MSG Evolver is a stand alone MSG editing and effects application that shipped with the Studio Artist 3.5 release. One particularly cool feature of Evolver is the Art Mapper, which can be used to generate photo mosaic effects and/or composite art images created from multiple applications of MSG presets. This tip will discuss some approaches to duplicating…
The 2 canvas images shown here were generated by painting with a movie brush. The second example was using manual painting that cycles through the individual frames in the movie source brush, placing them one by one along a manually paint path as you move the pen on the canvas. The first example was generated…
Today’s post continues where we left off with yesterday’s post. We show how to use the Vectorizer to overlay some black source feature outlining on top of a very abstract irregular photo mosaic effect we constructed in yesterday’s post. The source feature outline overlay can help anchor the abstract photo mosaic image, making it more…
The last 2 day’s posts have covered working with photo mosaic effects that tile in a regular grid pattern and allow for addition of non-overlapping sub blocks within the tiling mosaic to add additional detail. At the end of yesterday’s post we briefly mentioned that you could use the Vectorizer to define the region structure…
Hand Painting Nested Sub-Blocks to Build Detail in a Regular Grid Photo Mosaic. This post continues our discussion started yesterday about a particular paint synthesizer approach to generating a traditional photo mosaic rectangular grid. Yesterday we discussed how to modify Path Application control panel settings to setup a regular grid tiling that sub nests with…