Web design and web development are not the exceptions. Either you are a professional or an amateur, you need good tools to start the work process.
As a designer, sometimes I wrongly assume that everyone knows about how photoshop shapes, effects, and typography works. Sometimes lack of specifications leads to inaccurate front-end outputs. Sometimes the final product just doesn’t look exactly as expected.
Since there will be Christmas soon, I believe it will be helpful to list some of the best PhotoShop Tools and Resources for web designer. For this roundup I have chosen some handpicked 25 Best Photoshop Tools and Plugins for web designers that will assist them to create beautiful and creative projects and stuff. Enjoy !!
1. GuideGuide
GuideGuide an extension for Adobe Photoshop that makes it easy to place guides and create grids in your document or selection. It creates its guides using the document as a reference. If you select a portion of your document, GuideGuide will use the selection as its reference instead of the document. This is handy for things finding the midpoint of specific elements, creating grids within other grids, or setting clear space around an object.
2. Refill Readr
Refill Readr lets you load any refill made with Pixel Dropr and instantly start using it within Photoshop. As well as this you will also get direct access to the Refill Store, a place to download premium and free refills.
3. Pictura
Pictura is a Photoshop plugin to instantly find and apply any image on Flickr directly in Photoshop. No more distractions or manual image downloads. Locate and instantly use any image on Flickr, all without leaving your design environment. Looking for images without copyrights? You can use the filter to view images that you can use for free even commercially.
4. CSS3Ps
CSS3Ps is a free, cloud based, photoshop plugin for converting layers to CSS3 styles. This plugin solves all the plights that are related to the color, name, and size of CSS elements of an image. It is an accurate and rapid plugin. You just need to duplicate and insert this plugin in CSS editor section.
5. Griddify
Griddify is a tiny Photoshop Panel to make Guides and Grids. Griddify is tiny and fast. It helps you compose custom grid systems, vertical rhythm, and do a bunch of other stuff with guides in photoshop.
Make sure you have Adobe Extension Manager installed. Download Griddify, and install using Adobe Extension Manager. Once installed, open your Photoshop CC. You can find the panel in the “Window” menu, under “Extensions”. Best of all, Griddify is free and open-source.
6. Photoshop Layer to SVG
Finally, a solution to a huge workflow setback in every interaction designer’s day. Here’s a free script that will save you a lot of slicing time. This script, once activated, exports all vector layers named with “.svg” at the end of the layer name as SVG files, along with their shape and color attribute.
7. Ink
Ink Photoshop Plugin helps you providing few extra important informations about your mockups by documenting your layers, from typography to effects and shape sizes.
8. Cut & Slice me
This plugin is used for exporting the assets to different devices and it improves the workflow by naming different layers. It can cut the files in PNG format and can export them, trim the extra pixels, and can even create the overlapping slices.
9. Shortthumbnode
Short Thumb is a CC Generator plugin for Adobe Photoshop.
10. Modular Grid Pattern
Modular Grid Pattern is application for web designers, which helps you quickly and easily to create a modular grid in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, GIMP, Microsoft Expression Design and other. It works on the recent stable version of the browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Opera or Mozilla Firefox.
11. Nomorebanding
Nomorebanding is a Photoshop Actions to fix the banding of Photoshop’s gradients. You just need to Simply select the action and press play. Your document will be converted into a 16-bit document and a new layer applied to the top of your group/document fixing all the banding in that document.
12. Psd.rb
PSD.rb opens up the PSD format and allows you to easily work with Photoshop documents. PSD.rb is a general purpose Photoshop file parser written in Ruby. It allows you to work with a Photoshop document in a manageable tree structure and find out important data.
13. Composer
This plugin will let you to update the multi-layer comps found in Photoshop with a single click. This provides you more designing and the maintenance is negligible. Select the layer and execute any command from update position, update layer skin, update visibility, or update all.
14. MakephotoshopFaster
Photoshop’s sluggishness getting you down? A few quick adjustments can make things all better. And ice cream, that usually helps too.
15. Photoshop Lady
Photoshop Lady aims to collect the best and free photoshop tutorials around the internet. All of the high quality photoshop tutorials are categorized into 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design.
16. 2xScaler
A photoshop extension for App designers,Double scale your design with one click.
17. Pixel Proliferation
Pixel Proliferation is an amazing toolset that lets you manage your screen resolutions.
18. Layrs
This free plugin can be used to house the good collection of the scripts and mundane different taks in Photoshop. Some of its fanatic features are layer name editor, flatten all layers, fraternize the small objects, delete the empty layers, and provides you different option for removing unused effects.
19. Free Effects for PS
Perfect Effects 8 Free Edition gives you the best way to add subtle to striking effects to your photos instantly or take complete creative control and transform your images into uniquely stylized images.
20. TychPanel
Tych Panel is an extension for Adobe Photoshop that automates the process laying out pictures side by side. It makes it easy to create diptychs, triptychs, quadtychs and a virtually unlimited set of custom layouts.
21. Mr.Stacks
MR. STACKS is a Photoshop script that rapidly generates storyboards, stacks, and PDF(s) for CD check-ins, client-ish presentations, and whatever else it is you do.
22. Web Font Plugin
The Photoshop® Web Font Plug-in lets you design with the same web fonts you will use to “go live.”
23. HSL Color Picker
A useful plugin for Photoshop that lets you create HSL effects for your designs.
24. Layour Wraper
Layout Wraper is useful plugin for PhotoShop users that allow them to wrap layouts.
25. Zeick
Zeick – Photoshop CC and CC 2014 plugin allows you export vector shape layers to SVG files.
