BW Woodcut Style Paint Effect
Today’s paint effect simulates a black and white woodcut effect. It uses the Path End Visual Error features discussed in yesterday’s post to intelligently build up black paint strokes on a white canvas background.
Fine Tuning Sketch Paint Presets
The Studio Artist paint synthesizer is capable of some really nice smart sketch paint effects. However, sometimes you need to fine tune the editable parameters associated with the intelligent sketch behavior to get the best rendition of your particular source image. Today’s post will take a look at how to fine tune a sketch effect.
MSG Color Edge Abstraction
Yesterday we shows how to use a spatially modulated MSG float sum area blur effect to process a source photo to fake a miniature view. Today we’ll take a look at a different float sum area filtering effect that generates a resolution independent color source edge abstraction.
New Blanking Buffer Options for Smart Sketch Effects
The paint synthesizer has always had a number of smart paint dropout options that can be turned on to add visual intelligence to building up sketch effects. Some of these old options depended on starting with a white or black canvas. Studio Artist includes some smart sketch options based on the Blanking Buffer, which allows…
BW Sketch Styles
The following gallery above shows four different black and white sketch effects, designed to emulate different pencil or ball point pen sketching styles. They start out with a tight rendition of the source image and then get progressively looser. The sketch effects build up mass and edge rendition by utilizing the Sketch Mass and Sketch…