Pixarra Luminance Studio 5.04-0daytown

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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 3 Features
– New Tools – Paint Bucket, Gradient, Transform, Line, Bezier Curve, Rectangle, Ellipse, Rectangle Mask, Ellipse Mask, Polygon Mask?, Lasso Mask, Magic Wand Mask, and Warp ?Tools
– New Brush Effects – Auto Mask Fine Tolerance?, 3D Highlight Color and 3D Shadow Color
– Brush Control Panel
– Clips
– Copy and Paste Page
– New UI Color Themes
– New Hotkeys and More!

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.

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.

Layers
Easy access support for layers are in Luminance Studio. The idea is to keep your work flow 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!

What’s New
– Added: Brush effect envelopes pctvar1 – pctvar10 added.
– Added: Ability to hide/show individual sections for the UI panels, exposed in the View menu, Quick Command panel and hot keys!
– Added: Webp image format support added for saving and loading.
– Added: Insert Before Page and Insert After Page options added to Page Explorer.
– Added: Option to create a reference image from clipboard contents. Found in Edit menu.
– Improved: Suppport the longer form extension for JPEG files, .jpeg.
– Improved: Added page width and height to the main application title bar.
– Improved: Added keyboard shortcut keys to the Page Explorer menus.
– Improved: The layer mix mode dropdown list stays open now after selecting a layer mix mode.
– Improved: Formatting cleanup of the Tool options panel.
– Fixed: Spac Cen Pro brush effect leads to brush envelopes not properly working for that brush.
– Fixed: Loading a PNG with transparency not updating the layers panel properly.
– Fixed: The page scroll in Page Explorer is skipping 3 pages of images, it should skip to the next page.
– Fixed: PSD loading and saving isn’t working in some cases.
– Fixed: Formatting issues on many popup message boxes.
– Fixed: At start the tool options panel was displaying when it should not.
– Fixed: Resize Image dialog not defaulting to an algorithm.
– Fixed: Brush filters not setting default values in the filter dialog.
– Fixed: Lua based filters not working correctly for brush filters.