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Colours, brush size, opacity and palettes

Pick colours, use shades of your colour, save your own palettes, build a palette from the skin or from any picture, and import .hex / .gpl files.

4 min read · 4 steps · Beginner

Step 1: Brush size and opacity

At the top of the side panel, Size sets how many pixels the Pencil, Eraser and effect tools paint at once (1 pixel up to a big round brush).

Opacity makes the paint see-through: 100% is solid, lower values mix with the colour underneath.

Brush size and opacity

Brush: Size buttons and the Opacity slider.

Step 2: Shades of your colour

Open Palette. The top row shows shades of your colour — from dark to light. Click one to use it. This is the easiest way to add shadows and highlights.

Save all keeps those shades in your own palette.

Symmetry, Palette, Layers and Drafts panels

The Palette panel.

Step 3: Your own palettes

My colours is a list of palettes you make. + Colour adds your current colour, From skin builds a palette from every colour in the skin, New starts another palette and Rename / Remove / Delete manage them.

Import loads a palette file (.hex, .gpl, .json or .txt); .hex and .gpl save your palette for other apps (like Lospec, Aseprite, GIMP or Krita).

To remove one colour, right-click it, or press Remove and click the colours you don't want.

Step 4: Palette from a picture

Want the colours of a picture, a character or a photo? Open Reference image, press Load image, then press Palette from this image.

MC-ENGINE finds the main colours of the picture (up to 16) and saves them as a new palette named after the file. Click a colour under the button to paint with it, or find the palette later in Palette → My colours.

Tip: The guide Image to colour palette shows this step by step.

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