Inside Lunar Paint
Move from a quick correction to a layered composition without changing applications. The feature set below reflects the current verified Lunar Paint build; platform-specific format support is identified where it differs.
Painting and drawing
Brush controls expand only when you need them, while the tool shelf keeps pencil, eraser, fill, gradient, clone, recolor, shape, curve, and type close by.
Six starting presets cover rounded, soft, inked, marker, sketch, and pixel-detail work.
Combine direct painting with precise construction and retouching tools.
Layers and compositing
Keep paint organized, protect finished areas, and separate reversible tonal changes from direct pixel edits.
Paint layers support visibility, opacity, blend modes, reordering, duplication, merging, transforms, and independent editing and transparency locks.
Place related paint layers inside a group, collapse the group in the Layer Stack, and retain that organization in a .lunar project.
Create a mask from the active selection, enable or disable it, invert it, or remove it without permanently erasing the layer.
Add editable brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, monochrome, or sepia adjustments above the artwork and revise their settings later.
Photo correction
Apply direct corrections when you want to change pixels, or choose live adjustment layers when the color decision should remain editable.
Typography
Choose from bundled type families or import your own local font files for the session and future projects.
Search bundled fonts, import TTF, OTF, WOFF, or WOFF2 files up to 10 MB, and set size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, alignment, and rendering.
Add editable text to the canvas, then use the typography effects for rotation or wave treatments when the composition calls for movement.
Selections and cropping
Selections constrain painting, fills, cloning, recoloring, shapes, gradients, and type so an edit can stay exactly where it belongs.
Create rectangular, elliptical, freeform, or connected-color selections. Move the boundary, invert it, copy it, erase it, or zoom directly to it.
Feather, expand, contract, and smooth a selection before painting, copying, erasing, masking, or cropping.
Choose from seven common aspect ratios, switch between portrait and landscape, preview composition guides, and keep the crop as a selection or apply it.
Resize the image or canvas, rotate, flip, align content, crop to a selection, and work in pixels or print-oriented measurements.
Filters and creative effects
Use direct filters for a committed change, then rely on the Edit Trail to undo or redo the result while the document is open.
Ink Drawing, Painted Texture, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Pixel Mosaic, Soft Glow, Sharpen, and Vignette.
Twist, Polar Inversion, Emboss, Edge Detect, Outline, Drop Shadow, Add Noise, and Median.
Red-Eye Correction, Portrait Softening, Straighten, sharpening, glow, and vignette support focused photo work.
Create cloud or grid/checkerboard textures and align content to the canvas or active selection.
Batch export and recovery
Batch profiles turn one visible canvas into consistent sets, while configurable automatic recovery keeps periodic copies of changed documents.
Use built-in square, presentation and video, print, Apple icon, or Android icon profiles. PNG preserves transparency; JPEG flattens transparent pixels onto white.
Choose a recovery interval in Preferences. Recovery copies are written atomically and presented in a startup browser with explicit Recover and Discard controls.
Keep several images open in tabs, each with independent undo history, and use open images as frames for supported multi-image icon or cursor workflows.
Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance; Compact, Standard, or Large interface sizing; increased contrast; reduced motion; keyboard menu navigation; and local workspace preferences.
File format guide
Advanced-format availability can depend on platform codecs or bundled conversion support. Flattened formats do not preserve Lunar Paint layer structure.
| Editable project | .lunar preserves the canvas, resolution, layers, groups, masks, live adjustments, visibility, opacity, blend modes, locks, and color-space metadata. Current projects remain compatible with earlier project files. |
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| Everyday images | PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, BMP, and TGA cover transparent graphics, photos, modern web images, indexed-color stills, classic bitmaps, and lossless alpha-capable creative workflows. |
| Advanced conversions | Direct builds handle AVIF, HEIC, DDS, TIFF, and flattened PSD with platform-native or bundled conversion support where available. |
| Icons and documents | ICO creates multi-resolution Windows icons. PDF places the flattened image on a page sized to the artwork at its document resolution. SVG wraps the flattened artwork as an embedded PNG. |
| PSD notice | PSD import and export are flattened. Lunar Paint does not preserve PSD layer structure; use .lunar for editable groups, masks, adjustments, and layers. |
| Color workflow | Supported imports are normalized into an sRGB working canvas. Wide-gamut and CMYK documents are converted for the sRGB workflow, so the original should be retained when exact press-profile or HDR values are required. |
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