Cool Tool - pixDIF

Posted by Donna

November 1, 2008

Here’s a cool tool if you are a web designer or developer. It’s an Adobe AirÂ® application, so it will work on both Macs and PCs.

Does it take you forever adjusting pixel sizes to get things just right?

Want to preview what something, say an image, will look like in your website before you do all the coding?

Yes? Then check out this cool, free tool.

pixDIF

1. Do you ever find that you need to measure the pixel distance/size of something when you’re not in Photoshop? Or, put another way: do you wish you could take the guides in Photoshop with you to the computer desktop?

2. Do you ever want to know what a graphical asset will look like in the context of a website or application. For instance, do you wish you could take an image and move it around over your website to see what it would like like in various places before you start writing the code to place it there?

3. Do you ever have a website or application design that you need to break up into pieces and build into a working site/app? And then as you write the code you need to see how close to the design you are?

Yes? Then check it out:

pixDIF