Ran across two interesting postings that look at the increasing frequency of interruptions in our world (Twitter being the perfect example) and how that precludes getting into the flow state, and I think for artists, flow is important. http://headru
Read more…Hey folks! Here's a question that continually baffles me: when I'm toying around with building up a picture, I like to play around my transparency modes. I'll mutz around until I come up with something that I want to play with as a PASeq. When I try
Read more…hi, I have an image thats 700 pixels square,at a resolution of 72... I want to print this image 3ft square at the best quality i can. I have watched the tutorial on rerendering, but this indicates that i need to create an image from scratch using the
Read more…I don't know if any of you are familiar with Lucinda Parker's work: http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/parker.html So let's say I want to make some really big brush strokes the size that you see in her paintings (the brush strokes may seem small in t
Read more…Hello, I have a source video which has a black border around it. I was wondering if there'd be a way for me to use Studio Artist to remove it. I thought I could use region selection but I can't figure out how to. I want the border gone and whatever t
Read more…I have been using a technique with Region Selections that helps me a lot and thought I would pass it on to everyone. It's a "retouching" method. If there is an area on an image that I want to match another area, I mask it and then feather the edges o
Read more…Hi! I hope I'm doing this right, Ning is still a bit mysterious for me. I just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Florence and I do abstract art. I have been using Studio Artist irregularly and don't know much about it, but I'm having fun :-) You can se
Read more…I have a folder with paintings done in SA over the last ten years or so. Maybe I'm off a year or two. Anyway, because I've had a number of Macs over that time and my folders may be on a different volume name, SA painting sessions that I did years ago
Read more…When I open a new photo that is smaller than the canvas size, Studio Artist stretches (and distorts it) it so that it fits the canvas size. I have been able to work around this by either enlarging the photo to fit the canvas or by adding background i
Read more…I don't see any TGs in this MSG preset so I don't know how to slow down the animation it produces - tried changing (lowering) the few existing parameters, but it is a no go. I want to use this MSG preset to process a movie in SA, but I need to find a
Read more…I've searched this forum without finding much direct discussion about how SA performs on a current 3.0Ghz Mac Pro. I gather from the discussions I have run across that SA 3.5 is not a universal app. Is SA (for regular brush painting) as fast as a 2.
Read more…This image was generated from an MSG preset at 1920 x 1080. The jagged edges on the form are pretty bad. Is there any way to improve the anti-aliasing when creating images from Evolver? I can upload the original preset if needed, but I don't know wha
Read more…I'm having a weird problem in the MSG Processor Chain editor. After assigning a TG to any given value, I type in a number for the cycle length, say 1000, and change the type to a new value, perhaps Sin. Then when I go to edit another process, the two
Read more…I'd love to get some feedback from any one using Studio Artist's live video features. Basically what you currently use associated with live video and what you might like to see us add in the future. For those of you not familiar with the live video
Read more…What I'm trying to do is set TGs on the following parameters: 1) scaling 2) translating along x and y 3) rotation However, I'd like to do this in such a way that I don't get symmetrical edge reflection. In other words, I'd like to zoom into an imag
Read more…Hello, What's the best way to repeat a particular paseq step every N frames, but not every frame? thanks, Michael
Read more…It's not always a good idea to blindly click ok whenever the apple software update panel comes flashing up. Apaprently some people on intel macs are having issues with the latest Quicktime 7.2 update hosing rosetta on those machines, mackine them una
Read more…Suppose I want to keep my output movie fps something like 24 (or whatever), and have a source movie which is the same fps. However, I'd like to slow down my source by a factor of N, where I want to repeat each frame of the source movie N times (while
Read more…Given three layers stacked A, B, C, is it possible to use the luminance of layer B to control the compositing of layers A and C? For examples, areas of greatest luminance allow layer A to come through, while areas of low luminance show layer C (with
Read more…OK, I love this artwork... but some of it I am frankly surprised by. I don't see how it was made. Usually I can look at a Studio Artist artwork and see something in it which I can trace to a tool. Does the artist talk about specific methods in SA any
Read more…is it possible to change/control what pallets appear in the Grad Tab?
Read more…"Nü Müzak" video made with MSGs. The muzak (haha) was made with Bespoke Synth (cool free modular music program). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSzm1-QBMI&t=305s&ab_channel=Thorrific
Read more…I am looking for an Art Deco type effect, does anyone have that type of effect...?
Read more…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…
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