PixelFixr
Plugins that make Adobe Illustrator better.
NO PHOTOSHOP ROUND TRIPS.
PixelFixr creates professional plugins and workflow tools that fill the gaps in Adobe Illustrator.
Whether it’s bringing back missing features, eliminating repetitive production tasks, or keeping you inside Illustrator instead of bouncing between applications, PixelFixr is built by a graphic designer to solve the everyday problems designers actually run into.
PixelFixr Image Lab
Photoshop-style image adjustments, right inside Illustrator.
Image Lab brings powerful raster image adjustments directly into Illustrator, so you can adjust placed images without constantly jumping back and forth to Photoshop.
Adjustments stay editable, previews update as you work, and Image Lab is designed to keep you inside your Illustrator workflow.
Features include:
Exposure, Contrast, Saturation and Hue
Levels with histogram
Film Grain and image effects
Live interactive preview
Linked and embedded image support
Transparent image support
Re-editable adjustments
Non-destructive workflow
PixelFixr Blur Studio
Professional blur effects that feel like they should have shipped with Illustrator.
Blur Studio gives Illustrator designers dedicated motion, spin and zoom blur tools with interactive controls and high-quality previews—without a Photoshop round trip.
Features include:
Motion Blur
Spin Blur
Zoom Blur
Interactive center-point positioning
Adjustable blur length and intensity
Works with images and vector artwork
High-quality preview
Original artwork remains intact
Re-editable effects
PixelFixr Corner Pin
Perspective distortion and corner pinning, built for Illustrator.
Corner Pin gives you intuitive four-corner perspective control directly inside Illustrator. Drag and position corners visually to place artwork onto signs, screens, packaging, mockups and other perspective surfaces without leaving Illustrator.
Features include:
Interactive four-corner control
Live visual feedback
Works with Illustrator artwork and images
Fast perspective positioning
Re-editable results
Undo/redo support
Built for real-world mockup and production workflows
PixelFixr Helpers Launcher
Small tools. Annoying problems solved.
The Helpers Launcher puts a growing collection of PixelFixr workflow utilities in one convenient Illustrator panel.
These aren't giant plugins. They're focused tools built to eliminate the repetitive little Illustrator frustrations that add up over the course of a workday.
Fit to Artboard
Resize artwork to perfectly fit the selected artboard. Align directly to the edges or add a custom margin or bleed.
Gradient Fade
Quickly create editable foreground-to-transparent linear and radial gradients, with control over angle, midpoint, opacity and color.
Gridify
Quickly arrange and duplicate artwork into controlled grids without manually positioning every object.
Icon Flow
Create controlled rows and grids of repeated artwork with spacing, rotation, scaling and directional controls for more organic arrangements.
Remove BG to PSD
Turn an Illustrator Remove Background result into a linked Photoshop file with an editable layer mask—while preserving its position, scale and rotation back in Illustrator.
Artboard Sorter
Automatically reorder Illustrator's Artboards panel to match the visual arrangement of your artboards—from left to right and top to bottom.
Artboards to Whole Pixels
Instantly move every artboard to clean whole-pixel X/Y coordinates and eliminate those annoying fractional artboard positions.
Brand Color Importer
Build Illustrator swatches from brand colors and organize them into usable global-color groups, dramatically reducing the setup required when beginning work with an established brand.
Remove All Broken Links
Find and remove broken linked assets throughout an Illustrator document instead of hunting them down one at a time.
Unlock Everything
Search the entire document—including nested layers—and unlock locked artwork that can otherwise be surprisingly difficult to find.
More Helpers are in development.
Why PixelFixr?
Adobe Illustrator is an incredible tool—but every graphic designer has moments where they think:
“Why can’t Illustrator just do this?”
PixelFixr exists to answer that question.
Our goal is simple:
Eliminate repetitive work
Reduce Photoshop round trips
Restore missing functionality
Help designers stay in their creative flow
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About PixelFixr
PixelFixr started from one simple question:
“Why can’t Illustrator just do this?”
After years working as a graphic designer, I found myself running into—and solving—the same workflow frustrations every day.
So instead of waiting for Adobe...
I started building the tools I wished Illustrator already had.
—Matt Maxwell