Studio Artist Tips

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 [...]

Gallery Show is a cool new feature in Studio Artist 4. You can use it to build free-running art shows that endlessly loop creating new art imagery for display in an art gallery. You can also use gallery show to automatically generate sets of randomly evolved art images or effect presets that can be culled [...]

Studio Artist includes a large number of different image operation effects that are raster image processing effects. However, you can use Studio Artist’s Vectorizer to generate vector output from a raster image processing effect. Studio Artist 4 can output EPS, SVG, and PDF vector files. This tutorial will run through the steps necessary to convert [...]

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 drawing behavior. Specifically we will discuss how to control where automatic paint strokes are drawn. You can use these techniques [...]

The paint synthesizer has a large number of different editable parameters that control the look and feel of a given paint preset. A common getting started question is how to adjust the opacity of the current paint preset. This post explains how to adjust the opacity of a paint preset using the associated controls in [...]