{"id":2259,"date":"2022-09-07T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:07:55","slug":"magicsquire-6-update-transparent-hud-with-crystal-blur-custom-brush-images-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"MagicSquire 6 update! Transparent Brush HUD with Crystal Blur in Photoshop, Custom Brush Images, more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent HUD! O.M.G.! Variable opacity. On\/off Background\u00a0\ud83d\udd2e\u00a0Blurred Glass effect.\u00a0Nextgen UI!\u00a0Assign Custom colorful Images to Brushes, Randomize Brush, size, shape\u00a0on every click, HUGE previews.\u00a0More features, faster UI!<\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"3sovm-4-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\ud83d\udc9a<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"3sovm-5-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anastasiy.com\/magicsquire_upgrade\">Early upgrade bonus<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxsRpi9IC40\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S NEW:<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Preview files before loading<br \/>\nSelect one or multiple .ABR files to preview at once<br \/>\nPreview all content of Brushes\/Tools and choose which files to actually load &#8211; using checkboxes<br \/>\nSee what all Tools and Brushes look like in a huge single window<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Custom Images for Tools\/Brushes!<br \/>\nAssign any image to a Tool or Brush<br \/>\nLoad from .png, .gif, .svg or .jpg files<br \/>\nUse high resolution images and images with transparency, any colors, shades, sizes, etc<br \/>\nAssign a single image to multiple presets with right-click<br \/>\nCreate your custom beautiful showcase within groups and collections!<br \/>\nPreview on huge tooltips (see below)<\/p>\n<p>NEW! TRANSPARENT HUD &#8211; a new see-through experience! Change from Settings<br \/>\nMagicSquire HUD now can be fully transparent so you could see where you&#8217;re working at<br \/>\nHave only Brush Controls or Brushes visible<br \/>\nTransparency can be set in Settings from 0 to 100, dynamically<br \/>\nActivate Blur to blur background under panel<br \/>\nSupports PRO Mode so you could only have info you need visible on the screen<br \/>\nHUD is still resizable in that state<br \/>\nSupports all features of MagicSquire including tags, shortcuts, etc<br \/>\nPops up under your cursor<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Tool\/Brush RANDOMIZER<br \/>\nHave a random brush\/tool selected after each Stroke!<br \/>\nOr after clicking a Randomizer button &#8211; tune up in Settings<br \/>\nNew Setting called &#8220;Randomizer selected permanently&#8221;<br \/>\n* when it&#8217;s On then click on the Randomizer activates it until it unclicked, so<br \/>\nrandom brushes will choose each time you make a stroke on canvas<br \/>\n* when it&#8217;s Off you need to press Randomizer button on the top of the panel<br \/>\nto randomize a brush<br \/>\nEvery Tool\/Brush is selected from the current group so you can choose group to randomize from<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Displays HUGE tooltip previews for all brush thumbnails<br \/>\nSee your presets in a fancy beautiful detail<br \/>\nSupports Custom Images!<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Keyboard Shortcuts for previous\/next in Tool History<br \/>\nEasily select previous preset in a click of a button<br \/>\nOr navigate through presets with keyboard shortcuts<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Edit\/New Brush dialog now has tooltip explanation for each brush stroke type<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; UI speedup! Works much faster using new Photoshop API<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved behavior of HUD size, it now should resize properly<br \/>\n&#8211; Overall improvement in visual performance when displaying and scaling brushes, opening\/closing groups<br \/>\nand dragging\/dropping brushes. Speeded up brush selection on large collections.<br \/>\n&#8211; New UI framework uses less RAM<br \/>\n&#8211; Fixed various issues with Brush Controls, when they slowed down Photoshop or didn&#8217;t display values<br \/>\n&#8211; Fixed problems between context menu and tooltips<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved History rendering<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved multiple UI areas and fixed glitches<br \/>\n&#8211; Improved messaging and error handling across the panel<br \/>\n&#8211; Fixed &#8220;Missing presets&#8221; message appearing in some scenarios<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anastasiy.com\/magicsquire_upgrade\">Upgrade MagicSquire with early discount<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anastasiy.com\/magicsquire\">Read more about MagicSquire, advanced brush manager and HUD in Photoshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent HUD! O.M.G.! Variable opacity. On\/off Background\u00a0\ud83d\udd2e\u00a0Blurred Glass effect.\u00a0Nextgen UI!\u00a0Assign Custom colorful Images to Brushes, Randomize Brush, size, shape\u00a0on every click, HUGE previews.\u00a0More features, faster UI! \ud83d\udc9a\u00a0Early upgrade bonus! WHAT&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/?p=2259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MagicSquire 6 update! Transparent Brush HUD with Crystal Blur in Photoshop, Custom Brush Images, more!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[375,30],"tags":[562,603,512,9,90,50,513,398,388,439,448,376,124,183,219,392,444,499,563,612,152,131,160,12,125,13,51,82,465,98,383,378,416,261,568,386,277,270,377,17,52,271,68,4,81,426,641,640,391,400,103,639,31,172,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anastasiy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}