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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

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Tip#126: Mix and match color sliders in MagicPicker

Mix and match on Lab, Lch/HCL, HSB, HSL, CMYK, Gradient, CIE L*u*v*, Grayscale, RGB sliders with MagicPicker in #Photoshop. Use all advanced color spaces meant for digital art.

Click ⊕ to add sliders
Rearrange and remove individual sliders by dragging them

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, pro color wheel for Photoshop

Tip#125: Use MixColors, MagicSquire, MagicPicker together

Mix, pick, and paint with next level accuracy in Adobe Photoshop. 🧙‍♂️ ✨ Combine MagicPicker, MagicSquire, and MixColors panels to access pro color spaces and advanced brush dynamic

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Tip#124: Vivid, precisely graded hues with Lch color space of MagicPicker

Achieve vivid, precisely graded hues easily using exclusive MagicPicker 9’s L*c*h sliders on color wheel. Boost UI/shade painting with a uniform spectrum in Photoshop

Click on the “+” button on the top left to add new sliders
Choose “L*c*h” from the menu
Use new sliders

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, best advanced Photoshop color wheel for pros

Tip#122: Persistent Color Wheel HUD popup with MagicPicker 9

💡 Keep unobtrusive, transparent pro-level HUD equipped with color sliders that hides/shows the same place on keyboard shortcut.

Click MagicPicker 9’s Settings menu → Pin HUD to same place

Save clicks and screen space!

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel

Tip#121: LDT Cube – quick color wheel picker based on color perception

Use MagicPicker 9’s Cube 🔮, new color picker designed for quick digital art.

LDT stands for Lights, Darks, Temperature. And it’s much more than that.

When you move pointer vertically along cube sides it preserves perceived color lightness (same as Tone Lock in MagicPicker). Horizontally – keeps saturation, for any hue!
– Left side is darks
– Right is lights
– Top is temperature

To switch into the mode click “Color Wheel Triangle/Box/Diamond/etc” located on the top right of MagicPicker under Tone Lock button.

Created in collaboration with leading art studios

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced color wheel for pros in Adobe Photoshop

Tip#120: Input values and 🎯 snap rulers for color sliders in MagicPicker

Arrow buttons under MagicPicker color wheel activate rulers and numeric inputs – for quick color accuracy and 🎯 snaps.

Click upper arrow to show/hide rulers (and use ctrl-click to snap to values)

Click rightward arrow to show/hide numeric boxes to input exact color component values

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel with HUD

Upgrade MagicPicker to at least version 9 to get this functionality

Tip#119: See HUGE preview of current eyedropper color in Photoshop

Unleash a ⛱ HUGE realtime preview of current #Photoshop color. Simply alt-click on the foreground in MagicPicker and activate Realtime preview in Settings. Then click and move eyedropper across your digital art

Works in Illustrator & Photoshop.

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel for professional artists

Color Alert! 🐠 MagicPicker 9.1

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

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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Tip#118: Color Wheel modes in MagicPicker 9

The latest version of MagicPicker panel for Photoshop and Illustrator now includes the Munsell Color Wheel mode in addition to Triangle, Box, Diamond, Color Temperature, and LDT Color Cube modes.

Munsell Color wheel is based on the way that the human eye perceives color, and it is arranged according to three color dimensions: hue, value, and chroma. It’s an industry standard color wheel for easier color matching and finding colors in shades for a given hue.

Works in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, CC2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

From series of tutorials for MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel