This Brush Setting is Magic

How have I overlooked this for so long?! This Photoshop brush setting is magic

[wlet]

For anyone wondering - the feature is called "color jitter" in CSP and can be found in the Sub Tool Details.

[uta.]

I always thought this setup was just a nuisance, but you made it magical. Thanks, I'll use it in my illustrations. I wonder if it would work well on grass too?

[nobleani]

Im studying video game art and I sincerely wish we'd been taught stuff like this, I hate that I get better knowledge off YouTube than I do from the degree I'm paying for.. thank you for this channel!!

[AaAa-kyhp]

Finding this channel is like fiding a rare gem

[SwedePotato]

Ive been learning CSP, albeit very slowly, and I appreciate your appreciation for subtely and artfullness. Ive been a traditional artist for a very long time and switching over to digital has been incredibly hard for me. I have to really go back to basics and translate those iver first before I start anytbing else. This is beauitful. Thanm you ❤

[pier-oliviermartel]

Amazing demonstration ! This is really cool ;)

[chaseleswift]

I manually hand picked every colour, just about a month ago, so thank you. I knew of this but I keep forgetting

[Hovrice]

Hue jitter has some great applications! That said, imo the real magic comes from setting the control to pen pressure via color dynamics, giving you the ability to shift between foreground and background colors via pen pressure. This inherently pushes back against photoshop's (and most image manipulation software's) tendency towards muddying, especially at high and low keys.

To make it work, it requires a lot more foreground/background shifting (x) and color selecting (alt-click) than the average process. At first glance you may think "woah, I don't need all these crazy colors, " but you have full control to tamp it down at your leisure.

I've been digitally painting for 23 years and it is critical to my workflow, I hope someone here sees this and enjoys it too ✨

[CheekieCharlie]

This would be great for hair, as well, and leaves and grass, stuff that needs subtle random changes

[tax]

I use it for grass, leaves and almost anything "repetitive" but organic

[NoZeroGG]

wow this really makes the piece more interesting and better quality

[moonphoenix]

For any Krita users, the "Fuzzy Stroke" pen setting is what you're looking for. It can be applied to all of the various color properties on the brush.

[gabrielcamara]

This is very good for painting books on a bookshelf in the background

[saym.]

oh my gosh, i love using colour jitter but ive never thought about using it this way, its really cool!

[Ritchael]

In Clip Studio Paint, we have "color jitter" it's works same as this.

your welcome

[jasmine]

This is amazing tip! Thank you for sharing. This is gonna be so useful in my future illustrations

[sorabrend]

I feel like the shadowed lines at the end would look better on a lower opacity or lighter value. The contrast with the realtively gentle shadows in the rest of the image is quite stark and draws the eye even further to the roof, which doesn't have that much interesting going on compared to the rest of the image. the light would be hitting a lot of it at an angle anyway, potentially reflecting of the tiles below

[maplebarf]

Oh yeah I love brushes like these, I like using them to get the subtle color changes in the skin or hair. Adds a little extra dimension.

[sik.]

I have always wondered what the color jitter is good for!!

[Roboto-chan_]

What a fantastic tip. Thank you, Hardy! I am going to try to replicate these settings in Procreate. Might be slightly different but the settings options seem to be there.

And btw, I am starting to get the hang of your free brush pack. The “art brush” has become one of my favourite brushes, as I learned to control my strokes with it to add values. I can’t quite work values with the round brush like you do, as procreate is missing hardness and flow sliders. But I like the more textured nature of the art brush anyways when “sculpting”.

Anyhoo, thaaank you for this awesome settings advice!