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AUGUST 08, 2002 Creating Photomosaics in Studio Artist
Advanced: Creating a Photomosaic preset If your like me and have to do everything yourself, you're in for a fairly involved exercise in using the Paint Synthesizer. In order to ensure that you follow along properly, start with the Bristle Wet Flow preset, which can be found in the Default Category in the "1.5 General" folder. I'm beginning with the alpha-enabled version of this plugin, which is in the General folder in the Dave's Alpha-Enabled Presets category. (These are included on the Studio Artist 2.0 installation CD.) [an error occurred while processing this directive] Now, I did a ton of tweaking on that preset to turn it into a photomosaic plugin. I'm not going to cover all of the settings that went into it, but I will show you the critical ones that affect how the brush applies itself as a mosaic. The rest are all just variations, which we''ll explore in the future. 
Once you've selected the Bristle Wet Flow preset, go into the Paint Synthesizer and follow these steps. 1. In the Brush Source pane, you obviously want to change the Brush Source to Movie. Then import your movie brush using File > Paint Synth > New Movie Brush. Change "Frame Mod" to "RGB Mapping," which forces the individual frames of the movie file to map onto the source image's approximately equivalent values. (This is also critical.) 
2. In Paint Fill Setup, change "Fill From" and Fill to" to "Brush Image." You can play around with the "Mod Type" option or set it to "None," as I did. 
3. In Path Application change "Mode" to "Hex Tile." Set Spacing to 200. And play around with Displacement, if you'd like. 
4. In Path Start, change the "Generator" to "Grid Scan." (Other generators will work as well, but this one seems most consistent.) 
These are all of the major settings that contribute to the Photomosaic, though you can mess around with other settings to vary the look and distribution significantly. (We'll get into some of these in the next installment.) When you're done creating your preset, choose File > Export > Export Paint Patch, and save it inside your Studio Artist presets folder somewhere. Then choose Edit > Preset > Reload Presets to load the new preset back into your Presets panel. (At this point, you can continue experimenting with settings and saving new presets as you go without fear of losing your original settings.) Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Related sites: • AV Video • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • DV Format • Film and Video Magazine • Film Imaging • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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