How do you blend colors in a painting?

[BadBoy House]

Hi,

Read the thread named:

Trouble with "Pick Up Underlying Color"?

Both Resat/Resaturation and Bleed slider settings affect how much a brush variant will blend color, whether on the Canvas or a Layer, or on a Layer with the Pick Up Underlying Color box checked.

Resat/Resaturation controls how much color is painted in the brush stroke.

Bleed controls how much existing color is picked up and mixed with the current color, in the brush stroke.

Again, these two controls work together to make a brush variant blend color, to one degree or another, depending on the Resat/Resaturation and Bleed slider settings.

With Resat/Resaturation at 0% and Bleed at 100% the brush variant only blends existing color.

With Resat/Resaturation at 100% and Bleed at 0%, the brush variant only paints color and does not blend at all.

Check the Brush Controls' Well palette Resat/Resaturation and Bleed slider settings for the Blenders variants to see that, in their default state, none of them paint color (unless, with some of them, you move the Resat/Resaturation slider up from 0%).




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already done that Jinny as mentioned in my other post. made no difference.

I'll check out the tips the other's mentioned and report back.

thanks

[Jinny Brown]

makes no difference m8. i'd have thought it would be standard for colours to blend and mix rather than just go over the top of them. the lynda.com tutorial does it perfectly (albeit on a mac) - the same settings on xp dont work.

there must be a way to blend colours surely.

In addition to the Resat/Resaturaton and Bleed slider adjustments I demonstrated, also try lowering brush Opacity. With some variants it needs to be adjusted very low to make the blending process work as expected.


Good luck!

[BadBoy House]

yay it's working = it was the Bleed value. mine was set at 100% (the default) - changed it to 38% and i'm off.

cheers folks!

[BadBoy House]

having said that - it doesnt work for all brushes e.g. oils

[Jinny Brown]

having said that - it doesnt work for all brushes e.g. oils

You don't say exactly which Oils variants you've tried this with and if you want anyone to be able to help you figure it out, it'll help a lot to have that info.

Also, what brush control settings did you use that didn't work?

While I haven't taken the time to try it with all Oils variants, I can make, and have made some of the Oils variants blend colors.

Also, what Painter version (including patch/update number) are you using? I've scanned this thread and don't see that mentioned, though I might have missed it.


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