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Canvas control, and Colour picker

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hey all, I have been ignoring zbrush throughout version 3 until I had 1) a mac beefy enough to run it and 2) my zbrush license transferred back to mac.

Anyway, I was inspired to get back into it after seeing the flower illustration on the pixologic website as seen here

I have found all the new flat/layer painting tools, but how can I control the “canvas colour”, like simply setting a white/textured background to sketch and paint on, secondly where on earth is the colour picker tool? (like holidng Alt in photoshop)

cheers

#2

You can change the colour of the canvas in the Document palette (1.)

I´m not sure what you mean with "where on earth is the colour picker tool?
(like holidng Alt in photoshop)" because I don´t have Photoshop.:slight_smile:
But maybe that´s what you´re looking for (2.)

and here´s a link regarding the colour palette. Hope that´ll help.

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Color_Palette

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#3

That is excellent thank you!

Regarding the colour picker, how can I sample a colour from my canvas/document?

#4

As for the color picker…you can do this way

  1. Open The color Square pallete (See Moni-Poroni’s image) In Color menu (Or if you are in default UI it’s locate on the left bottom area of your canvas)

  2. Place you mouse pointer within the color area. You can left mouse click anywhere in that area…

  3. then (Don’t lift the mouse pointer) drag your mouse pinter to the canvas area to the place you want to sample color…you will see the small square color change according to the color beneath…

  4. Simply release the mouse and you will have that color picked.

Hope this answer your question. Let me know should you not understand what I stated.

#5

Oh…another easy way to pick color from any spot is

  1. Place the mouse pointer to the area** you want to pick color

  2. Simply hit keyboard shortcut “c” the color beneath will be picked.

** You can even pick the color on UI area…it works too. Just have to be withing the ZBrush interface.

#6

Hotkey ‘C’.

#7

and a half relevant note:
“V” to switch colours.

#8

that’s excellent thank you guys, all very handy tips, good to be getting into it finally :slight_smile: