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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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Found a new way of bypassing one of Alchemy's limitations, though! There was a problem with using the Smooth Affect: it makes really sweet gradients but after a good 500 strokes or so, the program begins to not recognize when you're trying to make a new stroke until you just turn off Smooth for the rest of the image. Apparently what's going on is that when a new stroke is made with the Smooth affect on, every previous stroke is simultaneously smoothed: for example, with this picture I'd do something on the face and suddenly strokes on the leg would shift.
The bypass trick is to just save/export the image, clear it from canvas, then reload it as a background image. I'm guessing this works because Alchemy is a vector-based program, so it has programmable capabilities to do stuff like memorizing and manipulating every single brush stroke ever done without computationally killing your computer. When the image is reloaded/imported, its no longer part of the calculations but just a stagnant imported piece of wallpaper, and all future strokes will be done in vector until its exported as well.
I know this most likely doesn't make sense at all since everyone uses other programs for better effects, I just wanted to say something about this for the sake of just getting it out of my head.