xScope Shootout

A quick demonstration why anyone who designs or develops for the screen should be using xScope for the Mac. I pit Adobe Photoshop against xScope when measuring on-screen graphics. Guess who wins.

http://iconfactory.com/xscope

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• iconfactory
• xscope
• mac
• graphics
• developer
• measure
• ruler
• html

[Fudmottin]

That's very clever. Does it just work for Safari?

Personally I would love to get away from the px stuff and go to resolution independent coordinates. Maybe the next iPhone will have a droid resolution display.

[gedeonm]

xScope measures anything drawn to the screen, not just particular apps like Safari. Finder controls, buttons, websites, anything that is on the screen. Hope this helps!

[vashmyvindows]

If you're just measuring web elements, you can right click the element and hit Inspect Element. In the Metrics section you get a report of the dimensions, plus the padding, border, and margin. xScope is really impressive though.