There’s a cool feature buried in the paint synthesizer that lets you paint individual words from a textural passage into paint regions. So each painted region has only one word painted in it’s interior. This feature is a part of the Region Fill as Brush pen mode. There are lots of different ways to paint…
The following image shows a simple Pantograph effect generated using the paint synthesizer. The details of how this effect was put together is interesting, so we’ll explore it’s underpinnings in more depth in this post.
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.
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.
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.