<li class="Bulleted"><a href="05-Color5.html#1010755">Creating Color Swatches</a></li><br/>
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<a name="1008478"> </a>The Mixer Palette
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<a name="1008632"> </a>The Mixer palette mimics the traditional experience of mixing colors on an artist's palette. You can apply two or more colors to the Mixer Pad, blending them together to get the color you want.
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<a name="1014057"> </a>Colors can be saved, loaded, and reset on the Mixer palette, saved as color swatches, and saved to color sets.
<a name="1017460"> </a>The Brush tool acts as a loaded paint source, applying color to the Mixer Pad. Color loaded on it also blends with color already on the Mixer Pad.
<a name="1017231"> </a>The Eyedropper tool samples color on the Mixer Pad for use on the canvas. The sampled color becomes the primary color on the Colors palette.
<a name="1017252"> </a>The Clear and Reset Canvas tool erases the contents of the Mixer Pad and resets the zoom level to 100%.
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<a name="1010231"> </a>The Brush Size Slider
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<a name="1010303"> </a>The Brush Size slider lets you increase or decrease the size of the Brush tool and the Palette Knife tool. If you adjust the Brush Size slider, the new value is retained when you reopen the application.
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<a name="1010491"> </a>The Mixer Palette Colors
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<a name="1010239"> </a>Color wells at the top of the Mixer palette store commonly used colors you can use on the Mixer Pad. A series of colors appears by default; however, these colors can be changed to suit the individual preferences of the artist. Mixer colors can be saved, loaded, and reset to the default.
<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010355"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
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<a name="1017650"> </a>If the Mixer palette is not expanded, click the palette arrow.
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<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1010363"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Colors</span> to display the Colors palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="3"><a name="1010364"> </a>On the Colors palette, choose a color from the standard or small Color Picker.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="4"><a name="1010376"> </a>On the Mixer Color palette, choose the color well you want to change on the Mixer Color selector.</li>
<a name="1010377"> </a>The new color appears in the color well.
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<a name="1010349"> </a>To save Mixer palette colors
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010396"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1010438"> </a>Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Save Mixer Colors.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="3"><a name="1010439"> </a>In the Save Mixer Colors dialog box, type a name for the mixer colors and choose where you want to save the Mixer swatches (MSW) file.</li>
<a name="1010351"> </a>To reset the Mixer palette colors
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010473"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1010474"> </a>Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Reset Mixer Colors.</li>
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<a name="1010512"> </a>Mixing Colors
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<a name="1010513"> </a>Using the Mixer Pad, the color wells, and the Brush and Palette Knife tools, you can create new colors for use in your images.
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<a name="1010653"> </a>When you have finished mixing and sampling colors, you can clear the Mixer Pad, or save it as a Mixer Pad (MXS) file that you can open and use later.
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<a name="1010514"> </a>To mix colors
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010529"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="3"><a name="1010572"> </a>On the Mixer Pad, click the color you want to sample.</li>
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<a name="1010573"> </a>The sampled color becomes the primary color in the image.
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<a name="1010660"> </a>To clear the Mixer Pad
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010686"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1010687"> </a>Do one of the following:</li>
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<li class="Bulleted2"><a name="1010698"> </a>Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Clear Mixer Pad.</li>
<li class="Bulleted2"><a name="1010702"> </a>On the Mixer palette, click the Clear and Reset Canvas <br />button <img src="images/05-Color31.jpg" height="16" width="16" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" />
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<a name="1010672"> </a>To save a Mixer Pad
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1010711"> </a>Choose <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">Window menu > Show Mixer</span> to display the Mixer palette.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1010712"> </a>Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Save Mixer Pad.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="3"><a name="1010722"> </a>In the Save Mixer Pad dialog box, type a name for the mixer colors and choose where you want to save the Mixer Pads (MXS) file.</li>
<a name="1010251"> </a>If you have mixed colors that you are particularly happy with, you can save them as color swatches and add them to color sets. For more information about color sets, see <a href="05-Color6.html#1010636">"Using Color Sets"</a>.