You use iPhoto or Aperture to organise your main collection of photos, right? But what about all those other images you have dotted around your Mac which you can never find when you want to? Memes? Reaction images? Screenshots? That’s where Pixa comes in. Pixa for Mac (currently free because it’s in beta), has been designed to be the easiest way to organise your images.
A designer’s friend
We love making the lives of designers easier here at The Industry. If you take a lot of screenshots, or have a lot of images you need to organise and search, Pixa can be a very useful tool. It’s possible to search for images by colour, size, web address metadata and file extensions to make it as easy as possible to find that pesky screenshot when you need it. Shiny Frog, the developers of Pixa, explain:
Pixa gives you powerful yet easy-to-use tools to grab screenshots and analyze all the images you need.
Projects
It’s simple to create a project and use it as just an album of photos. But Pixa is a lot more powerful than that. Using one of the presets, you can create a new project with a specific template.
This is a great way to get kickstarted when starting a new project. For example, when I select iOS icon from the template chooser, the following pixel-perfect template image is added to the project. Now that’s one less thing I need to refer to Apple’s developer documentation for.
Managing versions of images can be a challenge. Not with Pixa. Keeping each version in the app and seeing them organised by date takes the hassle away of figuring out which version is newest — and stops you having to check for tiny subtle changes in each revision. That’s my favourite feature.
