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About Lux Draw

Draw with light-inspired tools, for a unique art style!
Create a drawing from scratch, or add effects to your photos.
Let your creativity run wild!

• LIVE-CALCULATED HDR BRUSHES •
The app features live-calculated brushes and strokes, that together with HDR values make it feel like drawing with light!
Drawing tools include Glow Pen, Hot Pen, Light Spheres, Smear, and more.

• GRITTY PAPER/CANVAS TEXTURES •
Having a paper/canvas texture interacting in real-time with the drawing tools will give your artwork a satisfying, gritty look.
You can remove or change the default-generated texture to something else.
Click the Layers button, then click “Paper”, and finally “Regenerate”.

• COLOR BLENDING •
Use Smudge to softly blend colors together, or Smear to achieve immensely cool flame art (seriously, try it!).

• PARAMETERS CAN BE CHANGED LIVE •
All the control knobs in the toolbar can be changed and adjusted while you draw, by using the number keys (1, 2, 3...) on your keyboard.

• EASY AND QUICK TO USE COLOR PALETTE •
Changing the color is only a click away.
The colors in the palette can be rearranged, adjusted, added and removed.

• FULL SCREEN DRAWING •
The Mac’s full screen mode is supported.
You can remove the toolbar if you place the pointer on it and scroll toward the screen/window edge, or if you press the Tab key on your keyboard.
To get it back, scroll inward from near the edge.
You can also move the toolbar to the other side by scrolling it in that direction, or by pressing Shift-Tab.

• ZOOMING, PANNING, ROTATING •
On a trackpad, you can pinch to zoom, and use the rotation gesture to rotate the picture.
Scroll over the picture to pan.
On the keyboard, use the Arrow keys (pan) and - + buttons (zoom).
Use the Space key or the smart zoom gesture to reset zoom, pan, and rotation. Again to go back.

• SEAMLESS PATTERN EDITING MODE •
This unique feature lets you draw on the picture laid out as tiles next to each other.
The results can be used as website or desktop backgrounds, in print, or for textures in 3d modelling.

• METAL •
The engine is based on Metal, with 128-bit color and floating-point arithmetic.

• SWIFT •
The app was developed entirely using Swift (earlier versions used C++).

• DARK MODE • TOUCH BAR • WIDE COLOR •
• MULTIPLE LAYERS • PHOTO TRACING MODE (Pro feature) •
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What's New in the Latest Version 4.0

Last updated on Nov 11, 2019
Old Versions
[IMPROVED] Completely new drawing engine with paper/canvas textures.
[NEW] The toolbar automatically hides (or optionally, moves to the other side) when you draw near it.
[IMPROVED] The size of the toolbar can now be adjusted with a slider (Settings button -> Toolbar -> Toolbar Size).
[NEW] Some new drawing tools.
[IMPROVED] Some new and improved features in the color palette.
[NEW] A Settings button next to the Layers button.
[NEW] Some added customizations and settings.
[NEW] Help/Tip messages will appear from time to time.
[FIXED] Improved stability.
[IMPROVED] Website links in the app are now using secure connections.
[NEW] Various other things.
[IMPROVED] Lots of other improvements.
[FIXED] A number of minor and major issues.
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Version History
4.0
Nov 11, 2019
[IMPROVED] Completely new drawing engine with paper/canvas textures.
[NEW] The toolbar automatically hides (or optionally, moves to the other side) when you draw near it.
[IMPROVED] The size of the toolbar can now be adjusted with a slider (Settings button -> Toolbar -> Toolbar Size).
[NEW] Some new drawing tools.
[IMPROVED] Some new and improved features in the color palette.
[NEW] A Settings button next to the Layers button.
[NEW] Some added customizations and settings.
[NEW] Help/Tip messages will appear from time to time.
[FIXED] Improved stability.
[IMPROVED] Website links in the app are now using secure connections.
[NEW] Various other things.
[IMPROVED] Lots of other improvements.
[FIXED] A number of minor and major issues.
3.5
May 22, 2019
[IMPROVED] You can now rearrange the pictures in “Work in Progress” by pressing and then moving to a new position.
[IMPROVED] Drawing is now slightly faster.
[NEW] (Pro) Added new draw mode: Ellipse.
[IMPROVED] You can now right-click on any picture in “Work in Progress” to bring up a menu with a culled list of options (as well as selecting it, if it wasn’t already).[IMPROVED] You can now rearrange the colors in the palette by pressing and then moving a color to a new position (or outside the toolbar, to delete).
[IMPROVED] Some UI animations.
[IMPROVED] You can now press and move the Current Color to a specific position in the palette.
[FIXED] Improved stability.
[IMPROVED] Some minor things.
[FIXED] Some minor issues.
3.4
Apr 10, 2019
[IMPROVED] Now compiled with Swift 5.
[NEW] Encyclopedia of named colors, accessible from the Current Color menu.
[IMPROVED] You can now change the size of the control knobs for the current color’s hue, saturation, brightness, in the Current Color menu, under “Customize Toolbar”.
[NEW] Seamless Pattern Editing mode that lets you display the picture as tiles next to each other. You’re free to draw anywhere on these tiles, so you can easily create seamless patterns for use as website or desktop backgrounds, in print, or for textures in 3d modelling. Toggle this feature on/off in “Work in Progress”, in the menu that comes up when you click the “…” button.
[IMPROVED] Redesigned menus.
[IMPROVED] Temporary Palette Section: Colors are now added and removed to/from the end of the section instead of being inserted/deleted first.
[IMPROVED] You can now switch between three different customizable color palettes in the Palette menu (Click the palette’s “…” button).
[NEW] A special palette section at the end, where you can click a short or long button to bring up a short or long list of named colors. It can be switched off in the menu that comes up when you click the palette’s “…” button
[IMPROVED] Some of the buttons now rearrange themselves when you move the toolbar to the other side, in order to maintain a position relative to the picture. This behavior can be switched off in the Current Color menu, under “Customize Toolbar”.
[NEW] Duplicate Picture.
[NEW] Duplicate Layer.
[NEW] (Pro) Rotate layer 90 degrees.
[NEW] The palette’s “…” button is now accompanied by a “+” button, to add a new palette section.
[NEW] (Pro) Move, a layer operation that can offset a layer’s position by x number of pixels.
[NEW] (Pro) Layer Mover tool, to grab a layer and move its position.
[FIXED] Zooming the picture would sometimes cause some minor issues.
[FIXED] An issue affecting the Layer Control.
[IMPROVED] Some optimizations.
[FIXED] Improved stability.
[FIXED] Misc. other issues.
[IMPROVED] Misc. other things.
3.3
Jun 6, 2014
[NEW] You can now choose which drawing tool you want a tool button to have by clicking the selected tool. You are allowed to have multiple instances of the same tool, which can be very useful since they have different settings and color. For example, you could assign your favorite drawing tool to three buttons, one with a small size suitable for sketching, one suitable for normal drawing, and one large-sized with a dark color and low force value suitable for drawing shadows. [NEW] (Pro) Added some extra drawing tools to choose from (Smear, Lighten, Darken). [FIXED] Some stability issues. [IMPROVED] Some optimizations. [IMPROVED] Some updates to the manual. [IMPROVED] Some minor things.

Lux Draw FAQ

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