Painting colour

Press 9 for the Paint brush and stroke over the clay. Pick the colour in the Tool tab or the context bar, and keep favourites as swatches.

Paint and clay colour

Unpainted clay shows the clay colour (Looks tab). Changing the clay colour still works after painting, so paint only what differs from the base: a base green for a creature, then darker hollows and lighter ridges.

Action	Does
Fill all	Paints the whole object
Clear paint	Removes all paint from the object

Painting with masks

The mask protects areas from paint too. For grime in wrinkles: Mask cavities, Invert, then paint, so only the hollows take colour. See Masking.

Paint from photos

Paint from photo (Tool tab) brushes colour from a matched photograph instead of the plain colour. See Projecting photo colour.

Where paint goes

• Painting works on clay and detail meshes; going back to clay keeps the paint.
• GLB and PLY exports keep colour; 3MF turns it into filament colours.
• Paint is stored only where it’s used, so unpainted clay costs no extra memory.