Artstudio Pro 2.3.2

Artstudio Pro is a powerful painting and photo editing app available for both macOS and iOS. The successor to our famous ArtStudio app has been redesigned bringing many new features and improvements taking full advantage of the latest technologies Metal, iCloud Drive, and optimized for 64-bit multi-core processors to achieve the smoothest possible workflow.

Hundreds of assets are included and users have the ability to import resources in the most popular formats (ABR, TPL, PAT, GRD, ASE, ACO) giving instant access to millions of brushes, patterns, gradients, color swatches and fonts. It will boost your creativity and help you bring your ideas to life quickly and easily.

Artstudio Pro Features:

New engine

The powerful GPU accelerated ArtEngine developed by Lucky Clan is 5-10 times faster than the previous engine. It allows working with multiple documents, supports large canvas sizes and an unlimited number of layers. Incredible optimization ensures smooth work even with large canvases.

• Multiple open documents
• Canvas size: 256Mpix
• Unlimited layers
• 27 tools: Move, Select, Crop, Eyedropper, Paint, Wet Paint, Eraser, Bucket/Pattern/Gradient Fill, Smudge, Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Text, Heal, Clone, and more

Flexible layer system

Artstudio Pro introduces a new layer system with grouping, non-destructive layer effects, and adjustment layers.

• Groups
• Masks, clipping masks
• Adjustment layers
• 9 layer effects: Bevel/Emboss, Stroke, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Color/Gradient/Pattern Overlay, Drop Shadow
• 27 blending modes
• Text layers
• Transform multiple layers simultaneously

Advanced Brush engine

Perfectly optimized, lag free mechanism generating smooth, real looking strokes, making the most of the stylus.

• Brush size up to 4000×4000
• 64-bit painting with pattern, double stamp, wet brush, dynamics
• Brush editor with 80 customizable settings
• Over 100 built-in brushes divided into a few groups: Painting, Sketching, Markers, Inking, Dots & Specks, and more
• Symmetric painting with custom symmetry line

Professional photo editor

Photo editing options developed in cooperation with professional photographers. Each feature was tested in several scenarios and light conditions.

• 15 adjustments available as non-destructive layer or simple adjustment: Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Exposure/Gamma, Shadows/Highlights, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Temperature/Tint, Black and White, Gradient Map and more
• 4 auto adjustments: Auto Contrast, Levels, Lightness, Saturation
• Dozens of filters with realtime preview and the ability to generate seamless patterns
• Inpaint, Elastify (Liquify) ,Lighting, Depth Of Field, Denoise
• Retouching tools: Heal, Dodge, Burn, Sponge and more
• Image resize, Canvas resize
• Crop using special tool, crop from selection, trim transparent areas

Import/Export

We have implemented many parsers from the most popular assets/images formats and we are especially proud of our ABR/TPL parser which not only reads brush stamps and patterns, but also most settings which are converted to Artstudio Pro brush engine values.

Import

• Images – PNG, JPEG, PSD, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, most raw formats
• Brushes – ABR, TPL
• Color swatches – ASE, ACO
• Patterns – PAT
• Gradients – GRD
• Fonts – TTF, OTF

Export

• Images – PNG, JPEG, PSD, TIFF, PDF

Other features

• Full iCloud integration
• Screen recording
• All features available on macOS, iPad and iPhone
• Selection displayed as marching ants, quick mask or invisible
• Snapping to guidelines, dynamic guidelines, grid
• Perspective grid assist
• Mirror (flipped) view
• Canvas rotation

What’s New in Artstudio Pro 2.3.2

GENERAL

• added CMYK color proof (Image>Color Profile>CMYK Preview)
• added auto activating Edit>Transform after adding photo as a layer (it can be disabled in Preferences)

INTERFACE

• added Show Previous/Next Document in menu
• added option to copy/paste curves in Brush Editor
• added Crosshair cursor option

BRUSH ENGINE

• new brush parameters: Max Flow, Jitter / Stroke Angle, Jitter / Preserve Luminosity
• added per brush Tilt curve
• Flow and Spacing brush parameters have now 0.1% precision
• it is now allowed to set negative Rotation in Brush > Aux Stamp

TOOLS, ADJUSTMENTS, FILTERS

• added Median filter
• added option to select Hue range to Hue/Saturation adjustment
• improved Dodge/Burn tools, added Protect option
• added Symmetry support in Elastify filter

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

• improved performance of Wet Paint and Smudge tools
• Twitter/Facebook/Forum menu items moved to ‘Social’ menu group
• If canvas is fully visible, View>Mirror uses canvas center as pivot point
• Fixed paste origin when adding new layer from photo or clipboard
• changed Smoothing calculation – now value 0 disables smoothing at all
• few other bug fixes and improvements

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