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May 05

New tutorial: MagicPicker Color Wheel HUD in minimalistic mode

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday May 5, 2020 Under Adobe, Tools, color wheel

Make Photoshop Color Wheel HUD super powerful or super minimal! Activate PRO Mode together with HUD in MagicPicker by going to Settings -> PRO Mode (before switching to HUD).

Still pops up under your cursor.

MagicPicker Color Wheel HUD – super minimal or super powerful

In PRO Mode you will get only the necessary features (by turning it off you can customize it and get access to all MagicPicker power).

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced color wheel, picker and HUD in Photoshop & Illustrator

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Apr 02

COMFORT_ZONE@HOME supersale!

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Thursday Apr 2, 2020 Under MagicRefs, MagicSquire, MagicTints, Tools, photoshop, plugin

Working from home? You’re covered – MagicSquire, MagicTints, MagicPicker and other panels are discounted!

Working from home? You’re covered – MagicSquire, MagicTints, MagicPicker discounts

GET YOUR DISCOUNTS AT:
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Bundles with the following panels are on sale:

New! MagicTints 1.2 — AI and machine learning-based 1-click color matching in Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

New! MagicPicker 7.1 — Professional Color Wheel HUD in Photoshop & Illustrator

MagicSquire 3.4 lets you organize brushes in colorful groups inside Adobe® Photoshop

MagicRefs 1.3 — advanced handling of Reference Images (or any image assets) in Adobe® Photoshop

MixColors 3.1 groups Photoshop color swatches in compact folders and mixes colors

DiskFonts lets preview fonts before installing them

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May 07

Added 84th tutorial…not on MagicPicker color wheel

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday May 7, 2019 Under Adobe, Tools, Tips&tricks, brush organizer, color panel, color wheel, panels, photoshop

The tradition goes on! The 84th tutorial (this time on MagicSquire, my brush manager) just came to life!

Don’t miss my huge tutorial database on MagicPicker color wheel, MagicSquire professional brush manager, MixColors color mixer, MagicRefs reference image manager and other plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (and more).

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Apr 09

Partnered with Wacom!

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Apr 9, 2019 Under Adobe, Tools, brush organizer, color mixer, color panel, color wheel, image references, panels, photoshop

Get Anastasiy plugin panels at Wacom Marketplace

I recently partnered with Wacom to bring all my professional plugins and panels to Wacom devices through Wacom marketplace. Enjoy MagicPicker, MagicSquire and our other products on Cintiq, Intuos or Bamboo tablets!

Wacom Marketplace brings easy access t o industry-leading software and services.

*Read detailed description on my main website

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Mar 26

Learn how Pro artists use MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MagicRefs and other panels

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 Under Adobe, Tools, Tips&tricks, brush organizer, color mixer, color panel, color wheel, image references, photoshop

All tutorials, tips and tricks on how to use my MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MixColors, DiskFonts, MagicRefs in Photoshop/Illustrator panels are now in one place

Tutorials for MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MagicRefs, MixColors, DiskFonts

Get access to 80+ tutorials, tips, tricks and videos on essential features of MagicPicker color wheel, MagicSquire brush/tag manager, MagicRefs reference image manager and DiskFonts external font viewer

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Feb 26

Massive update to all my Photoshop plugins!

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Feb 26, 2019 Under Tools, brush organizer, color mixer, color panel, color wheel, image references, panels, photoshop

MagicSquire, MagicRefs, MixColors, MagicPicker, DiskFonts updates

New MagicSquire 3.0 is here:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Also tags, Keyboard Shortcuts, Brush Group collections and much more in version 3.0!
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it
was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicSquire, brush organizing panel for Photoshop

New MagicRefs 1.2 is here:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it
was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicRefs, life is easy with reference images in Photoshop

New MagicPicker 6.4 is here:
– New UI Framework!Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it
was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel

MixColors 3.1:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it
was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MixColors, Photoshop color mixer

DiskFonts 1.2.22:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it
was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New DiskFonts, Photoshop font viewer and manager

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Sep 25

MagicPicker 6.3 - Faster, better, mightier!

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Sep 25, 2018 Under Adobe, Tools, Tips&tricks, color wheel, panels, photoshop

I updated my professional color picking plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

MagicPicker 6.3 - professional color wheel panel

WHAT’S NEW:

– NEW! Slight color adjustment with Shift+click on the inner side of color wheel (box, triangle, etc). The color pointer moves towards the cursor.

– Significant UI performance boost (new framework) on Photoshop/Illustrator CC, all versions. Especially on CC 2018+
– UI improvement in Keyboard Shortcuts dialog on Photoshop CS6
– Improved Black & White button behavior in BIG colors mode
– Fixed problem with clicking Background color swatch in BIG colors mode
– Fixed problem with wrong CMYK values on Illustrator in some scenarios
– On Illustrator CC and higher currently selected color swatch is now correctly displayed on the top
– Improved panel title display in Compact Mode
– Greatly improved and optimized Compact Mode in different scenarios, especially when quickly moving cursor aroud the panel

– Improved LDT Cube behavior when using eyedropper in some scenarios

Upgrade MagicPicker here

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Jun 12

MagicSquire 2.6/2.7 update: 4-8x speed boost, Magic Eraser improvement

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Jun 12, 2018 Under Tools, brush organizer, panels

Just updated my panel MagicSquire to version 2.7 - brush manager for concept artists, game artists and photographers.

As your brush collections grow so grows MagicSquire! Mind-blowing 4-8x speed improvement on Photoshop CC, fast display of 500+ brushes in a single group, Magic Eraser now reverts with second click, more!

MagicSquire brush manager v2.6: speeded up!

WHAT’S NEW:

– Improved loading of multiple .tpl files
– Significantly improved UI performance on Photoshop CC (all versions): when dealing with large number (500-1000+) of brushes, opening panel, scrolling, switching list types, opening/closing groups, loading .abr and .tpl files
– NEW FEATURE: Magic Eraser now preserves brush size and also supports second click! When you click Magic Eraser button again it switches back to the previously selected tool

– NEW FEATURE: You can now tune double-click behavior in MagicSquire settings

– Nailed “Cannot get id” problem on large brush collections
– Fixed visual issues
– Improved performace of Horizontal layout

– Photoshop CS6 users stay tuned! Speedup is on the way

Upgrade MagicSquire

Read more about other panels, including Photoshop Color Wheel and Color Mixer

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May 18

MagicPicker 6.2 - don’t miss the update to the color wheel for Photoshop

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Friday May 18, 2018 Under Tools, color panel, color wheel, photoshop

For those having problems with invalid signature error or if you saw that MagicPicker got slow please don’t miss the new update 6.2 which improves various parts of MagicPicker, including new Keyboard Shortcuts and LDT Color Cube.

http://anastasiy.com/colorwheel

MagicPicker 6.2: color wheel modes and keyboard shortcuts

Update MagicPicker

MagicPicker, the advanced Photoshop color wheel and color picking plugin

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May 02

Massive update to MagicPicker color wheel for Photoshop, MagicSquire and other panels

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Wednesday May 2, 2018 Under Adobe, Tools, brush organizer, color mixer, color panel, color wheel, painting, panels, photoshop

MagicSquire, MixColors, MagicPicker, DiskFonts panels for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

New MagicPicker 6.2 is here:
– Color Temperature mode improved
– Improvements to Keyboard Shortcuts, speedups!
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel

New MagicSquire 2.5 is here:
– Improved compatibility with recent Adobe updates
– Fixed issues with varios brush formats and .abr/.tpl files
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MagicSquire, brush organizing panel for Photoshop

MixColors 2.2:
– Improved compatibility with recent updates to Adobe Creative Cloud
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MixColors, Photoshop color mixer

DiskFonts 1.2.21:
– Speed optimizations
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New DiskFonts, Photoshop font viewer and manager

Adobe, brush manager, CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, color picker, color wheel, cs3, cs4, cs5, CS6, font manager, illustrator, photoshop, update, upgrade | add comments

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