Studio Tools

A growing set of digital tools for working artists — built to help with value, color, and composition decisions before paint hits the canvas.

Group a reference photo into 2-10 value steps in grayscale, umber, or color.

Reduce an image to a two- or three-value notan for composition planning.

Flatten a photo into simplified shapes to study its underlying design.

Visualize the warm/cool temperature relationships across a reference image.

Extract clean contour line art from a photo for drawing practice.

Pull a dominant color palette out of a reference photo automatically.

Sample colors from a reference image, build a sortable swatch list, and get a tube recipe for each.

Overlay compositional guides -- including a proportional transfer grid -- to analyze balance and copy a reference accurately.