Tip#100: Ways to activate full-featured color picking HUD. 

Quickly get full-featured color picking HUD under your cursor in Adobe Photoshop. MagicPicker HUD shows up over normal Photoshop’s interface.

The HUD is more unique, intuitive and faster than normal Photoshop panels. It always pops up under your current cursor position. It’s very important especially if you use a Wacom-like tablet (no need to move your hand anywhere). It also auto-hides if you click anywhere on the document. MagicPicker HUD can also auto-hide when you release key/button.

You can activate MagicPicker HUD in the following ways:

- Click “HUD” button on the panel

- Click MagicPicker menu -> HUD mode

- Assign keyboard shortcut in Settings and activate through keyboard any time

- Assign same shortcut to Stylus button and call it with stylus

- *Activate “Sticky HUD” mode from Settings to show HUD on press and hide on release of the key

*HUD is available in MagicPicker starting from version 7.0.

Tip#99: Quickly and silently add new brush/tool preset in MagicSquire. Add new 🖌️🖌️ brush or tool presets in Photoshop using keyboard shortcut. In MagicSquire panel use Settings to define "Quick New Brush" shortcut. That's it! One key press and your auto-named brush is in the group. No questions asked. 

Tip#98: How to fix Adobe products not showing up in Anastasiy’s Extension Manager. 

If you experience one or more of the following problems with Anastasiy’s Extension Manager in Adobe Creative Suite (2021 included):

- Only Photoshop is listed in the Anastasiy’s Extension Manager list (or only Adobe Illustrator)
- Photoshop is absent on the extension list
- Adobe extension list is empty/blank
- Extensions don’t show up after installation on Photoshop or other Adobe Creative Cloud products (like InDesign, Illustrator or Adobe Premiere Pro)
- Extension Manager doesn’t list your application or extension
- ZXP extensions are not displayed in the Extension Manager after installation
- Installation of Adobe extension failed

It’s easy to fix! First of all please make sure, you’re using the most recent version of Anastasiy’s Extension Manager – at least v3.6. Then:
1) Click File -> Reset extension list in the main menu of Anastasiy’s Extension Manager
2) That’s it! Now all Adobe products should appear and when you install new extensions (or reinstall old ones) they will re-appear on the list

Tip#97: GIANT color preview. See the 💙GIANT preview of current color with MagicPicker color wheel panel in #Photoshop and #Illustrator. Just Alt-Click on the color swatch

Groups of Photoshop brushes can be further combined into sets with MagicSquire panel. Click MagicSquire menu -> Collections. Use different Collections of groups for different types of projects.

Switch collections in one click! Or use a keyboard shortcut (customizable from MagicSquire menu -> Keyboard Shortcuts).

Tip#95: New MagicSquire’s right-click menu for brush presets. New MagicSquire 5 introduces a quick way to duplicate a Photoshop brush or tool preset. Just right-click on any tool preset and select “Duplicate …” from the menu! That’s it!  Also works with new brush preset HUD popup. What required a fair number of steps now can be done easily with MagicSquire.

Tip#94: Resize Color Wheel HUD in Photoshop. Color Wheel HUD in Photoshop is freely scalable with new MagicPicker. Resize ⤡ HUD however you need. Activate panel’s HUD Mode, then simply drag right bottom corner to scale. 

Tip#93: Sync brushes & image assets in Photoshop on any Cloud. Keep your brushes & image assets on the Cloud of your choice in Photoshop! In MagicSquire brush manager or MagicRefs image collector click Settings -> Browse to relocate your data! You can then sync data between computers or just use your cloud as a backup.

Tip#92: MagicPicker Color Wheel HUD in minimalistic mode. ​​​​​​​Make Photoshop Color Wheel HUD super powerful or super minimal! Activate PRO Mode together with HUD in MagicPicker by going to Settings -> PRO Mode (before switching to HUD).

Still pops up under your cursor. 

In PRO Mode you will get only the necessary features (by turning it off you can customize it and get access to all MagicPicker power).

Tip#91: New layers for color-matched images in MagicTints. MagicTints can create new layers for color matched images. Select the color source image and click “Create new layers button”. After you click “Apply” current Photoshop’s document will be color-matched to the image you selected, on a new layer. 

New layers for color-matched images in MagicTints

This will really speed up your search for right color variation.

Works in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator.

Tip#90: “Sticky” HUD. “Sticky HUD” is the new quick mode of display of the panel since MagicPicker 7.1. In this mode the panel “sticks” to the HUD Keyboard Shortcut. When you press the shortcut it will show the panel and you release the keyboard to hide it. This allows you to choose the colors really quickly – the panel pops up at your current cursor position on the screen.

This mode is especially useful when using Wacom/Tablet Stylus pen. You can bind Pen’s side button to the same shortcut, so when you quickly press the Pen button it hides the HUD and you release the stylus button to immediately hide it.

1) Activate Sticky HUD mode from MagicPicker > Settings

2) Bind same Keyboard Shortcut to Stylus button (Wacom Tablet Settings on macOS)