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Features of MixColors 5.4

MixColors Photoshop plugin for digital painters, matte painters, vfx artists and comic artists. Improve your techniques with MixColors color palette!
Supports Photoshop 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC2015, CC2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3, Mac, PC (all Windows). Provides easy mixing of color of your brushes for fast painting on digital canvas. The perfect color painting tool for your Modbook and companion to MagicPicker Photoshop Color Wheel! Used and approved by Hollywood artists.
All features of MixColors - a color mixer for Photoshop

All features of MixColors - a color mixer for Photoshop

new! Multimix Mode. New MixColors configuration. - Click on the new button under main color mixing area to switch modes - Have more places to mix in colors - 1,2 or 4 mixing fields arranged vertically, horizontally or in a grid. - Have different non-connected mixes in these fields. - Every field acts independently and has 5 new buttons: Add white, add color, add black, get from Photoshop, pick color to Photoshop - Simple click on the field to mix in current color - Adjust "brush strength" on the top of the panel - Mixing fields scale with the panel - You can hide/show rearrange fields

new! Free scaling of swatches! Click on the new button on the toolbar and adjust swatch size with a toolbar. - Now you can have any preferable size of the swatch thumbnails. Great option for high-res monitors.
new! Color sliders that regulate mix strength (long click on the field or click on the drop down near round mixers on the left) now display percentage. That gives a much better feedback to improve your MixColors workflow
new! Color History improvements! - Marks current selection - Drag'n'drop color History swatches on the mixing fields
new! NEW! Select multiple color swatches and move them to new group! Or copy them to new group. You should 1) Click first swatch 2) Right-click ending swatch - a new contextual menu will display
Fine-tune the default mixing amount/paint load using new slider on top. Works globally - on main color mixers, swatches, etc. Adjust it on the fly or click "Default" button to get back to default
Extracts color palette to swatches/colors from any image in Photoshop. Just click a new button on the toolbar and specify number of colors. Works on selected Layer. Adds all colors from main color palette into currently selected color group.
Auto-assigns human readable color names to swatches (if set in Settings)
Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to individual swatches! Right-click on swatch
Collections! Combine several groups of colors in a collection and then switch between group combinations with one click or keyboard shortcut
Saves/loads swatches from a file kept in your Documents folder. Backup or keep on the Cloud of your choice - Dropbox, Google Drive, etc
Mixes colors of the vector shapes
Color history is never lost! Now saved to Settings and restored when it's re-opened Enable/disable in Settings
Localization: English, Chinese, Spanish

Smart Color Groups – next generation of color swatches. Auto-gradient between Photoshop foreground & background or between any colors! Easily get colors inbetween. Smart resizing of the groups so you have only the swatches you need. Shift+click to mix to current color.
Easily assign Keyboard Shortcuts using integrated Keyboard Shortcuts dialog wih new features: - Add new Color Swatch - Add new Color Group - Create new Smart Color Group - Add Foreground Color into Color Mix - Clear Color History - Undo/Redo Color (Navigate Color History, click to get back to older colors you chose for Photoshop Foreground) - Pick Color from Color Mix into History - Turn on Mix Eyedropper mode - Toggle Auto-Sync mode - Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with main color (no matter if Auto-sync is on) - Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with Photoshop Foreground (no matter if Auto-sync is off) - Load colors into each of 3 Mixers - Mix colors from each of 3 Mixers with main color and then update mixer with this color - Open/Close MixColors panel
Clear Color History, Undo/Redo colors with Keyboard Shorcuts
Quickly add color swatches to the mix with Shift+click! Drag'n'drop swatches to the mixing area, single-click to set current color
CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014/2015/2017/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024+ support! MixColors has been rewritten from ground up to support new Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 (Photoshop CC 2024)
Color groups! – the most simple and intuitive color group management with drag'n'drop support
Cloud Sync – Sync colors and color groups with the Cloud with safe 256-bit encryption on the server side!
Color mixing improved – next-gen color mixing formula for faster and more accurate results!

MixColors 4 Color Mixer Modes and Swatch Groups

MixColors Color Mixer Modes, Multimix and Swatch Groups

Mixes colors like it is in real life! — physically-accurate color mixing.
Oils/pastels/watercolor/etc emulation for paints. Works very fast with the new complex color mixing engine.
Mix color directly with photoshop eyedropper! — pick a color and it quickly mixes to the current one — the most intuitive color mixing ever (MIX EYEDROPPER MODE)
Displays history of all colors you used (along with undo/redo buttons for colors)
Compact Mode! Panel takes only 2cm of the screen and expands automatically when mouse is over it
Attach other panels (like MagicPicker) and use two panels as one (very convenient in Compact Mode) — from the menu
Color swatches — prepare colors like you do it on real life palette and mix them
Drop swatches from the bottom line to mix them to current color
Add/Delete swatches with ease
Import/export colors from/to Photoshop swatches
Supports feeback from Photoshop.
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MixColors Photoshop color mixer manual (work in progress)