Comments

• 

  Heather June 2, 2015 at 10:26am

  I would like to see the layers as transparent instead of white, like photoshop. 
• 

  Clavo February 18, 2015 at 1:44am

  Thank you, John, that's brilliant.
• 

  Synthetik February 17, 2015 at 2:38pm

  In the integrated help browser, if you go into the MSG Editing Commands page, and then select the MSG Configuration Commands, there is one there called 'Make Src Processor'.

  
• 

  Clavo February 17, 2015 at 9:50am

  MSG evolve from image.

  Would it be possible to include a key that will cause the MSG evolver to always use the source image? 
• 

  Eric November 27, 2013 at 7:13pm

  that's cool, need to look into that
• 

  Synthetik November 27, 2013 at 7:27am

  You can build integrated html help pages for any preset you want to. So that would be a way to build something like that. You can put png images in the html page, and you can put active links that will automatically load the associated preset.

  If you click Custom in the integrated help browser there is some documentation in there on how to build custom html help pages.
• 

  Eric November 27, 2013 at 1:53am

  I was thinking that if there were a preview panel that could be switched on or off that quickly demonstrated on a fairly small proxy of your current source image being painted/processed... that could be very handy when tweaking settings to get a live preview.  That would also go a ways towards solving the issue of thumbnail images often being too small to be of much real use in asessing what presets do.

  A live preview of what a single brush stroke would look like might also be useful.  I frequently work at resolutions of 3000x4000 pixels or higher, and that simply takes too long in many cases to even see what effect changes are having half the time.

  The more quickly I can see visual feedback the faster I can make choices. These are thoughts at least, and I am unsure as to whether anyone else has made similar suggestions.
• 

  Synthetik October 6, 2013 at 3:43pm

  Would keyframing a MSG action step in a PASeq give you what you want in #2?
• 

  Tony Bouttell October 6, 2013 at 10:51am

  i have a couple of requests:)

  1. how about an ability to put layer commands in PASeqs. ie be able to add layers in a PASeq and record all the parameter changes as well as being able to re-order the layers.
  2. having some sort of meta control for MSGs. May times I have wished to run a MSG as a loop and output the result at each iteration of the loop.  Example: "in the current MSG; For AngularGrad4Cen2_Freq = 3.6 to 6.2 ; for AngularGrad4Cen2_Amp = 1 to 4; output an image/file;next;next;finish
  3. Increase the current number MSG memories from 14 to 30

  I have more :)
• 

  Eric August 14, 2013 at 2:12am

  I would like to see a way to paint (assisted mode) in the center of a region with rossler or other odd path shapes and have it gradually relax to follow region edges/contours as they are neared. I'd also like to be able to size brushes based on distance from edges... although you can sort of do that with the texture variable now.

  When painting on canvas for real, I often use an under-painting with larger more or less random direction strokes in approximate coloration. I'll then use smaller brushes and then focus on defining edges and blending into them. I will then take my smallest brushes and do the fine detailing. So what I end up is a nicely detailed painting that still shows plenty  expressive brush strokes in the larger more flatly colored areas. It's not the ONLY way I paint, but it is a common method I would use with oils or Genesis paints when I used them. I have no problem mimicking this digitally, but I am trying to think of ways to get closer to a finished result more quickly. Usually, I end up just painting manually, or do enough post work that it might as well have been done manually.

  Exploring Studio Artist has sometimes influenced my work in ways I may not have pursued before. It's an awesome tool for inspiration and ideas (gallery Show).  This forum is also a great resource for diverse approaches to art creation. So thanks for the tool-set that is SA4.