The new preset Favorites feature in Studio Artist 4 is a really great way to custom organize presets you use a lot to suit your particular workflow. There's a new tutorial tip available that discusses how to build custom Favorites categories.
Read more…There's a tip available that discusses how to change the paint synthesizer's pen mode in Studio Artist 4.
Gallery Show is a cool new feature in Studio Artist 4. You can use gallery show to build your own free-running art show. You could display the art show in a gallery setting, or use it as a part of a live visual performance. You can also use galler
Read more…There's a new tutorial tip that discusses how to convert a raster image operation effect into something that generates vector output. The particular example discussed int he tip is how to take the Line Screen Regionize effect and generate vector outp
Read more…To process a movie in Studio Artist you first need to record a paint action sequence. You then use the paint action sequence to process the movie file. A paint action sequence (or PASeq for short) can be thought of as a processing script that combin
Read more…We've started a series of tutorials on the studio artist tips site that discuss how to put together different processing strategies for building paint action sequences to process movie files to generate paint animation videos. The first tutorial cal
Read more…So I am getting started in Movies. Took my still camera out and ran continuous shoot for 2-3 seconds then QuickTimed the images to a movie stream. I have been successfully running PASeq's on the stream and getting some very nice stuff, well I think s
Read more…I stumbled upon a blog entry by Studio Artist user Diane Clancy that is a tutorial/demo of how she works with the Interactive Warp functionality in Studio Artist. Thought i would pass it on to interested forum readers. The link to the specific blog e
Read more…I can't find the place to start a new album. I know I found the page before but I can't find it now. Feel like an idiot here. Where is it? A sheepish thanks
Read more…John mentioned that the paint synthesizer could be configured to create fractals. I haven't had any success in that area, but have used the ImOp to create "fractured" images. The user guide doesn't have info on configuring the paint synthesizer for t
Read more…The ReRender Canvas menu command under the main canvas menu can be used in several different ways. You can use the associated ReRender Canvas Settings dialog that comes up when you run the ReRender Canvas menu to specify what you specifically want do
Read more…As we accumulate some discussions or tutorials on simulating depth or creating a raised lighted look in a painting or image i thought i'd try to place some links here for future references for people. there is a discussion on Simulating Depth in Pai
Read more…It's quite straightforward to process a movie file with the Studio Artist Vectorizer. The simpliest thing you could do is to build a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) with a single Vectorizer step.
In order to record this simple PASeq, you bring up the
We've recently become aware of a bug in OSX that affects all applications written using apple's carbon apis on intel macs. The bug will only manefest itself if you have multiple hard discs with the same name. We're seeing this problem on a dual quad
Read more…There are several Ip OP's that act as interpolators, extrapolating an image to fill in a solid color canvas area using the information in the image that is not the solid color to do the extrapolation. These interpolator Ip Ops include Geodesic Interp
Read more…I've recently been playing around with adding additional dimensionality to the typical flat color region styles you can create with the Studio Artist Vectorizer. An easy approach is to utilize the Gradient or Gradient Lighting Image Processing Operat
Read more…A really cool Studio Artist 3.5 feature is the ability to embed a complete bezier path frame into a single auto-paint step. You also have the ability to keyframe the internal bezier path memory in the paint synthesizer using PASeq keyframes. What thi
Read more…I often get asked by beginning Studio Artist users how to create portrait style paintings, what preset to use, how to make the image more recognizable, etc. There's a discussion going on in the forum about this right now, so i thought i'd add a link
Read more…If you ever experience a crash problem where Studio Artist crashes when it tries to write the first frame of a processed movie or when writing to an open movie stream, this problem can be easily fixed. It means you have bad movie compression prefere
Read more…Some people may not be aware that a Studio Artist layer contains both a raster image buffer as well as a bezier path frame. The path frame stores vector paths or regions. One of the cool things about the internal graphics model that Studio Artist use
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