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Inspiring
Mar 10, 2022 10:37 AM UTC
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P: Mixer Brush Not Working Corrrectly?

Hello, 

 

When I try to paint with a clean brush instead of picking up the colour from the base layer, it's selecting the foreground colour even though I've deselected it. 

Below you can see:

Image 1) I've a base layer.  An empty layer to paint on.  "Load Solid Colours Only" deselected. 

Image 2) It should sample from the base layer and allow me to paint with only those colours, but instead it's automatically using the foreground colour. 

 

Anyone else experiencing this bug and found how to fix it?

 

 

55 replies

Participant
Aug 12, 2022 5:29 AM UTC

Please fix this quickly. The mixer brush cannot be used properly. My photoshop is 23.4.2.

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Participant
Aug 9, 2022 11:32 AM UTC

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/mixer-brush-start-white-or-black-not-clean/idi-p/13121416

 

this bug not fixed yet (until PS 23.4.2)

@Mohit Goyal  It hasn't been fixed. Please change it back to under investigation.

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Known Participant
Jul 5, 2022 9:42 PM UTC

https://youtu.be/rxeY2iTa02o

Little video made to show the issue.
1- X key x2
2- Resize Mixer Brush size
3- Paint : Issue : painting with Foreground Color

So basically, when these steps are done : "changing Foreground Color" + "Resizing Shape of the Mixer Brush", the Mixer Brush Tool is not working properly.

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Junio IM
Participating Frequently
Jul 5, 2022 9:27 PM UTC

the problem has not been solved at all and is causing serious difficulties for those who use frequency separation techniques. Get a move on and fix it!

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Junio IM
Participating Frequently
Jul 11, 2022 8:33 AM UTC

This issue was discussed extensively in another report, with examples, in March. We are in July and version 23.4.1 HAS NOT SOLVED THE PROBLEM.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-mixer-brush-not-working-corrrectly/idc-p/13051421#M59914  

Here an explanation video.  https://youtu.be/rxeY2iTa02o

A whole community of retouchers using Frequency Separation is frustrated and angry.
When do you solve this problem?
let's hurry.

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Known Participant
Jul 5, 2022 9:23 PM UTC

You don't need all these steps to show this issue :

Just select the "Mixer Brush Tool", then hit twice the "X" keyboard button (inverting Background/Foreground twice), and before painting, resize the "Mixer Brush Tool" size, and now, when you paint, it's using the Foreground color.

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Jul 4, 2022 6:54 AM UTC

In version 23.4.1 there is a bug (in 23.2.1 it's ok) in the operation of the mixer brush tool.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set up the mixer brush tool like this:


2. Select the normal brush tool, change its color to any color you like, and paint anything with it.
3. Switch to the mixer brush tool and try painting with it. The first stroke is with the previously selected color even though the mixer brush should be clean
4. Alternatively to step 3: Switch to the mixer brush tool and increase or decrease its size - its color is suddenly set to the color of the previous brush.

 

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lesa5EA2Author
Inspiring
Jun 17, 2022 8:25 AM UTC

Thank you, seems to be working fine now. 

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Known Participant
Jun 16, 2022 3:38 PM UTC

I had never got this issue before, but since I updated to 23.4, now, I have this issue.

 

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Mohit Goyal
Community Manager
Community Manager
Jun 14, 2022 1:48 PM UTC

Hi all,

 

We're happy to announce the release of Photoshop 23.4. This update includes the fix for this issue. To see the list of all fixed issues, click here

 

To update Photoshop to 23.4, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating

 

Let us know if the update resolves the problem for those affected, and share your feedback.

 

Thanks,

Mohit

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lesa5EA2Author
Inspiring
Mar 21, 2022 10:31 AM UTC

This bug was not fixed in the latest update. 

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