The ‘Load brush after each stroke’ button does what it says, it tells the mixer brush to keep refilling the pickup well with color and therefore the pickup well becomes progressively contaminated with the colors that are sampled as you paint. Clicking on ‘Clean brush’ from the ‘Current brush load’ options immediately cleans the brush and clears the current color, while clicking ‘Load brush’ fills with the current foreground color again. The pickup well is one that has paint flowing into it and continuously mixes the colors of where you paint with the color that’s contained in the reservoir well. This is the color you see displayed in the Load preview swatch. The reservoir well color is defined by the current foreground color swatch in the tools panel or by Option/Alt-clicking in the image canvas area. The mixer brush tool has two wells: a reservoir and a pickup. In the meantime, let’s take a look at the Options bar settings for the mixer brush that’s shown below in Figure 1. Fortunately, the Tool Presets panel can help here and the easiest way to get started is to select one or two of the new brush presets and experiment painting with these brush settings to gain a better understanding of what the new brush settings can do. It’s not particularly easy to pick up a brush and play with it unless you have studied all these brush options in detail and can understand how the user interface is meant to work. The brush controls are split between the Brush panel, the Brush Presets panel, the Options bar and the new Bristle preview. The only downside is that the user interface has had to become even more complicated. The combination of the mixer brush and bristle tip brushes provide a whole new level of sophistication to the Photoshop paint engine. The mixer brush can be used with the new bristle tips or with the traditional Photoshop brush tips (now referred to as static tips) to produce natural-looking paint strokes. With the mixer brush you can mix colors together as you paint, picking up color samples from the image you are painting on and set the rate at which the brush picks up paint from the canvas and the rate at which the paint dries out. ![]() This image here would have been an easy-win in black and white, but I’m glad Dmytro Khytryi persevered with the final colour.The mixer brush tool allows you to paint more realistically in Photoshop. A well shot black and white image can convey a complicated scene very quickly without colour confusing the shot, but it’s also very lazy. It’s also why black and white imagery is so easy to do well and why so many of us are drawn to it visually. As a result, our eyes are drawn to this easy to process image with limited colours and it’s often why we subconsciously like colour graded shots. After the colour grade, we’ve boiled that down to almost pinks and blues. ![]() In the original we have blues, greens, yellows, reds and pinks. Look again at what I mean in the shot above. ![]() It boils images down to those two core colours and gets away with it visually in most cases. This is why the classic and orange and teal look is so popular. One of the fundamental rules of colour grading is to tighten up the palette of a shot, to break it down into as small of a pool of colours as you can, whilst still maintaining the overall impact and contrast of the original shot.
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