60 Web pages and graphic designer essential artifacts

Adobe Air is a huge platform for building efficient, advanced desktop applications that can run on any operating system. In the past few years, Air has built hundreds of very useful applications to achieve various functions. Here we focus on the applications created for web and graphic designers.

This list contains only those applications that have been recognized as reliable and useful to the designer. We classify them in the following categories:

Create a graphic

Dedicated design Tools

Edit Image

Screen Cutting

Shortcut keys

Image sharing tools

Multimedia applications

　　Create a graphic

　　1. Splashup Light

Splashup Light is a desktop-based image editor. It provides a number of features that can easily beautify, process, and edit your photos.

　　2. Color Lovers

Color lovers provides a desktop color finder to find the Colorlovers community database. With this app, you can search for more than 1 million named colors and 300,000 user-created palettes.

　3. Contrast-a

Contrast-a allows you to check the contrast, experiment with color combinations and interact with the 3-D RGB color space.

　4.LiveBrush

Livebrush is a drawing application that can create unusual graphics by combining simple action controls with creative brush styles.

　　5. Icon Generator

Icon Generator allows you to create stylish icons with virtually no drawing power. Just select the type of icon you want, customize the text and color, and you can create your own icon.

　　6.e2vector

E2vector is a cartographic tool with powerful features such as layers, masks, gradients, intersection, and path stitching. It also allows you to import/export SVG files.

　7. ColorPicker

You can use ColorPicker to select a color from a color grid or one of the RGB values using the slider, which is a must-have artifact that you want to play with color.

　　8.ColorBrowser

Colorbrowser is a simple application that customizes the palette locally. You can import a palette that you have created in your ASE file.

　9. Kuler

Kuler is probably the most popular design application for air. With thousands of themes created by the Kuer community, you can use Kuler to generate color themes for any project and browse them. With Kuler you can effortlessly try to design your new project in different colors.

　　Random Pattern

A cool application that can create a color palette based on the parameters you have given.

　　Dedicated design Tools

11.Pixus

This is a tool that is more important to a designer than a tool for measuring pixels. Pixus can accurately measure pixels even more accurately than the average measurement pixel tool. With Pixus you can preview your design and have a multi-screen preview.

　　12.FontPicker

Fontpicker is a simple tool through which you can view all the fonts installed on your computer and choose one of them. You can also preview all fonts by typing text before selecting one of the fonts.

　　13.PixDif

In addition to measuring pixels, pixdif can also test the differences between the two design elements, while also adjusting the image's alpha/opacity.

　　14.Em Calculator:

In Typesetting and design em (word line length units in European and American text typesetting) is an important concept. Now, finally, there is a calculator that can easily measure the EM value.

　15.HtmlTextEditor (HTML text editor):

Htmltexteditor is able to meet the most basic needs of a web designer to write HTML code, and the most basic need to write HTML code. CDATA Parsing packages are also supported, and the HTML code is changed automatically when you update rich text.

　　16.iPixer

Ipxer can create interactive Flash content with images. You can use it to create image annotations and interactive presentations.

　　OBO Site Gatherair:

OBO site Gatherair is a Web site generation tool that makes it easy to create Html templates. You can also drag and drop the SWF file into your template.

　　Boks:

Boks is an application that provides a visual way for designers to build Blueprint CSS frameworks. It lets you drag and drop grid elements, and preview and compress CSS code in your browser.

　　19.PixelWindow

Pixelwindow is also a small program that allows you to measure anything on your screen with a transparent pixel ruler.

　20.iPlotz

Iplotz can create interactive models of wireframe pages and Web sites or software.

　　21.PixelPerfect

Pixelperfect is another great app for measuring size. You can also create, resize, move, and close windows.

　　22.DesignView

Designview is a great app for designing and developing flex applications. Use it to create a quick layout effectively before you start debugging your MXML code.

　　Merlin.

If you're a designer with hundreds of fonts saved on your hard drive, Merlin can help you sort them out. It can help you put all the fonts in alphabetical order and save them in the folder by the first letter.

　Caliper.

Caliper is a screen ruler that you can drag and rotate 360 degrees.

　Edit Image

25.ImageSizer

Imagesizer can batch picture size, and put the picture in a compressed zip file. You can also use it to rotate, optimize, and rename pictures in batches.

　　26.ImageDropr

IMAGEDROPR is a desktop app that uploads images to Flickr. Simply drag and drop pictures into this app, tag them or tag them in groups to upload them to Flickr.

　　Xeimg Image Editor

Xeimg is an image editor that can apply effects and filters to images, including blur, sharpen, negative, emboss, black, white, and more.

Shrink-o-matic.

Shrink-o-matic is a small application that compresses/adjusts images in bulk. It supports images in Jpeg, Gif, and PNG formats.

　29.JustResizeIt

Adjust multiple images simultaneously by dragging and dropping pictures into the application. When you are finished, you can drag the resized image to your e-mail, Office document, or folder.

　　CLEVR Stitcher:

CLEVR Stitcher is a small panoramic photo stitching device. Just drag and drop the picture into the program to create a panorama.

Tiltshift Generator

If you like touching photos, then you will like this app. The effect of the famous shift lens can be generated with just one click.