Using Magic Mirror 3

Brief walkthrough on the new features

James Tang
MagicSketch Blog
3 min readDec 16, 2016

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We’re thrilled to show you a whole new version of Magic Mirror plugin for Sketch.

New Inspector Panel

We’ve a new UI which seamlessly integrates with Sketch. It only shows up when you need it.

Layer Selector

Most important feature of all. Specifying the source to perspective transform. We now sort the layers in ascending order, and you can type to search for that layer as well.

New version supports Artboard, Symbols, and Slice*.

Smart Selection

Smart Selection supports artboard, symbols, groups, as well as multiple selection. The corresponding layers will show in the inspector panel ready for you to create the magic.

Rotate

Depending on your intended results, you might want to rotate the image inside. Just click the “Rotate” button in the inspector panel.

Flip

Similar as the rotate button, you might want to flip the image inside to create some reflection or mirroring effect. Just click the “Flip” button in the inspector panel.

Refresh

Reapplies all the setup for the selected layers, for example when the source artboard has something changed.

Image Quality Selector

If you design @1x resolution, You might wanted to export higher resolutions for retina displays. Setting higher image quality will make your Sketch file larger, so always pick the right resolution that fits.

We have improved the algorithms behind, that allows us to create images with more accurate color and quality.

Layer Excluding Checkbox

Some layers never needed to be shown. Just uncheck that and we no longer include that layer in the Layer Selector.

Disable/Enable

If things goes wrong and you don’t want Magic Mirror panel to be shown automatically, just select “disable” in the plugin menu option.

Compatibility

We’ve been testing Magic Mirror 3 in Sketch 41.2, macOS El-Capitan and Sierra.

Behind The Scene

We’ve written some development stories behind our product. If you love to accelerate our work, please support us by purchasing a license :)

Try out Magic Mirror 3 today for FREE!

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James Tang
MagicSketch Blog

Sketch Plugins and iOS UX Engineer. Opensource projects contributor, share on Twitter. @jamztang