Getting Started with Digital Painting

Studio Artist’s Paint Synthesizer is an amazingly versatile digital painting tool. You can choose to paint manually, with assistance or completely automatically. There are thousands of factory paint presets available to help you get started. Paint presets are completely editable, so it’s easy to customize them to suit the needs of your own individual workflow…

Adjusting the Pen Mode

The Paint Synthesizer can respond to your mouse or pen movements in different ways.  How the current paint preset responds to pen movement is a function of the paint synthesizer’s adjustable Pen Mode option.  Changing the pen mode is an easy way to modify the drawing behavior and appearance of any paint preset. This tip…

Constraining Automatic Paint Strokes

This Tip will show you how to constrain Autopainting so that the drawing is more representative of the Source Image The Paint Synthesizer is capable of generating an extremely wide variety of different paint styles.  This tip will focus on explaining how to get under the hood and edit paint presets to change their automatic…

Brush Load Capture

Brush load capture is a new feature in Studio Artist 4 that allows you to capture a piece of the current draw canvas and then load it into a paint brush and use it as a paint nib coloring source.  This tip will discuss how to work with brush load capture in more detail.

Paint Regionization

Typically the paint synthesizer auto-draws by generating a paint path and then painting it in. This process repeats individual path by path. However, you can configure the paint synthesizer to analyze the source image, construct a series of automatically generated regions, and then fill in each region with different kinds of paint patterns. In this…