"Very nice David."

"Very engaging and artistic, I like it."

"I'm not sure if this will fix your problem but click and hold the Eraser button to get an erase type list, then mouse down the list to Source Image and select it.  "

"Very nice.  Your painting is a bit abstract but still retains the feel and motion of a bike race."

"Thanks for the info John. It makes sense now (I'm not a Mac user)."

"I like this Benard but I have a question.  Is there a reason that you zip the presets?  Why all this extra work for you and us?  Might I suggest not zipping any file that is less than 300 KB.  "

"The Texture Synthesizer predates MSG in terms of the Studio Artist development history. We keep it around for compatibility with old presets, and because it is useful at doing certain things. But MSG kind of supersedes it at this point as far as…"

"Certainly a lot to explore and learn.  I did try the texture synth for two hours and could not even come close to the desired effect.  This does show that the answer is far from obvious or easy and random changing of settings won't…"

"http://studioartist.ning.com/forum/topics/paper-textures-in-sa one more link"

"http://studioartist.ning.com/forum/topics/another-route-to-custom. here is one more link. It appears that some content I have posted in the past might not be available anymore. I do think that the Idea in the above link is the most flexible approach…"

"Liveart has a large collection of different texturizing presets that he has assembled over time working with Studio Artist. I think some of those are posted to the forum here, but my quick search didn't find them. So hopefully he can point you…"

"Thats good to know but I don't know how to do that yet and it may have taken me hours to find out.  I will look into it.  Do you have a starting point, for example the Texture synth?"

"I have nothing against using programs other than SA. Especially if one knows them well and it is a time saver. However, just for information's sake the "bamboo" texture couild have easily been applied within SA and saved you the steps…"