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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MagicSquire 7: Video Tutorial on new features is here

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Mar 28, 2023 Under MagicSquire, brush organizer

Posted a video how my new MagicSquire works in Photoshop, tips and tricks



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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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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!

 Early upgrade bonus!

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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MagicSquire 5.5 for Photoshop: Performance and UI improved!

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Apr 26, 2022 Under MagicSquire, brush organizer, update

New update to my brush manager!

MagicSquire 5.5 for Photoshop: Performance and UI improved!

MagicSquire 5.5 for Photoshop: Performance and UI improved!

– NEW! Speeded up! Improved performance in many scenarios, when switching tools in Photoshop
– Fixed a rare problem when Photoshop switched tool to the previous one
– Fixed a problem with Updating brushes (clicking Update in the Edit Brush dialog). It didn’t work sometimes, fixed
– Available now on Adobe Photoshop 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015, CC 2014, CS5, CS6, CC

– more!

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Tip#111: Hide/Show new Photoshop Brush Controls in MagicSquire

Posted by Anastasiy Safari on Tuesday Mar 29, 2022 Under Tips&tricks, brush organizer

Tip#111: Hide/Show Photoshop Brush Controls in MagicSquire

Tip#111: Hide/Show Photoshop Brush Controls in MagicSquire

Hide Brush Controls on MagicSquire panel in #Photoshop by clicking the button titled “Hide” on the top left of the panel.

This works great if you only need to organize and access groups of brushes/tools.

Re-display Brush Controls by clicking the “Show Brush Controls” button on the top.

From series of tutorials for MagicSquire, the pro manager with colored groups for Photoshop brushes



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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!

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

Upgrade to MagicSquire 5.4


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My New MagicSquire 5.3: more accurate Photoshop Brush Parameters (size, opacity, spacing, etc.), faster on-demand HUD popup, loading groups from huge .ABR files (1GB+), more UI languages. Get now with a discount!

MagicSquire 5.3 update in Photoshop, smoother and more precise than ever

MagicSquire 5.3 update in Photoshop, smoother and more precise than ever

WHAT’S NEW:
- Fixed a problem with loading brush groups from huge (500MB-1GB+) .abr files
- Changing small values of brush parameters (size, opacity, etc) is now easier. Brush Controls
change slower in 0-50 range
- Improved localization
- Improved loading of HUD files in various countries (South Korea, China, Switzerland)
- Available now on Photoshop and Illustrator 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015, CC 2014, CS5, CS6, CC
- much more

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GREAT WINTER SALE: MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MixColors, MagicTints, MagicRefs, DiskFonts discounted up to -60%

GREAT WINTER SALE: MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MixColors, MagicTints, MagicRefs, DiskFonts discounted up to -60%

Limited time discounts at anastasiy.com! Get all panels in discounted bundles or

 

Color Wheel with advanced color spaces and sliders designed for digital art
Upgrade MagicPicker with a discount

 

Get MagicTints 2
Standalone fast GPU AI color matching between images, generates LUT, Windows & macOS Desktop, also Adobe® Photoshop plugin
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Get MagicSquire 5
Quick Brush HUD, lets organize brushes in colorful groups, controls Photoshop brush values
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Get MixColors 4
Extracts palette from image, groups Photoshop swatches in compact folders, mixes colors
Upgrade MixColors with a discount

 

Get MagicRefs 2
Fast handling of Reference Images (image assets) in Adobe® Photoshop
Upgrade MagicRefs with a discount

 

Get DiskFonts
Preview fonts before installing them


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Upgraded my MagicSquire panel for Photoshop to version 5.2. Full CC 2022 support, more!

MagicSquire 5.2 update! Blank panel fix, CC 2022, better everything!

MagicSquire 5.2 update! Blank panel fix, CC 2022, better everything!

WHAT’S NEW:
– Fixed a long standing problem when panel was blank immediate after starting Photoshop
– Full support of CC 2022 – especially keyboard shortcuts
– Increased max Brush Spacing parameter to 1000, please remove Brush Control corresponding to Brush Spacing and then re-add it
– Added Chinese localization
– Fixed problems with downloading of HUD in several scenarios
– Fixed a minor issue with “x” button position on search field
– Fixed a problem with searching/tags/clearing search field with new “x” button
– Fixed problems with focused search field after clicking a brush (a conflict with Wacom & ExpressKeys)
– Fixed problem with loading .abr files with groups in various scenarios
– Fixed a problem with disappearing right-click menu on Windows
– Improved update check

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