today's video is going to allow you to become a master of google chrome
from a designer's perspective i've hand-picked and sourced five chrome extensions that you
really don't want to miss out on as a graphic designer of course it goes without saying you
will need google chrome as an installed browser on your computer beforehand but let's now look
at those five different extensions that we can snap up totally for free
the first extension is called site palette and after heading to the download make sure you
install the extension for chrome and then restart your browser for me it didn't work right away but
after i restarted chrome everything was working just fine so this nifty extension allows you to
grab colors from a web page instantaneously with just one click and into a kind of color palette
from there you can make customizations to the selected colors and then save them accordingly
you might want to keep them for future design projects or something like that
and this is really handy if say you're browsing the net for design inspiration and then you kind
of stumble across a website that has some really neat color scheme going on you can then just grab
this color palette and then head into your next creative design project with those colors in hand
the next extension is one of my all-time favorites and as designers we spend
countless hours sitting and staring at computer monitors
now i know myself i personally clock around eight to ten hours every single day now of course this
is pretty negative and it's definitely to your health over the long period but if we limit the
brightness and the harshness of the screens we can make some headway into protecting our eyes
now dark reader allows you to manually switch to dark mode on almost any website that you're on as
well as having a few other settings to play around with such as contrast sepia grayscale and so on i
mean just check out how sleek google is looking in dark mode it's a pretty neat extension and
considering it's free it's one that's going to benefit you and many designers out there
blue button is the next extension in today's video and this thing really allows you to go
under the hood of a website with just one single click when you've installed this extension you
will be able to see title tags metadata scripts style sheets and so much more on pretty much
any website that you want to you might be asking yourself why is that useful
well this allows you to grasp how certain websites operate in terms of seo which of course is great
for you website designers out there but also for those of you who have websites yourself
it's kind of like a spy weapon for your daily internet usage
so here's an extension for chrome that might get you inspired and those creative juices flowing
as being someone who's creative i'm pretty sure you like looking at things that are design
based or design orientated well the google arts and culture extension basically
shows you a piece of artwork every time you open a new window in google chrome
that is if you come into the menu of this extension and then change the setting from
being shown artwork every day to every time you open up a new browser window
so you might be greeted with an expressionist masterpiece or maybe a cubist example of art but
whatever it is it probably beats that bland and that boring google homepage you do still have a
nifty button in the bottom right that shows you your top sites of your browsing history
so nimbus screen capture is one of the best ways to capture your screen
completely for free you can snap up an image or even a video with audio with this function too
this is all from one extension remember and there is even an option to record your webcam
you simply need to head into the settings and make sure you're using the right quality
and everything is the way you want it to be and you can capture specific locations of your screen
or the entire thing completely there is a free and a paid version of this extension but the
free version is good enough and it's right there in the top right waiting for you to make use of
any time you need to capture your screen on your browser
now i have made a video like today's on different google chrome extensions for graphic designers
so if you think something is missing from today's list there's a pretty good chance
it's in that first video and you can check out that video linked on screen right now
but until next time guys design your future today peace
you