dorko

I am using the latest Paint.NET. Though I'm using an older version of SAI (intentionally) I am willing to accept that if not caused by Paint.NET, which seems not to be the case, this issue's likely not one I can solve outside of using a different program to paste into SAI. It is nice to understand why this occurs, though, and to have a workaround I can use to paste images in properly.

Interesting! Exactly the insight I was hoping for, toe_head. Seems like fixing this sort of issue might be beyond the scope of Paint.NET then, though at least the images will paste properly if I perform an intermediary step, ie paste the image somewhere else and copy from there.

They do not, the issue seems to be unique to specifically pasting from Paint.NET to Paint Tool SAI. Pasting from anywhere else to SAI works fine; pasting from Paint.NET to anywhere else works fine. Given the pixel shift only occurs from images copied through Paint.NET, my (perhaps limited) understanding is that SAI seems to not like however Paint.NET in particular handles its clipboard images. Quite curious why, on a technical level, this sort of image distortion would happen as a result.

When I copy an image directly from Paint.NET to Paint Tool SAI, the image appears slightly offset - the image is shifted three pixels to the left, with the leftmost three pixel columns appearing on the right side of the image, shifted down 1 pixel: Example image copied from Paint.NET: How it appears after being pasted into Paint Tool SAI: Behavior seems to be consistent regardless of image size, in other words it's always three pixels off even if I downscale the image: This doesn't occur if the same image is pasted from anywhere else I've tested (browser, discord, photoshop, etc) leading me to believe it's an issue with Paint.NET in particular and not with Paint Tool SAI.