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Some perspectives on creativity
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I've been playing music lately with a bunch of old farts like myself. The premise of our weekly meetings is to be "in the NOW," expressing ourselves spontaneously via the impromptu musical form, as a…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Jean Detheux Feb 26, 2011.

Masks and Selections
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Masks! … loose, loose paint … Cool combination. Woo-HOO!  Man this is fun.  :-DI like being able to use masks, but I'm not really digging the selection tools. I don't quite get it yet -- can I use…Continue

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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Strickland Jan 26, 2011.

Turning everything OFF?
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In reading John Dalton's great Tip on Movie Processing Strategies…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Strickland Jan 25, 2011.

quick question
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I suppose I'll know where every single preset is eventually, but I'm a still a noob. Is the best way to find a preset by name to do a Finder search and also note the directory (folder) structure?…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by John Dalton Synthetik Software Jan 25, 2011.

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"Your stuff has such DEPTH!  :+)))  (wow)"
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"This is stunning."
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"This has a very cool feel."
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"This grabs me. Nice work."
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Michael Strickland replied to John Dalton Synthetik Software's discussion What is Creativity
"Looks great, just ordered it.  :+)"
Mar 20, 2012
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"Michael, Welcome back. Nice!"
Mar 18, 2012
Michael Strickland replied to John Dalton Synthetik Software's discussion What is Creativity
"Clever is definitely not art, but it might exist on the edge of creativity. However, I've been learning lately that cleverness, like amazement, can really get in the way of opening all the doors and letting creativity reign. Both cleverness and…"
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"Thanks, Caryl. I've looked at your work too, and I think you have a really good eye.  :+) "
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"Thanks, Scott. I'm just now getting back into SA, and loving it."
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"I l like  your composition and  textures. I like the combination of darks and lights as well as the use of line. Caryl"
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John Dalton Synthetik Software replied to Michael Strickland's discussion Simple Alpha Use as a Selection in the group Alpha Tricks
"You can work with the paint synthesizer controls to do your masking (as opposed to using the mask checkbox). if you do it that way, the mask will always be invisible. ... I talked about ways to restrict path start, path end, and path application…"
Mar 15, 2012

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What version of Studio Artist do you own?
4.03
How do you use Studio Artist?
Exploration so far - still reading the Reference Manual. :-) This is a very DEEP and exciting piece of software. John Dalton is one brilliant man, imo.
About Me:
designer, musician.

I did the music business until I was old enough to get serious about life. I founded and managed a graphic design firm in Portland, Oregon for 25 years. We did whatever came in the door, but within 15 years or so, we were doing corporate and product branding, worldwide advertising, and collateral design for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Weyerhaeuser, and Tillamook Cheese, to name a few. I retired from the business in 2004 and now beta-test and generally explore graphics software, such as Lightwave3D. I also do a fair amount of pro bono illustration and design work for non-profits. So I've basically gone from being a generalist to a hobbyist who plays with his toys all day long. :-) Studio Artist is PERFECT for me.

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Rotoscoping with multiple layers

I employ several learning styles, but my favorite is experience. So I typically "fearlessly" bang my empty head on trying things until something begins to make sense. Today I explored PASeq's with multiple layers, learned about exporting Presets, about the PASeq Default panel, and explored how to get a multi-layered effect when batch-processing images. I am grateful to John Dalton and to liveart, for standing with me in my crash-bang learning process today.  :-)



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Posted on January 24, 2011 at 1:00pm

Factory Presets

I spent about a day going through almost every SA factory preset (while I read the manual), saving out many individual images as I tried each preset, all based on the same source image. I made a simple video of the 145 images which came from this exploration, to demonstrate the variety of some of SA's stock presets.

http://vimeo.com/19083379

Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:53pm

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"The blog entries that used to be at studioartist.posterous.com are no longer available on posterous. But you can access them as archived entries in the main blog at www.synthetik.com. For example, here's the set of blog posts tagged 'photo…"
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"And the article finally said: "Here’s a previous post that discusses some automatic approaches to building adaptive block size photo mosaics using path start regionization features." But I can't find the post.…"
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"I found the blog article:  Hand Painting Nested Sub-Blocks to Build Detail in a Regular Grid Photo Mosaic The content is someting about this.  So if I want add some details mosaic, I can only do manual painting. Am I right?"
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"Hi, this is my mosaic drawing effect.  I want to know how can I restrict the cell aspect ratio（now the aspect ratio of cells are different，I want they are similar as the aspect ratio of source movie ）.  And I want to know how can I…"
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Am currently taking a class on Final Cut Pro X for which I decided to "use" some of my own material with which to go through learning that application (very different from previous versions of Final Cut Pro with which I am very familiar). As I…
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