Today’s post will discuss how to build a movie brush that incorporates an embedded alpha channel to create a photo mosaic effect based on a hexagonal grid. The trick is to build your movie brush to include a hexagonal embedded alpha channel mask. And to then use that embedded alpha channel movie brush in the…
This Post shows how to work with the paint synthesizer in an alpha enabled view. We will start today’s example with the same Butterfly source image we used yesterday ( as shown in the 1st gallery image below). Remember, the Butterfly image is a TIFF image that contains an alpha channel. The easiest way…
There’s been a lot of discussion recently on the Studio Artist User Forum about working with alpha channels. While there is no need to get involved with alpha channels to build paint effects in Studio Artist, there is a full set of alpha channel features available for those of you who wish to use them.…
Each layer in Studio Artist is composed of 3 RGB (red-green-blue) image channels and 1 alpha (A) channel. The RGB image channels define a color image. The alpha channel is an extra image buffer that can be thought of as an additional mask channel associated with the layer. Technically the pixel values in the alpha…
This tip will discuss how to create an embedded alpha channel in a movie file you are generating with Studio Artist. Embedded alpha channels could be associated with movie stream or action processing movie file output. What is an embedded alpha channel? An embedded alpha channel can be thought of as a selection mask that…