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January 27, 2022
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Feature Request: Mixbox True Pigment Mixing

  • January 27, 2022
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Currently the colour mixing in Adobe Photoshop is not true to real life (e.g. blue plus yellow makes a cream colour instead of green). I would love to see Adobe impliment a system like the one found here:[link removed as per forum guidelines]

It would improve the product greatly and keep Photoshop above the competition for digital artist.

57 replies

Participant
September 10, 2023

I did not believe adobe has any interest in incorporating a Kubelka-Munk (RGB Mixbox) model for paint mixing. I will continue to use photoshop for what it is best at, but Rebelle 6 (link removed by moderator) has both Pigment Color Mixing and NanoPixel Technology!

 

Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting (Research Paper)

[Link removed by moderator]

Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague

Participant
August 16, 2023

I jsut tried in ( MiX BOX ) [link removed by moderator] online -  can you implement the code in Photoshop, please ? well,,, they say is that simple - anyways, photoshop would be awesome with this 

Participating Frequently
July 5, 2023

Rebelle, Art Studio Pro, Paintstorm, ArtRage, all have true pigment mixing. So, it can't be that hard to implement. Rebelle is on sale right now so I bought a copy.

Bob

Participant
July 5, 2023

It really bug me that mixing blue and yellow don't give green like in real life so i take 2 hour asking chat GPT for solution and the closest i have now is stopping my photoshop subscription and buy instead rebelle6 one that include this feature.
I know photoshop is more about editing photo than drawing since the dawn of time. But it's really sad this does not implement this feature (I mean True Pigment Mixing not specifilly mixbox one version).
For real life painter it's really a nice one. I know you can use color picker to use the color you wan't but it's not how painting work.

I guess as painter are not that many we will not see this feature any day soon and for painting photoshop is just not the right tool to use. I think mixbox licensing is not good for adobe as it force them to take a commercial licence that price is not set. So this means photoshop dev should add their own implementation of realistic brush mixing using pigment color RYB. I never yet use adobe Fresco is it more suited to painting? Does it have a similar mixing feature or not?




manu901able.37974972
Participant
July 3, 2023

Implementing mixbox to photoshop is not only a good thing for traditional artist, most digital artist have to spend time adding colors (cause mixing without mixbox makes the resulting color creamy) they have to change saturation when mixing colors beacuse of this, that makes workflow slower, THAT is a fact that concern every user

Irise Flow
Known Participant
March 21, 2023

Maybe there could be a way to turn this feature on and off, just like the line smoothing add-on. My biggest concern is if this new blending mode will affect the speed of the brushstrokes or not. If they can find a way to make it work smoothly, then it would be a significant enhancement for painters. 

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2023

@alexandrap1502541 I've merged your post with an existing thread on this subject

Dave

Participant
January 23, 2023

[Link removed by moderator]

this plugin allows digital painters to mix digital pigments more accurately and beautifully. It would make my digital painting process smoother and more enjoya

PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 21, 2022
Participating Frequently
December 21, 2022

I think the problem is, Photoshop is so complex in it's abilities, that adding a feature that may only please a small part of one group, mainly painters that are used to traditional painitng methods, is not on the top of Adobe's list...understandably. The apps that have the ability ot mix paint traditionally are dedicated painting apps, so it makes sense in those conditions.

 

But, it would be nice if Adobe added it at some point.

Bob