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 is a system of painting with light. All paintings in Luminance Studio start with a black background and are painted to the light. Limited colors are needed because the more you paint over the lighter and more brilliant the paint becomes.In addition to the natural media style, Luminance Studio also excels at line art with a luminance style which is well suited for abstract works.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.Features:*Clean user interface, designed for an easy, quick work flow*Paper texture: a collection of different textures that will make your fine art creations come alive*Quick auto hiding tool panels*Quick Command panel providing configurable array of buttons*Powerful brush effects system: over 500 different effects that can be combined in 28 effect layers with each effect processed with 100's of modifiers*Layers with easy access support*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