Photoshop Panels Tips & Tricks

Tip#60: Adjust Color Temperature of multiple vector shapes at once in Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator. You can quickly and flawlessly adjust Color Temperature in multiple vector shapes at once in Photoshop & Illustrator using MagicPicker. 1) Switch to Color Temperature Wheel mode 2) Don’t forget to activate Colorize Vector Shapes & Text 3*) (Optional) Activate Tone Lock to keep colors’ brightness 4) Select the shapes and rotate Color Temperature Wheel

New features of MagicSquire 1.4 panel in Photoshop explained on new video: loading .TPL files, adding Tool Presets to the panel, using ALT-click to use current brush as Eraser (or any other tool), Compact Mode!

Better than the right-click? No click! New MagicSquire 1.3 delivers right-click replacement for brush view in Photoshop.  – NEW! Use new touchless Compact Mode (click MagicSquire menu, then Compact Mode). Panel shrinks to a one-brush display, when you hover your cursor over the panel it expands to the full brush view! Now click to select brushes. Switch between two views without a single click. – NEW! ALT-click a brush to use it as a Eraser or any other tool! Works the following way: 1) Alt-click the brush 2) Select the new tool you want to apply the brush to. Paint and erase with the same brush! – More improvements and fixes to brush/tool handling on Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015 and CC2017

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OMG! MagicSquire 1.2 finally delivers Tool Presets/.TPL support in Photoshop! Now you can organize and group Brushes, Mixer Brushes, Erasers, Smudge Tools, Pencils, etc.! You got it! MagicSquire 1.2 panel now supports Tool Presets and .TPL files. Still supporting Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017. 

– Supports Tools Presets and advanced brushes: Brush, Mixer Brush, Smudge, Eraser, Pencil, etc.! – Add, organize, drag’n’drop, move between groups, assign colors to the Tool Presets the same way you did it with the brushes – Load .TPL files and to add various Tools from files into Photoshop (in addition to .ABR files support) – Another performance boost.  Close/open/hide/show panel with unprecedented speed! – more!

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Tip#59: Move all brushes from Photoshop’s Brush Presets into MagicSquire groups:

1) Click on Brush Presets menu and then click Save Brushes… 2) Export brushes into .ABR file 3) Now you can remove all your brushes from Brush Presets (highly recommended to improve performance!) 4) Load this .ABR file into MagicSquire using menu -> Add brushes from .ABR…

That’s it! Now you can rearrange your brushes to different groups using color coding inside MagicSquire! Works in CS5, CS6, CC, CC2015 and CC2017+.

Tip#58: Assign transparent color to vector shapes in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with one click. New MagicPicker allows to assign transparency to Fill or Stroke of the currently selected vector shape in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator with one click on the panel! 

1) Select your shape 2) Hold Ctrl (or ⌘) and then click with mouse or your tablet pen on the appropriate Fill or Stroke swatch on the MagicPicker panel

That’s it! The transparency will be applied immediately.

MagicPicker 5.2 is the most perfect MagicPicker ever! Here’s what’s new:

– Faster handling of Fill/Stroke colors for shapes, shape groups, small shape groups, large shape groups, groups of large shapes and small shapes and text in all scenarios. Shortly speaking MagicPicker is now the true magic master of shapes and text in Photoshop and Illustrator. Select shapes to quickly change their color, that’s it! – Interactive Help now correctly shows interactive tips on color name and YUV values – R/G/B, H/S/B, C/M/Y/K boxes are now faster on Photoshop CC2015.5 – Background color swatch selection in BIG swatches mode is no longer delayed – RGB/HSB Sliders on the bottom are now scaled correctly. Always – Speeded up various parts of MagicPicker interface on CC2015/2015.5 (yeah, it’s quicker with every update) – Improved installation on Illustrator CC2015.3 – Fixed gray window on Photoshop CS4

MagicPicker, the advanced Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop color wheel-based panel just updated to v5.1! New version improves changing of Fill & Stroke colors for vector shapes and text, enhances Tone Lock that lets keep color in the same range, Color Temperature Wheel and K-Lock, that lets keep K value of CMYK on the same level. Improves Interactive Help and YUV color space mode.

Tip#57: Change Fill & Stroke colors of Shapes with one click in Photoshop. New MagicPicker’s superpower is ability to easily work with Fill & Stroke colors of Shapes (and Text) in Adobe Photoshop. To use it: 1) Open MagicPicker’s fly-out menu on the top right 2) select Colorizes Shapes and Text*. 3) Select a Shape layer (or text layer) – MagicPicker will automatically switch to Vector mode 4) Change its color with one click on the color wheel!MagicPicker 5.0 supports advanced professional design tools for modifying Shapes and Shape groups all at once: – Assign transparent color with Ctrl(or ⌘)-click on the color swatches – Rotate Hue° of the multiple shapes – select a group of shape layers and move Hue° slider – Exchange colors of Fill & Stroke with Exchange button on the MagicPicker panel – Assign Black & White colors with one click on the B&W button

Tip#56: New color spaces and current color name on the corner of color wheel. New MagicPicker 5 brings new feature! Display HSL/HSB/RGB/CMYK/YUV/YCbCr values in realtime on the corner of color wheel with MagicPicker 5! It lets you also display current color’s name. Ever wondered how “Crioiser Blue” or “Pastel orange” look like exactly? We got you covered! Even when bottom color sliders are hidden and color boxes are unavailable you can see current color’s name or values.To use new feature: 1) Click on three dots on the left botton of the color wheel 2) Continue clicking to switch between modes! 3*) To copy current color’s values to clipboard click once small copy button near the values

MagicPicker 5.0 has just arrived! Bringing ability to Colorize Shapes & Text, view current Color Name, HSL, YUV, (also HSB, RGB, CMYK and YCbCr) values on color wheel. New Interactive Help, beautiful Retina, 4K, 5K+ display support! Optimizations for Adobe ‪Illustrator and Photoshop‬ CC2015.5 and all versions from CC2015, CS6 down to CS3. More features! 

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Tip#54: Find colors with the same brightness but different temperature. It’s easily possible with MagicPicker! In the Color Temperature Wheel mode switch on Tone Lock and start shifting the slider on the wheel. This option lets you quickly find corresponding colors having the same brightness for lights and shadows or for foreground and background. Or keep the same brightness level across the surface when editing textures.

Tip#52: Background/foreground and fill/stroke color picking in MagicPicker. In Photoshop to switch to background color picking on MagicPicker color wheel - click the bottom color swatch on the panel to make it active. Click the top one to switch back. Since MagicPicker 3 in Illustrator you can choose between Stroke and Fill colors

Tip#51: K-Lock in MagicPicker 4. K-Lock lets you keep your colors bright in CMYK and decrease K level to 10% or zero in any given color! You can make colors darker or brighter while keeping value of K the same so they all come out vivid when printing. Just set the value and then click the button to lock it down. You can adjust K on the fly in that mode making colors even darker!