Make AP Paint Mixer Brush work in next version

[kat]

Please make AP Paint Mixer Brush work in next version. It works with auto load but when cleaned nothing happens on a rasterized image.

[walt.farrell]

I'm curious what you think it should do (or want it to do) when it's cleaned kat.

From the Help for what it is supposed to do (with my emphasis) :

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As you drag the Paint Mixer Brush across the page, the color currently on the brush blends with the color on the page, smudging and mixing them together.

From that, I would expect it to do nothing when cleaned, without Auto-Load.

Actually, from that, I am surprised because for me it does do something:

Before:

After dragging a cleaned Paint Mixer Brush Tool, without auto-load:

 

[kat]

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

After dragging a cleaned Paint Mixer Brush Tool, without auto-load:

 

This is exactly what I want to happen without auto-load.

[walt.farrell]

Then perhaps you should continue in one of the other two topics you've mentioned this in:

Either Bugs on MacOS:

Or Questions:

Maybe someone will be able to figure out what's going on, but it seems a Feature Request shouldn't be needed

[kat]

Early May 2022 it worked for awhile then went belly up again.

Used the Paint Mixer Brush on the hair.

[kat]

I've had this problem for years. 

Watched every AP Painter Mixer Brush on tutorial on youtube. No help.

I reset my brushes yesterday. No change.

From now on I'll stick to regular AP brushes and if I really need a mixer brush go back to painter or photoshop.

Thanks for giving it a shot.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

Should be fixable, though.

[kat]

 I was working in psd with mixer brush, then back to AP

I tried reducing Paint Mixer Brush Strength below 100%. No idea why 100% Strength doesn't work or what the best #s to set strength are. PSD has those presets for moist, heavy, dry…

Any thoughts?

Hopefully this will last.

Back to watching all the youtube Paint Mixer Brush tutorials.

[walt.farrell]

14 hours ago, kat said:

No idea why 100% Strength doesn't work or what the best #s to set strength are.

Good catch. There is a known bug (AFP-3049) if you set 100% strength.

As for what is "best", from the Paint Mixer tutorial you referenced when asking about PureRef, I would say it's whatever works best for the image you're working on. He always seemed to be using something in the 50-86% range, if I remember correctly. But each image, and each usage in an image, might need something different. That's something you would learn by experience and experimenting.