DotMatrix Studio vs LUMISELA Photo

Your photos, run through a monitoring terminal. DotMatrix Studio turns anything you shoot or import into a 1-bit artifact — the dot-matrix look of VFD displays, old newsprint and station monitors. There is no preset carousel to scroll past: you dial the look in yourself and watch it render live. SHOOT IN 1-BIT A live dithered viewfinder shows you the look before the shutter, not after. Toggle between DOTMATRIX and NORMAL if you would rather frame with the plain camera first, adjust pixel size and palette on the rail, and flip between front and back cameras. THREE FILM STOCKS NEWSPRINT — Floyd–Steinberg error diffusion, the fine scattered grain of a printed photograph. MATRIX — Bayer 8x8 ordered dithering, the regular weave of a hardware display. HALFTONE — real circular dots on a grid, with an adjustable cell size. All three are written by hand for this app and tuned by eye, not borrowed from a library. FOUR PALETTES OXBLOOD, PAPER, PHOSPHOR and AMBER. Each is a two-colour stock with its own accent, from warm terminal red to green phosphor glow. THE DIALS Virtual resolution, 80 to 480 pixels wide, is the chunkiness itself: drop it and the image breaks into big honest dots, raise it and the detail creeps back. Contrast runs -50 to +50. Halftone cell size is adjustable. Scanlines darken every third row. Press and hold the preview to peek at the original underneath. TELEMETRY FRAMES Five frames — ACQUIRED, STATION, SPECIMEN, REC, or none — stamp your artifact with instrument chrome: dates, dither codes, resolution readouts, and a caption of your own. Frame text is drawn at full export resolution, so it is never a pixel-doubled smear. WALLPAPERS Render your artifact at your device's exact pixel size as a lock and home pair, then set it from the Photos app. A LIBRARY THAT STAYS EDITABLE Saved artifacts are parametric: the source photo and every setting are stored together, so reopening one restores the whole editing session. Change your mind about a palette a month later and nothing is lost. EXPORT PNG at 2048px on the long edge. Save to Photos, share anywhere, save as a wallpaper, or keep it in the library. Saving and sharing record the artifact automatically, so an exported image is never a dead end. COMPLETELY OFFLINE There is no network permission in this app at all. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no location. Your photos never leave your device, because there is nowhere for them to go.

LUMISELA Photo is a precision photo and visual creation studio built for people who want complete control without giving up speed. DRAW FIRST, REFINE LATER Editable Live Stroke layers let you change the brush, color, and size after a mark is placed. Paint light, color, blur, bloom, and pixelation exactly where you need them. Use adjustment layers, masks, clipping, layer styles, and 25 blend modes to experiment while preserving your original work. TURN MATERIALS INTO TOOLS Transform an image layer into a custom brush tip and a dominant-color palette. Combine brushes, sampled colors, a layer style, and an effect recipe into a portable LUMISELA Photo Pack for reuse in future projects. PRECISION CREATIVE TOOLS • Natural-subject, hair and detail, hard-edge, and magnetic selection tools • Editable rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, and Bézier paths • Custom brush tips and Apple Pencil dynamics • Camera RAW development and ICC-aware workflows • Automatic recovery and backup of editable documents PRODUCTION-READY FILE SUPPORT Import and export layered PSD files, export 16-bit RGBA TIFF, or finish your work as PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or the fully editable .lumisela format. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is required. Your documents remain on your device unless you explicitly choose to export or share them. The complete interface and searchable manual are available in English and Japanese. Switch languages instantly by tapping the app title. Your canvas. Your materials. Your process. LUMISELA Photo keeps the tools flexible so the result stays yours.