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AUGUST 14, 2003 Creating Paint-On Effects in Synthetik Studio Artist
5. Follow the steps outlined in the first section of this tutorial to start recording your movie. To recap, choose File > New Movie Stream > From Main Canvas. Then set your "Write Frame Flags" options in the Preferences (every Action and Subaction, remember?) 6. Now you're ready to start drawing your reveal, and there are two ways to go with this. Since your layer is in inverted alpha mode, it will essentially erase the background color of layer 2 as you paint, provided you're working with an alpha-enabled brush. How do you enable the alpha on your brushes? The best solution is to load up the 500 or so brushes I painstakingly created, which are located on your Studio Artist installation CD. They're all alpha-enabled. Alternately, you can choose any of the default brushes, and then select Edit > Paint Synthesizer > MacroEdit > Make Alpha Paint.[an error occurred while processing this directive]  Now it's an alpha brush, and anything you paint on Layer 2 will reveal the underlying layer. If, however, you want to do the opposite--that is, start out with some color drops that do not reveal the underlying layer, this is also simple. Just select your brush and choose Edit > Paint Synthesizer > MacroEdit > Make Non Alpha Paint. Now you can just paint colors without revealing anything. And you can swap back and forth to change things up. If, while you're painting, you notice that the underlying image is coming in too rough or distorted, go into the Paint Synthesizer and choose the Paint Fill Setup parameter. There, switch the "Fill From" and "Fill To" options to "Source Image." This will help keep things clean.  For this particular example, by the way, I'm using the brush called "Milky Liquid Tilt 3 Sym." This is located in the Liquids Spattering category in the Dave's Alpha Enabled Presets collection, which is, once again, located on your installation CD. 7. When you're done, in the name of all that's sacred, make absolutely sure you choose File > Close Stream, or your movie will be ruined. And, when you're done, you'll wind up with something like this. Here I'm showing the non-alpha brush in the beginning and then revealing the image gradually with an alpha-enabled brush. (Click the Play button to watch.) That's it. Remember, what I've shown you is just a sampling of five brushes out of the thousands available (and billions possible) in Studio Artist. So play around with the available brushes until you arrive at something appropriate for your project. If you have any questions, be sure to drop me a line or visit me in my Synthetik Studio Artist forum here. For more information about Studio Artist, visit Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 4 Related sites: • Animation Artist • AV Video • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Digital Video Editing • DV Format • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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