Getting started
My Palettes
3 minute read, 9 steps
Trycolors mixes from the tubes you own. First it needs to know which tubes those are. You tell it with a palette.
Every tool uses your palette: the mixer, Recipes, mixing charts and Repaint. Make your palette once. Then pick it in any tool.
Here we make one palette: a box of twelve Liquitex Basics, plus one extra tube. Sign in to save it.
- Create a palette in My Palettes
- Add a whole box of paints at once
- Add a tube that is not in the box
- See what it can mix, then save it
- Pick it in any tool
Step 1
Create a new palette
Open My Palettes 1 in the menu. You see it once you are signed in. On a phone, open the menu with the button at the top left.
This opens a page with your palettes. Press Starting Palette 2. The new palette opens.
In a tool, you can also open the palette menu and press Create New Palette. It opens the same page.
Step 2
Add colors from your paints
Press Add Color. Then choose Paints 1. Here you pick the real tubes you own, by brand and line. This gives the most accurate recipes.
Your brand is not in the list? Use Pigments 2 instead. You can also pick a color with the color picker, or from a photo 3. See A recipe from a photo.
Step 3
Find your brand and line
Open the brand list. Type the brand name 1, for example Liquitex.
Pick the line printed on your tubes 2. Here it is Basics.
Step 4
Add a whole box at once
Bought a set? Open the menu that says All paints. Choose your box 1. Now only the tubes from that box are listed.
Tick Select all at the top 2. This selects all the tubes. You can also tick them one by one. The bar at the bottom counts them 3.
Step 5
Add a tube that is not in the box
Switch the menu back to All paints. Search for the tube 1. Tick it 2.
The tubes you ticked before stay ticked. Here we added Payne's Gray. Now 13 are selected. Press Confirm 3.
Step 6
Check your tubes
Your tubes are now in the palette. Ran out of one? Press its eye icon 1. Recipes will not use it. It stays in your palette. Press the eye again when you buy a new tube.
On a phone, tick the tube first. Then use the eye button above the list.
Step 7
See what your palette can mix
Press Mixing Chart. It shows the colors you can mix from your tubes.
Click a square to see its recipe.
The chart can do more: see Mixing Chart.
Step 8
Save it with a name
Happy with your tubes? Press Save Palette. Give the palette a name you will recognize. Press Save.
Now mix your own color
Set any target, choose the paints on your table, and follow the guide step by step.
Make your paletteFrequently Asked Questions
Yes, sign in to save a palette.
Look at the label for the pigment name. Pick a tube with the same pigment from another brand. Or use the Pigments tab.
Yes, if you own them. Most recipes need white to make colors lighter. A black or a dark brown makes them darker.
Yes. Make one per brand or per project. Then pick the one on your table.
