Improving Edge Rendition in a Painting

Beginning Studio Artist users often just select a paint preset, hit Action, let the preset draw, stop the drawing, finished painting. However, by working with the controls in the paint synthesizer you can tweak any given preset to modify it’s rendition of the source image you are painting. This can be useful to focus on…

Image Operations Introduction

Image Operations (Ip Op) are image processing effects. There are over 80 currently in Studio Artist (see below). While this may seem large, the actual number of different visual effects you can generate with these Ip Ops is much larger. Many Ip Op effects have adjustable algorithm parameters that can totally change what any given…

Photo Mosaics Using Your Own Images

Studio Artist Photo Mosaic Preset Studio Artist comes with a lot of Photo Mosaic Presets which you add your own images to.  You can also edit the presets as well.  Generally it’s good to start with a preset and then edit it. There are several Photo Mosaic Presets Categories in the Paint Synthesizer Mode in…

What to do with Bezier Paths

Each Studio Artist layer has an associated bezier path frame. The bezier path frame is a buffer for bezier vector paths.  Studio Artist has a unique internal graphics model for paint strokes that paints raster paint over vector paths.  The nice thing about vector paths is that they are resolution independent and in the case…