How To
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Where to find answers to common getting started questions
Paint Synthesizer Beginning Questions
How to adjust the paint brush size
How to adjust the paint brush opacity
How to control where automatic paint strokes are drawn
How to understand how the paint synthesizer works – part 2
How to work with a Wacom pen and tablet
Paint Synthesizer More Advanced Questions
How to work with Dual Paint operation mode
How to improve edge rendition in a painting
How to build custom hatching effects using movie background textures
How to make a movie brush from a folder of images to create a photo mosaic
How to use MSG presets to customize the paint synthesizer
How to work with brush load capture
How to do vector drawing in the paint synthesizer
How to work with paint regionization
How to work with time particles
Designing Artistic Visual Effects
How to build sketch effects using the Sketch Image Operations
How to convert an image operation effect to generate vector output
Movie Processing
How to process a movie file with a paint action sequence
How to process a movie file with an image operation effect
How to Build Movie Processing Effects- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
How to process a movie with temporal image operations
How to generate a movie with an embedded alpha channel
MSG – Modular Synthesized Graphics
How to evolve and edit MSG presets
How to simulate the MSG Evolver ArtMapper
How to abstract a source image using MSG.
How to colorize MSG chaotic attractor effects
How to build coloring into black and white MSG presets
How to use the MSG Advanced Editor
How to build a MSG preset that zooms
Bezier Paths
How to generate bezier paths from images
How to use the bezier path memories
How to create a morph animation
How to generate encapsulated bezier keyframe animation
How to automate generating encapsulated bezier keyframe animation
How to generate SVG vector output
How to generate EPS vector output
How to learn what to do with bezier paths
Selection
How to select and mask the canvas
Layers
How to work with alpha channels in layers
Workspace
How to configure the workspace
How to understand the Workspace
How to work with the Editor palette
How to work with hot key commands
Operation Modes
How to understand Operation Modes
How to work with the Texture Synthesizer
How to work with Image Operations
How to work with the Vectorizer
How to work with Temporal Image Operations
How to work with PASeq Contexts
Movie Files
How to work with Movie and Image Streams
Visual Performance
How to work with live visual performance
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