How to use automatically change shades of a colour whilst painting

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July 3, 2020
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I'm trying to paint a small area of pixels but I need to make it change a different shade of, brown for example, every time I paint a pixel. I would be grateful for any ideas

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jane-e

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If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can do this with rectangles. Make one dark (or light) and change the Brightness value for the other side. Select all rectangles and choose Edit > Edit Colors > Blend Front to Back. If you need to edit it, change the first or last rectangle and repeat. I made these big so you can see it better.

You can then paste as pixels or a smart object into Photoshop:

~ Jane

Myra Ferguson

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If you had specific colors you wanted to use, you can add them to a Creative Cloud library (select a color, click the "+" at the bottom of the Libraries panel, and select Foreground color) and when you want to switch colors, click on that color in the library. If you want to sample other colors in the image to use while painting with a brush, hold down the Alt (PC)/ option (macOS) key to temporarily switch to the Eyedropper tool and sample the color you want to use.

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Anonymous

Thank you. But is there anyway photoshop can change the shade of a colour you have selected for foreground every time you shade one pixel?

Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

You can use the Burn tool to darken. It's nested with the Dodge tool which lightens and the Sponge tool which saturates or desaturates depending on which mode you select. The keyboard shortcut to get to that group is O. You can cycle through the group using Shift + O.

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