Art Director Toolkits – Designer must have OSX app
I have been using this app since when i switched to Mac OSX during year 2004, it is awesome design tools for Designer, it is surprise me some of the designer don’t know this tool, and i find it is really useful!
It is callled Art Director Toolkits, the “Designer’s On-screen Toolset” for Artists and Designers working with digital media. Always a one-click-away companion dedicated to speeding up the design process!
No matter what application designers are in, solutions to common graphic design problems are gotten quickly and easily. ADT has several utilities and tools help keep the fun in designing:
- Use the floating ruler to measure on screen elements.
- Scroll through fonts using a mouse wheel. easily find the point size for any font to meet size requirements. view every possible character in a font.Calculate the point size of an 1/8″ Helvetica “M”;
- Capture a color on-screen, translate RGB to Hex colors;
- Convert Points to Picas, fractions to decimals;
- Quickly search through industry-standard color libraries to obtain color information;
- Calculate sizes for scaled images and much more!
Who uses Art Directors Toolkit?
Graphic designers, production artists, web programmers, creative directors, packaging designers, photographers, publishers, printers, videographers, programmers and just about any type of visually creative individual.
This is not free, but with demo version, give a try, i believe it does speed up your design process.
