Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers
Photoshop wasn’t created as a web design tool, but no one bothered
telling us web designers that. Here are few plugins to make
Photoshop do to web design what it’s
intended to do to photographs.
PHOTOSHOP PROTOTYPING PLUGIN
If you created your mock-up in Photoshop, you usually need to rebuild it from scratch when you
prototype.Luckily, the
prototyping app UXP in solves that problem with a plugin that allows complete
integration. You can export your PSDs straight into the collaborative design
platform, then add interactions to the mock-up for feedback from all
stakeholders and team members.As an added bonus, the
platform also preserves all layers for prototyping.
RETINIZE IT
Not long
from now, we’ll all be working with HD devices. Retinize It lets designers
slice and export from certain layers or groups as assets. That’s standard, but
this plugin features the option to magnify the shapes or Smart Objects by 200%
or 300%, preparing the image for retina and iOS displays.
SUITCASE FUSION 6
The perfect
add-on for every font-aphile, Suitcase Fusion 6 keeps all your favorite fonts
organized and within reaching distance, even in Photoshop. Compare font’s
side-by-side and preview appearances to cut a lot of the busy work from
finalizing typography.
RANDOM USER GENERATOR
The free,
open-source API Random User Generator generates placeholder user data for forms
and the like. According to the tagline, it’s “like Lorem Ipsum, but for
people.” Data includes names, emails, birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, and
passwords.
LAYER CRAFT
Layer Craft
is the multi-purpose tool for exporting individual assets for PS layers. Export
directly into iOS or Android, with options for scaling up to 200%, scaling down
to 50%, duplicating, trimming, and removing empty pixels for .pngs
OVEN
Oven is a
plugin that helps with other plugins.
When
generating image assets from your layers with another plugin, you’ll often need
them named correctly before exporting. Oven helps with that by “baking” your
layers. You can export for iOS or Android, in either .jpg or .png, with a
duplicate option to keep your original label names intact.
CODLY
Codly
automatically codes your Photoshop mobile design, saving lots of work in
development and allowing more room for experimentation. Using drag-and-drop
usability, this plugin generates code for popular platforms like iOS, Android
XML, Windows 10, and BlackBerry.
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