Intro

Hey-hey and welcome to my guide to the Color Jitter feature added in the Clip Studio Paint 1.10.5 update in December, 2020. In this article I will tell you what this feature is, how it works and how you can use it. You can also check the video guide where I show everything (more Clip Studio Paint guides will be uploaded there soon):

The main info

To be more specific, Color Jitter is a new preferences window in the Sub Tool Detail palette (where you can customize your brushes). Let me show you how it works with, for example, the standard G-pen brush. Open the tool’s Sub Tool Detail window and find the Color Jitter section.

In this window you will find two new preferences that are deactivated by default – “Change brush tip color” and “Randomize per stroke”. They can be used either together or separately.

Change brush tip color

Once you activate the “Change brush tip color” it might seem that nothing really changed in the brush’s preview, but let’s play with the sliders a bit – just with the first three ones for now. After that the difference will be quite obvious:

“Change brush tip color” randomizes the shade of each point of your stroke’s path. With the brushes like G-pen it gives you an interesting result which makes the strokes look seemingly volumetric.

Now let’s talk about each of the sliders. In case of the “Change brush tip color”, Hue is the main parameter of the randomization which defines the set of colors to be displayed, while Saturation and Luminosity just make this feature more flexible and give you more options for the randomization.

You can also see several buttons to the right of each slider.

Clicking on them opens a new window.

It might seem complicated at first, but its functionality can be summed up to several simple features. In this window you can tie the randomization parameters to such things as the speed of your pen while making a stroke, the pressure level and the angle of your pen in relation to the monitor/tablet.

The fourth slider – “Blend with sub color” – can also be tied to these parameters. The slider itself adds a certain percent of your chosen sub color to all the randomized shades. For example, I picked red as the sub color, so, as you can see on the screenshot below, all the colors have this reddish shade:

Randomize per stroke

The second submenu – “Randomize per stroke” – does not affect a single stroke like the previous one does. Instead, it randomized each new and whole stroke. So each time a new stroke will be of a different color. The sliders here are all the same. But, of course, since it is a different preference, the sliders will act differently as well. For example, Hue is still an important preference here, but the randomization works even when this slider is set to 0: if the other sliders are turned on and you picked red color, each new stroke will draw with a different shade of red palette.

But if you rise the Hue, you will see different colors:

The rest of the sliders are not of much difference. Just remember that with this preference you get new colors on each NEW stroke, and not with a single stroke. And basically that is the main reason why there is no option to attach these preferences to the speed of your pen, its pressure or angle – there is simply no need in that at all since it will make no difference in anything.

Combinating both parameters

And, of course, do not forget about the opportunity to use both of these features at the same time. If you activate them together, you will have the following effect: within a single stroke you will get numerous different shades, and in the second stroke the palette of these shades will change.

Additional info and more examples of using

Like with any Sub Tool Detail element, you can make these sub window visible and lock them on the tool’s preview window:

Now let’s take a more interesting brush, like a spray with separate parameters. By activating “Change brush tip color’, each particle will be of a different color, and if you activate “Randomize per stroke”, the set of colors for the particles will be different with each new stroke.

And yes, Color Jitter can be applied to most of the brushes. So, for example, you can make your brush for clouds look like a brush for a colorful fur or transform your spray into a brush for confetti.

However, this will not work with the brushes that are based on some already registered “pre-prepared” materials. I have a beautiful custom brush set for drawing medieval maps. The brushes in it are based on complex drawn by their author materials like trees, mountains, etc. This is not just a black line art, that is why Color Jitter won’t work with these brushes. I am not aware if this is temporary and Celsys is going to make such brushes work with Color Jitter as well.

Conclusion

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