3 ways to avoid muddy color in digital painting. The video tutorial shows you how to get solid clean color in Photoshop. I will also show you what cause the color to be muddy when painting. Also technique to get even tone color in your painting. In this tutorial, we are using Photoshop for digital painting. You can scroll down further to see step by step tutorial.

Below are some pointers for painting in this tutorial.
1) Use higher opacity or thicker paint to avoid unsure color.
2) Alternate between hard edge and soft edge brush to make your edges clearly define. It will also help create smooth transitions between color,to create smooth transitions between color,
3) You can use smudge tool, if you need. (I personally hardly use it myself.)
4) You can alter or change the opacity of the layer itself, you can use multiple layers to your advantage to avoid muddy color.
5) You can use “Overlay” and “Color” mode on layer to enhance or bring out more saturate color if you need to.

3 ways to avoid muddy color

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Cause of dirty color or muddy color The following bad practices will create dirty colour mixes:
1) Trying to darken a color with too much gray and black.
2) Using more than four colour within a colour mixture
3) Overworking a painting or fiddling too much within a particular area
4) The inclusion of too many earth colours, ochres and greys within the artist’s palette
5) Introducing too much dark colour in a colour mix at once and trying to lighten it again with white, causing the colour mix to lose life

More digital painting tips.
-Photoshop painting tutorial overlay mode
-Photoshop painting tutorial multiply mode
-How to make custom brush in Photoshop

3 ways to avoid muddy color in digital painting