Hot mix / pick the colour U want

[kidult]

I come from a fine art background and have been trying to get into digital painting. My problem lies in obtaining the colours I want. Say I have an orange hue but need a slight green tint to it - with paints I would just add a pin prick of green to mix it but in Painter Im confused - how do I get the greener value thru the colour wheel? Just moving the slider over to the green part doesnt work. I have used the mixer palette to get some colours but would like to now how to use the colour wheel. Also as colour placed next to each other efffect each other I find it hard to spot the right colour in the swatches?

Any hints or tips would be great

edit: title should read how to mix / pick

[joeparis]

If you to to Window>Colour Palettes>Show colour info, you will be presented with RGB sliders underneath the colour wheel. This will allow you to add/remove Red/Green/Blue. Is that what you mean or of any help?

[tomt]

I'd use the tinting brushes or glazing acrylic brushes. Picking a color out of a swatch is never accurate, as you said, you have to see it next to other colors in your image.

[Jin]

kidult,

You can also use the Mixer palette to paint orange, add a bit of green to the orange, mix it, then pick the color you want from the mix using the Mixer palette's Sample Color dropper (fourth icon from the left at the bottom of the Mixer palette).


Jinny

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[rattsang]

to understand the colour wheel you need to know the properties of colour. by this i mean hue, value and saturation and how different colours affect each other. using your example above , here we go: say you lay down cadium orange. this colour has a warm hue, a medium value and high saturation. now you add a little permanent green. so this has a cooler hue than the orange a darker value and also has a high saturation. so what you need to know is how the properties of the green affect the orange. the cooler hue will neturaize the saturation a bit so move the slider a little toward grey, this is because cool and warm colours cancel each other out to make grey. the hue will also change very slightly to a more yellow because green has yellow in it(adding blue instead would move it towards red slightly depending on the blue), so move the hue slider towards yellow a nudge. the green is darker than the orange so it will make the mixture slightly darker too. move the value slider down a bit. once you understand this you can just pull the circle in the triangle and then spin the hue wheel to change colours as you please.

the mixer pad is a good tool, a note coming from a traditional painting background though, the colours dont mix in the same way as real paint. in painter on the mixer pad colours loose their saturation way to fast when adding white (and lights) and they hold the saturation far too long when adding black (darks) . so you can use it for a base when mixing colours but you must remember to adjust the saturation accordingly other wise your lights will be mud.

hope this answers your question

rat