Using color selector to mix real oil paint

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April 14, 2019
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I usually eye ball things in adobe when it comes to matching colors with the selector tool. Is there a configuration setting that helps mixing real oil paint more accurate with the color selector tool? Any tips or guides would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I don't find Photoshop to be particularly good at simulating mixing oil paints. Least ways, I am not very good at it. I nearly fell asleep just now reading the LAB colour thread with Norman, Dag, and the terribly dry G.Hoffmann getting all excited and pedantic about a zillioneth decimal point colour rendition. It seems to be more about making exact copies of reality, and less about making art and illustrations.

Quora has recently suffered a deluge of 'what colour does green and brown make?' questions recently, and it drives me mad every time I see another one. So I went looking for, and found an online colour mixing widget.

https://trycolors.com/

It has a bunch of tools that help you answer these questions, and is actually pretty useful.

T

tes48575357

Participant

This was the PERFECT solution to what I have been looking for. Thank you!!!

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

Some folk prefer the color wheel for painting which is now available in CC2019 (click at the top right of the color panel and choose color wheel from the drop down menu)

For painting though I like to use the mixer brush with a second document on screen (Window > Arrange > Tile > 2 up vertical) containing a "pallette" of colours that I can "mix", using the mixer brush, on that pallete then use as the source paint on the main document.

Dave

Evolve StudioAuthor

Participant

Thank you so much. The color wheel option is very helpful. I think I should clarify. I'm trying to use adobe to identify color in photos so I can take real paint to correctly mix the corresponding color.