Feature Request: Mixbox True Pigment Mixing

As is stated earlier in this thread, Adobe staff do not comment on whether or not features will be included in future releases.

Repeating the same request does not lead to that changing.

Dave

Sorry, I wanted to let you know that I had edited my answer, with more questions.

Hi, are you a traditional painter? Is there a given technique that cannot be replicated today, but could with this method?

I understand that it would be nice to replicate how traditional pigment mixing behaves, but what I have not seen often are digital painting classes that are catered for traditional painters, and would give workarounds. 
For instance I imagine a request for a way to reveal images the same way Photos are developed in a darkroom, but I fail to see what advantages it could bring.
Is the request more to create intermediate tones on a traditional palette, or rather on canvas?

Hi, not all requests are fulfilled, and some have taken years, some never became an actual feature, as the team has to decide on priorities.

Side note: in February it'll be a year since the first post. I wonder what is the average time for the request to be implemented, because a year seems pretty long. 

Hi, as a publicly traded company, Adobe employees can't comment on upcoming features.

Explaining how the current painting engine does not let you achieve the results you want is the best one can do so far!

I tried using a plugin called Mixoos a few years ago, but it was a little awkward and I don't even know if it works with newer PS versions. It was a paint mixing palette similar to what Painter uses. It used somehting similar to PS Mixer Brush, but it had it's own set of tools. Nice idea, but too much back and forth between PS tools and Mixoos tools. And, I could never figure out how to set up hot keys for it.

Bob

@PECourtejoie That is correct. This is the reply I got yesterday from the founder of Secret Weapons (Mixbox dev):

Hi Michał,

 

thank you for your interest in Mixbox and for posting on Adobe's forum.
The thing is that Mixbox is such a low-level feature - a new blending mode - that it cannot be deployed as a plugin. Photoshop simply doesn't provide the necessary API to add a new blending mode as a plugin. Mixbox needs to be integrated within the canvas so that the colors interact correctly during painting. The only way to get Mixbox into Photoshop is if the Photoshop developers do it.

We have prepared a very practical library, so it's super easy to integrate it. They had it done in Rebelle in two weeks. However, unless someone in Adobe decides to use our library, there is nothing we can do. We're really sorry."

And so the ball is back again on Adobe's side.

I beleive it's already integrated into Rebelle Pro, so I would think it could be integrated into Photoshop.

Bob

I do not think that a plugin could work, it seems to be a technology integrated with the paint tool, a color blending algorithm. They are begging to be acquit-hired.