Category: Tips&Tricks

Important Updates! Full latest Photoshop CC 2024 support

Photoshop CC 2024 has updated and we have too! Please use new versions if you’re on new Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 and have activation problems, it says your activation data is invalid, or the panel is blank, color wheel doesn’t work etc.

New MagicSquire 7.4-Organize brushes in colorful groups with tags, now with HUD popup and granular brush controls)
Upgrade MagicSquire to v7.4

New MagicPicker 9.3 -Professional color wheel HUD, now with Munsell support and a lot of new features and improvements:
Upgrade to MagicPicker v9.3

New MixColors 5.4 -Enhance your painting skills with color mixing and color swatch managing
Upgrade to MixColors to v5.4

New MagicTints 3.5 -1-click AI & Machine Learning granular color matching in Adobe® Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Upgrade to MagicTints to v3.5

New MagicRefs 2.4 -Tag, search and collect images locally in Photoshop, also Rotate, Resize and Collage and use as references:
Upgrade to MagicRefs to v2.4

INSTALL WITH latest Anastasiy’s Extension Manager 4 for Adobe Creative Cloud (officially recommended by Adobe)

Tip#127: CIE Luv – color space used by digital pros

Adapt color gamma used by digital pros with CIE Luv – one of many color spaces of 🌺 MagicPicker 9 for #Photoshop. Superior color coverage, perceptual brightness support. Just like Lab but much better!

  1. Open sliders on the bottom
  2. Click “+” and select CIE Luv

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

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

Try or update MagicPicker, MagicSquire, MixColors

Tip#124: Vivid, precisely graded hues with L*c*h 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

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

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

Tip#123: Quickly mix colors with Eyedropper in Photoshop

Easily blend current color with document colors in #Photoshop using MixColors panel’s “Mix Eyedropper”.

  1. Activate by clicking button beneath mixing area.
  2. Then click, pick and mix with Eyedropper for precise shades, reflections, and lighting

From series of tutorials for MixColors, physically-accurate Photoshop color mixer

MagicSquire 7: Video Tutorial on new features is here

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