LIVERY STUDIO

What it is for

LIVERY STUDIO paints your car in layers over the official template and installs it in iRacing with one button. The file carries your customer number, so the car does not show up white on track.

How to open it

1. In the Suite menu, PIT group, click LIVERY STUDIO and then OPEN.
2. Choose CREATE A NEW ONE or YOUR LIBRARY, which opens My Projects.
3. The first time it downloads the official templates. It is one large download, once; if it is interrupted, it resumes.

My Projects

• + New: creates a livery.
• Search, Sort by and filter by car.
• Each card is a saved livery. Click to open it.
• Shared with me, Favorites, What's new and Help tell you they are not available yet.

New livery

• Skin name: if left empty, it picks one.
• Search car, with Only cars I have.
• Customer ID: filled in by itself if found in your installed liveries.
• Start painting: enabled once a car is chosen.
• My uploads: your logos, shared by all liveries.
• Team kits: saves colours and logos to use on another livery.

The editor

Header

• The iRacing indicator: green if it finds the paint folder, red if not.
• Share, Download and RACE WITH IT.
• Download saves a PNG or a TGA without installing.
• RACE WITH IT installs the livery and reloads it if iRacing is open.

Tools, on the left

• Base paints: full-body designs, with up to three colours and scale.
• Assets: lines, transparent patterns and badges.
• Upload graphics, for your logos, and Pencil, to draw by hand.
• Add text and Draw shapes.
• Team kits.

Project and layers

• The arrow goes back to My Projects.
• The gear opens the project settings.
• Layers: eye to hide, padlock to lock, right click for the quick menu. The chain icon groups a layer with the one above.

Canvas

Drag to move. Corners scale and the separate dot rotates. At the bottom: grid, history, zoom, undo, redo and rotate view, which does not change the paint. Double click a shape, or press P, to edit its vertices.

Properties, on the right

With no layer chosen: Base paint, with colour and finish, and the car guides. With a layer chosen:

• General, Size, Position, Rotation, Skew and Shadow.
• Text: font and Curve.
• Colours: solid or Gradient, and blend mode.
• Background and Remove Background, on images.
• Stroke, on text and shapes.
• Clipping: mask and eraser.
• At the end, Clone, Mirror clone and Delete.

Common tasks

Painting your first car

1. Click + New, choose the car and click Start painting.
2. With no layer chosen, set colour and finish in Base paint.
3. Add a design from Base paints and adjust its colours.
4. Add your name with Add text.
5. Click RACE WITH IT.

Adding a logo without background

1. Click Upload graphics and choose it.
2. In Remove Background, set the tolerance and click the button.

Painting both sides the same

1. Choose the layer.
2. Click Mirror clone. The copy follows the original live.
3. To separate it, open its padlock.

Making curved or gradient text

1. Choose the text layer.
2. Move Curve.
3. In Colours, choose Gradient.

Copying an exact colour

1. Open the colour picker.
2. Click the eyedropper, then any point on the screen.

Moving the livery to another car

1. Open the project gear.
2. Choose a car in the template reset selector and apply the reset of the template layers. What you painted is not touched.

In depth

The car guides

With no layer chosen, in properties. Car outline, wireframe, sponsor blocks and number blocks, each with visibility, colour and opacity. Grid, with column size and thickness. Car parts, with showing above the layers and Clone as new layers.

Base paint finishes

Normal, gloss, flat, matte, semi-metallic, metallic, chrome and custom, with its own metallic, roughness and clearcoat.

Base paints and graphics

Paints take up to three colours of your own and a scale. Graphics are lines, transparent patterns that show the background, and badges. Shapes are rectangle, ellipse, triangle, star, arrow, ring, hexagon and finish flag.

Blend modes

Normal, multiply, screen, overlay, darken, lighten, colour dodge, colour burn, hard light, soft light, difference and exclusion.

Clipping

Add the mask point by point and close it with a double click or Enter. The eraser is dragged, with its size. Removing the clipping mask does not undo what was erased: use Ctrl+Z for that.

Project settings

Favourite, customer and dates, Show Spec TGA/Finish, finish map download, moving the template to another car, Delete Project and Report a problem.

Shortcuts and gestures

Ctrl+Z undoes. Alt+← and Alt+→ rotate the view. P or a double click edits vertices. The option to hide the transformer while moving shows what you drag cleanly.

Common problems

• The car is white on track: the customer number does not match or iRacing has not reloaded the texture. Check the Customer ID and click RACE WITH IT with iRacing open.
• Red iRacing folder notice: it cannot find the paint folder in your Documents.
• Eyedropper disabled: Windows needs to update its browser component. Windows Update does it.
• "Parts: coming soon": that part of the template is not ready for that car yet.
• No link to the program: close and reopen LIVERY STUDIO.

Full reference

Every option, text and notice of the app, with its real name.

• English
• Livery editor for iRacing
• ← Push & Lift
• Project
• Saved ✓
• Customer ID Sign in at members.iracing.com: your customer ID shows at
• Share
• Save
• Open
• My paints
• No paints saved
• Filter By Vehicle
• No template
• This car has no template
• No preview
• Edited Not available yet.
• My Projects
• Shared with Me
• Favorite Projects
• What's New
• Help
• Search
• Sort By: Last Modified
• Sort By: Name
• + New
• Just now
• …m ago
• …h ago
• …d ago
• …mo ago
• Delete this paint for good?
• PNG
• TGA
• RACE WITH IT
• Send to my suite
• View
• Side
• Roof
• 3D view (Sim Preview in iRacing) Same as the original: syncs your paint and opens it in
• Zoom & guides
• Fit
• Layers
• Car parts
• Your layers
• Base paint
• Undo
• Redo
• Download
• Active colour
• Collapse panel
• Fit to screen Eyedropper: pick a colour from anywhere on the screen.
• Our own rough grouping, not the official iRacing list.
• Surprise me
• Reset everything
• Base paints
• Add graphics
• Insert logo
• My uploads
• Add text
• Draw shapes
• Pencil
• Tip
• Hard round
• Soft round
• Square
• Spray
• Calligraphy
• Stroke
• Size
• Recent colors With a pen, pressure changes the size
• Layer
• Paints on
• New layer
• New stroke layer
• Shortcuts
• Exit Paint on the canvas · [ ] size · Esc to exit
• Line
• Curve
• Brush
• Square
• Circle
• Ellipse
• Star
• Polygon
• Arrow
• Wedge
• Arc
• Edit points Editing vertices: drag the yellow dots. Leave with the same button.
• This shape has no vertices to edit
• Text
• Number (library digits)
• Which number do you want?
• Digits only (1 to 6) No digit set in the library has those numbers
• ➕ Add font… That font couldn't be added (is it a .ttf or .otf?)
• Fonts (*.ttf;*.otf)
• Group with the layer above
• Remove from group
• Layers grouped
• Out of the group Can't group: needs a matching layer above
• Bodywork
• Sides
• Skirts
• Wing
• Pattern
• PLAIN
• DIAGONAL
• ARROW
• WAVES
• GT STRIPES
• CARBON
• Accent color
• Harmony palettes
• Logo
• No logo
• Scale
• Rotation
• Visible in this view
• Transform
• Rotate L
• Rotate R
• Flop
• Flip
• Skew X
• Skew Y
• Shadow
• Color
• Opacity
• Blur
• Clipping
• Mask
• Eraser
• Eraser size
• Clone
• Mirror clone
• Delete
• Finish
• Normal
• Glossy
• Flat
• Matte
• Semi-Metallic
• Metallic
• Chrome
• Custom
• Roughness
• Clearcoat Preview. iRacing generates the final gloss.
• Number Bahn.
• Impact
• Technical
• Size
• Plate (iRacing style)
• None
• Plate color
• Name
• YOUR NAME
• Official template
• Not loaded
• Visible while editing Official iRacing template. Stays on your PC and never
• Official templates ready
• Setting up LIVERY STUDIO First time only. Downloading the official iRacing
• You can close this window: it picks up where it left off.
• Starting… Done. You can start painting.
• The templates could not be downloaded. Check your
• Painting guides
• Wireframe
• Sponsor blocks
• Number blocks
• Grid
• Car mask
• Only while editing this layer
• How to install your paint PL PAINTS installs it for you — upload your paint once
• Something went wrong. Try again.
• IRacing isn't running — the 3D view needs it open.
• Patterns
• Shapes
• Stripes
• Side stripe
• Diagonal
• Arrowhead
• Flames
• Hexagons
• Carbon
• Chrome
• Rust
• Brushed Aluminum
• Forged Carbon
• NEW
• Checkers
• Camo
• Gradient
• Halftone
• Waves
• Lightning
• Speed lines
• Base color
• Color 2
• Color 3
• Pattern size
• Outline
• Slanted (race number)
• Rectangle
• Triangle
• Ring
• Hexagon
• Finish flag
• Car
• Inset
• Add
• Choose your car
• Search car
• ALREADY PAINTED
• YOUR CARS
• OTHER CARS
• No car with that name
• Opening the template Official templates not downloaded · canvas opens empty
• Change car
• Downloading official templates…
• IRACING READY
• NO iRACING FOLDER
• No layers
• No car Official iRacing templates · 1.93 GB. Download now?
• ON TRACK
• Layer deleted
• Exported
• Opened
• Clone Live mirror created — paint one side and it copies itself
• Mirror unlinked — this layer is now independent
• Customer ID: missing
• Customer ID: numbers only
• No iRacing paint folder
• Couldn't put it in iRacing Download it and put it in yourself: it's saved to Downloads with the name iRacing expects.
• Saved to
• Put it in iRacing
• Upload it to TP
• Close
• Canvas unreadable
• Canvas size changed Windows didn't open the file picker
• Couldn't write the file
• Official templates not downloaded No template of its own: it can't be painted, not another's.
• Couldn't open the template
• Download didn't finish
• Choose a car first LIVERY STUDIO isn't built on this PC yet
• Couldn't read this skin
• This skin has no working file
• Can't find this skin's file
• New skin
• Which car are you painting?
• Search car…
• Only cars I have
• Skin name
• E.g. Push and Lift Team #64
• Start painting The skin could not be created. Restart the app.
• The skin could not be opened. Restart the app.
• Aspect ratio The eyedropper needs a newer WebView2 (Windows Update).
• Installs the paint into your iRacing so you can see it on track. iRacing must be open.
• Untitled
• Oval
• Dirt
• Formula
• Prototypes
• Touring cars
• Other
• Duplicate
• Rename
• No official template
• New name:
• Download now (1.9 GB, once)
• My uploads
• No logos uploaded yet
• Library
• Textures
• Patterns & lines
• Stickers
• This section is empty
• Loading…
• Assets
• Search…
• Recent
• Upload…
• All Type to search across every category
• No results
• Black
• Graffiti
• Push & Lift
• PL applications
• Brand · review
• Damaged file
• Editable shapes · AI
• Teams
• Backgrounds & textures
• Vinyls & stripes
• Numbers & race numbers
• Lettering
• Emblems & badges
• Motorsport icons
• Mascots & tattoos
• Urban art
• Countries & regions
• Circuits
• Surf & Tokyo
• Humor
• My assets
• Upload graphics
• Graphics
• Lines
• Racing
• Wide racing
• My logos
• Folders
• New folder
• No folder
• Delete folder
• Folder name
• This folder is empty
• Move to…
• More actions No favorites yet. The star on any asset brings it here.
• Insert logo…
• Replace logo…
• Upload a new one…
• Logo placed on the canvas
• Give it a name A folder with that name already exists
• That folder is gone
• Upload logo…
• Insert
• Open a skin in LIVERY STUDIO first
• Team kits
• Apply
• No kits saved yet
• Save kit from "My uploads" Team colors (up to 3, comma-separated, e.g. #0a3d91,#ffffff):
• Visibility
• Locking
• Column Size
• Stroke Width
• General
• Font
• Curve
• Colors
• Fill Mode
• Solid
• Color 1
• Angle
• Blend Type
• Remove Background
• Strength
• Clear color
• Tolerance
• Background
• Padding (X)
• Padding (Y)
• Stroke Color
• Stroke Type
• Width
• Height
• Position
• Rotate Left
• Rotate Right
• Flop
• Flip
• Skew
• Skew (X)
• Skew (Y)
• Shadow Color
• Shadow Blur
• Offset (X)
• Offset (Y)
• Corner Radius
• Top Left
• Top Right
• Bottom Left
• Bottom Right
• Add Clipping Mask
• Apply clipping mask
• Lock mask size
• Release Clipping Mask
• Display above layers
• Clone as new layers
• Transformer
• Hide transformer while moving Hide box transformer for line shapes
• Hide
• Rotate 90°
• Unlock
• Lock
• Multiply
• Screen
• Overlay
• Darken
• Lighten
• Color Dodge
• Color Burn
• Hard Light
• Soft Light
• Difference
• Exclusion
• Inside
• Middle
• Outside
• Single Line (Thin)
• Single Line (Medium)
• Single Line (Wide)
• Double Line (Narrow)
• Double Line (Medium)
• Double Line (Wide)
• Double Line + Companion
• Triple Line
• Quad Line
• Dashed Line
• Dashed Double Line
• Tapered Line
• Double Line (Tight)
• Double Line (Uneven)
• Line + Trim Edge
• Double Line (Edge to Edge)
• Fine Dots
• Large Dots
• Staggered Dots
• Thin Lines
• Thin Lines (V)
• Fine Mesh
• Diagonal Weave
• Scattered Stars
• Diamonds
• Crosses
• Scattered Triangles
• Rings
• Honeycomb
• Wavy Lines
• Cross-Hatch
• Scattered Squares
• Scallops
• Speckle Dashes
• Starburst (Small)
• Starburst (Large)
• Roundel (Thin Rings)
• Roundel (Bold Rings)
• Number Backdrop (Circle)
• Number Backdrop (Square)
• Sponsor Patch (Oval)
• Aero Wedge (Standard)
• Aero Wedge (Sharp)
• Chevron Arrow (Single)
• Chevron Arrow (Double)
• Speed Swoosh (Left)
• Speed Swoosh (Right)
• Corner Streaks (Small)
• Corner Streaks (Large)
• Sponsor Patch (Rectangle)
• Checkered Strip (Thin)
• Checkered Strip (Wide)
• Add Graphics — Lines
• Add Graphics — Patterns
• Add Graphics — Racing
• Add Graphics — Racing (Wide)
• No connection to Python
• Save Current as Kit…
• Delete kit
• Favorite
• Show Spec TGA/Finish
• Download Spec Map TGA
• Reset Template Layers By
• No car
• Delete Project
• Report a problem
• What happened
• Send Sent. Thanks.
• Couldn't send it.
• Can't upload here. Download it and upload it yourself.
• No data
• No data yet for this car Car parts added — you can paint over them now
• Couldn't save the settings No background to remove — raise the tolerance
• Drag to erase · Esc to exit Click to place points · Double-click or Enter to close · Esc cancels
• Clipping applied
• Clipping cancelled
• Upload new…
• Uploaded to My Uploads
• Couldn't upload
• Couldn't save the kit
• Applying kit…
• Couldn't apply the kit
• Name changed
• Couldn't change the name
• Couldn't delete it Couldn't start the editor — check the console
• Couldn't export — restart the app
• Couldn't export the finish map
• Couldn't install — restart the app
• Couldn't connect to the program Press Retry, or close and reopen this window.
• Couldn't save what you painted
• Retry
• Team name Here are the tools: paints, graphics, logos, text and shapes.
• Everything you add shows up here as a layer — hide or lock it any time.
• Tap a layer and its color, size and position show up here, on the right.
• When you're done: Race installs it in your iRacing right away; Download saves it.
• Skip all
• Next
• Got it
• Tutorial
• Saving…
• Installing…
• Download PNG
• Download TGA (iRacing's format)
• CREATE A NEW ONE
• YOUR LIBRARY
• Skip — go to the quick form
• ‹ Back
• Continue
• Let's paint your car A few short steps and you're painting. No manuals.
• Start
• What will it be called? Your livery's name. Leave it empty and we'll name it for you.
• The main color The base of everything. You can change it any time later.
• The finish How your paint reflects light on track. It lives in its own map,
• Polished mirror. GT look.
• Satin Semi-gloss, smooth. iRacing's factory default.
• Metallic No shine. Rally.
• Semi-metallic A touch of metal.
• Pure metal. Very loud.
• Flat. For graphics.
• Factory default. If unsure, this.
• Flakes that sparkle.
• Layers and format
• See the finish layer by layer Each layer can have its own finish (matte, chrome…).
• Which format will you want it in?
• TGA — the one iRacing needs The real paint format. Everyone forgets it — that's why we
• PNG — regular image For sharing or viewing. Won't install into iRacing.
• Ready All set. One click and you're painting.
• Open the editor
• Format
• Choose a car to continue
• LIVERY STUDIO manual
• The manual isn't in this install
• Parts: coming soon
• Image
• TEXT Couldn't read your projects. Close and open again.
• TGA files (*.tga)
• All files (*.*)
• (copy)
• Team The Windows .NET Framework is missing. Free download:
• PL LIVERY STUDIO — couldn't open LIVERY STUDIO didn't respond in time.
• Logo inserted.
• LIVERY STUDIO didn't respond in time while exporting.
• LIVERY STUDIO didn't respond in time with the spec map.
• This car has no spec map (normal, not all of them do).
• Couldn't package the spec map.