04-25-2013, 12:52 AM
Hmm, not sure i get what you mean. The point of the blending modes is that it automatically changes from the color you picked to give you an effect that you may or may not intend, and its your job to get a reasonably good idea what its going to do.
If you mean what I think you could be meaning, in that if you use a blend layer, and you try to color pick to go back to a color you were using in the first few strokes, yeah it can get kinda messy. Theres 2 things i know about you can try. The first is messing with how your eyedropper selects colors, you press i then use the menu up top. Setting it to current layer allows you to select what you were using. You can also try using blending modes on the brush itself, and just be painting on a single layer. This way you can easily switch back to normal mode to get specific colors that you want after getting what you generally want with the blend mode. But thats also kinda just merging it down.
If i didn't answer sorry :(, hope you find it helpful anyway.
If you mean what I think you could be meaning, in that if you use a blend layer, and you try to color pick to go back to a color you were using in the first few strokes, yeah it can get kinda messy. Theres 2 things i know about you can try. The first is messing with how your eyedropper selects colors, you press i then use the menu up top. Setting it to current layer allows you to select what you were using. You can also try using blending modes on the brush itself, and just be painting on a single layer. This way you can easily switch back to normal mode to get specific colors that you want after getting what you generally want with the blend mode. But thats also kinda just merging it down.
If i didn't answer sorry :(, hope you find it helpful anyway.