Portable Pixarra Liquid Studio 4.17

The Color Management panel and the Brush Shortcut Panel are two panels you will use a lot. All the panels in Liquid 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 Liquid 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 Liquid Studio and save them to the User ArtSets.

Layers and Transparency

Easy access support for layers are in Liquid 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. Use any of the 50 available Mix modes to achieve perfect results. Transparency is supported.
Use up to 30 layers in your projects in Liquid Studio 4!

Paper Textures and Color

Easily set Paper Color and Paper Type for your painting projects. Liquid Studio 4 supports hundreds of different paper textures: choose between fine, medium and rough canvas, bricks, carpet, charcoal paper, fabric, ground, mosaic, rice paper, sandpaper, stone and a lot more.

Extensive Tool Set

In Liquid 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.​​​

Sketchbook System

The Page Explorer is a convenient sketchbook system which auto saves your artworks during the process. You can organize your artworks in different collections called “Books”. Liquid Studio 4 allows you to easily clone, name and move your pages, not only within the same book, but also to other collections.

Intelligent Color Palette

Define and save easily your favorite colors for future use. Extract the main colors from a picture with just 1 click. Easily change the necessary HSL settings.

Drawing Tablet Support

Experience expressive drawing and painting with the drawing tablet support with high precision sampling and pressure sensitivity.​

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 Liquid Studio brushes.
• And many more features!

New Features

New ArtSets and Brush Modifiers

• Shape modifier ArtSet
• Brush Size modifier ArtSet
• Brush Rotation modifier ArtSet
• Texture modifier ArtSet
• Color modifier ArtSet
• Effects modifier ArtSet

New Shortcuts

• Hot Key F2 to toggle all dialogs
• The comma (,) hot key allows for a temporary toggling of full screen mode
• The number keys 1-0 select brushes 1 – 10 from shortcuts panel
• The / key pops up the modifiers panel.
• Ctrl X key performs a cut action.
• The M key randomizes the selected brush.

New Brush Effects

• Brush effect “pRend DabEnd” added. Renders the particle only at the end of life with a dab.
• Brush effects “Add Var 1” – “Add Var 10”
• Brush effects “Sub Var 1” – “Sub Var 10” (v4.10)
• Brush effect “3D Shadow Opacity” added. Impacts the other shadow effects. (v4.10)
• Brush effect “VM Percentage 10000” added. (v4.10)
• 21 Blob Style brush effects added to change the rendering style foe Alpha Smooth Lum4 layers. (v4.17)
• Brush effects Block Start and Block End added for more powerful flow control.  (v4.17)
• Brush effect Anti-Alias v2. Design for use only with smooth stroke. (v4.17)
• Brush effect fade-by-size added. Useful to brushes that need to fade the strength with time based on initial brush size. (v4.17)
• Brush effect envelopes taper1-by-size to taper5-by-size (v4.17)
• Brush effect seed2 added to address issue with exposing it to the Brush Control panel. (v4.17)
• Brush effect Age stroke added to allow for more control over brush effects and enevelopes that interact with stroke length (v4.17)
• Brush effect PageArray added (v4.17)
• Brush effect ColorSeclect Set added (v4.17)
• Brush effect Rebase Reset LineTo added (v4.17)
• Brush effect Rebase Reset LineTo Reseed added (v4.17)
• Brush effect Clear Lum on Start added (v4.17)
• Brush Effect “Smooth Angle”. (v4.17)
• Brush Effects “Wedge3”, “Wedge4”, “Wedge5”, “Wedge6”. (v4.17)
• Brush Effect “ColorSelect Index” (v4.17)
• Brush Effect “VM Modulo” (v4.17)
• Brush Effects “VM Min” and “VM Max” (v4.17)
• Brush Effects “Multi 100” (v4.17)
• Brush Effects “Lock Dab Count” (v4.17)
• Brush Effects Envelope “b-ang SmthAngle” (v4.17)
• Brush Effects Envelopes “f-in-slow” and “f-out-slow” (v4.17)
• Brush Effect “Auto apply mode”. (v4.17)
• Brush Select option added to brush shortcuts popup menu. (v4.17)

Other New Features

• Preferences are now exposed via the Edit menu.
• Tablet compatibility flagged added in Preferences dialog.
• Edit Color dialog added to Quick Command option.
• New Utility Combo Palette.
• Mouse wheel support for lists.
• Menu option to toggle all dialogs
• Colors – Combos 01 now included with Paint Studio (v4.17)
• Import ArtSet option from the File menu.  (v4.17)

Enhancements

Improved Features

• Up to 30 layers are now available!
• Layers UI improvements.
• Page Explorer UI improvements.
• Color Selection improvements.
• Brush selection Improvements.
• All dialogs converted to use color themes.
• Color themes and icon updates.
• Font size improvements to better match higher resolutions.
• Ignore leading or trailing spaces in license key entry.
• Show a wait cursor when doing a long brush search operation.
• Increase the font size in the Brush Effects panel
• Pressure sensitivity responsiveness improved (v4.17)
• Increased number of brush blender bristles from 20 to 100! (v4.17)
• Brush effect Rad Scatter 2 improved to respond to brush resizing dynamically. (v4.17)

Changed Features

• F10 is used to open Page Explorer rather than F2.
• Brush Effect “VM Percentage 1000” to allow value to extend beyond the limit of a brush effect amount.
• The page position won’t automatically be recentered on each page change. (v4.17)
• Ctrl + Click on shortcut brush will open the Brush Select dialog. (v4.17)