MagicTints 3 update: Replace specific colors, batch processing, 40+ changes and improvements
Posted by Anastasiy Safari on 14 June 2022 (Tuesday) Under Adobe, MagicTints, color correction, color grading, color matchingNew MagicTints 3.0! Color match and replace specific colors, batch processing. Use image Layer as color source, fully automated GPU color matching w/LUT export… 40+ changes, features.
Full list of new features:
- NEW! Long due! Cancel color correction at any time! New “Cancel” button in the progress dialog
- NEW! Guided colors - target image areas with specific colors
- Select target color areas directly on the image in the Color Palette dialog to guide Color correction
- Applying color correction will assign palette colors to those areas
- Edit existing color palettes to add/remove targeting
- NEW! UI Refresh, added new options for Layers, LUT Generation, improved UI framework
- NEW! Specify existing Document layers as color reference images (Photoshop-only)
- New list “Color source” on the panel.
- Works with LUT
- Supports hidden Layers - you can have a hidden layer and use it as a color source
- NEW! Edit existing color palette references - add new, remove colors.
- Double-click on the color palette in the reference list to start editing.
- Double-click on colors to change them
- Rename color palette by double-clicking its name
- NEW! Rename image references by double clicking their names on Full Image mode
- NEW! Now 100% supports all modern image formats on all platforms - as references (and main image on Standalone)
* .PSD files - Finally supporting using .psd with layers etc as reference images!
* .SVG files - Supporting on all platforms
* .TIF/.TIFF - Supporting on all platforms, all variations of .tif
* .TGA - Now supporting TGA files
* Currently supports the following image file formats: .psd, .jpg/.jpeg, .webp, .tga, .tif/.tiff, .png, .bmp, .svg
- NEW! Adjust LUT strength when generating LUT instead of applying color correction. No need to
use other 3rd party LUT editors, or create new transparent layers - just hold your mouse over
“Generate LUT” button and and enter Strength into a new popup
- NEW! New keyboard shortcuts. Current list of assignable keyboard shortcuts is:
- NEW! Apply MagicTints to current layer/image
- NEW! Add current layer/image from Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign as ref image
- NEW! Standalone: assignable shortcut for Settings
- Add reference image from Clipboard
- Generate LUT from currently selected image/ref image
- Add reference image from file
- Create new ref image group
- Toggle ref image history
- Increase/Decrease size of thumbnails
- Toggle MagicTints panel in Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign
- NEW! Standalone BATCH PROCESSING! You asked for it - open multiple images and color-match them all at once
to the same color reference
- NEW! Standalone: Sample colors for Palette Color Reference from the original image
on macOS & Windows (just click the eyedropper when adding colors)
- NEW! Standalone: new Recent Files to main menu with all recent images you opened
- Turn it on/off in Settings
- NEW! Standalone: Press spacebar for a quick look at image reference
- NEW! Standalone: drag images/palettes from Color References list directly to the main image to apply colors!
- NEW! Standalone: Copy images from clipboard, copy images to clipboard for better integration with your workflow
- NEW! Standalone: Main menu items:
- File/Ganerate LUT - generate LUT from currently selected images
- Images/New Group - create new Image Reference group
- Images/Toggle History - toggle chosen thumbnails history
- Images/Thumbnails larger & smaller - changes size of the Image Reference thumbnails
- Edit/Paste - paste image from Clipboard
- Edit/Copy - copy image to clipboard
- NEW! Now adds “MagicTints” to the newly created layers to better highlight the operation
- NEW! Displays a separate message when generating LUTs from images
- Fixed a problem when layer moved or resized after color matching
- Improved user interface, fixed various visual issues
- Improved user interface localization to: Spanish, Chinese
- Standalone mow correctly displays currently loaded image in the window title in all scenarios
- Fixed a problem when MagicSquire panel could be blank when Photoshop first started
- Added option to reset location of reference images to default (Reset button in Settings)
- Fixed data folder relocation
- Standalone: Improved Settings dialog
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