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Render.ly makes exporting in Photoshop a breeze!

Render.ly is a free Photoshop plugin that allows users to add variants to screens, manage assets and design specs. Using Render.ly's smart technology this can all be exported automatically with one click. Any elements that [...]

Export vector layers into SVG files

Zeick is a plugin for Photoshop CC that exports vector shape layers into SVG files. The cost of the plugin is $19. Unfortunately they do not offer a free trial to use the plugin. The [...]

Photoshop Plugin: CSS3Ps

CSS3Ps is a free Photoshop plugin that is cloud based and allows users to convert layers to CSS3. Once the plugin has been downloaded and added into Photoshop, CSS3Ps is ready to convert. To convert [...]

A Pen that Draws ANY Color!

Tired of dragging around all your pens different colors? Perhaps you are painting a flower and want to get the color exactly right. This is where Scribble comes into action. Scribble is a new stylus [...]

Subtle Patterns: Free Collection of Photoshop Patterns

Subtle Patterns is a website that offers a collection of over 300 free patterns for users to download. Subtle Patterns gives users to option to make color changes to their patterns in a photo editor, [...]

Meeet for Designers and Developers looking for side projects

Do you need help with a web project? Do you have questions or need some ideas to complete your project? Meeet can help designers and developers finish side projects. What classifies as a side project? [...]

Avocode: Preview and Inspect PSD files

What is Avocode? Avocode is not to be confused with the fruit, avocado. However, oddly enough Avocode’s logo is an avocado. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. From the creators of Source, Avocode was designed [...]

Useful Wireframing and Web Design Photoshop Plugins

WebZap WebZap is a Photoshop plugin that allows for creating fast web page mockups and wireframes. WebZap costs $19 for an individual or $99 for 10 users. Users must have Adobe Photoshop CS5 or higher. [...]

Organize your Photoshop workspace with Doco

Doco, from the creators of Creative Do is a Photoshop extension that allows users to manage and view all their working documents. If you are like me, I tend to have many images open at [...]

Don’t have Photoshop? Pixlr is an Online Photo Editor for everyone!

Are you looking for a free or cheap online photo editor? When Adobe Photoshop isn’t available, one of my favorite photo editors I like to use is Pixlr. It is a fairly well known web-based photo [...]

Color Tools: Pictaculous, Design Seeds & 0to255

Since colors have such strong emotional connections, color plays a very important role in design. This is why sometimes it can be so difficult or event a little intimidating to select the perfect color palette [...]

Awesome Screenshot

While browsing around for some helpful, new design tools today, I came across this gem. It's called Awesome Screenshot, and the name pretty much sums it up. It's an add-on for Firefox, but is also [...]

Griddify: A Tiny Photoshop Panel to Make Guides and Grids

I came across this little gem called Griddify today for easily creating guides and grids. It looks like it could be a huge time saver for designers when needing to create custom grids and guides. It's [...]