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NEW PAINT STUDIO 3 ✔ Natural Media Painting ✔ 140+ of the Best Natural Media Brushes from Pixarra ✔ Powerful Brush Editing ✔ Layers, Transparency and Mask Support ✔ Clips, Tracing Paper & Reference Image Support ✔ Automated Solutions ✔ Extensive Tool Set ✔ Convenient Sketchbook System ✔ Clean User Interface & Different Color Themes
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Paint Studio, Natural Media Painting
Paint Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on natural media painting and drawing with a simpler, streamlined interface. Internally the same great TwistedBrush brush engine is used. TwistedBrush Pro Studio is feature packed but if you want a stripped down version for painting and drawing with a new slick interface then Paint Studio is for you. Paint Studio strips away complexity and what remains is the very best natural media brushes available as well as the key features that have always made TwistedBrush great.
Paint Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on natural media painting and drawing with a simpler, streamlined interface. Internally the same great TwistedBrush brush engine is used. TwistedBrush Pro Studio is feature packed but if you want a stripped down version for painting and drawing with a new slick interface then Paint Studio is for you. Paint Studio strips away complexity and what remains is the very best natural media brushes available as well as the key features that have always made TwistedBrush great.
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Natural Media Paint Brushes
Paint Studio includes a selection of the best natural media brush from Pro Studio package for easy access for the digital fine artist. Clean User Interface Paint 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. |
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Quick Access Panels
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Paint 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 Paint 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 Paint 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 Paint Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Paint 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 Paint 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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Read a detailed review about Paint Studio from Fixthephoto.com
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Paint 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 Paint 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 Paint 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 Paint Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Paint 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 Paint 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!
Pixarra Products Comparison Table
Read a detailed review about Paint Studio from Fixthephoto.com
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Clean User Interface
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Natural Media Brushes (Simple Strokes)
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Natural Media Brushes (white paint strokes overlaid on red paint strokes)
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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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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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Powerful Brush Effects System allowing you to edit your brushes
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Simplified and easy to use Tools
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Sketchbook system that automatically saves your work to your sketchbook
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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.
Paint Studio 3 Product Updates
New Features
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
- 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
- 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.
- Greater compatibility with Windows 10 (3.02).
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.
- Copyright year (3.02)
- Links in Help menu were incorrect (3.02)
- The Page Explorer did not open correctly (3.02)
- Brush control sliders were not allowing selection of a value of 0 (3.03)
- The user ArtSets were sometimes not saving the brush icon with the brush (3.03)
Other Products From Pixarra
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