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NEW PIXEL STUDIO 3 ✔ Pixel Art Creation ✔ 50+ Specialized Pixel Art Brushes ✔ Powerful Brush Editing ✔ Layers, Transparency, Symmetry 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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Pixel Studio, The Pixel Art Is Always Fun
Pixel Studio follows the key strong points from all the of the Pixarra TwistedBrush artist software products but with a focus on pixel art. This art, sometimes called retro, makes no attempt to hide pixels and sizes of images are often very small. Useful as utility for creating icons, sprites, and other small images for games and websites but also for art on its own. There is no surprise that pixel art is popular, it is simply fun!
Pixel Studio follows the key strong points from all the of the Pixarra TwistedBrush artist software products but with a focus on pixel art. This art, sometimes called retro, makes no attempt to hide pixels and sizes of images are often very small. Useful as utility for creating icons, sprites, and other small images for games and websites but also for art on its own. There is no surprise that pixel art is popular, it is simply fun!
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Powerful Pixel Art Editing
The user interface of Pixel Studio is designed for efficiency and elegance. Power of over a decade of development in the TwistedBrush product line brought to focus on the single task of pixel art. Specialized ArtSet for Pixel Art TwistedBrush has always been known for its powerful and vast collection of brushes. The same is true for Pixel Studio. The program includes a collection of brushes designed just for pixel art. |
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Brush Variety
Choices are important in pixel art as in any art. Here are a few pixel drawing brushes:
1. Pure pixel brush. Solid pixels are panted everywhere the cursor goes. This is a dab placement brush. Rather than drawing a line, a square or circle are drawn.
2. Anti-alias pure pixel. Same as previous but the pixels edges are smoothed.
3. Pixel brush that draws as a connected line. This is a straight line brush, solid and anti-aliased.
A remembered powerful brush in Pixel Studio is the auto mask fill brush. Draw pixels within an enclosed area without worrying about going outside of the lines. Even change colors and your area is remembered because a mask is magically created for you behind the scenes.
Quick Access Panels
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Pixel 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 Pixel 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 Pixel Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Pixel 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 Pixel 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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Choices are important in pixel art as in any art. Here are a few pixel drawing brushes:
1. Pure pixel brush. Solid pixels are panted everywhere the cursor goes. This is a dab placement brush. Rather than drawing a line, a square or circle are drawn.
2. Anti-alias pure pixel. Same as previous but the pixels edges are smoothed.
3. Pixel brush that draws as a connected line. This is a straight line brush, solid and anti-aliased.
A remembered powerful brush in Pixel Studio is the auto mask fill brush. Draw pixels within an enclosed area without worrying about going outside of the lines. Even change colors and your area is remembered because a mask is magically created for you behind the scenes.
Quick Access Panels
The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Pixel 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 Pixel 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 Pixel Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.
Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Pixel 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 Pixel 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.
- Work with symmetry with all the standard Pixel Studio brushes.
- And many more features!
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Clean User Interface
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Specialized ArtSet for Pixel Art
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5 User ArtSets with the ability to save brushes in them
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Wide Brush Variety
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Auto Mask Fill Brushes - Draw pixels within an enclosed area without worrying about going outside of the lines
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Quick Access Panels
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Quick Command Panel
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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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Supported Layers
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Masks
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Symmetry
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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.
Pixel 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
- 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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