Tabs and Sources

The area at the bottom of the Studio Editor screen is where you will find 42 Tabs giving access to over 700 Sources grouped together under the following four Categories: Colours, Edges and Outlines, Masks and Surfaces and Low and Highlights. There is a radio button to the left of each Category name with a green light to indicate which Category you have selected. The default setting is Colours, with the Main Colours Tab selected.

As you click on the names of the Tabs, you will see the Sources, appear as thumbnails housed in the small panels contained in the Tab strips. If there are more Sources than can fit the width of your screen, move the Tab’s slider (under the Sources) to the right to reveal them.

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Note: In ArtWizard Mode, just the Tab that the ArtWizard has selected is available, whereas in Manual Mode the full range of 42 Tabs and 700+ Sources are always available.

Sources are computer generated variants of the original photograph, obtained with the help of innovative algorithms that include the automatic recognition of important features in the centre of the photograph, the location of highlights and lowlights at multiple scales and the warping and distortion of edges and colour blocks etc.

Full size versions of the Sources are only computed once selected and clicked on - they are then cached to your computer’s hard disk i.e. once computed they will appear real-time when selected again in the same Studio session. Some Sources are created from others, in which case these too are cached on disc.

Sources can be selected and put onto either the Palette or the Stencil (see the Palette and Stencil section for more information). When placed into the Palette they can be blended onto the Canvas using either the Brush or Flood-fill tools. When placed into the Stencil, a Source acts as a ‘mask’ through which the Palette is blended onto the Canvas. The Palette shows through where the Stencil is white or light grey and is blocked out where it is black or dark grey.

Note: On the surface one Source might look the same as another, but when they are re-processed at their full resolution their appearance in the Palette and Canvas will look very different. We suggest you experiment and look at the variety available before committing to one particular Source.

A brief description of the Sources and what to expect under each Tab now follows: