Tag Archives: background texture
Wet Paper Towel Paint Effect
Today’s post continues our recent discussion of some different approaches to building wet paint effects. Today’s post takes a look at a paint preset that simulates painting on top of a wet paper towel. This produces a very soft diffuse wet colored paint backing effect.
Generating Symmetry Tiling Effects with Image Background Textures
Some recent user forum discussions have asked about how to build image tiling effects where the image tile successively rotates as individual tiling paint nibs are painted in one by one. Today’s post shows one approach to doing this in the paint synthesizer that uses the built in horizontal and vertical symmetry control options associated with image background textures. A simple example of this kind of tiling symmetry effect is shown above.
Using Translate Warp Generated Symmetry with a Movie Brush Effect
We’ve been talking about different approaches to building symmetry in our recent posts. I wanted to conclude the discussions by taking a look at a piece i recently put together. We’ll take an overview look at how the above image was constructed in this post.
Symmetry Flipping in Movie Background Textures
See the full gallery on Posterous We’ve recently discussed various uses for movie pixel indexed background textures. Today’s post points out a useful feature associated with all image or movie based background textures you may be unaware of, the ability to build symmetry operations into the tiling associated with any image or movie based background texture.
More Experiments with Movie Pixel Index Background Textures
See the full gallery on Posterous Today’s post continues our exploration of the Movie Pixel Index Background Texture feature in Studio Artist 4. So we’re working with movie brush files, but using them to build a dynamic background texture as opposed to a movie source brush. The 2 images above were created by a simple modification of the factory preset Default : General : Circle Hatcher1, where i loaded my own custom movie brush (created from beach driftwood photos in a post from a few days ago on creating your own custom movie brushes). So the original dynamic hatching effect generated by the Circle Hatcher1 paint preset was dramatically transformed by loading a different custom movie background texture.
Using a Movie Background Texture to add Visual Complexity to a Source Brush
See the full gallery on Posterous The 2 images above show off using a movie background texture to add visual complexity to a conventional simple rectangular gradient computation source brush. We’ll take a look under the hood of the paint synthesizer preset used to generate the above images in today’s post.
