ColorPicker 15 days trial panel for Photoshop and Illustrator CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC/CC2014/2015/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024+
(c) 2008-2024 by Anastasiy
Suggestions and help by John Nack
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LIMITATIONS

This 15-day trial panel features all basic MagicPicker features, EXCEPT
Color Wheel (Triangle/Box/Diamond/Artistic Wheel), Color Schemes, Autocolor update, Compact Mode,
default colors, linking foreground and background colors. ColorPicker works
for 15 days to allow you to test the MagicPicker features for free.

Full unlimited MagicPicker panel, that also works faster is available at
http://www.anastasiy.com/panels



INSTALLATION

Photoshop CS4:

Create Photoshop CS4/Plug-ins/Panels/ColorPicker folder.
Copy all files to Photoshop CS4/Plug-ins/Panels/ColorPicker.

Photoshop CS3/Illustrator CS3/Illustrator CS4:

The same as Photoshop CS4 - and copy file "Run ColorPicker.jsx" to
Scripts folder.


Photoshop/Illustrator CS5/CS6/CC/CC2014/2015+:

Double-click ColorPicker.zxp and follow the dialogs.
You may see a warning about "installing software that contains
unsigned content". Click OK to continue with the installation.



USAGE

Run from Window | Extensions | ColorPicker

OR

File | Scripts | Run ColorPicker


NEW IN version 9.1

  * Improved UI performance! New framework update, for blazing fast clicks, drags and other UI actions
  * Full support of new Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 2023, including Keyboard Shortcuts

 NEW! REALTIME COLOR PICKING! 
    Pick colors from the screen and have them in MagicPicker in real time next to current color! 
    - Activate in Settings
    - When activated use Photoshop Eydropper or Alt-click with other tools and MagicPicker will display
      the color you picked in new color swatch
    - Works with HUGE color to quickly compare old & new colors on the full panel size
    * Photoshop-only feature

 NEW! Color History as a slider! Scalable, selectable, scrollable. 
    Add new Color History using the same "+" button that you use to add sliders
    Use Color History with any combination of sliders
    Preserves color between sessions

 NEW! Enter values directly in the sliders
    New switchable value inputs next to every slider (including Temperature, LCh etc)
    Hide/Show with a button
    Supports HSB, HSL, Lab, Lch/HCL, CMYK, Color Temperature, Gradient between Foreground/Background (Blend), 
      CIE L*u*v*, Grayscale, RGB

 NEW! Have a constant place for the HUD on the screen. Activated from Settings
  "Pin HUD to same place", 
    When ON keeps HUD show up at the same place on your screen
    When OFF, HUD will show up at the cursor position
    Doesn't let the HUD cover your image

NEW! Munsell Color Wheel - industry standard, with human perceived gamut-limiting in mind
    Switch it on using Color Wheel Mode button on the top right
    Can display Munsell values on the bottom of wheel
    Features extended ranges of Red, Blue and Yellow
    Paste munsell data into color wheel (decode) using new Color from Clipboard feature
    Supports Red Up mode


 NEW! Paste colors from clipboard - have a text and MagicPicker will convert it to a Photoshop foreground/background color
    Paste RGB, Hex, HSL, CMYK
    Paste colors by name! Like "Green", "Red", or even "Electric violet" - see how colors look like!
    Use #123456 for hex colors or 255,255,255 for RGB colors
    Use hsb(1,2,3) for HSB colors or hsl(10,2,3) for HSL colors
    Supports lab, rgb, hsl, hsb, cmyk, xyz, lch, luv - using "luv(value, value, value)" (example)
    Use "2.5YR 6.0/6.0" style for Munsell values
    Set up "Color from Clipboard" keyboard shortcut for pasting in Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts

 NEW! Make it blueish or make it warmer - use Ctrl+Shift on sliders to move the pointer slightly towards mouse cursor/new color
  when you Ctrl+Shift+Click on the sliders

NEW! Change vector opacity! 
  Works in Illustrator and Photoshop vectors
  When vectors are selected and automatic Opacity button appears under colors, click on it and use slider to adjust opacity 
   of current selection

 - Added Munsell Color values to the bottom left corner of the color wheel, with current color values
 - Now HUGE (full panel size) alt-click color preview dynamically changes when current color updated in Photoshop
 - Streamlined panel update process, there's no need to look for serial numbers anymore
 - Fixed an issue when some buttons didn't react on mouse hovers - especially Exchange Colors and Forgeround/Background colors
 - Fixed a rare issue when in certain configurations with white foreground color when starting MagicPicker it would show up as white with no hues

 * 9.1 - REALTIME COLOR PICKING! Now you can pick colors from the screen and have them in MagicPicker in real time! Activate in Settings
 * 9.1 - Improved Traditional Color Wheel
 * 9.1 - Fixed when Color History not updating
 * 9.1 - Improved Scale numbers on the sliders when Slider value box was hidden
 * 9.1 - Improved removing and re-adding Color History in the same Photoshop session
 * 9.1 - Improved activation on Illustrator 2020 after recent Adobe updates
 * 9.1 - Improved behavior on CS6 connected to Munsell Color Wheel


NEW IN version 8

 * Full support of new Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator 2022, including Keyboard Shortcuts
 * Graphics Framework improvements - UI now faster in scaling, resizing, animation, redraw etc
 * HUD is faster
 * Improved styling of UI, added small touches here and there
 * Now works much better and updates better when working with subtle colors (hues/saturation around 2-3%)

NEW! TRANSPARENT HUD - a new see-through experience! Change from Settings
     MagicPicker HUD now can be fully transparent so you could see where you're working at
     Have only color wheel/color picker visible
     Transparency can be set in Settings from 0 to 100
     Adjust Transparency dynamically
     Activate Blur to blur background under panel
     Supports PRO Mode so you could only have round color wheel visible on the screen
     HUD is still resizeable in that state
     Supports all features of MagicPicker including sliders, boxes, etc
     Pops up under your cursor

NEW! Have main panel in Compact Mode and MagicPicker HUD on the screen at the same time. Two main colors
     always visible and HUD appears on-demand under your cursor

NEW! New fully cusomizable sliders in any combinations
     Supported: 
      * HSB, 
      * HSL - more natural shade between black/white/current color, 
      * Lab, 
      * Lch/HCL - finally a human perception based color sliders, that preserve lightness & saturation of hues
      * CMYK, 
      * Color Temperature, 
      * Gradient between Foreground/Background (Blend), 
      * CIE L*u*v*, 
      * Grayscale, 
      * RGB
     Add with a new + button on the left of sliders     
     Delete individual sliders - drag by label and then drop to a Trash can on the bottom
     Keep single sliders and remove the others so you can have combinations like HRGL or L*SB
     Freely rearrange by grabbing and moving! Move sliders up or down quickly
     All slider values are synced with your current color profile
     New sliders are compatible with PRO Mode, K-Lock and Tone Lock!
     Display exact values on mouse hover
     All sliders are fully dynamic and update in realtime
     * Reset sliders - from the menu, to original combinations

NEW! Reset color schemes - from MagicPicker menu. 
     Will reset secondary colors to default position

NEW! You asked for it! 
     * On Windows in Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl no longer required. Now allowing F1, F2 etc. keys 

NEW! Illustrator: 
     * Keyboard Shortcut to swap Fill/Stroke swatches on Illustrator (and Background/Foreground on Photoshop)

- Optimized to work with new Windows 11, macOS Big Sur, Monterey 
- Improved memory handling, on some computers MagicPicker started to eat memory and slowed down after awhile, fixed that
- HUD round corners are back for all Windows users!
- Fixed a problem with setting vector shapes stroke colors on CC 2020, CC 2021 & CC 2022
- Improved assigning of keyboard shortcuts in varios scenarios
- Fixed problems with entering keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator in various scenarios
- MagicPicker now speaks more languages: Chinese, Spanish
- Fixed a rare problem on Adobe Illustrator where panel could stop updating its colors after some time
- Still supports Adobe CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 (also CC, CC2014, CC2015, CC2017, CC2019, 2020, 2021, 2022+)
- HUD Mode supports OpenGL and Metal GPU acceleration (if present) for transparency blur
- Transparent HUD optimized for better power management on laptops, Surface devices and MacBooks 
- Transparent HUD optimized to run on older computers
- Fixed various minor UI problems
- All improvements implemented by real-life users' feedback

* 8.1 - Fixed a long standing problem when panel was blank immediate after starting Photoshop
* 8.1 - Fixed Lab sliders' L position
* 8.1 - Fixed a problem with h* slider of L*c*h color space. When moving this slider color
        preserves brightness and saturation of current color now. Only hue is changing like
        it's supposed to work
* 8.1 - Fixed various issues with HUD
* 8.1 - On macOS HUD now should start as expected
* 8.1 - Now HUD runs on Adobe Illustrator in all scenarios
* 8.1 - Fixed various UI issues on Adobe Illustrator
* 8.1 - Improved Chinese UI translation
* 8.2 - Fixed issues with transparency indication on vector shapes (Photoshop and Illusrator). Now
        when clicking between Foreground and Background swatch transparency is displayed
        correctly in all scenarios
* 8.2 - Fixed problems with assigning transparency with Ctrl/Cmd click to colors
* 8.2 - In K-Locked mode color wouldn't change in Photoshop after using Saturation/Brightness/Hue
        Keyboard Shortcuts - fixed
* 8.2 - CMYK sliders display correct values in all scenarios, when using different
        color spaces, RGB/CMYK document modes etc. 
* 8.2 - Now sliders and color wheel can be accurately resized to its minimum in all scenarios
* 8.2 - Correctly assigns fill/stroke color to shapes if multiple selected on CC2021+
* 8.2 - Improved UI localization
* 8.3 - Fixed problem with CMYK sliders and gradients in various scenarios
* 8.3 - Improved UI localization when activating panel, added link to license retrieval
* 8.3 - Improved activation on macOS Monterey
* 8.3 - Fixed: K-Lock was turning on when deleting individual C,M,Y or K sliders


 NEW! HUD Mode! Popup MagicPicker anywhere on the screen under your cursor. 
   - Displayed via a keyboard shortcut (defined in Settings)
   - Displayed via a stylus button click (if button click is assigned to that shortcut)
   - Displayed by clicking "HUD Mode" button on the panel
   - Works in Photoshop AND Illustrator
   - Interactive and fully functional HUD! All MagicPicker functions work including Color Scheme switch etc
   - When in HUD Mode all keyboard shortcuts work without running MagicPicker from Extensions menu

NEW! Sticky HUD Mode (optional)
   - HUD shows up on key down and hides on key up (works with stylus buttons too)
   - Go to MagicPicker Settings to activate Sticky mode for HUD
   - You can run HUD in Sticky mode alongside with the main panel, having access both to MagicPicker HUD
     and current colors display when the HUD is hidden

- Keyboard Shortcuts to main functions. Now with one click do the following:
   - Increase/decrease Color Temperature *
   - Increase/decrease Color Brightness
   - Increase/decrease Color Saturation *
   - Toggle Color Scheme *
   - Toggle Tone Lock *
   - Toggle K-Lock *
   - Toggle Compact Mode *
   - Toggle RGB/HSB *
   - Switch between Color Wheel Triangle/Box/Diamond/Color Temperature modes *
   - Copy current color's Hex value to Clipboard *
   - Switch Color Wheel / Color Box (Pane) *
   - Toggle MagicPicker panel on/off *
   - Slight color adjustment with Shift+click on the inner side of color wheel (box, triangle, etc) or color pane.
     The color pointer moves towards the cursor.

   *only in full version

   All shortcuts are assignable straight inside Settings in an easy-to-use dialog (one click away settings).
   Adjust steps for parameters increase/decrease from the same dialog.
   All shortcuts work even if Document or any other panel selected, no need to click on panel, just keep it open.
   You can assign shortcut to open panel.
   You can asssign special keys of extended Keyboards and devices that emulate key presses.
   Follow our tutorials for troubleshooting and additional details:
   http://tutorials.anastasiy.com/?info=magicpicker-keyboard=shortcuts

- Super clean stylish look with new PRO Mode.
   Hide all buttons and move UI elements out of your way! Click menu -> PRO Mode to toggle it.

- Tooltips for UI elements! You can switch them off in Settings if you thing they're too much. You will
   still have Interactive Help.

NEW IN ColorPicker 5.X trial version

- Working with shapes and some of new features of MagicPicker 5.X are ready to try
- BIG color swatches
- Advanced Tone Lock with HSB sliders - change saturation while keep color's tone
- 2x faster color choosing
- Photoshop/Illustrator support
- Calibration of CMYK colors with Photoshop color profile
- RGB/HSB switching improved
- Magic Tone Lock - lock tone of color when changing its hue
  Activate Tone Lock with a button or press SHIFT


NEW IN version 1.5

- Speed improvements
- Bugs fixes
- Changing color mode through fly-out menu


NEW IN version 1.4

- An ability to hide numerical boxes via HIDE button
- Bug fixes


NEW IN version 1.3

- Speed improvements
- Updates itself when color is changed outside the panel
- Supports large and medium fonts of Photoshop UI


NEW IN version 1.2

- Remembers last state when re-opened


NEW IN version 1.1

- CMYK controls
- Panel resizing
- Focus control
- Color management is enabled



CONTACTS

hi@anastasiy.com
http://www.anastasiy.com/panels

This panel is a 15-day free trial of MagicPicker panel.
