P: Mixer Brush Not Working Corrrectly?

[lesa5EA2]

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?

[Jqqerry]

@annes52155099 I agree with you. I don't think it's trivial, either. It's inconvenient.

But since the bugs that make Photoshop so inconvenient to use at all (hand tool for example) are already continuing to the latest version, this thread has not been noticed by the big bugs, so I'm just working by adapting. Don't get me wrong.

[Chad Rolfs]

Thanks for continuing to push for this. I've escalated again to Dev and Product Management requesting prioritization.

[Georgia37976238zslh]

Hello, I'm so stuck at what to do I have tried all the tricks below and completely updated my photoshop and the mixer brush is still not staying clean, hopefully this can be fixed soon, thank you! 

[Flowgun]

Hello,
With the mixer brush set to "Load Solid Colors Only", and "Sample All Layers" turned on, I would expect it to be able to pick colors from the layers below, but that fails.
It is able to pick patterns from layers below when "Load Solid Colors Only" is unchecked, which leads me to think that this is a bug, since picking up a color should be a lot simpler, and since that would be the expected behavior when "Sample All Layers" is checked.

[Michal G_1]

Is there any progress on this? Will this bug ever be fixed?

@Aleke   @CMass  @Srishti Bali  @Anshul_Saini @Chad Rolfs 

[yaroslavu5897283]

Still the same

[Earth Oliver]

>The issue where the foreground color gets loaded on change of brush size or flip foreground/background color has been around as far back as PS 2018.

I guess it's ok with Adobe to let a bug persist for almost 8 years? Why is this acceptable? Maybe it's time for us to start behaving the way gamers behave towards those devs? 

[Wienke]

There’s another bug that compounds this problem: If you save mixer brushes with “include size”, then switch among differently sized brushes, the foreground color replaces your sample, but the reservoir icon does not update until you touch down for the actual stroke—so you have no warning that you’ll now be painting with something different.

As a workaround, if I’m going to save a brush at a particular size, I set its color to something garish that will be noticeable in peripheral vision and “include color” when saving it. This forces the reservoir to update immediately upon brush selection, as a warning that I need to re-sample.

Please fix this, Adobe. Having to re-sample every time you change size is a serious impediment.