Replies

  • The quick answer is that there are 2 steps to making a photo mosaic style image in Studio Artist. Typically you use a movie source brush to do this, so basically you are drawing with a quicktime movie file. So you first want to generate a movie file that contains the images you want to use as the small images for your photo mosaic image. This is pretty simple to do in Studio Artist, you build a single step PASeq (paint action sequence) that sets the canvas to the source image, then process a folder of images with the PASe to a movie file.

    Then, you need to either build a paint synthesizer preset that uses a movie source brush or select one of the many existing paint presets that use movie source brushes and then use the File : Paint Synthesizer : New Movie Brush menu command to import your custom movie file as the movie used in the paint preset.

    Here's a good forum https://studioartist.ning.com/forum/topics/brick-wall-movie-brush-ex..." target="_blank">discussion on mosaic presets that includes a set of presets you can download.

    Here's another forum discussion that includes some presets for making non overlapping photo mosaics that was posted in response to a similar question like yours. I put together the presets included in the discussion that you can download in response to a question about generating something like the Michael phelps and Obama mosaics. So if you read this whole post you should get a lot of information on how those images were made and can download a preset that will do something very similar with your custom movie file.

    There are 2 video tutorials on tutorial disc #2 that discuss how to convert a folder of images into a quicktime movie, and how to use that generated movie as a movie brush in the paint synthesizer. So that's probably the best place to start to learn how to make photo mosaic effects in the paint synthesizer.

    You can also take existing factory presets that generate photo mosaic imagery and substitute your own custom movie brushes. You can use the menu commands under File Paint Synthesizer to load your own movie brush into an existing photo mosaic paint preset. The 3.5 Collection/Graffiti presets would be one good place to start.

    MSG Evolver (included in Studio Artist 3.5) offers some additional photo mosaic functionality via it's Art Mapping functionality. The MSG Evolver User Guide pdf explains how to build an artmap database from a folder of images or movies that you can use in the art mapper.
    • Here's another link to some Studio Artist news blog articles on different approach to use to generate photo mosaic imagery in Studio Artist.
  • thanx for your reply but i need to make some thing like the barak obama one how it is all neet and nice
    • For what you want to do a good approach is to use the last preset i posted at the bottom of this discussion. There are some directions there as well for how to use it. You will do one auto paint pass and then a set of hand drawn passes where you reduce the max size in the brush modulation control panel to manually brush on more detail at the edges of the image.

      You need to build your own movie composed of individual images that you will substitute for the graffiti movie images used for the example preset. Typically you want to spend some time putting together a good set of images to use for your movie brush.

      By working with the image processing brush load functionality in Studio Artist you can also additionally colorize the individual movie brush nibs as they are being painted on the canvas. This is a way to get better color rendition of the large source image in the photo mosaic by colorizing the individual component mosaic images as they are laid down to best represent the associated local area of the larger source..
  • unfortunately I think there is only so much people will share..the only person who really knows is Charis..and I doubt he will give you a step by step account..keep experimenting, you might come up with something equally interesting.
    • Here you can find a free image processing software :
      http://www.andreaplanet.com/
      • thanx bernard but i need to know how to use the SA and do the same kind of photot
        • hello Ahmed, so have you figured out how to do it?
  • I put together a series of posts on the daily effects blog starting today to help people interested in creating photo mosaic effects, where you start with a traditional rectangular mosaic grid, and then nest sub-blocks in areas associated with the source image that have more detail or features you want to represent.  

     

    One approach is to auto paint the largest mosaic block size image. Then, you can reduce the max brush size progressively in 50% increments and hand paint in additional details in edge or feature areas of the canvas. If you build the paint preset correctly, you can do this in a way where the 50% smaller sub blocks will correctly nest inside of the larger mosaic blocks. The first post discusses how to program the grid tiling in the version 4 paint synthesizer to make this easy to do.

    It specifically avoids the need to manually hand program grid offsets that are tied to specific source brush sizes, the grid shifts automatically with the paint synthesizer programing techniques discussed in the post.  There are several different ways to build grid fills in the paint synthesizer, but some of them will not nest 50% size sub-blocks without overlap across the larger mosaic block edges while others will.

    This particular tutorial describes a way to build non-overlapping regular grids with sub nesting, which is associated with the look of something like the Obama mosaic created by Charis Tsevis mentioned in the starting post for this forum discussion.

     

    You can use Studio Artist's source onion skin transparency feature in the canvas as a visual aid if you are manually painting in individual blocks with nested sub-blocks to build additional detail with smaller mosaic blocks at edges.

     

    There are many fully automatic approaches to generating adaptive block layout. This daily effects blog post describes some of them. Deformed grids can also lead to many new and interesting effects, here's a post that describes one way to do this.

     

    Another key thing when building this kind of effect, is that you want to have enough color diversity in your movie brush to properly represent the larger main image you are trying to reproduce with smaller images. You can use the paint synthesizer to do re-colorizatin of the individual movie brush images as they are laid down, so that they better represent the local area of the source image you are trying to reproduce. This daily effects blog post discusses recolorization in more detail.

  • Here's a Studio Artist daily effects blog post that discusses 'auto generation of nested sub-blocks to build detail in a regular grid photo mosaic'. This post describes how to build a PASeq that will automatically generate the kind of tiled sub-block nesting used in something like the Obama mosaic that you like so much.
This reply was deleted.

Interdimensional Coincidence Control

Hi everyone, I am glad the site is still here! Here is a new short video I made. All made in Studio Artist, several separate videos with alpha channels, then combined in layers with the music in Blender. A lot of MSG running through brushes, with several of the brush Path Starts being controlled by the MSG Scan Generator in the Generator part of the Path Start in the Paint Synthesizer. Also some MSG running through a brush, then making a video of that with an alpha channel, then making that a…

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

Whats going on with this site?

Has anyone else gotten a warning about this site disappearing? An email form just popped up, asking me to contract the owner and leave a message to let them know that they may loose their "network"Did Synthetik forget to pay it's bills, or is something else going on?I think 8 months is more than enough vacation time. Is anyone at Synthetik doing any development work at all? 

Read more…
4 Replies · Reply by Emil G. on Saturday

Having difficulty exporting canvas as image

I'd like to export a canvas as a .tiff/.tif image file to a folder I made on my desktop.I select that from a dropdown menu, I can name the exported file, change the extension, etc, and I press save but nothing happens.It's always worked until now. It seems like a simple task. Any ideas?I'm on Mac OSX 12.6, if that matters, and my system hasn't changed since the last time I was able to export successfully.Thanks  

Read more…
2 Replies · Reply by Tony Bouttell Mar 5