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. Take a look below for some highlights of what you will find in Luminance Studio.

Natural Media Art Style
To the left are paintings created with Luminance Studio. In both cases the number of colors selected was limited as well as the number of the brushes used were limited. As all paintings in Luminance Studio, both started with a black background and painted to the light. The watermelon was painted without a reference and in the bottom painting a reference was used. In fact they are the eyes of Rembrandt painted on a paper texture in Luminance Studio!

Design Art Style
In addition to the natural media style art as shown above, 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. Below are the Paint and Design ArtSets.

Clean USER INTERFACE
Luminance Studio, as all of Pixarra's focused Studio products, has a clean interface, designed for an easy, quick work flow. Shown is the dark theme but lighter color themes are also available.

Paper Texture
Your fine art creations will come alive with the Luminance Studio paper textures. Here is a collection of different textures that are available.

Quick Access Panels
On the right are two panels you will use a lot. The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel. 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.

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.

Other Features
Above are just some of the features in Luminance Studio, there is much, much more.

- 64 bit color painting system for the smoothest blends available anywhere.
- Worlds 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!

Release Notes
- Added - Brush Control Panel now available!! Allows for easier brush adjustments on par with Pro Studio.
- Added - Paint Bucket tool added.
- Added - Gradient tool added.
- Added - Rectangle Mask tool added.
- Added - Ellipse Mask tool added.
- Added - Polygone Mask tool added.
- Added - Lasso Mask tool added.
- Added - Magic Wand Mask tool added.
- Added - Warp tool added.
- Added - Clips panel added.
- Added - 4 more levels of brush effects added. Now 32 levels of brush effects are possible!
- Added - Menu Bar added.
- Added - Tool Bar added.
- Added - Tool options added for all tools.
- Added - Auto Mask Fine Tolerance brush effect added with 100x the sensitivity of the original.
- Added - Brush effects 3D Highlight Color and 3D Shadow Color added.
- Added - Hotkey Ctrl + Spacebar to zoom in added.
- Added - Hotkey Shift + Spacebar to zoom out added.
- Added - Copy Page and Paste Page added to the Edit menu.
- Added - Slate Light theme added.
- Improved - Greater compability with Windows 10.
- Improved - Complex brushes and particle brushes are up to 2x faster!
- Improved - Page Up, Page Down, Arrow Up, Arrow Down will scroll the thumbnails in the Page Explorer. Must mouse click on a thumbnail first.
- Improved - Brush Effect panel updated to use the selected color theme.
- Changed - Page Explorer hotkey is now F10.
- Fixed - The Quick Commands, Lum + 1, Lum + 3, Lum -1 and Lum - 3 were not working.
- Fixed - Crash if showing Windows desktop when the Select Brush panel was active.
- Fixed - The Zoom to Center option was not working correctly.
- Fixed - Links in Help menu were incorrect.

System Requirements:
- Windows /XP / Vista / Windows 7/ Windows 8 / Windows 10
- 500MB disk space
- 1024x768 minimum display resolution
- 4GB RAM (8GB or more recommended)

Homepage

http://www.pixarra.com