Tag Archives: paint synthesizer
Region Draw Pen Mode
Today we’ll take a quick look at Region Draw Pen Mode. You can use Region Draw Pen Mode to automatically generate different different hatching patterns that fill an interactively specified ellipse or rectangular area of the canvas. A few of the different hatching pattern options are shown above.
Tightening Up a Paint Preset using Path End Local Color Range
Today’s post talks about how to work with the Local Color Range controls in the paint synthesizer’s Path End control panel to tighten up a paint preset for better reproduction of source image details.
Circuit Board Paint Effect
Today’s post take a quick look at how you can use the paint synthesizer’s tiling features in combination with the AntiAlias Solid Brush Type to generate abstract ‘circuit board’ paint effects.
Tightening up a Paint Effect via Brush Modulation
The use of paint nib auto-masking was recently discussed here as an approach to tightening up a paint effect so that it better represents the details in a source image. Today’s post take a look at a different paint synthesizer editing technique you can also use to tighten up paint effects. It’s based on automatically modulating the brush size via local color differencing.
Tightening up a Paint Effect
Today’s post will describe an approach you can take to tighten up a paint preset. By tighten, we mean make it generate a more realistic representation of the source image, as opposed to generating a loose abstracted painting style.
Going With or Against the Grain – Working with Paint Stroke Orientation
Today’s post discusses how to work with the Path Angle control panel in the paint synthesizer to adjust paint stroke path orientation in relationship to the source image orientation. Depending on whether auto-painting tries to track the source orientation or draw perpendicular to it can dramatically change the visual appearance of the final painted output.
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.
Wet Paint Effects Using Geodesic Source Brush Type
Today’s post is more of an introduction into a specific approach to building a wet paint effect in the paint synthesizer, as opposed to a tutorial on building a specific finished visual effect. The image above just shows a few wet spreading paint strokes drawn using today’s paint preset. Today’s paint preset works best for manual painting using a pressure sensitive pen and tablet.
Simple Vector Paint Strategy
Today’s post shows how to use a single vector paint preset to build up a simple but interesting paint style. We’ll show how the paint preset was built, and gain some insight into the underlying paint strategy defined by the paint synthesizer programing used to build up the final image.
Watercolor Wash Effect
Yesterday we discussed how to use the ‘Sketch to Internal Path Memory1‘ path start Generator to create sketching paint presets. Today we will use 2 different variations of this particular intelligent sketch paint effect along with a factory water wash blend paint preset to build a paint action sequence that emulates a brightly color saturated watercolor wash paint effect.
