Professional color wheel for Photoshop & Illustrator

Color is not a number.
It’s a relationship.

MagicPicker puts a painter’s color wheel, perceptual controls and live color feedback inside Adobe Photoshop® & Illustrator®, so you can judge color in context and stay in the work.

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MagicPicker 10 panel with color wheel, color box, swatches and sliders

Download non-modal Illustrator & Photoshop panels, which are widely used since 2008 inside Disney Studios, Dreamworks, Epic Games, Crytek, Marvel Comics, Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Aardman Studios and by well-known concept artists such as Craig Mullins, Craig Shoji, Goro Fujita, Marc Simonetti & many others

made by continuous feedback from artists, designers, painters all over the world

Stay in the painting.

MagicPicker square, triangle, diamond, and slider color modes
Painter’s wheel

More than an RGB ring.

Work with traditional RYB, switch to Munsell, or shape color through temperature and perceptual sliders.

Realtime Color Preview Update from Eyedropper in Photoshop with MagicPicker
Realtime preview

See the next color beside the last.

Sample with Photoshop’s eyedropper and MagicPicker updates instantly for direct comparison.

MagicPicker Color Wheel HUD in Photoshop: Crystal Glass Blur, Transparent & Opaque HUD modes. Adjust opacity 0-100

The wheel comes to your brush.

Press a stylus button or any shortcut and it pops up under your cursor, crystal-glass transparent. Release, and you're back to painting. New keep it on screen between strokes.

  • Transparent HUD
  • Resizable
  • Persistent mode

Clean, simple yet powerful UI

Your sliders. Your choice.

Build a color panel around the controls you actually use instead of adapting your process to a fixed interface.

Only MagicPicker for Photoshop: RGB, HSB, Lab, L*c*h, HSL, Temperature, Gradient, Grayscale, CMYK, CIE Luv color spaces & sliders designed for artists. With switchable numeric rulers
Drag · combine · rearrange

Only the sliders you need.

Add, remove and reorder sliders directly in MagicPicker. Put value where your hand expects it, keep temperature close, or build a compact set for the current job.

Color spaces includedHSBHSLRGBLabLChOKLabOKLCHCMYKMunsellTemperatureTailwindGrayscaleCIE LuvYUVXYZPantone

Native

Built for the Photoshop you use now.

MagicPicker 10 is rebuilt on Adobe UXP and runs natively on Apple Silicon. No Rosetta. Crisp on Retina and ready for Photoshop 2026, macOS, Windows 11 and Windows on ARM.

MagicPicker 10 HUD beside a stylus
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New in MagicPicker 10

Sharper where it counts.

A focused panel in a modern Adobe workspace

MagicPicker 10 Color Areas for gamut masking on the color wheel and color box
New in 10

Color Areas

gamut masking, built into the wheel. Draw a range for the background, the subject and the accents, and every pick stays inside it. Unity is built in, not left to luck.

MagicPicker Color Wheel with big swatches

Big swatches, any size

drag them bigger for better color perception.

Colorize Shapes & Text

Exchange Fill & Stroke, shift Hue, change Opacity

Colorizing shapes and text with MagicPicker
Traditional Color Wheel (RYB, Johannes Itten's Color Wheel) in Photoshop and Illustrator

The painter's RYB wheel

the only traditional color wheel in Photoshop and Illustrator. Or switch to Munsell.

MagicPicker Color Wheel temperature changing
MagicPicker color temperature and LDT Cube controls

Control color temperature.

Limit gamut to warm/cold colors or use LDT Cube Color Space designed for digital art.

Twelve color markers around the MagicPicker color wheel

Twelve colors. One chord.

Keep up to twelve colors visible around the wheel.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Smart Keyboard Shortcuts

with direct interface inside MagicPicker Settings

Current color name and color-space values in MagicPicker

Current color name display.

Or values from any color space. Click to copy

Copy a selected color as CSS or a Tailwind class with one click.

K-Lock constant CMYK black level in MagicPicker

K-Lock

Locks constant black level of CMYK in any color for vivid print reproduction

MagicPicker Color Wheel in compact mode with scalable swatches

Compact Mode

Supports big/small swatches. Scalable Color Wheel.

MagicPicker panel Illustrator and Photoshop Color Wheel with Color Schemes

Color Schemes

Build Mono, Complement, Triad, Tetrad, Analogic and Accented Analogic color schemes.

Compatibility & support

Made for the tools you use now.

Native Adobe performance across Mac and Windows, with tablet workflows treated as essential, not optional.

Adobe

Photoshop + Illustrator

Modern UXP/CCX/ZXP architecture. Ready for Photoshop 2026 and above.

macOS

Native Apple Silicon

Built for M-series Macs. No Rosetta required.

Windows

Windows 11 + ARM

Native support for current x64 and ARM PCs.

Artist hardware

Wacom, Surface & Modbook

Shortcut and stylus workflows are built in.

Illustrator & Photoshop support

Photoshop CS3Photoshop CS4Photoshop CS5Photoshop CS5.5Photoshop CS6Photoshop CCPhotoshop2026

Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026+

Illustrator CS3Illustrator CS4Illustrator CS5Illustrator CS5.5Illustrator CS6Illustrator CCIllustrator2026

Illustrator CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026+

ColorPicker116,189

downloads, and counting.

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Updates & Support

24/7 free technical support by email.

Free updates within your major version.

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Selected Reviews

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Scott PurdyArtist on Warhammer
“I honestly don’t know where I’d be without MagicPicker, I use it daily in my opinion it is a massive upgrade to Photoshops standard offering and speeds up my design process greatly.”
Shaun PreeceFreelance graphic designer & Illustrator
“DAMN COOL !”
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