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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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.
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).
1: https://www.artrage.com/
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.