Understanding atomic and optical color mixing

ArtistAssistApp allows you to choose your favorite color brands, choose a color set or manually add the colors you have on hand, click or tap anywhere on the photo, and get a step-by-step guide on how to precisely mix that color using atomic or optical mixing. Atomic mixing is the physical mixing of colors together, while optical mixing is the result of placing a transparent layer of color over another color (glaze technique).

ArtistAssistApp supports both atomic and optical mixing.

Understanding the difference between atomic and optical color mixing

Atomic mixing is the physical mixing of colors together.

Optical mixing is the result of placing a transparent layer of color over another color. It is also known as the glaze technique.

Using atomic and optical color mixing in ArtistAssistApp

By default, atomic mixing is used.

To switch to optical mixing, set the bottom layer or background color.

By default, the bottom layer has the color of white paper.

You can select the bottom layer color using the background color picker pop-up.

Alternatively, choose any color from the photo as the background color.

Click or tap anywhere in the photo. Press the "⋮" button and select "Set as background".

This sets the background color.

To switch back to atomic mixing, change the background color to paper white.

About ArtistAssistApp

ArtistAssistApp, also known as Artist Assist App, is a web app for artists to accurately mix any color from a photo, analyze tonal values, turn a photo into an outline, draw with the grid method, paint with a limited palette, simplify a photo, remove the background from an image, compare photos pairwise, and more.

Try it now for free at https://app.artistassistapp.com to improve your painting and drawing skills and create stunning artworks.