PaintMix — Color Studio by PlateForge

See a color.Paint it.

Real mixing recipes from the paints, pencils and markers you own. Plan the palette, block in the shapes, check the mix on your palette. Free, on iPhone and iPad.

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PaintMix on iPad and iPhone
Subject: a named colour match with a ΔE score Palette: the fewest tubes, chosen from your paints Paint: the picture as a few flat shapes Mix: real recipes, sliders that always total 100 Pencils and markers have a studio too 13,000 colours across 130 real lines
Before the brush

Plan the palette from your shelf

The fewest tubes you own that can mix this picture, how much of each to squeeze out, and a ground to tone the canvas.

On the easel

A teacher behind you

Photograph the canvas, line up your grid, and hear cell by cell where the value or colour drifted. Lamplight is absorbed; blank canvas is never blamed.

On the palette

Check the mix through a gray card

Target and dab read through the same white-balance correction and meet in ΔE2000, with the tube to add.

The squint

Four block-ins and an outline

By value, by colour, by light and shadow, or warm against cool. An outline to trace, printed tiled at canvas size.

Dry media

Pencils and markers, properly

Closest pencil, two to layer in the right order, pressure guidance. Prismacolor, Polychromos, Luminance, Copic, Ohuhu.

Your shelf

13,000 colours, 130 lines

Winsor & Newton, Golden, Liquitex, Schmincke, Daniel Smith, Old Holland, Michael Harding and more — plus your own custom tubes.

No account. No tracking. Photos are read only when you pick one, and nothing leaves the device. Privacy policy · Questions or a paint line we're missing: support@theplateforge.com