Color mixing in Photoshop?

Question

Hey,

Say I'm overlapping a blue circle over a red circle in photoshop (on two seperate layers) How would I make the overlapping section purple as if I were mixing two paint colors? I tried all the blending modes and they didn't work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi! Here are some overlapping color tutorials for you to check out. I am sure some of these suggestions will work for what you are trying to do:



http://teamtutorials.com/photoshop-tutorials/versus-inspired-photoshop-logo-tutorial



http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/pop-art/page-6.php



You may want to work with the "overlay" and other effects instead of multiply to see how they affect the result. Tomorrow, when I am refreshed, I am going to experiment with this myself. Maybe I will come up with more ideas.



Thanks for asking this question. Best wishes!



EDIT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:



Hey! This was really fun!! There are actually three ways to do this in Photoshop. Try them all, and take your pick of which method you like best:



FIRST METHOD: USING GRADIENT TOOL



Chose your Foreground and Background Colors, which will be 100% of the color you wish to use. We'll use blue (foreground) and red (background) here as per your example (you will want to stay very close to primary colors to avoid getting "mud" when the two colors mix).



For this exercise we will create two circles of the same size with one on the left side of the canvas on a separate transparent layer, and one on the right side of the canvas on another separate transparent layer—in other words, side-by-side circles while we work.



Create your first circle on a transparent layer with the circle marque tool (you use the elliptical marque while holding down the shift key on a Mac to get a circle). Click on the gradient tool, which should bring up a gradient of just the foreground color to transparency. If this is NOT what appears, pull down the arrow on the right for a menu of optional color gradients. You will want to click on the one which gives you the foreground color to transparency.



When you have the foreground color to transparency, double click within that gradient color bar to bring up the gradient editor. On the color bar, you will see two arrows tabs on the top—one on the left for the dark part of the color, and one on the right for the transparency or light part of the color. Click on the arrow and set the dark color for 100% opacity, and I just pulled a number out of the air and set the transparency color to 50% opacity. Click OK, and your gradient will be set up to go from 100% of the color down to 50% of the color.



Using the gradient tool with our blue foreground color, click and hold on the left side of the active circle "marching ants" selection, and drag to the right side. You should end up with a blue filled circle, going from 100% to 50%. Deselect the circle.



Change the red to the foreground color by simply clicking on the small double ended arrows right above the foreground/background colors. Create your second circle on a second transparent layer so it is activated with the "marching ants."



Click on the gradient tool. This time the tool should come up in the new red foreground color and exactly the same 100% to 50% gradient preset that we already created. Start on the right side of this circle, and drag to the left, creating a gradient of 100% red on the right down to 50% on the left. Deselect the circle.



With the moving tool, move the red circle to the left, overlapping the blue circle, and you will see that the colors will blend to create a purple! Position the circle to achieve the best results.



You will have to make decisions for yourself as to how much you want to set the variables of opacity to achieve the desired result that you want. I just assumed that if I set them each at 50% I would get 100% of a purple color.



Voila! There are your overlapping circles with the color blends automatically showing through because we reduced the opacity on the overlapping part! Too easy, don't you think?



I'll add the other methods on an edit tomorrow. Stay tuned! Ruth

Answer 2

Draw your pink circle. Open up a sparkling report, and while the hot report window pops up, set the contents to sparkling. Draw your blue circle in this new report. decide on the flow gadget. click and drag your blue circle layer into your pink circle layer. interior the layers palette, exchange the combination mode from prevalent to multiply. you're able to desire to additionally click on the image menu, then Mode, and flow by using RGB, Lab modes etc to be certain which suits the effect you're after. i'm happy you asked this question 'cos making use of the flow gadget to go the blue circle around like an eclipse has given me an thought for an animation.

Answer 3

I have been using Photoshop and Illustrator for many, many years. I apply raster graphics and use vector tools wherever each best applies.



And I STILL don't know what "Atom 74" is writing about!



Try "Ruth 51's" suggestions. From her other answers, it appears she knows what she's writing about.

Answer 4

They may not, Photoshop is raster based and I believe adds colours together with the RGB pallette. Illustrator will, for sure, I use it all the time. It's better for imaging with shapes and the like. And its CMYK and uses vectors so you will get clean lines no matter how you print it. You can also just fake it in Photoshop as well. Just build a new shape in the colour you want.