Studio Artist Tips

The Studio Artist 4 paint synthesizer contains all of the features available in previous versions of Studio Artist plus many additional editable options. However, the mechanics of editing the version 4 paint synthesizer is somewhat different than in previous versions of Studio Artist. This tip will discuss how to work with the new version 4 [...]

This tip is going to discuss some Studio Artist features useful for building up tone in an image. Tone or mass can be thought of as representing the visual weight of a sketch or artistic rendition and relates to building some kind of representation of the original source luminance in the artistic rendition of that [...]

There are a wide variety of different tools available in Studio Artist for converting raster images into bezier path renditions of the image. These include techniques to generate bezier path edge sketches (like above), as well as bezier mass sketches based on cross hatching, and complete cartoon style vector renditions of of color imagery. This [...]

MSG presets can be used to customize and extend the capabilities of the paint synthesizer in many different ways. MSG stands for modular synthesized graphics and is Studio Artist’s modular image processing architecture. This tip will discuss the various ways you can use MSG presets to customize and enhance the paint synthesizer.

Studio Artist has 5 different Bezier Path Memories.  Four of them are global memories and one is internal to the paint synthesizer.  The bezier path memories can be used to record, store, and playback sets of bezier paths.
You can use the path memories as working storage when editing a bezier sketch or animation. You can [...]