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Mixing Palette

Open the Mixing Palette panel to mix and blend the colors before putting them down onto the canvas.

Close & reopen the Mixing Palette panel from the Window menu or by using the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut on Windows or Cmd+Shift+M on macOS.

Paint - Use the Paint tool to paint onto the Mixing Palette.

Blend - Use the Blend tool to blend the colors on the Mixing Palette.

Eraser - Use the Eraser tool to erase strokes from the Mixing Palette.

Pick Color - Use the Pick Color tool to pick the colors from the Mixing Palette.

Small Brush - Select the small brush for painting onto the Mixing Palette.

Medium Brush - Select the medium brush for painting onto the Mixing Palette.

Large Brush - Select the large brush for painting onto the Mixing Palette.

Opacity - Set the opacity of the paint in the Mixing Palette. To set the opacity using a stylus, click inside the edit box and drag to the right to increase or to the left to decrease the value.

Mixing Palette Library - Open the Mixing Palette Library to access all your mixing palettes and pick the specific palettes for your current project.

Click on the mixing palette to load it from the Mixing Palette Library to the Mixing Palette panel for the current project. Moving an item from the Library to the current project creates a copy, ensuring that any changes made to the copy don't affect the original item in the Library.

In the Library, right-click the mixing palette and choose to rename or remove it. You can re-arrange the list by dragging a selected palette to the desired position.

Right-click in the Mixing Palette Library to add a new group or delete the selected group of palettes. Rename the group by double-clicking its name, enter the new name of the group and hit Enter. Hide the group using one left mouse button click.

Import Mixing Palette - Import a custom mixing palette to the Mixing Palette Library.

Add Mixing Palette - Add the currently active palette from the Mixing Palette panel to the Library.

Remove Mixing Palette - Remove the selected palette from the Mixing Palette Library.

Mixing Palette Menu:

  • Use Shortcuts from Properties panel - Enable this option to use the shortcuts for Paint (1), Paint & Mix (2), Paint & Blend (3), Blend (4), Erase (5), Pick color (Alt) and Mix color (X).
  • Clear - Clear the Mixing Palette.
  • Reset Zoom to 100% - Reset the zoom value of the Mixing Palette window to 100%.
  • Background Color - Change the color of the background in the Mixing palette window.
  • Close - Close the Mixing Palette panel. You can re-open the panel from the Window menu.

Video tutorial

Learn how the Mixing Palette works in this video: Color Set Improvements, Mixing Palette.