NEW Anastasiy tools for Adobe Photoshop

Anastasiy.com does it again. He has brought out a splendid new tool called MixColors I have recently been trying it out and it works a treat. I would recommend reading the manual, as at first glance it isn't how you might expect it to work, but after a a few minutes I was getting into the swing of it. 

What I like about this tool to is the fact you an integrate MagicPicker into the panel too which makes it 100% easier to select colours than Photoshops silly colour picker tool. So if you don't already own the MagicPicker tool you should as that alone is worth an investment, it speeded up my work flow. If you need more convincing about MagicPicker I wrote about it in this post here.

If my post still doesn't convince you in buy either of these two products or even just test trying them or even looking at them you should know that a lot of well known studios use these tools like Disney, Marvel, Epic Games etc :)

Font viewer for Adobe Creative Suite CS5

I have used Adobe products for years and one niggle I have is I can't access fonts that aren't in the default  fonts folder location, so I have to manually copy them over... And If you happen to have thousands of fonts like I do you don't want to be copying them all over and clogging up the fonts folder on your machine....

Well thankfully Anastasiy (Who made the fantastic Magicpicker color wheel for photoshop) has a solution called DiskFonts font viewer that can over come this font headache. And I have to say the tool has been incredibly useful to me as I mostly use Photoshop and After Effects out of the Adobe products. With Diskfonts font viewer I can now have my fonts in different locations and navigate too them and just install the ones I need. And this can all be done directly in any Adobe product very quickly. I have posted the Anastasiy video below as it give you a better feel of the product than my ramblings :)

Photoshop CS4/CS5 Colour Wheel /Colour Picker *update*

Back in May last year I spoke about a colour picker/colour wheel for Photoshop (post here). Well there is now a new release out and has a bunch of bugs fixed and new features implemented :)

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Photoshop CS4 Colour Picker/Colour wheel

Is it me or is Photoshop ever closer getting more like Corel Painter?

I have recently played around in the new Photoshop CS4 and found that now when drawing and painting its very similar to how Corel Painter works. The brushes feel and react more natural?

Also i like how when you zoom right in the picture brakes up into little squares.

Any how im still annoyed that photoshop still hasn't got its act together with a nice colour wheel/colour picker - like Corel Painter. But i did find something that is perfectly well made online and works really well. Head over to www.anastasiy.com you have to put this tool into the adobe directory. Boot up photoshop and then go to window --> Extensions --> Colour Picker. And BAM Photoshop is now 100% quicker -well for choosing colours :)