from making use of ocr technology to tracking my work efficiently in terms of time and
my adobe software how do i use this thing here in terms of apps now the first app we're going to
look at has over a million downloads and 4.3 stars in terms of the rating color grab does exactly
what you think it's going to do that's grab colors but there's a reason i have it on my phone and you
will soon see why now with this app i can grab colors literally from anywhere in real time
as you can see it's giving me a color card a hex code a hsv code all in real time this means if i'm
inspired by something you know on the go out and about i can grab it and save it for later
my inspiration isn't just going to float away and leave me also i can modify the color and share it
to someone else potentially a team work partner but apart from work colleagues and acquaintances
i don't really know anybody else who's nerdy enough to share color palettes with unfortunately
and by the way i am on android with this thing but there is a kind of similar app for ios which
i will link down the description box as well the second app i don't go anywhere without is adobe
capture this like with everything else in today's video is free and it has 5 million downloads and
4.4 stars out of 5. and i use this thing in a similar way to color grab in the sense that i use
it to grab inspiration or kind of work materials to use later for example you can scan things
and then turn them into svgs to use in say adobe illustrator later down the line and adobe capture
even has a real-time font reader which will kind of match the font to whatever you're seeing or
give suggestions that are pretty close to it other notable things are patterns colors and brushes too
actually and so if you are somebody who uses adobe software i think adobe capture is a must-have for
your phone it kind of bridges that gap between idea and creation especially when you're on
the move the next app is an absolute beast and that is text scanner image to text it's pretty
mind-blowing how advanced technology has come in the last couple of years and with this app i can
scan text all over the place on a design or just anything for that matter and it will pick up every
single word on that design or image and it would then categorize it in different line segments
like on this example here there are words i didn't even initially see on the design myself but the
actual app managed to pick it up but apart from it being pretty damn cool why is it on my phone
now i do get inspired by language as well and so it's a very quick way to group together pros
that i might see somewhere out and about also if you're designing on the go and you see something
physical or even a physical design you can capture that text from a photo and then just
use it on your design and i know apple iphones can do this from images built into the phone itself
but from what i hear they don't actually group together the text in one simple click time is
money and we've all heard that saying of course but it's one thing that really helped my career
once i actually understood this and started to make changes towards time management now clockify
is a free-to-use service that tracks your time and a lot more too you can create a new project
and of course give it a specific name and then you can apply a kind of task title and
then even add a client from your client list that you will build up you then just hit start
and the app or service should i say will start taking down the time you're spending on that
project this is great for those of you who design per hour or charge per hour shall i say but also
in general for those who want to just keep track of their time on what they're doing but then you
can head into the dashboard and see your overall kind of stats for the week or for the month
and importantly you can see which things are billable and which ones are not now i'm showing
you this on a newly created account but you can still grasp the potential here especially when
you head into the detailed and summary reports of your time tracking it's a highly intuitive easy to
use and of course free service let me come on to a new app on the block but it's not a new service
it's just now mobile miller notes is my go-to for creating mood boards for tracking time or just
keeping on schedule with things that i'm working on i also control my creative process as a graphic
designer in the miller notes but also just for video creation like now for you guys on youtube as
you can see i've got loads of different boards for loads of different things and miller notes is free
to use as well but there is also a paid version it's just really nice to have a mobile version so
i can keep up to check with my schedule and also check off all of my to-do lists and of course i
can make new ones on the go too but yeah there are five apps on my phone and you can find them all
linked in the description box below but importantly if your thirst is not quenched for
graphic design goodness click video on screen and until next time design your future today peace you