PaintLens

PaintLens helps artists see a reference the way painters do.

Open any photo and break it into the values, shapes, and colors you can actually paint. So the gap between seeing it and painting it finally closes.

LIMITED PALETTES
Stop guessing which colors to squeeze out. PaintLens pulls a small, workable palette from your reference. Lock the swatches you love and refine the rest.

COLOR RECIPES
Not just a swatch-a-recipe. Mix percentages in plain language so you know exactly what to mix before your brush touches the palette.

REAL PAINT NAMES
Recipes that speak your paint’s language. Pigment starting points by name. Ultramarine, Hansa Yellow, Quinacridone. With the color index codes printed on your tubes.

SQUINT MODE
The trick every art teacher tells you, built into a slider. Blur away the detail and the big value shapes appear. That’s what you paint first.

VALUE STUDIES
Posterize your photo into a few clean value steps and watch shapes connect across the picture. When values link up, your painting starts to read.

STUDIO TOOLS
Crop for a stronger composition, tune levels and contrast, then export value studies and palette cards to keep beside your easel while you work.

Values first. Limited palette second. Brush last.

PaintLens. From study to studio.