Guest Author - Dan Florio

Guest article by Dan Florio on his creation, pixDIF an application 'that gives you the ability to measure pixel distances anywhere you might need to'.

Photoshop is a great application with a slew of great features. But sometimes we need some of those features when we're not in Photoshop. For instance, if I want to place a photo in my website I might need to know the maximum width that I can use. I could really use guides and the Marquee Tool so I usually end up doing a screen-capture ( Ctrl + PrintScreen, on Windows ) and then paste that into Photoshop so that I can use the tools there.

Every time I did this I thought to myself, "There's got to be a better way." But none was to be found so I built one myself. I created an application called pixDIF that gives you the ability to measure pixel distances anywhere you might need to.

You can also open your own images inside pixDIF and then drag them around the screen. Best of all your images won't be surrounded by the application chome.

And all this for the low, low, discount price of absolutely nothing.

If you think pixDIF might come in handy with your work then visit my website at polyGeek.com where you can see all the features and watch a short video tutorial of pixDIF in action.

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polyGeek is an Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR Actionscript developer and photographer - see his work at XanaduWest.com.