Paint with the Mixer Brush

Select the Mixer Brush tool . (If necessary, click and hold the standard Brush tool to reveal the Mixer Brush.)

To load paint into the reservoir, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the canvas. Or, choose a foreground color.

Choose a brush from the Brush Presets panel. See Select a preset brush.

In the options bar, set tool options. For common options, see Paint tool options. For options unique to the Mixer Brush, see the following:

From the pop-up panel, click Load Brush to fill the brush with the reservoir color, or Clean Brush to remove paint from the brush. To perform these tasks after each stroke, select the automatic Load  or Clean  options.

Applies popular combinations of Wet, Load, and Mix settings.

Controls how much paint the brush picks up from the canvas. Higher settings produce longer paint streaks.

Specifies the amount of paint loaded in the reservoir. At low load rates, paint strokes dry out more quickly.

Controls the ratio of canvas paint to reservoir paint. At 100%, all paint is picked up from the canvas; at 0%, all paint comes from the reservoir. (The Wet setting, however, continues to determine how paints mix on the canvas.)

Picks up canvas color from all visible layers.

Do one or more of the following:

• Drag in the image to paint.

• To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point.

• When using the Brush tool as an airbrush, hold down the mouse button without dragging to build up color.