Yesterday we discussed how to build custom preset Favorites categories. One cool feature of Favorites categories is that you can combine together different operation mode presets into a single accessible category. This is useful for organizing different kinds of presets (like paint and image operation presets) that work together to build specific visual effects. Favorites categories can also be used to control Gallery Show processing in several different ways. Today's post takes a look at using a custom preset Favorites category as a Start Cycle Option for a Gallery Show effect.

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The Preset Favorites Toolbar provides a way to custom organize different Studio Artist presets. You can build custom Favorites categories to provide quick access to presets you frequently use in your work. The Favorites toolbar is also useful when manually painting, since it takes up much less screen real estate than the full Preset Browser palette.

Favorites categories also provide a way to mix and match different preset types in a single category. So you could do something like make a category for watercolor effects that included watercolor paint presets as well as image processing presets that simulate wet canvas effects.

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Yesterday we discussed how you can use Region Draw Pen Mode to automatically generate different hatching patterns to fill in interactively drawn regions. Today we'll show how you can use the Region Draw Pen Mode hatching patterns to fill paint regions generated by path start regionization.

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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.

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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.

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Yesterday we shows how to configure the paint synthesizer to generate a simple tiled inset circle paint effect. Today we modify yesterday's paint preset to generates hexagonal tiled inset painted squares.

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Today's post shows how to configure the paint synthesizer to generate tiled random sized inset paint circles.

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Yesterday we discussed how to work with path start regionization to build paint effects that intelligently paint in a series of regions generated from analyzing the source image. Today we will continue out discussion of path start regionization and show how you can use Region Fill as Brush pen mode to fill in path start regions with solid flat colored regions (as opposed to painting them using an outline fill path).

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Path Start Regionization is a special feature of the Studio Artist paint synthesizer. When used with auto-painting, the paint synthesizer first intelligently analyzes the source image, breaking it up into a series of individual regions. A wide variety of different path generation options are then available that can paint in the individual path start regions with different fill patterns.

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Live Extend is a new Path Type feature in Studio Artist 4. It is designed to be used with paint presets for manual drawing, and creates dynamic streaming real time paint effects.

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