Replies

  • If you get areas like that that don't completely fill, and you have a solid white or black background, you can use the Geodesic Interpolation image operation effect to extrapolate the surrounding color into the solid color background. The default settings for the Geodesic Interpolation ip op will fill in solid 255 white background with any surrounding color.

    • Thanks John.

      By the way, if i want my moviebrush blend to the source image, what should I do ?

      balerina_SA1.jpg

  • There are several different things you could do to blend in some of the source image.

    Making a PASeq and doing it as a second paint action step is probably the easiest. So you'd just use a very similar paint preset to what you used for the mosaic drawing, but set it up to have a Fill From set to Source in the Paint Fill Setup control panel, and set the Blend % in the Paint Fill Apply control panel to where you want the blend to be.

    Otherwise, you need to modify your existing mosaic paint preset to mix in some of the source image. If you are using image processing brush load, there is a 'Source + Brush' option you can use for the Source in the Paint Brush Load control panel (as opposed to using 'Brush"). Or, in the Paint Fill Setup control panel, you could set Fill From to Source, and then set Fill From Mod to Add Brush Load, and adjust the Mod Mac appropriately.

    • can we save canvas (final result) to png/tiff with transparent background ?

      • Yes. PNG is the best image file format to use when saving an image with a transparent background. You need to have alpha view enabled when you save the canvas if you want to save the alpha channel as well as the RGB values for the view. Otherwise the alpha channel for the output image defaults to full on (to mimic what is happening to the view when alpha view mode is not enabled).

        • Could you show or tell me step by step ?

This reply was deleted.

Is anybody making a copy of all the material in the Tutorials Forum

Since the Forum is going away in June, has anyone started to make a copy of all the stuff in the Tutorials forum?I've made copies of some of the tutorial material on the main site, but haven't looked at the Tutorial Forum yet.I'm going to continue copying as much as I can for my own personal use anyway, but if anyone else is doing it, or has already started doing it, please let me know.Maybe we can co-ordinate our efforts. ps can't ..... believe John, would let this happen without so much as a…

Read more…
1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson on Saturday

Studio Artist is in Italy!

I was crawling the streets of Matera, Italy today and may have discovered where SA is hiding!  (see attached photo). Not meaning to make light of this great, sad mystery. But I just couldn't resist as I try to make sense of what's happening. Losing my connection to SA, Synthetik and John has been a great sadness... and if real, ends a monumental era in my creative life. love,~Victor   

Read more…
3 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson on Saturday

The Overload

"The Overload"! A video with music, from the various experiments I made in Studio Artist with stuff that I have learned in the last few days, from tips and tricks I found by scouring this site and the Synthetik site for tutorials etc. MSG! Paint Synth with MSG Path Generation! Movie Brushes with MSG Path Start Generation! Time Particles! Time Particles with MSG Path Start Generation running Movie Brushes! All that, and more! Haha I have been trying to stretch the Paint Synthesizer in the…

Read more…
1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 31

Teenage Tongue Cult

Hi, here is the video I made back in 2010 for my song "Teenage Tongue Cult". I finally found my master folder of image sequence files for it on one of my old hard drives, and since the version I had on my Vimeo was of pretty terrible pixelated low quality visually, I re-did it yesterday. It has extensive use of Studio Artist through the whole thing. I made it by first animating the characters and scenes in Flash, against a mostly kind of muddy green background, a color I knew wasn't being used…

Read more…
2 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 30