LT Art Studio is a theme for photo and art studios that are hired by the hour, built for free Elementor: a home page that opens with the backdrop paper rack, studio rooms with sizes, light and backdrop widths, the paper colours in stock with prices per metre, lighting and art kit hire, an art room for drawing groups and painting days, a rate card, studio rules and a booking request form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, The studio and Book and contact pages, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): The studio, Book and contact, Studio notes. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, The studio, Studio rules, Studios, Studio A, the cyc, Studio B, the daylight room, The Loft, art room, Life drawing groups, Painting days, Workshops and classes, Rates, Backdrop paper, Kit hire, Book and contact, Studio notes.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Art Studio (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the studio booking request form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| The studio | – | Free |
| Studio rules | The studio | Pro |
| Studios | – | Pro |
| Studio A, the cyc | Studios | Pro |
| Studio B, the daylight room | Studios | Pro |
| The Loft, art room | Studios | Pro |
| Life drawing groups | The Loft, art room | Pro |
| Painting days | The Loft, art room | Pro |
| Workshops and classes | The Loft, art room | Pro |
| Rates | – | Pro |
| Backdrop paper | Rates | Pro |
| Kit hire | Rates | Pro |
| Book and contact | – | Free |
| Studio notes (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#hire).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Hire | #hire |
| Studios | #studios |
| How hire works | #how |
| Backdrops | #backdrops |
| Kit hire | #kit |
| Art room | #art |
| Rates | #rates |
| Made at Kiln Yard | #made |
| Studio notes | #notes |
| Getting here | #visit |
- The paper rack: The home page opens with your backdrop colours hanging from a rail, drawn to scale by roll width, with the house roll pulled down to hold the headline.
- Rooms that show their size: Each studio row gives floor area, ceiling height, light and the backdrop width drawn as paper drops, with the price from an hour.
- Paper, kit and rates: Colours in stock with width and price per metre, lighting and grip kit lists, and a rate card for an hour, four hours and a day.
- Art room and groups: Pages for life drawing groups, painting days and workshops, with what is in the room and the group rates.
- Free Elementor and a ready booking form: Every page is built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a studio booking request form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Studios → Studio A, the cyc, Studio B, the daylight room, The Loft, art room (Life drawing groups, Painting days, Workshops and classes)
- Rates → Backdrop paper, Kit hire
- The studio → Studio rules
- Studio notes
- Contact
Header button: Request a booking (link /contact/#book), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Art Studio options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Art Studio options and the menu scrolls to these sections: Hire, Studios, How hire works, Backdrops, Kit hire, Art room, Rates, Made at Kiln Yard, Studio notes, Getting here. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Art Studio onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Chestnut (house paper, buttons, dark bands) | #6E2B1F |
| Flat grey (soft text) | #5A5550 |
| Gaffer black (text) | #201D1B |
| Deep yellow (pulled-roll mark on chestnut only) | #F2B53A |
| Cyc white (page) | #F5F5F2 |
| Fog (tinted sections) | #E7E6E1 |
| Hairlines | #CFCCC4 |
| Chestnut band (dark bands) | #6E2B1F |
| Text on chestnut | #F5F5F2 |
| Soft text on chestnut | #E8CFC4 |
| Button hover | #4F1D14 |
| Rack rail | #201D1B |
| Roll: Arctic white | #FBFBF9 |
| Roll: Fog grey | #B8B9B4 |
| Roll: Pale sky | #A9C6DD |
| Roll: Lilac | #B9A8CC |
| Roll: Mustard | #D6A229 |
| Roll: Moss | #677A3B |
| Roll: Deep teal | #1F5F63 |
| Roll: Black | #232221 |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Display (headings, roll labels) | Truculenta |
| Interface (menu, labels) | Truculenta |
| Body text | Truculenta |
| Buttons | Truculenta |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Studio booking request on the Book and contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), Room (required), Date and start time (required), How long (required), Add to the booking, People in the room, About the shoot or session. Email subject: “Studio booking request from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. We check the diary and reply by email with a quote, usually the same working day.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Kiln Yard StudiosKiln YardSpringfield
- Keep one pulled roll (is-pulled) per rack, and keep roll widths to scale: 2fr columns for 2.72 m rolls, 1fr for 1.35 m.
- Use the roll colours only on rolls and drops, and deep yellow only as a mark on chestnut.
- Mark sample facts with (sample) and every price list with Example prices.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| White cyclorama studio with softboxes and overhead lights ready for a shoot | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Empty daylight studio with a sloping ceiling, tall window and wooden floor | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Painter working at an easel in a sunlit art room full of easels | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Softboxes and light stands in front of a curtained window | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Product photography setup with a table, camera on a tripod and softboxes | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Stool on a pink paper backdrop lit by a large umbrella on a boom stand | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Corner of an art room with easels, a plaster bust and window light | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Artists drawing at easels in a large studio with a glass roof | 1600 × 1100 px |
| Rolls of coloured backdrop paper standing side by side | 1600 × 1000 px |
| Studio set with softboxes, a mirror and props on a wooden floor | 1600 × 1000 px |
| Empty studio with a chair on a white backdrop and lights around it | 1600 × 1000 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Art Studio is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home hero band (the rack and the pulled roll's panel) |
lt-rack | rail of rolls (grid; 2fr columns = 2.72 m rolls, 1fr = 1.35 m rolls) |
lt-roll | one paper roll strip; add lt-roll–<colour> (white, fog, sky, lilac, mustard, moss, teal, black, chestnut) and lt-roll–full|part|low for its drop |
lt-roll__tag | the core label written down a roll (colour name and stock number) |
is-pulled | the roll pulled down into the sweep (one per rack) |
lt-sweep | the chestnut panel the pulled roll runs into (hero text) |
lt-stock | one roll in the backdrop list with its width and price per metre; lt-stock–wide|narrow |
lt-drops | a room's backdrop width drawn as 2.72 m paper drops; each child lt-drop |
lt-room | one studio row (photo, facts, backdrop drops, price) |
lt-steps | the four steps of a hire (a real order); each lt-step |
lt-rate | rate card row (room and three prices); head row has is-head |
lt-price | price row (label + amount) |
lt-made | photo made in the studio, with caption |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact desk block |
lt-person | one team member |
lt-map | street drawing |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Art Studio
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Art Studio uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
Can I change the paper colours on the rack?
Yes. Each roll is an Elementor container with a colour class, and every roll colour is a global colour in Site Settings, so you can recolour or rename rolls without code.
Does it take online payments or live availability?
No. Visitors send a booking request with the room, date and hours, and you reply with a quote. You can add a booking plugin later if you want one.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, The studio and Book and contact pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, the studio, rates and art room pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Art Studio. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Also for Joomla
LT Art Studio also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Art Studio Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Art Studio
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket