From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
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The Mixer Brush - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
The Mixer Brush
- [Instructor] In addition to the regular paintbrush, Photoshop has the mixer brush, which allows us to mix or blend colors together in our images. I'll tap the B key to select the brush tool and then be sure that I've got the mixer brush selected. I'll right-click on the brush in the Options bar and then just reset that, so we'll all be starting at the same place. Now, there are three primary controls for the mixer brush. The load is the amount of paint that you have in your brush, the wet is the wetness of the canvas, and the mix determines how much paint gets mixed into the brush. So let's start with the load. I'm going to decrease the load value down to, like, 10 and then I'll take off the wet value for now by just setting it to zero and that automatically disables the mix. So with white as my foreground color, I'm just going to start painting and this is one continuous paint stroke, but you can see I ran out of paint…
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