Working with the Mixer Panel

The Mixer panel lets you mimic the experience of mixing colors on a traditional artist’s palette. In the Mixer panel, you can access color swatches and various tools that let you mix colors. You can then apply two or more colors to the Mixer pad, the mixing area at the center of the Mixer panel, and then blend them together to create a new color.

You can save, load, and reset colors in the Mixer panel. In addition, you can save colors as Mixer swatches and save colors to color sets.

Understanding the Mixer panel Controls

The controls in the Mixer panel are used to apply, mix, sample, and clear color on the Mixer pad.

The following table describes all of the Mixer panel tools.


Mixer panel tool	Description
Apply Color tool	Acts as a loaded paint source; applies color to the Mixer pad. Color loaded on the Apply Color tool blends with color already in the Mixer pad.
Sample Color tool	Samples color in the Mixer pad for use on the canvas. The sampled color becomes the main color in the Color panel.
Reset tool	Resets the Mixer pad to its default colors.

Using the Clear and Reset Canvas Button

The Clear and Reset Canvas button erases the contents of the Mixer pad and resets the zoom level to 100%. It does not, however, reset the brush size.

Using the Change Brush Size Slider

The Change Brush Size slider lets you increase or decrease the size of the Apply Color tool and the Mix Color tool. The Change Brush Size slider also lets you set the size of the sample area in the Mixer pad when sampling with the Sample Multiple Colors tool. If you adjust the Change Brush Size slider, the new value is retained when you reopen the application.

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 12, and are not included in Painter Lite. Visit www.corel.com/painter for more information about Corel Painter 12.