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FLOW / Print experiments

Heatwave.

A painted summer becomes a coarse, electric color field.

Move Color steps before Color offset. Lower its mix to bring back the brushwork.

Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.

A painted summer becomes a coarse, electric color field.

The transformation

From source to study.

The result below is an actual studio export with this recipe. The source image is part of the result; changing it creates a different work.

Original A for Heatwave
Original A
Wheat Field with Cypresses · Vincent van Gogh
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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A painted summer becomes a coarse, electric color field.
Finished study
FLOW + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

FLOW structure

  • Brush reach 1.25× · Soft edge 65%
  • Starting pose: liquid
  • 13 recorded sculpting actions · Strength 62%
  • Return 0% · Friction 0.88

Compose passes, in order

Your first change

Move Color steps before Color offset. Lower its mix to bring back the brushwork.

PNG and animation retain the photographic finish. These are raster treatments.

Develop this into a finished work.

A subject with a still center

A composed PNG and an editable project backup with the source, focal treatment and local edits.

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