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Instantly annotate and measure right from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Fireworks. Now available in Creative Cloud.

This is an update to my Photoshop action that streamlines the process of exporting images for the web and iOS.

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File Format plugin that opens and saves 24-bit WebP images (Google's proposed compression format for images on the web).

Right now there's a working WebM plug-in for Premiere Pro, along with a WebP plug-in for Photoshop. Both are considered to be beta releases.

During my last trip to San Francisco for the WWDC 2013, I have been lucky enough to meet great people from all over the world that are dedicated and passionate about building better experiences and better tools for designer.

Dealing with grids in Photoshop is a pain With GuideGuide, it doesn’t have to be. Pixel accurate columns, rows, midpoints, and baselines can be created based on your document or selection with the click of a button. Frequently used guide sets can be saved for repeat use. Grids can use multiple types of measurements. Honestly, if you haven’t started downloading it by now, you’re probably a masochist. Weirdo…

Snap Converter makes image and icon conversion easy. Just drag and drop to convert between many popular graphic formats. Convert bitmap graphics, Mac and Windows icons, Camera Raw images, Photoshop documents, and many other formats. You can even create multi-image Mac icon files from a single image. Need to convert a lot of images? Snap Converter allow you to convert multiple images in batch mode. Just drag and drop a folder or multiple image files to convert all the images at once.

This is a guide to options and tools for laying out global text in the CS4 versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. None of them are obvious or documented in the regular versions of the application, but there are a dizzying variety of options: templates; scripts; InDesign plug-​​ins; and special “ME” versions of applications. Prices range from free to more expensive than the base version of the application. This will help you figure out which might be right for your needs, and even provide some basic tools to help you get started, if your needs are not too extensive.

The interesting value of the Swatches palette is the ability to load custom swatch collections, so you can quickly access to specific colors without having to remember any numeric color values.

Many people that work with layout never take the time to learn a very essential skill (grid systems). Creating your design based on your document dimensions is critical to create the best possible layout. If you are ready to create better layout without having to do any mathematics which is normally required when working with grid systems you should take a look at the videos below. Grid Calculator Basic Edition calculates grid systems for you really fast, all you need to do is to paste the information into your layout software. Our software also works for web design. Start creating better layout today! The videos below shows how you can use our software together with Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Download the free demo and try it!

PixelNovel Timeline is version control for designers PixelNovel Timeline is smoothly integrated into Adobe Photoshop and features a unique user interface, letting you see all versions of your files without switching away from the Photoshop window.

Imagine you don’t have to move your mouse to the toolbar so often when you’re creating a document in Photoshop. Ofcoarse we have shortcuts, but shouldn’t a shortcut really be a shortcut? Just one button you have to press instead of the cmd key + ‘x’? Here’s iFast!

PS-Scripts is a community resource site for photoshop scripting and photoshop automation. Use the links above to explore the site and visit our photoshop scripting and automation forums

Below you'll find more than a dozen free scripts for Adobe Photoshop CS and higher. All scripts are very well commented, making them easy to modify and/or learn from.

HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the “Atkinson” dithering filter. Years ago, during the development of the first Macintosh, Bill Atkinson (of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint & now nature photography fame) discovered a very elegant dithering filter to convert greyscale image data for the 1 bit black & white Mac video display. The dithering produced by this routine was much higher quality than the now-a-days ubiquitous Floyd-Steinberg or “Error-diffusion” filter (used by QuickTime, PhotoShop).

For a long time now, I've never understood why Photoshop didn't add the ability to export layer comps as PNG files. PNG is doing away with GIF and arguably BMP/JPG formats. I've used PNG files for years as: - PNG sequence renders from AfterEffects - multiple PNG sequence import to Flash, Director and ImageReady - dumping into Powerpoint, Visio, and Word

This will remove " copy", " copy 1"... etc from all open files.

A few months ago I wrote GridMaker to aid in producing grid-based web design mock-ups in Photoshop (and later Fireworks). Whilst very primitive it was well-received and many have informed me how useful they’ve found it. At the same time it was clear that there were a number of issues so I went back to GridMaker and made a number of changes.