MagicPicker Changelog

What's new in MagicPicker 4.3

Apr 1, 2015
  • new! CC2014 support!
  • MagicPicker has been rewritten from ground up to support new Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 (Illustrator & Photoshop CC 2014). New color engine works even faster than before
  • new! Tone Lock 2.0 –
  • keep colors in the same gamma. Separate foreground from background easily! Now you can keep color's tone while changing its hue or saturation. It helps to keep gamma of your picture as well as keep harmony of colors in the shadows or lights
  • new! Color Temperature Wheel! –
  • Limit color gamut easily: fine-tune and pick only warm or only cold colors on an intuitive palette. Supports Tone Lock!
  • new! Big color swatches! (optional) –
  • Big colors with color wheel, big colors in Compact Mode, big colors everywhere for better color perception!
  • new! Oh boy! Even FASTER! Color picking is now at its maximum speed with the new color engine
  • Triangle, Box, Diamond modes! Get more shades of brightness and saturation on color wheel
  • Triangle, Box and Diamond on color wheel
  • Triangle/Box/Diamond modes
  • Adobe Illustrator support
  • Numeric Rulers on HSB/RGB sliders for precise color picking
  • Leap Motion Controller support (requires Leap Motion Controller and Ethereal) – change colors with your fingers in the air
  • Easy Color schemes: Mono, Complement, Triad, Tetrad, Analogic, Accented Analogic
  • Color wheel
  • Unique Traditional Color Wheel in Photoshop and Illustrator! (RYB mode or Itten's wheel)
  • Attach Panels: Attach other Anastasiy's panels to MagicPicker and use them in Compact Mode as one
  • Copy HEX color to clipboard with one click on "#" sign
  • Very responsive, auto color update in Illustrator & Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC+!
  • MagicPicker features video made by tyr
  • Compact Mode – only two colors visible,
  • whole panel opens when mouse is over it
  • Calibrated CMYK colors for print with usage of current color profiles
  • You can see old color while choosing new one
  • Advantages for MagicPicker color wheel on Photoshop CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC2014
  • Color pane, color wheel, RGB/HSB sliders and HEX box – see screenshots of MagicPicker
  • Supports Illustrator & Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC2014
  • Sets foreground and background color
  • Supports feeback from Photoshop. (It's an ability to update panel automatically when a color is picked outside panel,
  • e.g. with Alt-click on the image)
  • Arbitrary panel scaling
  • H,S,B and R,G,B modes support
  • Numerical boxes for precise color changing
  • HEX box to get color for your web page element
  • NO crashes, unlike some other panels
  • In addition MagicPicker 1.2, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 updates fix all the bugs,
  • improve compatibility with Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.8/10.10 on calibrated monitors, fix issue with edges of the triangle, fix issues for Japanese and other international users
  • MagicPicker 4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3 improves perfomance (all platforms are speeded up –
  • CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6/CC/2014) and includes buttons for swapping colors, changing colors to default, and hiding upper buttons row

New in MagicPicker 4.2 (Jan 7, 2015)

  • 4.2 updates fix all the bugs,
  • improve compatibility with Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.8/10.10 on calibrated monitors, fix issue with edges of the triangle, fix issues for Japanese and other international users
  • 4.2 improves perfomance (all platforms are speeded up –
  • CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6/CC/2014) and includes buttons for swapping colors, changing colors to default, and hiding upper buttons row

New in MagicPicker 4.0 (Nov 4, 2014)

  • CHANGES:
  • In addition MagicPicker 1.2, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1 and 4.0 updates fix all the bugs,
  • improve compatibility with Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.8/10.10 on calibrated monitors, fix issue with edges of the triangle, fix issues for Japanese and other international users
  • MagicPicker 4.0 improves perfomance (all platforms are speeded up –
  • CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6/CC/2014) and includes buttons for swapping colors, changing colors to default, and hiding upper buttons row
  • VIDEO:
  • How to use Tone Lock
  • Color Temperature Wheelnew! CC2014 support!
  • MagicPicker has been rewritten from ground up to support new Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 (Illustrator & Photoshop CC 2014). New color engine works even faster than before
  • new! Tone Lock 2.0
  • Keep colors in the same gamma. Separate foreground from background easily! Now you can keep color's tone while changing its hue or saturation. It helps to keep gamma of your picture as well as keep harmony of colors in the shadows or lights
  • new! Color Temperature Wheel!
  • Limit color gamut easily: fine-tune and pick only warm or only cold colors on an intuitive palette. Supports Tone Lock!
  • new! Big color swatches! (optional)
  • Big colors with color wheel, big colors in Compact Mode, big colors everywhere for better color perception!
  • Unique Traditional Color Wheel in Photoshop and Illustrator! (RYB mode or Itten's wheel)

New in MagicPicker 3.1 (May 29, 2014)

  • Tone Lock – keep colors in the same gamma. Separate foreground from background easily! Now you can keep color's tone while changing its hue. It helps to keep gamma of your picture as well as keep harmony of colors in the shadows or lights
  • Triangle, Box, Diamond modes! Get more shades of brightness and saturation on color wheel
  • Adobe Illustrator support
  • Numeric Rulers on HSB/RGB sliders for precise color picking
  • Leap Motion Controller support (requires Leap Motion Controller and Ethereal) – change colors with your fingers in the air
  • Adobe Illustrator CS6/CC and Photoshop CS6/CC support

New in MagicPicker 3.0 (Oct 8, 2013)

  • New:
  • Tone Lock
  • Triangle, Box, Diamond modes
  • Adobe Illustrator support
  • Numeric Rulers on HSB/RGB sliders
  • Leap Motion Controller support
  • Adobe Illustrator CS6/CC and Photoshop CS6/CC support
  • Improved perfomance