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blob STUDIO

Blob Studio

NEW
BLOB STUDIO 4



       ✔  Model and Shape Individual Objects with Specialized Blob Brushes
       ✔  200+ Brushes Included
       ✔  Powerful Brush Editing
       ✔  Different Styles, Effects and Symmetry Support
       ✔  Layers, Transparency and Mask Support
       ✔ Different Paper Types & Colors
       ✔  Clips, Tracing Paper & Reference Image Support
       ✔  Automated Solutions
       ✔  Extensive Tool Set
       ✔  Convenient Sketchbook System 
       ✔  New User Interface & Different Color Themes
       ✔  Intelligent Color Palette & Improved Layer Management
       ✔  ​Tablet Compatibility
     
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  • Blob Art Creation
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Blob Studio, Modeling Art Style

Blob Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on creation of individual objects that you might use in other Pro Studio or other art software and with a simpler, streamlined interface. The Blob brushes allow you to model and shape your objects and then paint them with the included brushes with the results being crisp lines you might see in illustration software but without the need to mask anything. You can even continue to shape your objects after they are painted.

Specialized ArtSet
Blob Studio includes ArtSet with a wide range of brushes for working with all aspects of blobs.

Clean User Interface
Blob Studio, as all of Pixarra's focused Studio products, has a clean interface, designed for an easy, quick work flow. Dark and lighter color themes are available.

Quick Access Panels
Blob Studio 3
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Blob Studio will automatically hide if they get in your way while painting. Manually hiding all panels is also possible with the F3 hotkey.

Quick Command Panel
The Quick Command panel gives you a configurable array of buttons you can keep close at hand while working. Resize and reshape the panel to your needs. Add, remove and move buttons to create the layout that works best for you. Quickly show or hide the panel with the [F4] hotkey. Right click to edit a button or add one to an empty slot. [Ctrl] + click to drag a button to a new location. As an added bonus there is some functionality exposed in the Quick Command panel that isn't available anywhere else in Blob Studio.

Powerful Brush Effects System
Since User ArtSets are available you might be thinking where will you get new brushes from. There are a number of ways, user shared brushes in the Pixarra forum, brushes imported from Pro Studio, OR now you can edit brushes right in Luminance Studio with the powerful Brush Effects system from Pro Studio. First an IMPORTANT NOTE: Editing brushes is NOT an easy task. There are over 500 different effects that can be combined in 28 effect layers with each effect processed with 100's of modifiers. I think it's safe to say the Pixarra brush effects system makes for the most powerful brush engine in existence. Evidenced in the ability to draw simple lines or fully detailed tree with the same engine with a single stroke as can be seen in Tree Studio.
 
One of the common ways to use the Brush Effects panel is to tweak existing brushes in small ways to meet your needs and you can do this right in Blob Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.

Paper Textures and Color
Easily set Paper Color and Paper Type for your painting projects. Paint Studio 4 supports hundreds of different paper textures: choose between fine, medium and rough canvas, bricks, carpet, charcoal paper, fabric, ground, mosaic, rice paper, sandpaper, stone and a lot more.

Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Blob Studio. The idea is to keep your workflow simple and fast. A simple single click to create a layer with no scrolling. Right click a layer for additional options. Drag layers to rearrange them.

Extensive Tool Set
In Blob Studio 3 you have a full range of tools at your disposal, including Color Picker, Crop, Transform, Line, Bezier Curve, Rectangle, Ellipse, Paint Bucket, Gradients, Mask Rectangle, Mask Ellipse, Mask Polygon, Mask Wand, Warp,  Copy tool, Paste tool, Pan and Rotate Brush tools.

Clips
A fantastic productivity system that allows for easy storage and reuse of your clipped images and photo elements for use later. ​

Brush Control
Brush Control is a custom control panel, until now, available only in TwistedBrush Pro Studio, that changes for every Pro brush.​ The brush editor allows the designer to define exposed control points for a brush to make it easy to tune a selected brush without needing to understand the details of brush editing.​​

Intelligent Color Palette
Define and save easily your favorite colors for future use. Extract the main colors from a picture with just 1 click. Easily change the necessary HSL settings.

Drawing Tablet Support
Experience expressive drawing and painting with the drawing tablet support with high precision sampling and pressure sensitivity.​

Other features
  • 64 bit color painting system for the smoothest blends available anywhere.
  • World’s most powerful and flexible brush engine with the Pixarra brush effects system
  • Automatic saving multiple copies of your work in progress.
  • Brush compatibility with other Pixarra Studio products.
  • Tracing paper to use as a guide.
  • Up to 9 floating reference Image panels to hold reference photos when working on your art.
  • Sketchbook system that automatically saves your work to your sketchbook.
  • Switching pages in your book with a single key press (Page Up or Page Down)
  • Saving your work to a range of standard image formats.
  • Work with symmetry with all the standard Blob Studio brushes.
  • And many more features!

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Getting Started with Blob Studio

Clean User Interface
Clean User Interface
Modeling Art Style
Modeling Art Style
ArtSets
6 Specialized Primary ArtSets - Model, Styler, Texture, Paint, Pattern A and Utility
User ArtSets
5 User ArtSets with 60 brush slots each for storing brushes
Textures
Plenty of Textures ready to use
Quick Access Panels
Quick Access Panels
Quick Command Panel
Quick Command Panel
Supported Layers
Supported Layers
64-bit color painting system
64-bit color painting system
Solutions
Solutions - an easy way to select and use predefined sets of filters and actions to accomplish complex tasks
Symmetry
Symmetry
Masks
Masks
Styles
Plenty of Styles for automatic application
Effects
Effects - Blobify and Detail
Tracing Paper
The Tracing feature allows you to see a ghost image of another page or cloning source
Reference Images
Up to 9 floating reference Image panels to hold reference photos when working on your art
Tools
Simplified and easy to use Tools
Brush Effects System
Powerful Brush Effects System allowing you to edit your brushes
Sketchbook System
Sketchbook system that automatically saves your work to your sketchbook
Themes
Six different themes
The Process of Creating Blob Art
Picture
Step 1
Using the specialized brushes in Blob Studio paint on your canvas automatically  shaded objects. The each paint stroke on a layer will build up more material resulting in highlights and shaded areas.
Picture
Step 2
Once a basic shape is on your layer use the collection of shaping brushes to pull and push your shape simpler to working with clay. Adjusting the opacity of the brush impacts the strength of the shaping.
Picture
Step 3
Further refinements to your shape are achieved with smoothing brushes that can impact the basic shape as well as surface brushes that change the shades and texture without changing the core shape. Also notice the punched out areas, with was handled with the subtracting brush to remove material from your shape. 
Picture
Step 4
Once the shape of your object is complete use the fine collection of painting brushes to color your object. Notice the shape and shading of our object stays complete unchanged. There is also no limit on the type of painting brushes you can use to color your objects! Also if you decide to further refine your object shape after painting, you can do that too. 
Picture
Step 5
As a final step, style your object with a selection of different material effects. Shown here, a metallic look is applied. Different layers can have different styles! These styles are non-destructive and can be changed at any time! 
System Requirements
  • Windows Vista / Windows 7/ Windows 8 / Windows 10
  • 500MB disk space
  • 1024x768 minimum display resolution
  • 4GB RAM (8GB or more recommended)

Compatible Formats
TBR, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, PSD, BMP, PCD, WMF and EMF.​
Blob Studio 4 Product Updates

New Features

New ArtSets and Brush Modifiers
  • Shape modifier ArtSet
  • Brush Size modifier ArtSet
  • Brush Rotation modifier ArtSet
  • Texture modifier ArtSet
  • Color modifier ArtSet
  • Effects modifier ArtSet

New Brush Effects
  • Brush effect "pRend DabEnd" added. Renders the particle only at the end of life with a dab.
  • Brush effects "Add Var 1" - "Add Var 10"
  • Brush effects "Sub Var 1" - "Sub Var 10" 
  • Brush effect "3D Shadow Opacity" added. Impacts the other shadow effects.
  • Brush effect "VM Percentage 10000" added. 
  • 21 Blob Style brush effects added to change the rendering style foe Alpha Smooth Lum4 layers. (v4.17)
  • Brush effects Block Start and Block End added for more powerful flow control.  (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Anti-Alias v2. Design for use only with smooth stroke. (v4.17)
  • Brush effect fade-by-size added. Useful to brushes that need to fade the strength with time based on initial brush size. (v4.17)
  • Brush effect envelopes taper1-by-size to taper5-by-size (v4.17)
  • Brush effect seed2 added to address issue with exposing it to the Brush Control panel. (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Age stroke added to allow for more control over brush effects and enevelopes that interact with stroke length (v4.17)
  • Brush effect PageArray added (v4.17)
  • Brush effect ColorSeclect Set added (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Rebase Reset LineTo added (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Rebase Reset LineTo Reseed added (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Clear Lum on Start added (v4.17)
  • Brush Effect "Smooth Angle". (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects "Wedge3", "Wedge4", "Wedge5", "Wedge6". (v4.17)
  • Brush Effect "ColorSelect Index" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effect "VM Modulo" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects "VM Min" and "VM Max" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects "Multi 100" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects "Lock Dab Count" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects Envelope "b-ang SmthAngle" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effects Envelopes "f-in-slow" and "f-out-slow" (v4.17)
  • Brush Effect "Auto apply mode". (v4.17)
  • Brush Select option added to brush shortcuts popup menu. (v4.17)

New Paper Features
  • Paper Textures
  • Paper Color

New Shortcuts
  • Hot Key F2 to toggle all dialogs
  • The comma (,) hot key allows for a temporary toggling of full screen mode
  • The number keys 1-0 select brushes 1 - 10 from shortcuts panel
  • The / key pops up the modifiers panel.
  • Ctrl X key performs a cut action.
  • The M key randomizes the selected brush.

Other New Features
  • Preferences are now exposed via the Edit menu.
  • Tablet compatibility flagged added in Preferences dialog.
  • Edit Color dialog added to Quick Command option.
  • New Utility Combo Palette.
  • Mouse wheel support for lists.
  • Menu option to toggle all dialogs
  • Colors - Combos 01 now included with Paint Studio (v4.17)
  • Import ArtSet option from the File menu.  (v4.17)

Enhancements

Improved Features
  • Up to 30 layers are now available!
  • Layers UI improvements.
  • Page Explorer UI improvements.
  • Color Selection improvements.
  • Brush selection Improvements.
  • All dialogs converted to use color themes.
  • Color themes and icon updates.
  • Font size improvements to better match higher resolutions.
  • Ignore leading or trailing spaces in license key entry.
  • Show a wait cursor when doing a long brush search operation. 
  • Increase the font size in the Brush Effects panel 
  • Pressure sensitivity responsiveness improved (v4.17)
  • Increased number of brush blender bristles from 20 to 100! (v4.17)
  • Brush effect Rad Scatter 2 improved to respond to brush resizing dynamically. (v4.17)

Changed Features
  • F10 is used to open Page Explorer rather than F2.
  • Brush Effect "VM Percentage 1000" to allow value to extend beyond the limit of a brush effect amount. 
  • The page position won't automatically be recentered on each page change. (v4.17)
  • Ctrl + Click on shortcut brush will open the Brush Select dialog. (v4.17)

Fixed Problems
  • When the "Copy Page" option is selected, the Explorer window opens up. 
  • Some menus had an extra horizontal divider.
  • Quick Command options for many tools were missing.
  • Quick Command option for displaying clips panel was missing.
  • Tools with button tool options were triggered on button down rather than button up.
  • Program crash when clicking a scroll button without a full list of items in list.
  • The Random button on the Brush Control dialog is randomizing twice.
  • Hot Key F1 was opening Page Explore, it should not.
  • Brush Control slider not showing correct values for slider ranges not starting at 0. (v4.17)
  • Merging a layer into another layer with transparency doesn't work properly with many layer mixing modes. (v4.17)
  • Attempting to import a second ArtSet fails. (v4.17)
  • Hue being set to 0 when setting lum and sat to 0. It should not. (v4.17)
  • Brush Effect Reset not working above level 20. (v4.17) 
  • Density Adj was not working correctly (v4.17)
  • Text Brush effect "text clip repeat" was not working. (v4.17)
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