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4. Painting Methods---4-1.Mixer Brush

P40 - 00:00?

?All right. Let's talk about mixer brush and smudge tool.?

P40 - 00:04混合模糊工具。?

Actually, these guys are quite similar. So I thought it's really important to show you all the way they work. And also give you some tips on the differences between them. ?

P40 - 00:15展示工作原理，給鑒別點。?

So mixer brush, basically, there are two ways of using mixer brush,?

P40 - 00:20兩種方式用混合刷子。?

first one is when we use mixer brush to kind of Introduce a little bit of soft edging.?

P40 - 00:31用軟邊界。 ?

for example, let me make something with a very kind of solid edges,?

P40 - 00:39比如用結(jié)實的邊緣。?

And then I will use the mixer brush, and let's use the same brush for the mixing.?

P40 - 00:48同樣的刷子做混合。 ?

So basically mixer brush goes over here.?

P40 - 00:51左側(cè)工具欄混合刷子位置。 ?

And i've got an shortcut for it. So you can customize it as well.?

P40 - 00:56我用快捷鍵調(diào)用的。?

So whatever I pressed and I was able to make some brush pressing b goes back to the brush mode.?

P40 - 01:01按B回到刷子模式。?

So press N and select the same brush. ?

P40 - 01:05按N選擇同樣的刷子。?

And as you can see the different options, I usually just go for default one very wide.?

P40 - 01:11默認(rèn)一的寬度。?

And basically what it does for me, it starts like smudging things around and it introduces a very nice kind of transition.?

P40 - 01:23混跡做出轉(zhuǎn)化的效果。?

And gradient and stuff like that.?

P40 - 01:30像是漸變梯度。?

Basically, it's very useful because it looks very much like what you do in traditional painting. And this is how you introduce like, for example, if you just painted with this brush, this brush is very dry,?

P40 - 01:43比如有的刷子很干。?

So this is a perfectly dry brush. With some paint on it. And using a mixer brush, you kind of introducing wet. it's just basically the way you do. If you're doing an oil painting, you have a brush which is driving some paint. And then you put some marks. It just gives you this kind of reading lose suggestive elements.?

P40 - 02:15濕的像掃出建議性的畫筆。?

And by using mixer brush, you're introducing more of those transitions, And what was suggested before it becomes more, do gets more definition and stuff like that.?

P40 - 02:30混合刷子帶入更多的轉(zhuǎn)化。?

So basically, that’s the way the first type of using mixer brush. And you can just do a very simple exercise. If you want to try to kind of experiment with it, put some brush strokes, like put something like this, and then take especially fabric painting.?

P40 - 02:52可以做一些構(gòu)造的繪制。?

Fabric is really difficult. If you're doing it blink properly. But using mixer brush, it will give you a lot of. Do you see what I mean? I'll give you a nice transition.?

P40 - 03:07混合刷子給到過渡。?

So you suggest the cloth. You're not actually painting it, because, you don’t want to spend time and prove people that you can paint the cloth.?

P40 - 03:16不會總花時間證明繪制布料刷子。?

All you need to do is to be able to suggest the cloth thing. like this. and I was using smooth tool, and do this exercise like literally which we don't think about anything just try to create this kind of cloth looking type of thing.?

P40 - 03:44做出來看著像布料的。?

create this gradient. So something like this. also you can do it.? The other reason why we are using smudge mixer brush,?

P40 - 04:07另一個用模糊和混合刷子的原因。 ?

for example, let's say using a very kind of opaque, silhouette. ?

P40 - 04:14比如用不透明度的剪影。?

Let's say we painted something really quickly. This is a guy. With this walk,?

P40 - 04:27比如這是一個人拄著拐杖。?

So it's a nice silhouette. And now we want to push it backwards. So basically, we want to kind of integrate him better with the background to make the light bleeding.?

P40 - 04:55用打入光融入背景。?

So you use the mixer brush tool, kind of soft on these edges to make them less.?

P40 - 05:00混合刷子柔化邊緣。?

It's almost like you want to introduce depth of field without actually using depth of field.?

P40 - 05:06不用景深卻可以展示景深。?

And mixer brush is the best way to soften the edges.?

P40 - 05:11混合刷子是柔化邊緣的好工具。?

And once again, it's a very same principle, similar principle of suggestion.?

P40 - 05:18和建議的繪制原則類似。?

Reverse statement, Because wherever you have like really hard edges, it's a statement.?

P40 - 05:32堅硬的邊緣是聲明。?

that you want people to look there. Let’s say this guy was looking like sidewalks.?

P40 - 05:40比如人物看起來像是側(cè)面。?

We know the focal point. Let's see if this was a Pope or something like that.?

P40 - 05:47比如加一個帽子。?

He was holding not the swords, but maybe some kind of this thing. ?

P40 - 05:58握的類似劍。?

We would know that the most important part is his face. So then you would use the mixer brush.?

P40 - 06:20用混合刷子，比如繪制面部。?

His face. use mixer brush too much, to make like soft edges everywhere else.?

P40 - 06:37比如混合刷子讓邊緣柔軟下來。?

And leave his face as the most sharping, which will create a focal point straight away.?

P40 - 06:45比如銳利的面部聚焦點。?

You make a statement because it's the most crisp thing in the picture. Or vice versa, like you can smudge like his face as well.?

P40 - 06:57還可以讓面部模糊。?

So it becomes very vague.?

P40 - 06:59會變得不夠清晰。?

And then you actually have your focal point shifts to this guy. So this is the main guy.?

P40 - 07:03專注點轉(zhuǎn)移到手里的工具。?

So it depends what you want to emphasize. You use the mixer brush to kind of soften your edges,?

P40 - 07:11混合刷子來軟化邊緣。?

and it will impact your story telling a lot. Because it will allow you to kind of move your focal point inside the picture just by using smudge and mixing things together.?

P40 - 07:28用混合刷子可把一切聯(lián)系在一起。?

it's very, very useful tool to introduce this age variety in the what other people say age variety.?

P40 - 07:39也是別人提到的年齡變異。?

You really need to understand that it is done for a single purpose to emphasize to state to make statements in one place is like this.?

P40 - 07:48像是強調(diào)某個地方的狀態(tài)。?

And to kind of abstract and suggest everything else. ?

P40 - 07:52像是用抽象描述萬物。?

So once you know that one be very easy for you to kind master the mixer brush.?

P40 - 07:59容易上手精通混合刷子。?

So let me just quickly summarize this. The first reason why we are using mixer brushes,?

P40 - 08:08第一為什么用混合刷子。?

it’s those great ingredients. Second case was we were softening edges.?

P40 - 08:23梯度和軟化邊界。?

Which is the same thing as we would stay suggestive.?

P40 - 08:32軟化邊緣可修改可以調(diào)節(jié)。?

And there is a 3rd way of using mixer brush.?

P40 - 08:40第三種方法用混合刷子。?

What kind of show that a little bit of the previous lessons? That's create repetitive products. ?

P40 - 08:49創(chuàng)建的重復(fù)模式。?

So basically, I already showed you the way it works. But now I will kind of show you how you will extensively use it to create something really cool.?

P40 - 09:15拓展講述下。?

For example, if you want a repeating shape like, say let's do this guy, And we want to use this one as a repeating shape. We can do a brush out of it.?

P40 - 09:32可以用刷子重復(fù)形狀。?

But sometimes like cleaning brush is really time consuming what you need to do. You use a flat brush, you increase the size.?

P40 - 09:42增加平刷大小。?

So you're covering everything. like all the pixels that you just painted.?

P40 - 09:47比如繪制的像素。?

And you go from very, where do you go to dry option? And you click out and you kind of sample it.?

P40 - 09:53干繪制的選項。做復(fù)制。?

You can see it over here. And then when you paint, it will paint with using this one. All you need to adjust the spacing. And when you paint, it will pay for this geometry,?

P40 - 10:08繪制出幾何形狀。?

which is a very cool feature because you can create and design like crazy stuff. And also it affects everything you have for kind of you can adjust all the shape dynamics and all the stuff that you have over here.?

P40 - 10:29調(diào)整這里不同的形狀。?

So yeah, you can create some really beautiful for example, pattern sword, let's say designs on your suit or or stuff like that. ?

P40 - 10:40比如設(shè)計到套裝上。?

Like zipping and repeating patterns. Like for example, you can do full panels. Again, the same principle as we used in the first lessons.?

P40 - 10:57重復(fù)的原則。?

you stretch them and you have really cool stuff. Let's quickly do something else. For example. And also you can use it in your picture as well. For example, let's say we've got this guy over here. And we all go on selecting. the only thing you need on transparent layers. So I will use blending modes.?

P40 - 11:27透明涂層。用混合模型。?

We shall show the next lesson. I will readjust transparency. So I just have this guy on transparency layer. And you can go like this and use the mixer brush again. You can paint with the guy. Oh, for example, if you have a crowd, different people. It's really easiest way to do it.?

P40 - 12:00比如一群人，大小不等。?

Your design one of the guys. You mix them. And then basically all you need to do is go back with your brush work.?

P40 - 12:10回去用刷子。?

And just to tweak those guys, To introduce some variety, because they all look the same.?

P40 - 12:19可以做些變異出來。?

It's very easy. But it's also a very good design tool. When it comes to patterns and repetitive things,?

P40 - 12:32重復(fù) 模型也是很有力的工具。?

mixer brush is one of the most powerful tools in photoshop,?

P40 - 12:36混合刷子是強有力的工具。?

because it allows you to create brushes without actually going on creating those brushes. let's just do another example of something more complicated. I'm going to sample this guy.?

P40 - 12:53一個復(fù)雜形狀，復(fù)制樣本。?

you see what I mean? Boom, boom. And then you can take this guy. Sample in. And now you have a very nice, repetitive pattern that you can use for anything.?

P40 - 13:40這樣有重復(fù)的花紋了。?

for walls, for tire tracks or any kind of design elements that you wanted to use.?

P40 - 13:51用于各種設(shè)計的元素。?

So it’s a very good one. That's it about the mixer brush. I will just stop it here. And next one, i'll show you how to use much tool. Thank you very much.?