Welcome

Everything about Pinvas 1.0.0, in the order you will need it. It needs Blender 5.0.0 or newer and adds one tab, Pinvas, to the 3D View sidebar. Press Ctrl+K, or use the search box above, to search every page.

New here? The Overview shows what Pinvas does in one page.

Start here#

• Install: install, update or remove Pinvas, and find its tab in Blender's 3D View sidebar.
• Quick start: put five reference pictures on a board and pack them tidily, in about three minutes.

Using it#

• Add and edit pictures: bring pictures onto the board by import, drop or paste, then select, move, scale, turn, crop, flip and order them.
• Arrange the board: pack, line up, resize and space pictures with the Arrange menu, and change the gap afterwards.
• Judge a picture: check values with greyscale, opacity, brightness, contrast, posterize and a proportion grid, and pick colours with the eyedropper.
• Notes, frames and drawing: add notes and titled frames, draw on the board with Blender's Annotate tools, and lock or hide items.
• Videos: play, scrub and loop clips on the board, and make a clip follow Blender's timeline.
• Stitch videos: play several clips as one video, trimmed and wired like nodes, and send an edit from Blender's Video Editor to the board.
• Use the board with the scene: put renders and viewport snapshots on the board, and send a picture into the scene as a camera background, image empty or image plane.
• Boards and files: keep several boards, export and import them as .pinvas files, export a board as one PNG, and pack pictures into the .blend.
• Dock, undock and overlay: move the board between the sidebar and a window of its own, look through it at your viewport, and move around a large board.
• Keys and mouse: every Pinvas key and mouse action in one place.

Help#

• Troubleshooting and FAQ: what each Pinvas message means and what to do.
• Changelog: what changed in each Pinvas version, newest first.
• Support: contact OEBS Studios for help, and find out which details to send.

Look up#

• Reference: every Pinvas command with its Blender id, and the messages it can show.
• The printable manual: the whole guide on one page, ready to print or save as a PDF.