Studio Artist Tips

Loop Action is a new feature in Studio Artist 4. Running loop action causes the current preset to continuously run in a loop until the loop cycle is stopped by pressing the spacebar. You can select new presets while running loop action and the loop will automatically switch to live processing with the new selected [...]

This tutorial tip will discuss how to select an area of the canvas. Once you have selected an area of the canvas you can then use your selection or it’s inversion as a mask for inhibiting subsequent processing in masked areas.

Gallery Show is a new feature available in version 4 of Studio Artist. What it lets you do is run a continuous randomized Studio Artist performance. You could use it to do things like put together a customized automatic painting display using a dedicated computer like an iMac or a digital photo frame. Or you [...]

The Texture Synthesizer provides a way to create resolution independent texture field based effects. It can also be used as a modulator in many Image Operations, or as a background texture module in the paint synthesizer.

Image Operations (Ip Op) are image processing effects. There are a large number of them currently in Studio Artist (71 when this tip was written). 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 [...]