Someone who just bought Studio Artist asked me a simple questions, can you use Studio Artist to draw with a paint brush that consists of an image of your choice.
And yes, that's pretty easy to do.
We used to provide a lot of paint presets that showed that off that you could then easily modify to use your own custom images, but we kind of lost those when we switched to the V4.04 Preset folder we now ship with the latest V4 downloads.
And we seem to have a ton of movie brush tutorials online, but not really any simple image brush tutorials.
So here are 3 very simple paint presets that use a simple Image Brush Source to paint with an image of a cat face that we ship in the Brush folder with StudioArtist V4.
The 3 paint presets are in the zip compressed folder below. You can place the folder in the Favorites folder to access them there, or drop them into any Paint Collection folder, or just use the File : Import menu to open them manually (or drag and drop them onto the program icon to open them). Here's are tips on Preset organization if you need it.
For more information on the Brush folder, read this tip.
To replace the factory cat image with your own image, just open any of these presets, and then use the File : Paint Synthesizer : New Image Brush menu to select your own custom image to use rather than the factory one these presets use.
Paint presets reference an image used as an image brush source via a pathname reference to where the image is stored on your computer. If you place the image in the Brush folder, then it will always be found by Studio Artist, so we recommend doing that. Otherwise, if you move it on your computer, Studio Artist will no longer be able to find it via the original path name reference, and will ask you to locate it when you open the preset.
So what do these 3 paint preset do. As i said, they are very basic.
CatFace Brush1
CatFace Brush2
CatFace Brush3
So the first 2 just draw with the cat image. If you look in the Paint Fill Setup control panel you will see how they differ.
The last one is a little bit more advanced. It uses the Brush Load control panel to colorize the image on the fly to try and represent the source image coloring at the spatial position you are painting at. If you look at the Paint Fill Set and the Paint Brush Load control panels, you can see how it's setup to do that.
Here's a tip on Photo Mosaic Movie Brush ReColorization, that explains what the third paint preset above is doing in more depth.
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