It even features inking layers for scalable, modifiable flat vector graphics. Rotating/inverting canvas views, skewing/scaling/transforming layers and selections, magic wands/buckets, clipping layers/masks, layer folders and blending modes, brush stroke stabilization, and some of the best inking brushes in the business, and more. While obviously not as comprehensive as Photoshop's or Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio's, its feature set carries all the bare essentials you'd expect out of a modern desktop painting app. It's not like its wanting in features either. So too is transforming pixels, panning, zooming, and virtually everything else. Creating and manipulating layers is instantaneous. Everything loads quickly even on older PCs.
Going hand-in-hand with its lightweight nature is an extremely fast painting app. The program can be downloaded for under 3 MB of bandwidth, and when installed, inflates to an almost microscopic 5 MB. Going hand-in-hand with its lightweight nature is an extremely fast painting app. When I say lightweight, I mean it quite literally. Systemax's PaintTool SAI is a popular lightweight Japanese painting program that has an official English translation. You'd be forgiven thus for not really being familiar with the name PaintTool SAI. There are tons of heavyweights in the digital painting arena, many of which you probably own (or begrudgingly rent). Manga Studio 5 (also known as Clip Studio Paint, which I've discussed previously).