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Do you ever worry if your graphic content won’t fit in your page layout? What should be the size of my photo so it fits nicely on my blog layout ? I used to solve this by measuring using paint program (Screen Print the content than bring it to graphic editor like paint.net. Yes, with lots of sites knowing size of content body can be difficult, specially for someone like me who keeps forgetting  things)

I knew I was doing the old way. But Today, I am happier all of a sudden.

After searching the internet, I found some free tools and I’m so happy to share with you.

This technique rocks!

(A) Kevin’s Firefox Measure It

http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/

http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/measureit.xpi

After installing, Restart Firefox, and there you go a wonderful icon on the left, that looks like this one…  click on it, click drag and find-out dimension. This is by far the best solution there could be… I’m loving it.

(B) Pixel Ruler 3.

This was okay but it has a few more features like being able to rotate it. I have not used it, may be you will find use for it. It is nicely designed.

pixelruler

is the link for it. http://www.mioplanet.com/products/pixelruler/pixelruler.exe

After further search, I found this one.

Now I’m addicted to having bunches of rulers installed.

What I like, you may not like.
May be, you will like this one even better. Here you go,

(C) Pixel Ruler

http://www.soft.tahionic.com/download-ruler/PixelRuler.exe

More info on this download ruler is here :
http://www.soft.tahionic.com/download-ruler/features.html

For web designers, tools like these can be very useful to measure size of a graphic objects such as photo, buttons. For layouts, they can even measure distance between to objects and so on.

(D) Ruler for Windows.
Takes a while to install, but I love this one as well. To be honest with you, this is by that the most sophisticated one, bunches of options, you can even use the MAGNIFYING Feature here. Slide vertically if you like, make it transparent, pressing ESC gets you back to where you left off. A bit difficult to re size since you need to use the re size button to do this. What more features would you want… it’s free ! (A ruller for Windows Version 1.1, works with VISTA beautifully)

bye guys,

– ruben

For MAC USERS, I found this, I haven not tested it though. http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/