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January 27, 2022
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Feature Request: Mixbox True Pigment Mixing

  • January 27, 2022
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Currently the colour mixing in Adobe Photoshop is not true to real life (e.g. blue plus yellow makes a cream colour instead of green). I would love to see Adobe impliment a system like the one found here:[link removed as per forum guidelines]

It would improve the product greatly and keep Photoshop above the competition for digital artist.

57 replies

November 27, 2022

@jane-e Thank you for pointing that out to me. I notified authors of the plugin, hopefully they will be able make it work now. 

PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2022

Hello, I merged the different requests in the oldest one I found.

November 27, 2022

I'm surprised we don't have Mixbox [link removed as per forum guidelines]  right now. Can we get this on, please.

jane-e
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Community Expert
November 27, 2022

@26002763 

 

We are aware that MixBox is telling folks to request this en masse on their website. That's not how plug-ins work. The developers need to work with Adobe and offer it as a plug-in. 

 

 

Please give MixBox this link and tell them to go through proper channels.

https://helpx.adobe.com/xd/help/create-manage-plugins.html

 

Jane

 

Participating Frequently
November 24, 2022

It would be nice to add color mixing possibilites that were the same or similar to mixing traditional oils and acrylic paints.

 

This would be a great addition to Photoshop or any drawing or painting in the Adobe line of apps.

Here is a company that has code that can be included into any app:

[Link removed by moderator]

Bob Bovassso

Known Participant
August 8, 2022

I agree that this would be a great improvement for Photoshop, and potentially AE, Illustrator, and more!  Even if you're just creating a gradient in one of these programs, you won't get appealing in-between colors for many combinations. 
Adobe really shouldn't have any excuse not to implement this because the creators of MixBox essentially made it as easy as possible to integrate into any RGB based program.  Just like Illustrator has RGB and CMYK modes, you should be able to change the project color mixing mode in PS to "Pigment" or "Natural" or something.
It's NOT just about mixing colors on a pallette like Bob Ross- it's about truer, more vibrant colors no matter how you mix them.

jane-e
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May 17, 2022

@돌연쟁이낑깡 

 

Have you tried Photoshop's Mixer Brush?

 

Jane

PhanTran
Participating Frequently
February 7, 2022

adobe didn't even add many function from fresco to photoshop. Honestly adobe need to focus more on the digital painting side of photoshop since it is already best all other photo editor in market. As for the mixing, I find that people already used to digital painting will probably find it unnecessary but I could probably wrong about that. More option is welcome anyway. Please support digital artist adobe 

agatar40102869
Participating Frequently
February 6, 2022

For sure, I think people will be happy either way, as long as we get the functionality. They haven't made any upgrades to digital drawing/painting aspects of the software in ages, so a little noise won't hurt imo. Sometimes that's what's needed to get the ball rolling. Adobe charges a lot of money for their services, and fair enough, but they should keep up with the times. More alternatives on the market should push them to be more competitive. 

Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
February 6, 2022

I'm not a programmer, so if this is beyond a plug-in Adobe can of course create their own similar capability,  license or acquire the technology from this or another developer or continue with their roadmap which may or may not include any of this.

 

Regardless, the developers are encouraging the public to make noise in fora such as this.

 

EDIT: by plug-in, I was thinking of a separate workspace/gui/toolset, such as Liquify or Camera Raw – not "native tool integration" into the core of Photoshop behaviour.

agatar40102869
Participating Frequently
February 6, 2022

I dunno...I'm not aware of any plug-in that affects brush strokes directly while you draw. PS doesn't even give you the option of just mixing and blending colours while painting. There's the mixer brush and the smudge tool but those are not the same.