framework is 4.5. That’s what most people was missing!) 4º) Restart your Mac to be sure everything is working correctly and open the Windows Paint tool sai. Should be working, or at least did for me. This was tested on iMac mavericks + a Wacom intuos pen & touch + a partition of Windows 7.

Okay so, i just found this, i recently about 4 days ago got a mac book pro. I wanted to download sai to do my art but then found out you can't just download it. So your for sure, that is i buy windows, id like windows 7 not sure i want 8 cuz of the new look.

And another program it will for sure open and run and wok sai perfectly like normal? I can upload art and load art into the program for reference? Sorry if I'm being annoying but I'm nervous about spending so much to get windows and sai not work. I have a bamboo create, not sure if that changes anything but i mine as well say it. I have i fire alpaca download and i started using that and my tablet works prefect and my pen works prefect.

So if i get windows and sai i will have pen press? To draw with my bamboo create?:/. This journal was a bit out of date so I updated it with new links on the 3 things you need to get it working (Windows, Sai and a virtual machine program) And yes, if it's all setup properly it will work beautifully. I use Sai all the time on my Mac Pro to do my art.

Only caveat I foresee with a new Mac is it probably won't have a disc drive, so a plug in USB drive will be needed to read the Windows DVD. Windows 8 can be made to look and feel like 7 with Classic Shell: so I wouldn't spend too much effort looking for a 7 license; they're getting really hard to find these days. Hi there, I've got a question about this as well. I have a Paint Tool SAI license that I use on my HP computer, and I was just wondering if it is at all possible to transfer that license to the windows side using bootcamp on a Macbook Pro. I would just like to find a way to remain using the Paint Tool SAI that I originally bought without having to pay another $50. If I have to then I guess I got no choice, but I'd just like to know from someone who has a mac and Paint Tool SAI. Btw, sorry if that's a rather dumb question, but I actually don't own a mac just yet, and have been really thinking of buying one in the near future, so I just wanted to be sure if what I want to do is at all possible.

Again thanks, and thank you for the info, that'll really come in handy when I get my mac!