Major News

04/09/19 — Anastasiy partners with WACOM

04/09/19

Anastasiy partners with Wacom to bring all our professional plugins and panels to Wacom devices through Wacom marketplace. Enjoy MagicPicker, MagicSquire and our other products on Cintiq, Intuos or Bamboo tablets!

Wacom Marketplace brings easy access to industry-leading software and services.
03/05/19 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 3.1 is out:
– Tags UI improvements by concept artists' feedback
– Improved brush tip rotation performance, fixed problem with available keyboard shortcuts to brushes when too many shortcuts are assigned, fixed searching for tags, capturing color, rotating brush tip, permissions with relocating data folder to Dropbox and Google Drive
– All features available now for Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2015, CC2017, CC2018, CC2019+
– more
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop tool organizing panel

02/27/19 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicPicker 6.4 is here:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel

New MagicSquire 3.0 is here:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Also tags, Keyboard Shortcuts, Brush Group collections and much more in version 3.0!
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicRefs 1.2 is here:
New MagicSquire, brush/tag manager for Photoshop

– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MagicRefs, advanced Photoshop reference image manager

MixColors 3.1:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New MixColors, Photoshop color mixer

DiskFonts 1.2.22:
– New UI Framework! Great performance improvement
– Invalid signature (a.k.a. “The extension could not be loaded because it was not signed correctly”) problem fixed
New DiskFonts, Photoshop font viewer and manager

10/19/10

10th-12th of November. MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel will be featured in a Disney/Black Rock Studio workshop in digital panting with truly inspirational concept artist John Wallin Liberto in Brighton, UK. 3 days of the insight into his craft with the talented Art Crew at Black Rock. ..detailed info on this event.

02/12/19

New MagicSquire 3.0 is here:
– Assign tags to brushes and then filter them using Search with Instant Suggestions
- Collections allow you to combine several groups in a collection and then switch between group combinations
- Keyboard Shortcuts for individual brushes. Also keyboard shortcuts to new and old features of MagicSquire
- Rotate Brush/Tool tip (works with Clone Tool too)
- Relocate data folder and put it on Dropbox, iCloud, One Drive, Box, Google Drive
- Disable size capture for tools, switch between brushes and tools while keeping size
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop tool organizing panel

12/04/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

Keep your reference images at your fingertips with new MagicRefs, the new panel for organizing image assets inside Adobe Photoshop! The brief list of features includes:
- NEW! Insert images from the panel back into Photoshop document - Deep integration with Photoshop
- Drag'n'drop folders - directly from Windows Explorer or Mac Finder
- Add image from web
- View all images at once in a flow with zoom
- Colored groups
- Zoom, flip and edit selected image, use eyedropper
- Animated GIF Video support! With frame-by-frame control
- Link sets of images to PSD documents
- Keep all data in the cloud of your choice
- more!
Download MagicRefs, the Photoshop image reference panel

11/06/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

Keep your reference images at your fingertips with new MagicRefs, the new panel for organizing image assets inside Adobe Photoshop! The brief list of features includes:
- Deep integration with Photoshop
- Drag'n'drop folders - directly from Windows Explorer or Mac Finder
- Add image from web
- View all images at once in a flow with zoom
- Colored groups
- Zoom, flip and edit selected image, use eyedropper
- Animated GIF Video support! With frame-by-frame control
- Link sets of images to PSD documents
- Keep all data in the cloud of your choice
- more!
Download MagicRefs, the Photoshop image reference panel

09/24/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker 6 is faster, better, mightier!
- Brings UI speedups
- Shift+Click to slightly adjust color in all Color Wheel Modes in Photoshop & Illustrator
- Better Compact Mode, more!
Upgrade MagicPicker here...

08/27/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

Long-awaited MixColors 3.0 update is here! Bringing Smart Keyboard Shortcuts, Auto-Gradient Swatch Groups more!
- Auto-gradient between Photoshop foreground & background or between any colors! Easily get colors inbetween
- Mixing Colors in Photoshop never been easier with new Keyboard Shortcuts! More than 20 functions are assignable inside MixColors Settings
- Clear Color History
- Shift-click to mix color swatches
- Drag'n'drop inside groups and between groups is improved
- Color Sync speeded up!
- Increadibly fast UI - uses new MagicPicker framework. Faster resizing, faster redraws, very responsive
- Hide upper part of the panel with mixers and use only swatch grouping
Upgrade MixColors here...

06/12/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 2.7 is here:
– 4-8x speed boost
– Magic Eraser now preserves brush size and also supports second click! When you click Magic Eraser button again it switches back to the previously selected tool
New MagicSquire, brush organizing panel for Photoshop

05/01/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicPicker 6.2 is here:
– Color Temperature mode improved
– Improvements to Keyboard Shortcuts, speedups!
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel

New MagicSquire 2.5 is here:
– Improved compatibility with recent Adobe updates
– Fixed issues with varios brush formats and .abr/.tpl files
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MagicSquire, brush organizing panel for Photoshop

MixColors 2.2:
– Improved compatibility with recent updates to Adobe Creative Cloud
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New MixColors, Photoshop color mixer

DiskFonts 1.2.21:
– Speed optimizations
– Blank panel/invalid signature fix on CS6 platform
New DiskFonts, Photoshop font viewer and manager

03/12/18

New MagicPicker 6 introduces:
- Assign keyboard shortcuts to more than 20 new features. Directly inside MagicPicker interface
- LDT-Cube Color Picker - most natural Color Space for digital artists. Pick separately on three Light, Dark and Temperature-based color sides at the same time!
- Super clean stylish look with new PRO Mode. Hide all buttons and move UI elements out of your way! Click MagicPicker menu -> PRO Mode to toggle it.
- more!
New MagicPicker, the Illustrator and Photoshop color wheel

01/25/18 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 2.3 is here:
- Alt-click now works with tools! Use Pencil as Mixer Brush and vice versa!
- Magic Eraser: click on the new "Turn current Tool into Eraser" button to use any Brush or Tool Preset you select as an Eraser. Instantly switches to Eraser mode keeping brush shape and other parameters intact.
- With Advanced Export groups of Tool Presets can be exported, also converted to Brushes and back (depending on a target format). Easily convert between .tpl and .abr! Exports filtered results when using search
- Performance boost on Photoshop CS5/CS6!
New MagicSquire, the Photoshop brush organizer

10/24/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 2.2 is here:
– New horizontal layout! First of a kind in Adobe Photoshop
- Arbitrary size of the thumbnails with scaling slider
- Support for Shapes and Tool Presets! Organize Tool Presets in groups
- Recent tool history list! Kept when you open panel and transfer files
- PRO Mode - hide new buttons and elements
- Superfast new engine rewritten from scratch - much faster UI and brush handling:
create brushes faster, load .abr files faster, faster drag'n'drop and faster
handling of very large collections (1000+ brushes)
Large .abr files (4GB+) and file collections support
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop tool organizing panel

MagicPicker 5.3:
- Color Temperature Wheel improved
- Improvements to Compact Mode, speedups!
- Support for recent Adobe platform updates
New MagicPicker, advanced Photoshop color wheel panel

MixColors 2.2:
- Improvements to Compact Mode, speedups!
- Support for recent Adobe platform updates
New MixColors, Photoshop color mixer

10/04/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 2.0 is here:
– New horizontal layout! First of a kind in Adobe Photoshop
- Arbitrary size of the thumbnails with scaling slider
- Support for Shapes and Tool Presets! Organize Tool Presets in groups
- Recent tool history list! Kept when you open panel and transfer files
- PRO Mode - hide new buttons and elements
- Superfast new engine rewritten from scratch - much faster UI and brush handling:
create brushes faster, load .abr files faster, faster drag'n'drop and faster
handling of very large collections (1000+ brushes)
Large .abr files (4GB+) and file collections support
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop tool organizing panel

07/12/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 1.7 is here:
– Various optimizations and speed improvements to UI & loading brushes, in many scenarios speed improved by 5x, especially on Photoshop CC 2014/2015/2017
– Loading of multiple brush (and tool presets) .ABR/.TPL files at once is now supported
– New default colors for groups!
– Fixed Compact Mode on Photoshop CC 2017.1.1 and above
– Fixed messaging
– Small bug fixes
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop brush organizing panel

06/13/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

New MagicSquire 1.6 is here:
– Drag’n’drop and deletion of multiple brushes is now supported
– Fixed a bug connected to Photoshop’s bug with “sample data not found” message when loading .tpl files
– Fixed varios UI conflicts connected to dialogs
– Improved drag’n’drop on CS5 and CS6 for Wacom, Huion and Ugee tablets
– Improved compatibility with .tpl files
– Multiple performance improvements
- more!
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop brush organizing panel

03/08/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicSquire 1.5 is out with new list modes
– Click new button the top right for two new Brushes/Tools display modes
– Direct editing of Brush/Tool names by double-clicking them
– Now you can assign arbitrary colors to the groups
– Improved handling and displaying of Pencil presets
– Improved UI on CS5, CS5.5 and CS6
- more!
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop brush organizing panel

01/24/17 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicSquire is updated with new features
- Tool Presets support: add Eraser, Smudge Tool, Dodge, Burn etc. to the panel as a preset
- .TPL file support
- Compact Mode replaces right-click Brush view in Photoshop
- ALT-click on the brush to use it as a tool
- more!
New MagicSquire, the compact Photoshop brush organizing panel

10/31/16 Adobe Creative Cloud

Anastasiy presents MagicSquire, the new panel for organizing brushes inside Adobe Photoshop! The brief list of features includes:
- Organizing brush presets in colored folders
- Easy rearrage of folders and brushes with drag'n'drop
- Create brushes from scratch inside the panel
- Load existing .abr files (.tpl support coming soon)
- Retina/4K/5K/8K/HiDPI rendering
- more!
Download MagicSquire, the Photoshop brush organizing panel

08/23/16 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker 5.1 update! Fixed and improved:
- Changing color for Fill & Stroke of Vector Shapes and Text
- Color names and YUV values on the color wheel
- Interactive Help
- Color Temperature Wheel, Tone Lock, K-Lock
- more!
Upgrade MagicPicker here...

06/29/16 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker 5.0 update is live! New version brings:
- Colorize Vector Shapes & Text in Adobe Photoshop
- New color spaces and color name on the corner of the color wheel
- Instant Interactive Help
- Speed ups, improvements and better support for Adobe CC2015.5 (CS3,CS4,CS5,CS6,CC as well)
- New design
- more!
Upgrade MagicPicker here...

01/27/16 Adobe Creative Cloud

MixColors 2.0 update is here! It finally delivers intuitive Swatch Groups, adds Cloud Sync, gets next-gen color mixing formula, brings full Adobe Photoshop CC2015 support and more! Upgrade MixColors here...

03/31/15 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker v4.3 features increased performance with realtime 64 fps refresh rate in Photoshop CC 2014 (2015 too)*, color Schemes and keyboard interaction improvements, fixes of the small and not so small bugs. *as it was benchmarked on Intel Core i5 CPU and Intel Iris 5100 Integrated Graphics card in Photoshop CC 2014.2.2
Upgrade it here...

11/04/14 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker v4.0 update brings:
- full Adobe CC2014 support
- new Color Temperature Wheel
- optional BIG color swatches
- new Tone Lock 2.0
The most innovative update – MagicPicker has been rewritten from ground up to support new Adobe Platform and introduces new optimized color engine. And even more features!
Upgrade it here...

01/06/15 Adobe Creative Cloud

NEW UPDATE! MagicPicker v4.2 fixes an issue with color schemes on CC and lower, improves performance for a couple of scenarios on Mac and PC, improves UI performance for HiDPI and Retina displays
Upgrade it here...

12/09/14 Adobe Creative Cloud

MagicPicker v4.1 update improves color wheel behavior, fixes a couple of issues with tablet pressure and clicking on the color wheel. Brings new feature
Upgrade it here...

06/19/14

MagicPicker color wheel is updated for CC 2014! New version brings MagicPicker's special edition for Adobe Creative Cloud 2014. MagicPicker Lite supports Illustrator and Photoshop CC 2014. Big introductory discounts! Existing users get it for free.
Get it here...

06/10/14 MixColors Photoshop color mixer

MixColors is updated to v1.2! New version brings improved mixing algorithm, new UI, better CC support!
Upgrade here...

05/28/14 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

MagicPicker is updated to v3.1! New version helps you assign keyboard shortcut to the panel from fly-out menu, faster HSB/RGB/CMYK values changing by clicking and dragging and Photoshop/Illustrator CC support improvements!
Upgrade here...

11/28/13 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

NOVEMBER 2013 BLACK FRIDAY SALE JUST STARTED MagicPicker color wheel and MixColors color mixer and DiskFonts font manager are 30-40% OFF! Be quick and get them while it lasts
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11/22/12 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

HUGE BLACK FRIDAY AND CYBER MONDAY SALE! MagicPicker color wheel, MixColors color mixer and DiskFonts font manager are 20-30% OFF! Be quick and get it from 22 NOV 2012 until 26 NOV 2012
Get panels with discounts...

10/02/12 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

MagicPicker and MixColors just got better!
- Photoshop CS6 support is improved on Windows 7+
and Mac OS X 10.8+
- Calibrated monitors and color profiles support improvement
- Dramatic speed up of MixColors
- Copy HEX color with one click on MagicPicker
- Color Schemes workflow is improved in MagicPicker
- Fixed interaction with Swatches
- Bug fixes and improvements
get both panels...

08/13/12 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

You've been asking for it and here we go with the series of tutorials for all the Anastasiy's Panels. MagicPicker, MixColors and DiskFonts will be covered with the smart and thorough tips and tricks ready to use! Check it out on:
- Anastasiy's blog
- Our Facebook page
- Our Google+ page

05/07/13 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

MAGICPICKER 3.0 is out! Panel now supports Adobe Illustrator, features box and diamond modes on color wheel (in addition to triangle), Tone Lock allows you to keep color tone while changing its hue, numeric rulers on RGB/HSB sliders, Leap Motion Controller support and oh boy! New MagicPicker is blazing FAST! More features await you...
MagicPicker 3.0 upgrade...

03/26/12

MagicPicker 2.1 now out. Brings updates and interface improvements
- Now it's unique and the only Traditional Color Scheme for Photoshop!
- Photoshop CS6 Beta support
- Increased Speed
- Bug fixes, including the bug on the edges of triangle
Check MagicPicker 2.1...

11/25/11 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

Black Friday and Cyber Monday DISCOUNTS on all panels: MixColors color mixer and MagicPicker color wheel are only $11, DiskFonts font manager only $19! Be quick and get them fast! The discount lasts only for a limited time.

09/27/11 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

Spanish version of site is out! Photoshop Color Wheel, DiskFonts font manager and viewer, MixColors color mixer en Español:
Adobe Creative Suite Paneles, Rueda de Colores en Español
MagicPicker, Rueda de Colores de Photoshop
Características de MagicPicker, Rueda de Colores Panel
MixColors, mezclador de colores
Características de MixColors Panel
Ventajas seleccionadas para Photoshop CS5/CS5.1 de MagicPicker
DiskFonts, visor y gestor de fuentes de disco duro
Características de DiskFonts Panel

07/12/11

The new panel dedicated to artists – companion to legendary MagicPicker – is coming very soon! Will support Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.1. Stay tuned...

05/26/11

MagicPicker 2.0 is officially out! Switchable Color Schemes: Mono, Complement, Triad, Tetrad, Analogic, Accented Analogic with easy switching! Attach other panels to MagicPicker and use them together in Compact Mode. Much FASTER in CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.1. Returns back keyboard focus to Photoshop CS5, revolutionary changes in Photoshop CS3 support, eyedropper feedback for all Photoshop CS4, better Photoshop CS5.5 support and much more!
MagicPicker 2.0 upgrade...

04/26/11 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

Anastasiy is one of the proud sponsors of "Human Nature" – IT'S ART magazine worldwide digital arts competition that features MagicPicker color wheel as one of the 1st place prizes. All prizes' value is more than $35000. Hurry up! The winner takes it all and the competition lasts until August 31th. Everybody's invited!
Detailed info on the event

01/21/11 MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel

German version of site is out! Photoshop Color Wheel, DiskFonts font manager and viewer en Deutch:
Adobe Creative Suite Panels en Deutch
MagicPicker, Photoshop Farbrad
Funktionen des MagicPicker Panel
DiskFonts, Schriftvorschau von allen auf der Festplatte vorhandenen Schriften
Funktionen des DiskFonts Panel

08/17/10

Craig Mullins just acquired my MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel!. Craig Mullins is a legendary digital artist and matte painter since 1990s! He made matte paintings for such movies as Forrest Gump and Matrix! (IMDb info). I was inspired by Craig's art since 2000's. And I'm happy to make even a small contribution to his work flow.
08/11/10

Limited time DISCOUNT 30%, on DiskFonts font viewer, for all, who bought MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel. Click here to get your 30% discount.

08/03/10

Chris Page, the credited animator of the recent The Sorcerer's Apprentice movie with Nicolas Cage posted many cool words about DiskFonts font viewer. How it helps him to trim the system clutter and navigate through collections of fonts inside Adobe Creative Suite...

08/02/10

The interest is increasing to the MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel panel for digital artists from all over the world! People come and download the panel from so many countries! Here are some changed stats since I checked it.
Who goes first this time?

07/23/10

DiskFonts, font viewer for Adobe Creative Suite updated to version 1.1. Now it supports Macintosh (x32 & x64)!!, and can filter several fonts from the list.
As usual, works in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Premiere.

07/20/10

MagicPicker Color Wheel / color picker for Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5 is updated to version 1.2! Color wheel improvement, speed improvements and fixes for Japanese and other international users. Fixed small issue when exchanging colors with "X" keyboard shortcut.
07/08/10

NEW PANEL! DiskFonts for Adobe Creative Suite previews fonts from hard disk inside Adobe Suite. Supports Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Premiere.

07/04/10

New panel dedicated to designers is coming this week! Will support Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Pro, Fireworks and Premiere. Stay tuned!

06/09/10

FREE ColorPicker trial Photoshop panel is updated.

06/07/10

The deep review with videos of MagicPicker Color Wheel panel in the famous German blog dedicated to Photoshop and Lightroom. (In German, of course).

05/24/10

Check out the new step-by-step eMag from M2 Media about new Photoshop Paint CS5 Tools! It features amazing John Derry's Brushes for artists and my MagicPicker Photoshop Panel! New features of the panels explained.

05/04/10

John Nack writes about MagicPicker Color Wheel in Adobe Blogs.

04/22/10

MagicPicker LIVE demonstration
MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel advanced panel will be demonstrated in real time in Cologne, Germany by Olaf Giermann on biggest Germany Photoshop event this weekend. Don't miss TION in Cologne http://www.tion2010.de/

04/12/10

NEW! MagicPicker 1.1 supports CS5
- MagicPicker officially supports Adobe Photoshop CS5 (when it will come out)

04/09/10

NEW! MagicPicker 1.1 update
- Profile-calibrated colors
- Compact Mode, Speed-ups, Fixes
- more
Update is free for all who bought MagicPicker 1.0

03/24/10

Follow the news about new Photoshop plugins and panels on Twitter! Color Wheel, Retouching...what's coming next?
Follow Photoshop Panels news on TWITTER!

02/25/10

I receive an increasing interest to the MagicPicker panel for Photoshop digital artists from all over the world! People come and download the panel from so many countries! Here are some unexpected stats.
Who goes first?

01/20/10

ColorPicker has grown up to v1.5

NEW! MagicPicker panel
- Color wheel
- bug fixes
- more
05/05/09

Updated colorpicker up to v1.4:
- An ability to hide numerical boxes via HIDE button
- Bug fixes

04/25/09

Added PayPal as a donation method

04/21/09

ColorPicker has grown up to v1.3:
- Photoshop feedback
- speed improvements
- bug fixes
read more

04/14/09 Redesigned my home site.

01/12/09

ColorPicker update.
version 1.2

12/08/08 My photography show has started in Cleveland, OH

11/17/08 FastFiles Vista: New 1.07-SR1 (beta) version supports Locate32
version 1.07-SR1

New panels for digital painters, use in photography, concept artists, matte painters, vfx artists and comic artists:

new! MagicPicker 6.4 Color Wheel panel

for Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CC2018/CC2017/2015/2014/CC/CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4/CS3/MAC/PC – sequel to the legendary ColorPicker (83,833 downloads!!!).
Download MagicPicker & ColorPicker Illustrator & Photoshop Color Wheel panels.
new! MagicRefs 1.2 – life is easy with reference images in Photoshop
Download MagicRefs advanced Reference Image manager
new! MagicSquire 3.1 – your brush organizing agent in Photoshop
Download MagicSquire brush group organizer
new! MixColors 3.1 – physically accurate color mixer inside Photoshop. Download MixColors color mixer
DiskFonts 1.2.21 – hard disk font manager and viewer for Adobe Creative Suite CS5, CS4, CS3 progs.
Download DiskFonts font manager and viewer