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 “Texture Options”.
• 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.
• TOUCH BAR SUPPORT •
The control knobs for “Size” and “Force” can alternatively be controlled with the Touch Bar.
Note that these Touch Bar sliders can be used simultaneously while drawing!
• UNIVERSAL PURCHASE •
If you choose to buy the Pro upgrade, this one-time in-app purchase will unlock all Pro features in the app on all available platforms (Mac-iPad-iPhone)!
• 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) •