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NEW LUMINANCE STUDIO 3 ✔ Painting with Light: Natural Media and Design Art Styles ✔ 140+ Specialized Brushes ✔ Powerful Brush Editing ✔ Different Paper Textures ✔ Layers, Transparency and Mask Support ✔ Clips, Tracing Paper & Reference Image Support ✔ Extensive Tool Set ✔ Automated Solutions ✔ Convenient Sketchbook System ✔ Clean User Interface & Different Color Themes
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Luminance Studio, Painting With Light
Luminance Studio is a Pixarra product in the Studio series with a focus on painting with luminance for both natural media and design style of artwork. It builds on the success of other Studio products by Pixarra, giving you, the artist, a tool dedicated to achieving your vision quicker and better than other options.
Luminance Studio is a Pixarra product in the Studio series with a focus on painting with luminance for both natural media and design style of artwork. It builds on the success of other Studio products by Pixarra, giving you, the artist, a tool dedicated to achieving your vision quicker and better than other options.
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Natural Media Art Style
All the paintings in Luminance Studio start with a black background and are painted to the light. In most of the cases the number of colors and brushes that are needed for an artwork is limited and you can achieve great results with just a few. Design Art Style In addition to the natural media art style, Luminance Studio also excels at line art with a luminance style which is well suited for abstract works. |
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Artsets
Luminance Studio comes with 5 primary ArtSets. Paint, Design, Overpaint, Scribblers, and Masking ArtSets. Additionally there are 5 user ArtSets that can hold up to 60 brushes each.
Clean User Interface
Luminance 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.
Paper Texture
Your fine art creations will come alive with the Luminance Studio paper textures. There is a wide collection of different textures available.
Quick Access Panels
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Luminance 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 Luminance 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 Luminance Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Luminance 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 Luminance 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.
Other features
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Luminance Studio comes with 5 primary ArtSets. Paint, Design, Overpaint, Scribblers, and Masking ArtSets. Additionally there are 5 user ArtSets that can hold up to 60 brushes each.
Clean User Interface
Luminance 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.
Paper Texture
Your fine art creations will come alive with the Luminance Studio paper textures. There is a wide collection of different textures available.
Quick Access Panels
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Luminance 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 Luminance 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 Luminance Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Luminance 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 Luminance 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.
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.
- And many more features!
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Getting Started with Luminance Studio
Clean User Interface
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Natural Media Art Style
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Design Art Style
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5 Primary ArtSets - Paint, Design, Overpaint, Scribblers, and Maskings and 5 User Artsets
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Quick Access Panels
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Quick Command Panel
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Supported Layers
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64-bit color painting system
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Solutions - an easy way to select and use predefined sets of filters and actions to accomplish complex tasks
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Paper Textures
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Masks
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The Tracing feature allows you to see a ghost image of another page or cloning source
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Up to 9 floating reference Image panels to hold reference photos when working on your art
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Simplified and easy to use Tools
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Powerful Brush Effects System allowing you to edit your brushes
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Sketchbook system that automatically saves your work to your sketchbook
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Six different themes
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System Requirements
Compatible Formats
TBR, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, PSD, BMP, PCD, WMF and EMF.
- 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.
Luminance Studio 3 Product Update
New Features
New Tools
New Brush Effects
Other New Features
Enhancements
Improved Features
Changed Features
Fixed Problems
New Tools
- Transform Tool
- Line Tool
- Bezier Curve Tool
- Rectangle Tool
- Ellipse Tool
- Paint Bucket Tool
- Gradient Tool
- Rectangle Mask, Ellipse Mask, Polygon Mask, Lasso Mask and Magic Wand Mask Tools
- Warp Tool
- Tool options added for all tools
New Brush Effects
- "Auto Mask Fine Tolerance" brush effect with 100x the sensitivity of the original
- Brush effect "3D Highlight Color"
- Brush effect "3D Shadow Color"
- 4 more levels of brush effects added. Now 32 levels of brush effects are possible!
Other New Features
- Brush Control Panel now available!! Allows for easier brush adjustments on par with Pro Studio.
- Clips panel added
- Menu Bar added
- Tool Bar added
- Tracing Paper support added
- Hotkey Ctrl + Spacebar to zoom in added
- Hotkey Shift + Spacebar to zoom out added
- Copy Page and Paste Page added to the Edit menu
- Slate Light theme added
Enhancements
Improved Features
- Greater compability with Windows 10.
- Complex brushes and particle brushes are up to 2x faster!
- Page Up, Page Down, Arrow Up, Arrow Down will scroll the thumbnails in the Page Explorer. Must mouse click on a thumbnail first.
- Brush Effect panel updated to use the selected color theme.
Changed Features
- Page Explorer hotkey is now F10.
Fixed Problems
- The Quick Commands, Lum + 1, Lum + 3, Lum -1 and Lum - 3 were not working.
- Crash if showing Windows desktop when the Select Brush panel was active.
- The Zoom to Center option was not working correctly.
- Links in Help menu were incorrect.
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