20 Adobe AIR Apps for Designers

We tried to compile applications that not only led designers and developers to benefit from its use, but its functionality as well. Color Browser Color Browser was developed to archive and organize your color palette collections. It is a great way to store your color schemes for later use in your design projects. Pixus Pixus lets you measure screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control, you'll be able to preview your design with skins as well as presets. WebKut WebKut allows you to capture web pages with several options such as, the entire web page, current view, or the selection of a specific area. Shrink O’Matic Shrink O’Matic will bulk resize any selected images in various file types, all you have to do drag and drop. Font Picker With this application you're able to pick just the right tools for what you need. Font Picker shows you fonts installed on your computer with a sample text so that you quickly and easily manage your fonts. COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder The COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder searches an online database that contains just about 1 million named colors and over 300,000 user created color palettes. You'll have amazing colors options at your fingertips. XeIMG Image Editor Xe-IMG Editor is a simple and free image editor built on top of the Adobe AIR framework. If you work on more than one operating system, then this tool is perfect for editing your images since it iperates on Adobe's cross-platform. SWFShot SWFShot, an Adobe AIR based application that lets you to create high-resolution images of Flash content stored on your hard drive. Livebrush Livebrush is a unique motion-based drawing tool. You can move graphics sparadically on your screen or swirl brushes anywhere on a graphic. There are over 100 styles and decorations that can all be customized and shared. You can even develop your own motion behaviors. Then save your designs as vector or high-resolution .png format. Caliper Project Easily measure virtually anything on the screen with the excellent Adobe AIR app called Caliper. Caliper can be overlaid on top of any program – so it’s an awesome tool to use for measuring in between different applications. DesignView This AIR app is for creating Flex Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and is great for designers that want to easily craft interfaces for their Flex-based apps. Designview Mindomo is a clever mind mapping application that can be used across Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems. You'll be able to create mind-maps of your projects with ease. Splashup Light Splashup Light is a simple image editor that allows you to change levels, contrast/brightness, hue saturation, text editing, and shapes. It helps to enhance and improve your existing photos. HtmlTextEditor HtmlTextEditor is one of top AIR tools for coding in HTML. This application also changes the HTML automatically when rich text is changed. Boks Boks is an applicagtion for designers to work visually with the Blueprint CSS framework. Lets you drag and drop grid elements, preview in browser and compress your CSS code. iPlotz iPlotz lets you create wireframe pages and interactive mockups of your website or software. AgileAgenda AgileAgenda is a GTD tool that can plan your schedule for you. Just enter the basic necesseties of your project and let the application plan out your schedule. Fractal4D Fractal4D is a great app to draw cool fractal swirls that can either be saved as simple .png files or exported as vectors for use in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Pixel Window PixelWindow is an easy to use and lightweight AIR application that allows you to measure elements on your screen in pixels. TiltShift This application lets you generate Tilt-shift images without having to "waste" all of your money on photo lenses.