How to Blend Colors in Photoshop: 4 Essential Techniques

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Welcome to our Tips & Tricks video series here on Paintable. In this video, David gives an overview of the 4 best tools to blend colors in Photoshop: soft round brush, hard edge brush, smudge tool, and mixer brush.

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[Pellbort]

The great strengths of these videos are the simple, relatable explanations, tight pacing and short, easily-digestible length. Awesome. Thanks a lot for this.

[SmorzeinDoors]

Mixer brush literally just changed the way I paint. Thank you so much!

[Moneyaddthenmultiply]

I'm lost already. How are you actually blending in the first part? What is the setting? The sped up video makes it impossible to follow along for me :(

[taylorb]

I love and ard-eg brush =) great techniques thanks!

[markastrid]

new sub ^^, gonna watch hard and mixer brush techniques! great comparison video!
thanks a lot! im so excited

[AmarilloHomey]

This is great! Trying to transition from Clipstudio to Photoshop so I was pretty lost lol. Can't wait to try these

[Greta]

On paint tool sai there's the blur tool that is so easy to use! I'm looking for a brush like that or something that can give the same effect. Can someone help me? Should I use the mixer brush maybe?

[alanp]

Hmm, the hard blending brush makes a pretty cool effect

[Yooooooooow]

Great channel bro! Short but informative. You earned a sub!

[Zoids-bfop]

I think a combination of hard and soft brush is good enough

[PurpleSoma]

uhmm very interesting!! thank you for this video it helped me so much :D each technique gives nice results, but i really like the effect of the soft and mixer brushes alot! i will try with those in these days! ^^

[blyrax]

you are an O.G. thanks for the tips. pun intended

[keithmanuelesparas]

Thanks for the info i was so lost of how to blend colors in photoshop 😅

[Kriiken]

That mix brush though. I just tried it out and hot damn its good. Thank you!

[politicalcartoonist]

for a long time I thought you were saying Saffron brush. instead of soft round brush. I am member. I love paintable digital academy 8 weeks now

[cynthia]

Can't believe that photoshop doesn't have a blend tool!!

[wichitascreenprinting]

Can you do a video on blending on Photoshop and Adobe Fresco on the ipad?

[natasanesic]

When i use the eyedropper tool it picks a color but puts it on the second color place so i have to click those switch arrows to continue to paint. How can i fix this?...please help

[Quiz-Mania-Pra-Familia]

Information never ages! Here I am, 6 years later, to thank you for this video. I have tons of vectorized images to correct the hardness between colors. I tried the 'mixer brush' and it seems to be faster, but every time I lift the pen the color change to white. So I have to change to 'clean brush' again and again. Is there a shortcut to do this? Thank you very much :)

[preciousali]

I love your watching..there is a lot to learn from it. Can this be used with procreate? Here you showed using the soft or hard brush to blend color. Isn't it using either any of these brushes through the smudge tool or it can be used on its own to blend not just to paint? I thought if you're to blend colors together, it has to be through the smudge tool.