Luminance Studio Changelog

What's new in Luminance Studio 5.04

Sep 12, 2023
  • 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.

New in Luminance Studio 3.03 (Jun 15, 2020)

  • Added:
  • Brush Control Panel now available!! Allows for easier brush adjustments on par with Pro Studio.
  • Paint Bucket tool added.
  • Gradient tool added.
  • Rectangle Mask tool added.
  • Ellipse Mask tool added.
  • Polygone Mask tool added.
  • Lasso Mask tool added.
  • Magic Wand Mask tool added.
  • Warp tool added.
  • Clips panel added.
  • 4 more levels of brush effects added. Now 32 levels of brush effects are possible!

New in Luminance Studio 2.13 (Jul 31, 2017)

  • Added - Copy Tool added
  • Added - Paste Tool added. Alt while pasting will rotate. Shift while pasting will resize
  • Added - UI Color Themes, Light, Light Gray and Slate added
  • Change - Tool hotkeys no longer will act as a temporary tool selection
  • Fixed - Crash if showing Windows desktop when the Select Brush panel was active

New in Luminance Studio 2.07 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Formal release of updates in 2.06
  • Improved - Code signing the install program for greater protection and ease to installation.

New in Luminance Studio 2.06 Beta (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Changed - Underlying tools migrated to current Windows
  • Changed - Removed dependency on directplay therefore legacy components don't need to be enabled for Windows 10
  • Changed - Updated dialog sizes to account for modern Windows frame padding
  • Fixed - Compatibility with Microsoft Input Panel has been resolved. Easier to run on tablet PCs now

New in Luminance Studio 2.05 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Added - Tablet Compatibility Mode (TabComp) toggle added to Quick Command system.
  • Fixed - Don't allow merging layers into a non-background layer. Result will not be correct.
  • Fixed - The Eye and Lock icons on the layer panel did not have the correct hot spots for clicking them.

New in Luminance Studio 2.04 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Added - Two additional eraser brushes in the Luminance Studio : Paint 1 ArtSet to allow for more control in shading.

New in Luminance Studio 2.03 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Fixed - A few brushes (premium) were not behaving properly due to their randomized luminance values.
  • Fixed - The Alpha Highlight layer mode was only working properly at 100% zoom level.

New in Luminance Studio 2.02 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Added - Tracing Paper support added.
  • Changed - The layer type Alpha Lum Highlight has been changed to allow a configurate transparent edge and strength of
  • effect.
  • Changed - The layer type Alpha Lum Highlight will not highlight colors with a low luminance.
  • Changed - Tracing paper is back to 50% transparency.