Right-click a brush chip, or Option-click it (Alt-click on Windows), to open the tint picker for that brush. The title shows which brush you are tinting.
Pick a color and the preview updates as you go. Click Apply to keep it, or Cancel to go back.
How Tints Work
A tint works like a glaze over one brush’s paint. Each stroke keeps its own lightness, so the painting stays readable. Only its hue and saturation move toward the tint.
Tints also fade out in the highlights. Pale strokes, like a bright sky, stay pale instead of turning the tint color.
Because each brush can have its own tint, you can color the loose underpainting one way and the fine detail another. A warm underpaint with cool accents is a quick way to make a photo look deliberately painted.
Remove a Tint
Open the tint picker for the brush and click the No color button in the top-left corner of the wheel. The brush goes back to the image’s own colors right away.
Things to Know
- Tints recolor the existing strokes. They never change where strokes go, so the painting does not remix.
- Tints belong to the current image. Loading a new image starts every brush with its own colors again.
- Only active brushes can be tinted.