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Sketch presets

a few variations on sketch preset discussed here.

Note that if the preset name includes the notation- loop run I am suggestion that the preset be run multiple times for best effect. I find it easiest to start a loop run (cmd-shift-R) and stop the ac

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More watery Presets

I am attaching an set of two very different kinds of Preset... that share a wet watercolor like theme.

One group:

"cd_sumi_auto-fatwetbrush"...(s) is a set of experiments with auto painting (either the "Action" button of click/draw directly on canvas

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Circular Halftone Idea

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I modified Bernard's circular triangulation preset to build a circular black and white halftoning preset. It's very simple to modify it to do color halftoning if you want to. 

I used a double sized canvas from the image above and then shrank the can

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Live Extend Paint Presets

Here's a download of the original Live Extend Example category we included early on for version 4 (missing in 4.04 and later). They were primarily built for manual painting.

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If you are into working quickly you can manually paint an abstract painting

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A PASeq with 3 paint presets

Inside the PAseq are 3 mods of an auto paint preset. have fun with them --make your own mods. I have turned off 2 of the 3. Turn them on one at a time or strip them out of the paseq and use individually. The size of your canvas will dramatically effe

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Raised Lighting Effects

A request that comes up often here on the user forum is for presets that can generate a raised lighting effect when applied to the canvas. This is sometimes called an impasto look, associated with the 3-dimensional appearance of textured impasto pain

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MSG Pantograph

Here's a simple MSG preset that generates a pantograph effect.

The green source color channel (GSrc) is being used to modulate the pantograph effect. By processing that in some way with MSG processors, you could come up with all kinds of variations o

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Gardening101

I am not much for using SA to handpaint .. CD and others are the champs at that, but I have made this gardening tool set. There is lots more that can be done. In the set there is a mix of antialiased and "normal" presets. I was liking the AA look, pl

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Text Grid

Here's a simple paint preset i put together that paints a simple grid using a text brush, where the brush size is modulated by the source image luminance.

Here's an effects blog post on building text grid images for more information about how to conf

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Plasti-Metalizor MSG

Ok to help Bernard not fall too deep into a FF hole, I created the attached PASeq. It inflates and image and makes it look like metal or plastic.

It has essentially 2 working steps after bringing the image to the canvas. The first is a smoothing step

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