Black Friday/Cyber Monday discounts

Anastasiy’s MagicPicker Pro Color Wheel HUD, MagicTints AI Color Matcher, and MagicSquire Pro brush control for Adobe Photoshop and Creative Cloud. Get up to 60% off here:

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)

Upgrade your creativity – all panels receive full Adobe CC 2024 support, more

New MagicSquire 7.3-Organize brushes in colorful groups with tags, now with HUD popup and granular brush controls)
– Full Photoshop CC 2024 support
– Keyboard Shortcuts handling improved
– UI Framework speeded up
– Minor fixes and improvements
Upgrade MagicSquire to v7.3

New MagicPicker 9.2 -Professional color wheel HUD, now with Munsell support and a lot of new features and improvements:
– Full Photoshop CC 2024 compatibility
– Performance improvements, small UI fixes
Upgrade to MagicPicker v9.2

New MixColors 5.3 -Enhance your painting skills with color mixing and color swatch managing
– Full Photoshop CC 2024 compatibility
– Tuned mixing formula
– Speeded up UI framework
Upgrade to MixColors to v5.3

New MagicTints 3.4 -1-click AI & Machine Learning granular color matching in Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
– Improved compatibility with Photoshop CC 2024
Upgrade to MagicTints to v3.4

New MagicRefs 2.3 -Tag, search and collect images locally in Photoshop, also Rotate, Resize and Collage and use as references:
– Full Photoshop CC 2024 compatibility
– Performance improvements, small UI fixes
Upgrade to MagicRefs to v2.3

INSTALL WITH latest Anastasiy’s Extension Manager 4.1 for Adobe Creative Cloud (officially recommended by Adobe)

Get Your Brush Out! 🍏 MixColors 5.2: advanced color mixing in Photoshop

MixColors 5.2 is out!

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

Upgrade MixColors

Read more about MixColors, advanced color mixing panel in Adobe Photoshop

Black Friday 2022 is on! Discounts on all Anastasiy’s Panels

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)

MagicSquire 5.5 for Photoshop ⚡⚡ Performance and UI improved!

New update!

– 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!

Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2021 discounts on all panels

#BlackFriday discounts are up! 💝 get 60% off on MagicPicker 8 Color Wheel 🔮 Crystal HUD, MagicTints 2 GPU Color Matcher, MagicSquire 5 Brush Control and other #Photoshop & #Illustrator panels.

Limited time discounts: 

https://anastasiy.com/blackfriday

MagicPicker 8 color wheel (35% off)
MagicTints, 2.4 1-click color matcher (50% off)
MagicSquire 5, professional brush manager (30% off)
MixColors 4, color mixer (30% off)

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

MagicPicker 8 is here with Lab, L*c*h, HSL, Temperature Sliders, TRANSPARENT HUD

Featuring the  early upgrade bonus, see below!

Transparent HUD! OMG. Variable opacity. On/off Background Blurred Glass effect. Sliders Revolution! 10 NEW Color Spaces designed for artists, with Sliders under Color Wheel: Lab, L*c*h, Temperature, HSL, Gradient Blend, CMYK, CIE Luv, Grayscale, HSB, RGB. Pick colors. Arrange like you want! Drag, remove. Full CC 2022 support. More features, faster UI!

WHAT’S NEW in MagicPicker version 8.0:

* Full support of new Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 2022, including Keyboard Shortcuts
* Graphics Framework improvements – UI now faster in scaling, resizing, animation, redraw etc
* HUD is faster
* Improved styling of UI, added small touches here and there
* Now works much better and updates better when working with subtle colors (hues/saturation around 2-3%)

  • NEW! TRANSPARENT HUD – a new see-through experience! Change from Settings
    – MagicPicker HUD now can be fully transparent so you could see where you’re working at
    – Have only color wheel/color picker visible
    – Transparency can be set in Settings from 0 to 100
    – Adjust Transparency dynamically
    – Activate Blur to blur background under panel
    – Supports PRO Mode so you could only have round color wheel visible on the screen
    – HUD is still resizeable in that state
    – Supports all features of MagicPicker including sliders, boxes, etc
    – Pops up under your cursor
  • NEW! Have main panel in Compact Mode and MagicPicker HUD on the screen at the same time. Two main colors always visible and HUD appears on-demand under your cursor
  • NEW! New fully cusomizable sliders in any combinations Supported:
    – HSB, * HSL – more natural shade between black/white/current color, * Lab, * Lch/HCL – finally a human perception based color sliders, that preserve lightness & saturation of hues * CMYK, * Color Temperature, * Gradient between Foreground/Background (Blend), * CIE L*u*v*, * Grayscale, * RGB
    – Add with a new + button on the left of sliders
    – Delete individual sliders – drag by label and then drop to a Trash can on the bottom
    – Keep single sliders and remove the others so you can have combinations like H,R,G,L or L*,S,B
    – Freely rearrange by grabbing and moving! Move sliders up or down quickly
    – All slider values are synced with your current color profile
    – New sliders are compatible with PRO Mode, K-Lock and Tone Lock!
    – Display exact values on mouse hover
    – All sliders are fully dynamic and update in realtime
    * Reset sliders – from the menu, to original combinations
  • NEW! Reset color schemes – from MagicPicker menu. Will reset secondary colors to default position
  • NEW! You asked for it!
    * On Windows in Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl no longer required. Now allowing F1, F2 etc. keys
  • NEW! Illustrator: * Keyboard Shortcut to swap Fill/Stroke swatches on Illustrator (and Background/Foreground on Photoshop)

– Optimized to work with new Windows 11, macOS Big Sur, Monterey
– Improved memory handling, on some computers MagicPicker started to eat memory and slowed down after awhile, fixed that
– HUD round corners are back for all Windows users!
– Fixed a problem with setting vector shapes stroke colors on CC 2020, CC 2021 & CC 2022
– Improved assigning of keyboard shortcuts in varios scenarios
– Fixed problems with entering keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator in various scenarios
– MagicPicker now speaks more languages: Chinese, Spanish
– Fixed a rare problem on Adobe Illustrator where panel could stop updating its colors after some time
– Still supports Adobe CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 (also CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017, CC2019, 2020, 2021, 2022+)
– HUD Mode supports OpenGL and Metal GPU acceleration (if present) for transparency blur
– Transparent HUD optimized for better power management on laptops, Surface devices and MacBooks
– Transparent HUD optimized to run on older computers
– Fixed various minor UI problems
– All improvements implemented by real-life users’ feedback

Upgrade to MagicPicker 8 now and receive a limited-time early upgrade discount

Read more about MagicPicker, the most advanced and slick color wheel HUD/panel for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Tip#106: Bring multiple objects to same palette with MagicTints

Select multiple layers
Select multiple layers

Select multiple pixel layers and then click “Apply” on MagicTints panel. That’s it! MagicTints will bring all selected objects to the same palette, from the Color Reference list. All at once.

  • You can choose specific colors or use any image as a target color reference. Works very accurately, transfers colors and contrast immediately.
  • You can also assign Keyboard Shortcut to that operation

Works in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.

Or you can export LUT and use on any photo video in Affinity Photo, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, AfterEffects, Final Cut or even in 3D software like Unity, Blender or Unreal Engine.

MagicTints is also available as a standalone app on macOS or Windows.

From series of tutorials for MagicTints, 1-click accurate color matching

Tip#77: MagicPicker fly-out menu

MagicPicker 6 fly-out menu
MagicPicker 6 fly-out menu

With the updated fly-out menu in MagicPicker 6 you can access the following functions easily:

Just click on the fly-out menu button on the panel in Photoshop or Illustrator!

MagicPicker is the professional color wheel panel for Adobe Photoshop

Tip#74: The simplest color wheel – MagicPicker in PRO Mode

MagicPicker 6 - uncluttered UI in PRO Mode
MagicPicker 6 – uncluttered UI in PRO Mode

Unclutter MagicPicker’s interface with the new PRO Mode. Click MagicPicker menu -> PRO Mode and enjoy interfaceless, most easy-to-use color wheel! Works with any mode, including Color Temperature etc.

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced Illustrator and Photoshop color wheel