Piranesi can be used to provide a very light touch to existing fully textured renders; this image by Akiba Design, Japan, is a good example of a scene not attempting to be photorealistic. This in turn helps the client to imagine the final project and encourage more feedback and involvement in the design process. To view the full size image, click here.
Release Notes
This new version 5 of Piranesi has been designed to make Piranesi easier to learn and to enable you to produce better looking renderings as quickly as possible. More tools have been added to accelerate the process of creating great images, more context sensitive help has been added to make this process as easy as possible.
With the addition of new free entourage, Piranesi Version 5 is the ideal tool for rapidly creating conceptual and final presentation renders for your clients.
With the addition of new free entourage, Piranesi Version 5 is the ideal tool for rapidly creating conceptual and final presentation renders for your clients.
Key features:
- New User Interface with which you'll quickly become familiar
- New Help Assistant provides helpful information on the selected tool for instant context
- New flexible Style selector tool lets you attach individual style categories to each tool
- Revised Cutout and Text tools with more options to get that ideal graphical style to your image
- New Multiple Cutout tool for fast population of entourage
- Tweaked elements now provide instant feedback to help speed up the process of adding textures and entourage
- New Pencil tool for line work, and shape placements
- New Brush features for controlling the brush shape and size
- New Stamp tool for painting with multiple brush marks - ideal to rapidly create new styles for your artwork
- New dynamics option for brush size and shape - this unique tool helps to generate an artistic feel to every brush stroke
- New Light tool for adding lighting to your dusk, evening and night scenes
- New Style Manager to provide more control over your library of styles
- New style recording facility to automatically create styles - helps to create a consistent style for all project images
- New EPix File wizard allowing more control over size of image
- New Photoshop PSD support and additional resize options on export
System Specification
Despite its powerful rendering capabilities and extensive range of effects, Piranesi does not need a high-specification computer on which to run.
Minimum system requirements for Piranesi 5
Windows®
Microsoft® Windows 2000, Windows® XP Home, Windows® XP Pro, Windows Vista™
1024 x 768 resolution colour monitor displaying at least 65,000 colours
Microsoft® Windows 2000, Windows® XP Home, Windows® XP Pro, Windows Vista™
1024 x 768 resolution colour monitor displaying at least 65,000 colours
Macintosh®
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
