Color Variability

Color variability allows you to create brush strokes of more than one color. Variability can be used to enhance the Natural-Media appearance of your work.

The Color Variability Palette

The Color Variability palette contains sliders to adjust color variability values.

The Color Variability palette.

To display the Color Variability palette

• Choose Window menu > Show Color Variability.

Setting Color Variability

Color variability can be set according to HSV or RGB mode, and it can be based on the current gradient or color set.

To set color variability

1. On the Colors palette, choose a primary color from the standard or small Color picker.
2. Choose Window menu > Show Color Variability to display the Color Variability palette.
3. Choose In HSV from the pop-up menu.
4. Adjust the Hue, Saturation, and Value sliders to control hue, saturation, and value ranges for color variability.

• Move the ±Hue slider to the right to increase the number of hues in the resulting brush stroke. These colors are the ones adjacent to the selected color on the color wheel.
• Move the ±Saturation slider to the right to increase variability in the color intensity of the brush stroke.
• Move the ±Value slider to the right to increase variability in the brightness of the brush stroke.

You can try different ±HSV settings with any of the brushes to get interesting results.

• When you save a brush variant, the current color variability setting is also saved.

• When working with brushes like the Loaded Oils brush or the Van Gogh and Seurat variants of the Artists brush, moving these sliders to the right can add natural, almost 3D-looking effects to your Web page images.

To set color variability in RGB mode

1. On the Colors palette, choose a primary color from the standard or small Color picker.
2. Choose Window menu > Show Color Variability to display the Color Variability palette.
3. Choose In RGB from the pop-up menu.
4. Move the R, G, and B sliders to control color variability of red, green, and blue values.

To set color variability based on the current gradient

1. On the Colors palette, choose a primary color from the standard or small Color picker.
2. Choose Window menu > Show Color Variability to display the Color Variability palette.
3. Choose From Gradient from the pop-up menu.

From Gradient causes random colors from the current gradient to be chosen for color variability.

To set color variability based on the current color set

1. On the Colors palette, choose a primary color from the standard or small Color picker.
2. Choose Window menu > Show Color Variability to display the Color Variability palette.
3. Choose From Color Set from the pop-up menu.

From Color Set causes random colors from the current color set to be chosen for color variability.