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AUGUST 08, 2002 Creating Photomosaics in Studio Artist
Collecting the images The basic concept for this process will be to create a paint brush that cycles through the frames of a QuickTime movie and intelligently decides where each frame should go on your canvas based on the RGB values of the original, source image compared with the individual frames in your mosaic brush. [an error occurred while processing this directive] To begin, you're going to want to get together a large group of images and place them into a single folder. You'll want to use images with a very wide range of dominant colors and not too much contrast--plant shots for greens, ocean shots for blues, etc. And, presumably, you'll want images that have something to do with the main source image. For example, if you're doing a photomosaic of a child, you might want to have a couple hundred shots of that child doing things in a variety of situations. But this second part isn't necessary. Just make sure you have a wide variety of images. Now, once you've selected your images, you're going to need to compile them into a single QuickTime file. You can do this in a number of ways. One is to number the images sequentially and import them into QuickTime Pro as an image sequence. Another would be to use Studio Artist's Paint Action Sequence feature to do this. There are benefits to both methods. The QuickTime Pro method is better if you have images with widely differing aspects and orientations. But, if all your images are, for example, horizontal and of roughly the same aspect ratio, you can do it easily with Studio Artist. I'll show you how to do it the Studio Artist way. 1. Launch Studio Artist and select any source image and canvas size. It doesn't matter at this point. 2. In Studio Artist, open up the Paint Action Sequence Window (Action > Paint Action Sequence Window) and click the Erase button to get rid of the default Paint Action Sequence (PASeq). 
3. Click the Record button. 
4. In the area above your canvas, select Source Image from the pull-down menu. (If Source Image is already selected, then just click once on the little arrow next to the pull-down menu.) 
5. Uncheck the Record button. 
6. From the Action menu, choose Process Image Files with Paint Action Sequence > To Movie. When the dialog appear, select the folder that contains your image, and click Choose. (All of your images must be in one folder.) 
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