Finding a new tool that supports your graphic designing requirements can be overwhelming. If you want to improve and stay competitive, then sticking to a few basic tools can hamper your growth. Hence, learning a new tool is always beneficial.
If you are looking to add a few beneficial tools to help you in graphic designing, then you are at the right place.
In this blog, we have covered a few tools that we personally use to support our creativity and enhance our art. No matter if you are a beginner or experienced designer, these tools will help you upgrade your work.
1) Greenshot
Greenshot helps you work with screenshots everyday. It is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or full screen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.
Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
Now crop & take a screenshot at same time without any hustle.
You will get a lot more features to help you create some quality content using screenshots every day.
2) WhatFont
As designers, we are always hunting for more fonts. No matter how many we already have saved in our drive but a crave for new fonts is never ending!
Now, let's get straight to the point. At some point in your life you must be fascinated by the fonts you see on webpages, but you don't know what it is. WhatFont helps you identify the fonts used in a webpage.
WhatFont makes it so easy to inspect any font on a website, with just one click. The extension is available for both Chrome and Safari, as well as a bookmarklet. Once installed, all you need to do is click the extension's icon in your browser's toolbar, and then click the font you wish to view.
3) HandBreak
Let me be straightforward for a second. Rending videos in after effects can be a real pain in ass.
Excuse me for my language. But do you know, now you can compress those GB videos in a few mbs only and that too in mere minutes?
Now that is something interesting right?
Yes, HandBreak gives you that edge.
In 2003, a HandBrake team member created HandBrake.
It is a freely available tool used for video transcoding. It helps you convert videos into MP4, MKV, M4V and AVI container formats. Playing with multiple devices becomes easy with Handbrake.
The tool is very popular for making video web optimized. It compresses the size of the video, and still manages to maintain the good quality. So, that file size does not become a barrier for users.
Reasons you’ll love HandBrake:
1) Convert video from nearly any format
Free and Open Source.
2) Multi-Platform (Windows, Mac and Linux.
Conclusion
If you are thinking about making your designing more productive and more at ease, then you must try these tools. They are a combination of different functionalities that together forms an important part in designing.
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