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Landscape Composition

Turn a landscape photo into a useful painting reference before it reaches the easel.

The app keeps crop, guide, value, palette, and export decisions in one painter-focused workflow instead of scattering them across general-purpose tools.

Landscape Composition workspace showing a three-by-three transfer grid over a demo reference and painter-focused guide controls
The guide workflow, shown with a deliberately simple sample reference.

What it is

Landscape Composition is a native studio-reference tool for oil painters preparing a photo before they begin working on the canvas.

Core problem

A source photo rarely arrives at the right canvas ratio, value structure, composition, or level of visual simplification for painting.

What I built

I built the full reference workflow: import, crop, guides, value and color adjustments, palette planning, local projects, and shareable export.

What I chose

Every tool is tied to preparing a painting reference. It deliberately avoids becoming a broad photo editor or pretending extracted colors are paint formulas.

What the workflow includes

  • Canvas presets and custom ratios drive crop geometry instead of decorative frames
  • Transfer, composition, and landscape guides share tested normalized geometry between screen and export
  • Value modes, color adjustments, and palette extraction remain non-destructive
  • Saved projects preserve their image, crop, guide, adjustments, and palette across relaunch
  • Export can produce the image, selected guide, or a printable reference sheet
  • Shared normalized geometry keeps guide overlays and exported references aligned

Design boundary

A studio reference, not another photo editor.

Every control stays tied to preparing a painting reference: crop, structure, values, palette, and export. Extracted colors remain starting points, not paint formulas.