Artist's Aid to Color Mixing

The Palette Composer - An Artist's Aid to Color Mixing, removes the need for color mixing tables and charts.

This app is the perfect companion for artists. It is especially useful for those artists who need help with mixing paint colors, by giving them a selection of color mixing solutions that match the color selected from the picture they are painting. Each solution uses only colors the artist has in their palette.

It not only tells you which colors to mix, as each color is added, it shows the result before and after adjusting the tint (adding white). Giving you a step-by-step guide to creating your chosen color, enabling you to mix colors with more confidence.

It can be used for mixing all sorts of paint types, including watercolor, acrylic, and oils. It also helps color mixing with many other mediums such as pastels, watercolor pencils, etc.

Colors can be added to the app's palette either by selecting pre-defined colors from a catalog or by defining new colors. You can also create your own catalogs by importing colors from an image of your color samples.

If a color cannot be matched closely enough for you using the colors in your palette, you can ask it to mix the color using both the palette and a catalog, helping you identify colors in the catalog you could add to your paint collection.

Start your project by selecting an image of the picture you want to paint. You can also frame it to match your canvas dimensions and add a grid to help draw it.

Start color mixing by touching an area in the image. When you’ve chosen a color, the app will search your palette to find the best mix solutions and show them in the results panel. The solutions are ordered to show the best matches first.

When you have mixed one of the suggested solutions, and you are happy with the result, you can add the mix to your palette, enabling the app to use it for mixing other colors. The mix and the colors used to make it are marked as ‘preferred’. Preferred colors are prioritized in the mix results, helping to reduce paint wastage.

By showing you the range of alternative solutions, you will be able to see how different colors impact the results. Making it an excellent tool to help with learning color theory.

Note: Some solutions may give a better result than others, so always try the mix prior to applying to your artwork. This is especially important when using mediums that are blended on the artwork.

A generic catalog has been provided within the Palette Composer, containing a selection of standard artist paint colors. It should be noted that differences in these colors can occur across the different paint manufacturers. If you find some discrepancies, you can import your own colors into your own catalogs by using the 'Import Colors from Image' function. After creating a catalog, it can be exported to an external file and shared with your friends, family, and students.

Supported Languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve this app, please get in touch.

Happy color mixing. The mystery is solved - now enjoy the magic!