Mixing Colors Like Paint

[alexfblake]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone on here would know how to mix colors in Photoshop like you would mix colors in real life to get that "in between" look. I have tried smudging and blending options but could not find anything. Anyone have any ideas or links on how I could do this?
Here are some pictures of what I am looking for.

 

[iDad]

I Think you are looking for Liquefy filter?

 

[Paul]

I was just about to write liquify and smudge tools with a nice brush to create said effect might help.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Just did something quick, as I've never done this before, but if you just experiment with smudging and distorting a load of colours, you get somewhere close.
View attachment 31093

 

[Tom Mann]

You may not know about the mixer brush that Adobe introduced in PS / CS5. It should give you a good starting point for further manipulations such as the liquify and smudge tools. Here's a nice tutorial:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/using-the-mixer-brush/ (at 4:40, they start to discuss loading the brush with multiple colors)

To be honest, when I need brush effects, in spite of the recent improvements in PS in this area, I still switch over to Corel Painter. I think they still have a substantial lead over PS in painting efx. I realize that my example (appended below) is not exactly what you are looking for, but I don't have time at the moment to recreate exactly the effect you want. It illustrates several of Painter's impasto brushes and other tools (eg, rakes, trowels, etc.), but it should be easy to get a very liquid look in Painter.

HTH,

Tom M

 

[Mitchell]

Tom I never knew about the mixer brush. Thanks for the vid link. I may find that very useful. I have been trying to figure out a way to do something very similar to that.

 

[Hoogle]

you can also try the twirl filter goes particularly well with a duped layer with a slight bevel and emboss on to give a shine effect and then maybe use other tools like distoryt and liquify to take away the perfect twirls

 

[Hoogle]

lol browsing through the forum and the above mentioned effect popped up in another thread relating to this
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6820/interpolphotoshopliesto.jpg

 

[beatbox]

I have tried to do this but that's not look real. It's like 2D image . And I don't know how to do the mixing's picture looks smooth .