I’ve always had trouble handling color when painting digitally, despite immediately grasping it when painting with oils. I knew there was something off about blending but this was my first time actually seeing a side by side—it finally clicked why it’s wrong (and it reminds me of another recent HN post about CSS gradients and avoid the gray zone).
Nice! Artrage[1] has had this functionality since 2013(!), and I'm honestly surprised it has taken so long for this to show up in ( literally any ) other software;
Came here to say the same! I remember vividly being impressed by its paint simulation almost a decade ago, and watercolor mixing. The wheel keeps spinning.
There has been a ton of uptake for alternative color spaces in design tools recently, especially to generate nicer gradients. It’s surprising that art software would be the slowest to evolve.
Oh that's lovely! I hope this gets integrated into more software soon, though I'm definitely going to check out Rebelle [1] that has it now. It'd be nice to be able to do realistic watercolors without having to actually break out the watercolors!
Also from that same site : https://ebsynth.com/
Making a digital paining a moving object using video frames... damned clever. I feel inspired to draw/paint again just to play with it.
Without downloading and trying it out myself, I'm skeptical of the claim that Corel Painter doesn't mix colors correctly; this is one of their main selling points. I suspect they just left it in RGB mode instead of switching to CYMK mode. Can anyone confirm?
I just tested Corel Painter by mixing blue and yellow and it does not. You end up with a sort of grey color, not green. I do not see a CMYK option in the preferences either.
I think the talk video (last on the linked page) does a really good job of explaining the problems surrounding natural vs digital (RGB) pigments mixing, and how the Mixbox folks overcame them to create good-looking outcomes.
if there's no patents (which i dont know if true or not), you can read the paper, and reimplement it without looking at the source (provided you have the skills i suppose...).
But the effort probably isn't worth the cost of a license imho.
I’ve always had trouble handling color when painting digitally, despite immediately grasping it when painting with oils. I knew there was something off about blending but this was my first time actually seeing a side by side—it finally clicked why it’s wrong (and it reminds me of another recent HN post about CSS gradients and avoid the gray zone).