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February 12, 2001

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Review
Synthetik Studio Artist 1.5
Painting and rotoscoping software for the Mac
It occurs to me that with all the squawking I've done about the virtues of Synthetik Studio Artist, I haven't yet done a review of version 1.5 or explained its broad range of features all in one place. I'll rectify this now. Studio Artist does everything, so it's a difficult application to pin down. However, it's not too hard to describe the overall effect of Studio Artist. Since it's only available on the Mac, I'll describe it this way: It makes you feel the way you felt the first time you used your Mac. That is, it's the kind of thing you use and then have dreams about. (Yes, I have dreams about my Mac and Studio Artist. Further details are unavailable at the moment.)

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Tutorial
Color Mapping in Synthetik Studio Artist
Basic operations and methods for cleaning up maps
In Synthetik Studio Artist, you can use the Color Map Image Processing Operation to apply the colors from one image to another. But color mapping, like any automated process, isn't always perfect. You might hope to generate a bright orange sky and get a muddy purple instead. Or you might want to turn your sun black, but it comes out red. Today we're going to look at some methods for correcting color mapping in Studio Artist. But first we'll see some of the basic steps to generate a color map and apply it to a new image.

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Opinion
Talkin' Smack: The Ultimate Peecee Virus
How to wreck Windows the fun and legal way
I receive letters occasionally from readers telling me their tales of woe and triumph. The tales of woe usually involve companies taking away a designer's Mac to replace it with a Compaq or something equally horrifying. I haven't received any of these letters lately. But I have been getting mail from people recounting the the tales of triumph in which they manage to convince someone in their company to bring in a Mac, which inevitably leads to the Great Mac Gathering.

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