Specs – Custom Measures & Marks for Photoshop

Everything is customizable in its appearance and most of the settings update in real time.

Main Functions:

• Measure Size: Add measurements for selected layers to indicate height and width
• Measure Distance: Add measurements for the distances between two selected layers (or document edge)
• Measure Custom: Auto-selects the ruler tool and let’s you draw a measurement
• Guides from Layer: Renders guidelines along the edges of a layer
• Draw Guideline: Place a guide and it gets drawn as a line
• Sample Color: Take a color sample in various color modes
• Layer/Document Info: List various properties (auto detects if it’s a shape, text or normal layer and shows relevant info)

Customizability:

Most settings will update the look in real-time without having to recreate the elements

• Global: Font, Font Size, Unit (px,cm,mm,in,pica, pt), Show Unit (on / off)
• Measurements: Color, Text Color, Text BG Color, Text BG Size, Text Location (on line / next to line), Stroke Width, Limiter (none, arrow, dot, line), Offset, Rotate Text (on / off)
• Guidelines: Color, Text Color, Text BG Color, Text BG Size, Text Location (on line / next to line), Stroke Width, Show Text (on / off)
• Color Samples: Text Color, Text BG Color, Text BG Size, Output Mode (Hex Code, RGB, CMYK, HSB)
• Info-Boxes: Text Color, Text BG Color, Text BG Size, Properties (select from 18 options)

Flyout-Menu:

• Auto-Update on Enter (on/off): pressing Enter in an input after changing the value automatically updates the look
• Auto-Cancel Listeners (on/off): If on, it will cancel listening for the [new guide], [draw ruler] and [sample color] event once the action has been done by the user. Turn it off if you want to consecutively add multiple samples/measures/guides.
• Show Panel Header (on/off): Shows or hides the top part of the interface
• Show Settings (on/off): Shows or hides the settings view
• Minimize Buttons (on/off): Show only icons on buttons, no text
• Render better TextBG: Creates cleaner rectangle boxes behind the text. Do this at the end, when youre done with customizations.
• Set Font to currently active: Sets the font setting to the currently active font of the text tool in Photoshop. (so you don’t have to try and guess the name of a font)
• Delete Nesting helpers: Removes the layers that just exist for the plugin to nest groups correctly
• Delete Specs: Removes the [specs]-folder created by the plugin with all the measurements etc in it
• Reset Panel State: Resets the panel to the initial settings