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Wednesday, March 27, 2019Learn how Pro artists use MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MagicRefs and other panels in Photoshop
All tutorials, tips and tricks on how to use our MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MixColors, DiskFonts, MagicRefs in Photoshop/Illustrator panels are now in one place
http://tutorials.anastasiy.com Labels: adobe photoshop, brush tags, color wheel, panel, Tutorials Friday, March 15, 2019MagicSquire 3.1 update improves brush handling in Adobe PhotoshopTags are more user-friendly! Search improved, Collections speeded up, Brush Tip rotation is faster with Keyboard Shortcuts, sync brushes to Dropbox is better. WHAT’S NEW: – Tags UI improvements by concept artists’ feedback – Improved brush tip rotation performance, fixed problem with available keyboard shortcuts to brushes when too many shortcuts are assigned, fixed searching for tags, capturing color, rotating brush tip, permissions with relocating data folder to Dropbox and Google Drive – All features available now for Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, CC2019+ – more Upgrade MagicSquire here Read more about MagicSquire, professional brush group/tag assistant for Adobe Photoshop Labels: Adobe, adobe creative cloud, adobe photoshop, announcement, brush manager, brush organizer, brushes, Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, extension, plugin Tuesday, February 19, 2019MagicSquire 3 Photoshop panel - work with brushes like never before! Tags, Keyboard Shortcuts, more
Just published BIGGEST update to MagicSquire ever! Tags! Keyboard Shortcuts to individual brushes. Group Collections. Store and sync brushes to Cloud(s), Rotate brush/tool tip with keyboard, more Keyboard Shortcuts, Capture color, even more!
NEW! Assign Tags to brushes and then filter them using Search - with Instant Suggestions. Filter out brushes that you don’t need in current project, instantly. NEW! Collections allow you to combine several groups to a collection, and then switch between group combinations with one click or keyboard shortcut. Use Collection Editor from the menu. NEW! Keyboard Shortcuts for individual brushes. Also keyboard shortcuts to following new and old features of MagicSquire: Rotate Brush/Tool tip (works with Clone Tool too) Turn current Brush into Eraser (and back) Increase/Decrease Load for Mixer brushes Switch brushes and collections more! New shortcuts dialog is accessible from the menu. NEW! Relocate data folder and put it on Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive or any other 3rd party Cloud service. Back up and safely auto-sync your brushes between computers! NEW! Disable size capture for tools, switch between brushes and tools while keeping size All features available now for Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, CC2019+ more Upgrade MagicSquire here Read more about MagicSquire brush manager for Photoshop Labels: Adobe, art, brush, cc, CC2017, cs6, extension, groups, MagicSquire, manager, painting, panel, panels, photoshop, plugin, sets, Suite Tuesday, September 25, 2018MagicPicker 6.3 - Faster, better, mightier!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 Read more about MagicPicker, the Professional Color Picking plugin for Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator Labels: Adobe, adobe color wheel, extension, illustrator, magicpicker, new, panel, photoshop, plugin, update, upgrade Tuesday, September 04, 2018MixColors 3.0 brings keyboard shortcuts, auto-gradient groups, more!NEW IN v3.0 NEW! Smart Color Groups – next generation of color swatches. Auto-gradient between Photoshop foreground & background or between any colors! Easily get colors inbetween. Smart resizing of the groups so you have only the swatches you need. Shift+click to mix to current color. NEW! Clear Color History, Undo/Redo colors with Keyboard Shorcuts NEW! Quickly add color swatches to the mix with Shift+click! Drag’n’drop swatches to the mixing area, single-click to set current color NEW! Easily assign Keyboard Shortcuts using integrated Keyboard Shortcuts dialog wih new features: – Add new Color Swatch – Add new Color Group – Create new Smart Color Group – Add Foreground Color into Color Mix – Clear Color History – Undo/Redo Color (Navigate Color History, click to get back to older colors you chose for Photoshop Foreground) – Pick Color from Color Mix into History – Turn on Mix Eyedropper mode – Toggle Auto-Sync mode – Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with main color (no matter if Auto-sync is on) – Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with Photoshop Foreground (no matter if Auto-sync is off) – Load colors into each of 3 Mixers – Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with main color and then update mixer with this color – Open/Close MixColors panel All shortcuts are assignable straight inside MixColors Settings in an easy-to-use dialog (one click away settings). Follow our tutorials for troubleshooting and additional details: http://tutorials.anastasiy.com/?info=mixcolors-keyboard=shortcuts NEW! Right-click menu allows you to edit swatch color, edit name or quickly assign background, foreground or main color to the swatch. NEW! Increadibly fast UI – uses new MagicPicker framework. Faster resizing, faster redraws, very responsive NEW! Hide upper part of the panel with mixers and use only swatch grouping NEW! Rearrange groups with drag’n’drop! Drag’n’drop swatches between groups greatly improved Improved compatibility with all recent Adobe updates including CC2018 Improved CloudSync – sync color swatches with our servers Improved panel behavior and fixed all visual, drag’n’drop and other issues by your feedback Color History is now scrolled to the end of the list when new color is chosen Color History scrollbar is now smaller to clean up screen real estate Fixed click problems with eyedroppers under color mixers Improved design of the panel by your feedback MixColors 3 features slightly modified modern-looking icon Improved “delete swatch” button behavior in various scenarios Upgrade MixColors here Get MixColors – color mixing plugin for Adobe Photoshop Labels: Adobe, adobe color panel, adobe creative cloud, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, color mixer, Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, extension, MixColors, panel, photoshop, plugin, update Tuesday, July 03, 2018Added 75th tutorial on MagicPicker color wheel
I can’t believe it was 75 posts ago I started tips&tricks for my extension panel plugins! The first tip was published on Sep 5th, 2011 - about 7 years ago (and on the 3rd year after MagicPicker’s birth). The twitter page was launched in March 2010 (yeah I was quite slow, spending most of the time coding MagicPicker).
Labels: color wheel, Hints, magicpicker, panel, photoshop, plugin, Tips, Tricks Tuesday, June 12, 2018MagicSquire 2.6 update: 4-8x speed boost, Magic Eraser improvement
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!
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