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Reinvent Brush Groups in Photoshop with new MagicSquire 7.

Instant faves Group Textures, Reinvent Brush Groups in #Photoshop with new MagicSquire 7. Filter by kind, Scale UI, use as HUD & more!

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WHAT’S NEW:

NEW! Group Background Textures!
Enhance the appearance of your groups by assigning images as background
The background images can be seamlessly integrated into your group’s overall aesthetic by Tiling, Scaling or Monochroming them.
so they look more visually appealing.
+ Sample Backgrounds included with MagicSquire – use Tiling or Scale them to fill the entire group
Also introducing two new group colors, Electric Blue and Khaki.
Where to find: Use Group menu (…) -> Set Group Background Image

NEW! Stroke Thumbnail Color! In 1 click!
New option in Edit Brush dialog to pick from 8 pre-defined colors (no need to create new brush images)
Select colors or easily pick your own to ensure the perfect match to the background theme
Works with multiple strokes – colorize all of them at once
Harmonically work with all Photoshop color themes and with group colors
Where to find: In Edit Tool/Brush dialog

NEW! Superquick Favorites
Quickly add brushes/tools to your Favorites by right-clicking on any brush
Easily access your frequently used tools by simply clicking on the Favorites icon.
Where to find: Right-click to add, click new Heart button on top to filter

NEW! Filter By Kind/Search by Kind
Quickly switch between: Brushes, Erasers, Marquee Presets, Blurs, etc. any tool kingd
Where to find: Use new dropdown next to Search field

NEW! Truly Scalable UI
In addition to thumbnails adjust scale of overall interface and:
+ Brush Controls
+ Text
+ Brushes & Tools
Scale them altogether
Improved Accessibility for HiDPI screens and Cintiq 4K+ tablets
Fixed fine-tuning at the end of slider
Need more controls? Please write to https://anastasiy.com/support will be adding more later on!
Works in all list modes (Long, Short, Grid, etc)
Where to find: Use new Thumbnail Scaler from bottom toolbar and new Text Size checkbox

NEW! Direct import of Photoshop Brushes into MagicSquire!
Automatically imports groups
Where to find: Click on the menu -> Add brushes from Photoshop.

NEW! Updated framework for much faster redraws of groups

– Full 2023 support
– Fixed: Now advanced thumnails for brushes on hover are shown everywhere in all list modes
– Fixed problem with spring-loaded tools, sometimes tool switched back when using keyboard and Brush Control were open
– Improved UI! Especially for Long and Short List View modes
– Fix: Now Collection of Groups dialog displays correct colors of group names in all scenarios
– Small UI fixes here and there, added missing tooltips
– Now Trial of MagicSquire comes with pre-packaged brushes

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MixColors 5.2 is out! My color mixing panel is updated

Get Your Brush Out! MixColors 5.2: advanced color mixing in Photoshop

WHAT’S NEW:
- Improved color mixing formula, for some edgy colors
- In Edit Collections of groups (MixColors menu -> edit…) colors of labels on dark theme are now brighter
- Tooltips on right-click Swatch menu items
- Fixed an issue with Swatch Group visibility when adding new swatches
- Improved Chinese and Spanish translation in various parts of the UI
- Now selecting group when its swatch is selected
- Improved UI, improved dynamic color theme support

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WHAT’S NEW:
– Improved compatibility with latest CC 2023 updates
– Fixed messaging and greatly improved error handling
– Improved on Windows 10, 11, macOS Ventura

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MagicPicker panel 9.1 brings Realtime Color Preview as your glide your eyedropper in #Photoshop. Experience better Color History, value inputs on Sliders, Munsell Color Wheel, more

MagicPicker 9.1 brings Realtime Color Preview from Photoshop eyedropper

NEW! REALTIME COLOR PICKING!
Pick colors using the Photoshop eyedropper and have them in MagicPicker in real time next to current color!
- Activate in Settings
- When activated use Photoshop Eydropper or Alt-click with other tools and MagicPicker will display
the color you picked in new color swatch
- Works with HUGE color to quickly compare old & new colors on the full panel size
* Photoshop-only feature

* 9.1 - Improved Traditional Color Wheel
* 9.1 - Fixed when Color History not updating
* 9.1 - Improved Scale numbers on the sliders when Slider value box was hidden
* 9.1 - Improved removing and re-adding Color History in the same Photoshop session
* 9.1 - Improved activation on Illustrator 2020 after recent Adobe updates
* 9.1 - Improved behavior on CS6 connected to Munsell Color Wheel

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Updated all my plug panels for Adobe Photoshop

Upgrade your creativity! Massive update of all panels, Full Adobe CC 2023 support

New MagicSquire 6.2 (Organize brushes in colorful groups with tags, now with HUD popup and granular brush controls)
- Photoshop CC 2023 compatibility
- Improvements to Brush Spacing parameter
Upgrade MagicSquire to v6.2

New MixColors 5.1 (Enhance your painting skills with color mixing and color swatch managing)
-Photoshop CC 2023 compatibility
- Fixed a problem with one slider changing mix amount for all new Multimix fields (when long-clicking on a field)
- Fixed a problem when releasing mouse would still mix up colors after a long-click slider popup
- Performance improvements, small UI fixes
Upgrade MixColors to v5.1

New MagicTints 3.2 (1-click AI & Machine Learning granular color matching in Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Upgrade here)
- Improved compatibility with Photoshop CC 2023
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New MagicRefs 2.2 (Tag, search and collect images locally. Also Rotate, Resize and Collage):
- Fixed problem with old data when switching from MagicRefs Trial to a MagicRefs full
-Photoshop CC 2023 compatibility
- Performance improvements, small UI fixes
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New MagicPicker 9.0 with a lot of new features and improvements (Professional color wheel HUD, now with Munsell support)
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Upgraded my popular MagicPicker to version 9! New update brings Color History! Draggable between Sliders.
Enter Values on every slider (including Temperature).
Legendary Munsell Color Wheel! Paste colors to MagicPicker (Like “255,255,10″ or #fff or even “2.5YR 6/6″ or see how ”Persian Rose” looks like). There’s more!! Pin HUD to the same place, Vector Opacity, Slight color changes with Ctrl+Shift. Full CC 2023 support. Even more features, faster UI!

MagicPicker with Munsell Color Wheel in Photoshop, Color History, Sliders

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NEW IN version 9

* Improved UI performance! New framework update, for blazing fast clicks, drags and other UI actions
* Full support of new Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 2023, including Keyboard Shortcuts

NEW! Enter values directly in the sliders
New switchable value inputs next to every slider (including Temperature, LCh etc)
Hide/Show with a button
Supports HSB, HSL, Lab, Lch/HCL, CMYK, Color Temperature, Gradient between Foreground/Background (Blend),
CIE L*u*v*, Grayscale, RGB

NEW! Have a constant place for the HUD on the screen. Activated from Settings
“Pin HUD to same place”,
When ON keeps HUD show up at the same place on your screen
When OFF, HUD will show up at the cursor position
Doesn’t let the HUD cover your image

NEW! Munsell Color Wheel - industry standard, with human perceived gamut-limiting in mind
Switch it on using Color Wheel Mode button on the top right
Can display Munsell values on the bottom of wheel
Features extended ranges of Red, Blue and Yellow
Paste munsell data into color wheel (decode) using new Color from Clipboard feature
Supports Red Up mode

NEW! Color History as a slider! Scalable, selectable, scrollable.
Add new Color History using the same “+” button that you use to add sliders
Use Color History with any combination of sliders
Preserves color between sessions

NEW! Paste colors from clipboard - have a text and MagicPicker will convert it to a Photoshop foreground/background color
Paste RGB, Hex, HSL, CMYK
Paste colors by name! Like “Green”, “Red”, or even “Electric violet” - see how colors look like!
Use #123456 for hex colors or 255,255,255 for RGB colors
Use hsb(1,2,3) for HSB colors or hsl(10,2,3) for HSL colors
Supports lab, rgb, hsl, hsb, cmyk, xyz, lch, luv - using “luv(value, value, value)” (example)
Use “2.5YR 6.0/6.0″ style for Munsell values
Set up “Color from Clipboard” keyboard shortcut for pasting in Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts

NEW! Make it blueish or make it warmer - use Ctrl+Shift on sliders to move the pointer slightly towards mouse cursor/new color
when you Ctrl+Shift+Click on the sliders

NEW! Change vector opacity!
Works in Illustrator and Photoshop vectors
When vectors are selected and automatic Opacity button appears under colors, click on it and use slider to adjust opacity
of current selection

- Added Munsell Color values to the bottom left corner of the color wheel, with current color values
- Now HUGE (full panel size) alt-click color preview dynamically changes when current color updated in Photoshop
- Streamlined panel update process, there’s no need to look for serial numbers anymore
- Fixed an issue when some buttons didn’t react on mouse hovers - especially Exchange Colors and Forgeround/Background colors
- Fixed a rare issue when in certain configurations with white foreground color when starting MagicPicker it would show up as white with no hues

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Published new version of my popular brush manager for Photoshop: Transparent HUD! O.M.G.! Variable opacity. On/off Background Blurred Glass effect. Nextgen UI! Assign Custom colorful Images to Brushes, Randomize Brush, size, shape on every click, HUGE previews. More features, faster UI!

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WHAT’S NEW:

NEW! Preview files before loading
Select one or multiple .ABR files to preview at once
Preview all content of Brushes/Tools and choose which files to actually load - using checkboxes
See what all Tools and Brushes look like in a huge single window

NEW! Custom Images for Tools/Brushes!
Assign any image to a Tool or Brush
Load from .png, .gif, .svg or .jpg files
Use high resolution images and images with transparency, any colors, shades, sizes, etc
Assign a single image to multiple presets with right-click
Create your custom beautiful showcase within groups and collections!
Preview on huge tooltips (see below)

NEW! TRANSPARENT HUD - a new see-through experience! Change from Settings
MagicSquire HUD now can be fully transparent so you could see where you’re working at
Have only Brush Controls or Brushes visible
Transparency can be set in Settings from 0 to 100, dynamically
Activate Blur to blur background under panel
Supports PRO Mode so you could only have info you need visible on the screen
HUD is still resizable in that state
Supports all features of MagicSquire including tags, shortcuts, etc
Pops up under your cursor

NEW! Tool/Brush RANDOMIZER
Have a random brush/tool selected after each Stroke!
Or after clicking a Randomizer button - tune up in Settings
New Setting called “Randomizer selected permanently”
* when it’s On then click on the Randomizer activates it until it unclicked, so
random brushes will choose each time you make a stroke on canvas
* when it’s Off you need to press Randomizer button on the top of the panel
to randomize a brush
Every Tool/Brush is selected from the current group so you can choose group to randomize from

NEW! Displays HUGE tooltip previews for all brush thumbnails
See your presets in a fancy beautiful detail
Supports Custom Images!

NEW! Keyboard Shortcuts for previous/next in Tool History
Easily select previous preset in a click of a button
Or navigate through presets with keyboard shortcuts

NEW! Edit/New Brush dialog now has tooltip explanation for each brush stroke type

- UI speedup! Works much faster using new Photoshop API
- Improved behavior of HUD size, it now should resize properly
- Overall improvement in visual performance when displaying and scaling brushes, opening/closing groups
and dragging/dropping brushes. Speeded up brush selection on large collections.
- New UI framework uses less RAM
- Fixed various issues with Brush Controls, when they slowed down Photoshop or didn’t display values
- Fixed problems between context menu and tooltips
- Improved History rendering
- Improved multiple UI areas and fixed glitches
- Improved messaging and error handling across the panel
- Fixed “Missing presets” message appearing in some scenarios

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Update my MixColors panel to v5! Brings new mode with 1/2/4 mixing fields (different colors)! Also: Scale color swatches, drop from history, create new swatches from selected, percentage display on mixing sliders, faster, much more.

MixColors 5 for Photoshop: Multiple mixing areas, mixing percentage display, color scaling more

NEW! Multimix Mode. New MixColors configuration.
Modern advancement of how MixColors works to keep up with new artist workflows.
- Click on the new button under main color mixing area to switch modes
- Have more places to mix in colors - 1,2 or 4 mixing fields arranged vertically, horizontally or in a grid.
- Have different non-connected mixes in these fields.
- Every field acts independently and has 5 new buttons: Add white, add color, add black, get from Photoshop,
pick color to Photoshop
- Simple click on the field to mix in current color
- Adjust “brush strength” on the top of the panel
- Mixing fields scale with the panel
- You can hide/show rearrange fields

NEW! Free scaling of swatches! Click on the new button on the toolbar and adjust swatch size with a toolbar.
- Now you can have any preferable size of the swatch thumbnails. Great option for high-res monitors.

NEW! Color sliders that regulate mix strength (long click on the field or click on the drop down near round
mixers on the left) now display percentage. That gives a much better feedback to improve your MixColors workflow

NEW! Color History improvements!
- Marks current selection
- Drag’n'drop color History swatches on the mixing fields

NEW! Selected swatch in the swatch group has current selection mark

NEW! Select multiple color swatches and move them to new group! Or copy them to new group. You should
1) Click first swatch
2) Right-click ending swatch - a new contextual menu will display

NEW! Color mixing formula improved. Adjusted by feedback from artists all over the world - to be more precise

NEW! Improved UI framework - using latest UI engine from MagicPicker 8

- Fixed all problems with exporting various swatches (from MixColors menu -> Export colors to Swatches)
- Color History now correctly preserved when panel is open/closed in all scenarios
- Right-click dialog for swatches is fixed, also fixed its behavior in multiple scenarios
- Fixed current swatch selection
- New updated and speeded up modern UI framework, that supports all modern GPU features
- Optimized for better power management on laptops, Surface devices and MacBooks
- Still supports Adobe CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 (also CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017, CC2019, CC2020, CC2021, CC2022+)
- Optimized to support latest Photoshop 2022
- Improved UI performance in different scenarios
- Fixed various minor UI problems
- Improved loading speed
- Optimized to work with macOS Catalina, new Windows 11 updates
- All improvements implemented by real-life users’ feedback

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New update to my brush manager!

MagicSquire 5.5 for Photoshop: Performance and UI improved!

Upgraded my MagicSquire to v5.4: Quickly randomize your brush strokes, easily control color jitter with new MagicSquire 5.4. Added Color Dynamics controls to the panel and HUD, fixed Apple M1 problem, and Brush Smoothing saving in Photoshop.

MagicSquire 5.4: Photoshop brush randomization, color dynamics, smoothing, more!

WHAT’S NEW:
– Now correctly saves/restores smoothing brush parameters when creating new brush from scratch
– New options to add Brush Controls/parameters for color of the brush:
* color jitter per tip (on/off)
* color jitter: foreground/background
* color jitter: hue
* color jitter: saturation
* color jitter: brightness
* color jitter: purity
(Go to Brush Controls in MagicSquire and then click Add/remove Brush Controls button to access new parameters)
– Fixed a rare problem with activation on Apple M1/macOS Monterey
– Available now on Photoshop 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015, CC 2014, CS5, CS6, CC

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