"When you get right down to it, "Natural Media" is an illusion created to give users a link from what is familiar to what is not. And while working with digital "paper textures" or "brushes", we can miss the fact that…"

"these are good fun Steve."

"Hi Michael   John and others will be along presently with in depth technical responses - but some of the issues regarding large images have been discussed…"

"Could be a problem with frame rate. The eye needs to see something like 24 - 30 frames per second to perceive a movie as fluid. Much less than this and the transition from frame to frame becomes perceptible. The default frame rate for SA seems to…"

"Thanks for the info, John."

"John - when you say getting above 12,000 pixels is effectively the limit for this, you mean of course in one dimension, yes? So the biggest you can shoot for is 12,000 by 12,000 px? I thought upon first read that it perhaps meant total pixel count -…"

"Hi Victor! Actually, I wasn't talking about Studio Artist 1. The software originally used was called "Studio 1", and was a bit-map graphics program similar to Macpaint and Superpaint that ran on my second Mac - a Mac si or something…"