Overview of all the Operation Modes in Studio Artist – Auto Painting – Manual Painting – Image Filters – MSG – Dual Paint Mode – Vectorizer – and more…

Operation Modes

This tutorial explains the three different modes of painting and drawing in Studio Artist. Also explained is how to record your painting and drawing steps with a Paint Action Sequence for later playback.

Tour of the extensive image filter suite in Studio Artist. Tutorial touches on basic editing of the image filters.

In the vectorizer mode you can start with a raster image and have it artistically transformed into resolution independent vector art. This tutorial explains the vectorizer mode and how to do basic edits in the vectorizer editor.

Dual paint is a new feature in 4.0. This video points to the dual paint presets and how to interact with them on the canavas

This tutorial shows you how to make a movie from your dual paint interactions.

This tutorial explains the interactive Warping and Adjust modes in Studio Artist. In adjust mode there are several adjustment you can make to the image such as hue, threshold, luminance, line screen, etc

Auto Rotoscoping

This video explains how a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) works in Studio Artist for making movies. You can also use any PASeq to make still images as well. This video will show you how to edit a Factory PASeq Preset. You will learn how to delete and add action steps, turn action steps on and off, mute and unmute steps plus create and record your own steps. You will also learn some basic editing of PASeq steps as well as the advanced trick of creating a ghost effect which helps with smoothing flicker.

Studio Artist Interface and Preset Management

This video shows how floating windows operates in Studio Artist as well as how to save Workspaces for easier workflow

This video explains the purpose of the source image and source video. It also explains the various color options in source area. (Please note that there is also extensive color management in the paint synthesizer editor)

This video shows one way to bring more detail into an image by making a change in the paint editor.

Color and Color Palette Management

How to change the color in paint and drawing presets as well as how to randomize the color and use color offsets to create rich and complex paints in Studio Artist.

Deeper look at how to randomize color in real-time to create rich and creative paints in Studio Artist. An explanation through manual painting on how the randomization setting work.

Studio Artist’s dynamic paint presets simulate color blending.  Like when an aritst puts down chalk (for instance) and then overdraws blending the chalk on paper.  This creates dynamic rich natural media paints in Studio Artist as well as unique paint simulations.

How to use the color modes and color palettes to easily personalize presets with color effects

Automatically create color palettes in Studio Artist based on the colors of your favorite paintings or images. Create color palettes using source images and several other methods to create beautiful automatic – assisted or manual paintings or use for automatic rotoscoping.

How to save a color palette inside a preset so that it will always reference a particular palette. Also explains how edit the Color Mode in Source Color in the editor for powerful color effects.