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Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting

by rck on 1/22/22, 4:36 AM with 13 comments

  • by friedturkey on 1/22/22, 10:25 AM

    I hope this gets brought to Procreate.

    I’ve always had trouble handling color when painting digitally, despite immediately grasping it when painting with oils. I knew there was something off about blending but this was my first time actually seeing a side by side—it finally clicked why it’s wrong (and it reminds me of another recent HN post about CSS gradients and avoid the gray zone).

  • by fire on 1/22/22, 12:48 PM

    Nice! Artrage[1] has had this functionality since 2013(!), and I'm honestly surprised it has taken so long for this to show up in ( literally any ) other software;

    1: https://www.artrage.com/

  • by r_hoods_ghost on 1/22/22, 6:37 AM

    Oh that's lovely! I hope this gets integrated into more software soon, though I'm definitely going to check out Rebelle [1] that has it now. It'd be nice to be able to do realistic watercolors without having to actually break out the watercolors!

    [1]https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/about

  • by senectus1 on 1/22/22, 7:23 AM

    thats quite interesting.

    Also from that same site : https://ebsynth.com/ Making a digital paining a moving object using video frames... damned clever. I feel inspired to draw/paint again just to play with it.

  • by cosmotic on 1/22/22, 6:56 AM

    Without downloading and trying it out myself, I'm skeptical of the claim that Corel Painter doesn't mix colors correctly; this is one of their main selling points. I suspect they just left it in RGB mode instead of switching to CYMK mode. Can anyone confirm?
  • by rikroots on 1/22/22, 10:43 AM

    I think the talk video (last on the linked page) does a really good job of explaining the problems surrounding natural vs digital (RGB) pigments mixing, and how the Mixbox folks overcame them to create good-looking outcomes.
  • by NylaTheWolf on 1/25/22, 3:08 PM

    You're an actual saint! Thank you so much!!!
  • by pabs3 on 1/22/22, 9:48 AM

    Note: requires a separate (paid?) license to use commercially