My new MagicSquire 7.1 for Adobe Photoshop is out! Bringing improvements and updates:

MagicSquire 7.1 update – brush workspace for Adobe Photoshop

MagicSquire 7.1 update – brush workspace for Adobe Photoshop

– Fixed Huge thumbnails in Vertical List mode
– Improved Huge thumbnails display in Long and Short List modes
– Removed a random message when editing brush names with double-click
– Now correctly loading .tpl files that don’t display previews before loading
– Fixed right-click menu in HUD mode on macOS and Windows
– Removed unnecessary rendering of strokes – on double-click
– Monochrome background image in Long List, Short List and Vertical List modes is now displayed correctly
– Improved Group Background Image dialog in various color themes
– Fixed a problem with HUD not opening on macOS in some scenarios
– Fixed display of size-only brushes in Long List, Short List and Vertical List modes
– All available in Photoshop CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

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Don’t Be Blue Over Mismatched Colors! MagicTints 3.3 update

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Feb 14, 2023 Under MagicTints, color matching

Don’t Be Blue Over Mismatched Colors! MagicTints 3.3 update

Don’t Be Blue Over Mismatched Colors! MagicTints 3.3 update

– Fixed a rare problem with layers scaling or moving incorrectly in Photoshop after color matching
– Correctly handling all types of layers, including the ones cut outside of the document
– Improved color matching to other layers in Photoshop Document
– Better compatibility with latest Adobe updates and Photoshops CC 2022 23.3+ and CC 2023 24.1+

Limited time discount!

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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

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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Color Alert! MagicPicker 9.1

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Jan 10, 2023 Under MagicPicker, update

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

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

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
Upgrade MagicTints to v3.2

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
Upgrade MagicRefs to v2.2

New MagicPicker 9.0 with a lot of new features and improvements (Professional color wheel HUD, now with Munsell support)
Upgrade to MagicPicker v9.0

INSTALL WITH NEW Anastasiy’s Extension Manager 4.0 (officially recommended by Adobe)



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It’s ON! #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday discounts up to -60% on MagicPicker Pro Color Wheel HUD, MagicTints AI Color Matcher, MagicSquire brush control for Adobe Photoshop from Anastasiy:

Limited time discounts:

https://anastasiy.com/blackfriday – 60% off!

MagicPicker 9 color wheel (35% off)
MagicTints 3, one-click color matcher (50% off)
MagicSquire 6.1, professional brush manager (30% off)
MixColors 5, color mixer (30% off)

MagicRefs 2, reference manager (30% off)
DiskFonts 1.2, font manager (30% off)

Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts on all Anastasiy's Panels

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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

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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New tutorials are up for MagicPicker color wheel

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Oct 18, 2022 Under MagicPicker, Tips&tricks, color wheel

Tutorials for my panel MagicPicker, Photoshop color wheel (CC2023 compatible!) are updated with new articles.

Change foreground/background gradient color slider

Change foreground/background gradient color slider

Learn how to use new sliders, combine them in groups and more!



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Upgraded my MagicTints to v3.1! Improved: Quickly match any image to any color palette/image and specify target color areas. Fixed Edit In… in Lightroom/Desktop. Better Layer handling in #Photoshop, more!

MagicTints 3.1, fast color grading

MagicTints 3.1, fast color grading

WHAT’S NEW:

- Desktop: Correctly handling “Edit In…” in Lightroom
- Desktop: Correctly handling drag’n'drop of files on MagicTints icon on macOS
- Fixed Photoshop bug: when layer was positioned vertically above document it was positioned in a wrong way
after color matching
- Fixed a problem when images couldn’t be drag’n'dropped sometimes after moving groups
- Fixed problems with displaying square images in Edit Palette dialog when using Guided Colors
- Fixed EditPalette/Create Palette dialog titles
- Improved Spanish and Chinese UI localization

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MixColors 5.0 is here! Bringing multiple mixing fields, more

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Jul 26, 2022 Under Adobe, MixColors, color mixer, panels, update

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

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

CHANGES:

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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