User Guide

Color 91
Mixing Artists’ Oils Paint
On its own, the Mixer palette mimics the traditional experience of mixing color on a
palette. When used in tandem with an Artists’ Oils brush variant, the Mixer palette
offers digital artists as much color-mixing flexibility as its traditional counterpart. You
can create a color on the Mixer palette and apply it to the canvas. You can also sample
and paint with multiple colors.
To paint with Artists’ Oils color from the Mixer palette
1 Mix the color you want on the Mixer palette.
The Dirty Brush Mode tool is active by default. If it isn’t, click the Dirty Brush
Mode tool.
2 On the Brush Selector bar, choose an Artists’ Oils brush variant.
3 Paint in the document window.
The last color on the Apply Color tool or Mix Color tool is used in the brush
stroke.
You can also mix Artists’ Oils paint on the canvas with an Artists’ Oils palette
knife variant. Unlike palette knives in other brush categories, Artists’ Oil
palette knives do not apply color.
To sample multiple colors
1 Mix the color you want on the Mixer palette.
2 Move the Change Brush Size slider to set the size of the sample area.
The size to the sample area is displayed to the right of the slider and measured in
pixels.
3 Click the Sample Multiple Color tool , and click the click the area of the Mixer
pad you want to sample.
Creating Mixer Swatches
If you have mixed colors that you are particularly happy with, you can save them as
mixer swatches and add them to color sets. For more information about color sets, see
“Using Color Sets” on page 92.