If you’re an artist who likes to work really close, (like me), do yourself a favor and put up two views. You can do this by clicking View–> New on your toolbar.
There’s nothing worse than finally zooming out and realizing what you were doing was very wrong. This saved me a lot of grief tbh. I’m sure everyone knows this already but ._.;; I arrived quite late to that party.
WHAT
That’s amazing..
Does this work for Photoshop?
For Photoshop you’ll wanna go to Window > Arrange > New Window for [Document].
BRINGING THIS BACK BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HELPFUL THIS HAS BEEN. This will save you hours and hours of backtracking (fixing a thing close up, zooming back out and realizing that the thing you fixed doesn’t work with the rest of the picture–rinse and repeat). As someone who uses the ‘squint and see if it looks right’ method of drawing anatomy, the tiny window is a goddamned life saver.
I used to do this but i actually REALLY like using OBS (broadcasting softwate) and using preview mode on another screen. It wont show the whole character but you can set it closer to your reference material (if you have 2 screens) and glancing to a new screen seems to give me fresh eyes and i can instantly fix problems.
@mylittledoxy have you tried manually stretching SAI main window across two screens? You can move your view windows on the other screen this way and keep all stuff inside of SAI without any external windows.
Dear god.