Request Regarding Version 5.5

 When Version 5 came out, the installation wiped out all the Version 4 presets, some of which were quite good. To get these back took a lot of extra work.

  If there are new presets in 5.5, will it be possible to add them to what we currently have in Version 5 rather than wipe out all the Version 5 presets?

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  • We will make sure people have the option of just downloading the SA V5.5 application file.  Which you could drop in your existing Studio Artist 5 folder.

    Swapping entire Preset folders in V5 is actually pretty straightforward. If you wanted to switch between your V4 Preset folder and the V5 Preset folder.  You could just have them both in your Studio Artist 5 folder, and then modify the folder names in the finder so one is just Preset and the other is Preset_other1.

    • Thanks!

      However, will there be new presets in 5.5?

    • There will not be a new factory preset collection in SA V5.5 like we do for full version releases.  We will be dribbling out new V5.5 presets over time to people that they can download to check out various things.

      I should point out that you can use the Generative Strategy features in V5.5 to make endless new presets yourself.

      We do want to let people switch between Preset folders easily in the Release version (not the trial), so while that will not be turned on in V5.5 it is coming at some point.

    • I know that one can manipulate the parameters in the Editor. But what is the Generative Strategy??

    • Here's one example.

      Here's another example.

      Here's another example.

      Here's another example.

      Almost everything i've been posting lately here was created by some kind of generative strategy available in SA V5.5.

      Here's a recent forum discussion that covers some gallery show approaches.

    • Thanks again. However, I just tried to figure this out and find it incomprehensible. Is there an instructional video or step by step instruction set as to what this is and what it does?

    • Here's a short explanation of how to build a generative art strategy in SA V5.5 gallery show.

    • We'll be talking a lot about the whole generative art strategy idea once SA V5.5 is released.  Including tutorials, tips, etc.

      I've talked about the concept a lot before (here, in tips and blog posts, etc). And you can use things like Paint Action Sequence in Studio Artist to construct them today.  But it seemed apparent to me that the effort required to put an 'art strategy' together prevents many people from enjoying what you can do with them. So we're trying to help automate the process for people (to a certain extent). 

      The tradeoff is that you probably end up in my realm of visual aesthetics to a certain extent if you are working with art strategies that i created.  So ultimately i would highly encourage people to create their own.

      We're trying to help people become more fluid and loose improvisational with how they approach Studio Artist.  By giving them additional tools for this kind of thing.

      I would characterize this as probably 180 degrees reverse direction from other graphics apps like photoshop or illustrator for example.

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