This wonderfully soft and subtle image has been created by expert Piranesi user, Marco Crawford whilst at TTSP Architects, London. Marco has produced many of the images within this site, and has also contributed to the 'Mastering Piranesi 5' book which is available through the web shop. To see the full image, click here.
Streaming and Downloadable Videos
When you see Piranesi in operation we're confident that you'll be amazed at how easy it is to produce high quality images.
The tutorial videos below show how to use key elements of Piranesi's unique tool set, such as locks, cutouts and styles. If you're a new customer then you'll find them helpful in getting to know the Piranesi interface; if you're just looking to see how Piranesi works they're also great at simply showing what makes Piranesi so different.
If you want to follow the tutorials using Piranesi yourself, you can download the tutorial's data (EPix files and styles) which will allow you to follow the videos step-by-step.
The following all refer to PIRANESI 5.1 and remain highly useful and relevant. New Piranesi 2010 videos are in production. Please check back soon.
The tutorial videos below show how to use key elements of Piranesi's unique tool set, such as locks, cutouts and styles. If you're a new customer then you'll find them helpful in getting to know the Piranesi interface; if you're just looking to see how Piranesi works they're also great at simply showing what makes Piranesi so different.
If you want to follow the tutorials using Piranesi yourself, you can download the tutorial's data (EPix files and styles) which will allow you to follow the videos step-by-step.
The following all refer to PIRANESI 5.1 and remain highly useful and relevant. New Piranesi 2010 videos are in production. Please check back soon.
PIRANESI 5.1
WHAT IS NEW IN PIRANESI 5
Piranesi remains the preeminent artist's impression software thanks to our development team's continual work to improve functionality and add new features.
In this tutorial you'll see the results of that effort, as it focuses on the key new features in Piranesi version 5.
Part One
Part Two
In this tutorial you'll see the results of that effort, as it focuses on the key new features in Piranesi version 5.
| What's New in Piranesi 5 (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| What's New in Piranesi 5 (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| What's New in Piranesi 5 | Zip file (8 MB) | Download |
Part One
Part Two
USING THE CONSTRUCT TOOL
This video tutorial demonstrates the extensive capabilities of the Construct tool, including the painting in of planar scenery elements to your image (walls, railings, hedges, fences etc), plus the ability to assign material and depth definitions to enclosed-line plain areas within 2D imagery (for example scanned pencil sketches) to allow subsequent painting in Piranesi.
| Piranesi's Construct Tool (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Piranesi's Construct Tool | Zip file (1 MB) | Download |
USING PIRANESI LOCKS
Locks are fundamental to Piranesi and are one of the big reasons why Piranesi is such a popular tool for creating artist's impressions.
Using locks, you can restrict your painting actions to particular materials or 3D planes, without the need to define masks. This dramatically reduces the time it takes to paint up your image with colours, raster textures or images.
Using locks, you can restrict your painting actions to particular materials or 3D planes, without the need to define masks. This dramatically reduces the time it takes to paint up your image with colours, raster textures or images.
| Using Piranesi Locks (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Using Piranesi Locks (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Using Piranesi Locks | Zip file (2 MB) | Download |
USING STYLES
The Style Manager enables you to develop an effect, then save all the relevant tool settings for future reuse. Storing all your preset styles together makes it quicker and simpler to replicate a 'corporate style' for each of your illustrations.
Piranesi ships with a huge range of ready-made brushes, filters, rasters, multifills and effects, all of which you can summon via the Style Manager.
Piranesi ships with a huge range of ready-made brushes, filters, rasters, multifills and effects, all of which you can summon via the Style Manager.
| Using Styles | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Using Styles | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Using Styles | Zip file (2 MB) | Download |
SURFACE TEXTURES
Adding brickwork, paving lines, weatherboarding textures, stipple grains etc are all simple using the extensive range of raster textures and grains that ship with Piranesi.
This video shows you how to use these raster files to add textures to the surfaces in your scene, tweaking and blending as necessary until the desired effect is achieved.
This video shows you how to use these raster files to add textures to the surfaces in your scene, tweaking and blending as necessary until the desired effect is achieved.
| Surface Textures (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Surface Textures (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Surface Textures | Zip file (2 MB) | Download |
USING CUTOUTS
Using Piranesi you can quickly add "cutouts" - such as people, trees and plants - to a scene. Piranesi's 'memory' of the depth information from your original model allows perspective, masking, and even shadows to all be automatically applied to the cutouts you place.
As the cutout is moved around the screen prior to placement, see how it scales dynamically to its surroundings.
| Using Cutouts (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Using Cutouts (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Using Cutouts | Zip file (8 MB) | Download |
PAINTING EFFECTS
Piranesi can produce a vast range of painting effects - which can be combined into stunning visualizations. Many of the images shown throughout this site have benefited from Piranesi's completely configurable effects tools.
We're often asked "how did you do that?" - this video should help to provide a few of the answers...
We're often asked "how did you do that?" - this video should help to provide a few of the answers...
| Painting Effects (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Painting Effects (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Painting Effects | Zip file (6 MB) | Download |
NIGHT SCENES
Piranesi is an excellent tool to show your clients how their project will look during every season of the year, but for many developments (such as city centre restaurant districts) they'll also want to see what it looks like at night.
This video shows how easy it can be to change day to night with Piranesi, showing how to darken and re-light an image.
This video shows how easy it can be to change day to night with Piranesi, showing how to darken and re-light an image.
| Night Scenes (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| Night Scenes (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| Night Scene | Zip file (4 MB) | Download |
3D CUTOUTS
In addition to the traditional 2D cutouts of people, trees, plants, cars etc, Piranesi will also allow you to place 3D cutouts into your scene, and rotate them according to your needs.
This video shows you how to place 3D models directly into your scene (3DS, SketchUp, MicroGDS, and DXF formats are supported).
| 3D Cutouts (Windows) | Windows Media Player .wmv | View |
| 3D Cutouts (Mac) | QuickTime Movie .mov | View |
| Downloadable tutorial data for use alongside video | Format (Size) | |
| 3D Cutouts | Zip file (7 MB) | Download |