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The Mixer Brush

The Mixer Brush - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Mixer Brush

- [Instructor] In addition to the regular paint brush, Photoshop has the mixer brush, which will allow us to mix or blend colors together in our images. So from the toolbar, I'm going to select the mixer brush tool. Then I will right click and then reset the tool. Now there are three primary controls for the mixer brush. You have the load control, which is the amount of paint that you have in your brush. You have the wet control, which is really the wetness of the canvas, and you have the mix and that's going to determine how much paint gets mixed into the brush. So I'm going to start by setting the load really low to like 5% and I'm going to take off the wetness by setting it to 0%, which will automatically take off the mix. So now when I start painting in the black area, I can just paint, paint, and paint. It's really not mixing anything, but because the load is set so low, I will quickly run out of paint. If I set…

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