Here is a video of the new Photoshop CS5. Its something I look forward to because I really get lost too easily in Photoshop. Some of the features mentioned are really dumbing things down for the everyday users. If you are low on time, skip to about 2.50 in the video. The whole idea behind CS5 is content aware editing… check it!!! and...

Disclaimer: This post was written by Bakari Chavanu on MakeUseOf. Link at the end of the post. If your family is anything like mine, making a family portrait is almost as hard as winning the lottery. We manage to get a portrait done once a year, and it’s usually a few days before or after the Christmas holiday. Here are a few of my portrait photography tips from my recent session. First, let’s talk a little about the set up....

I personally find Photoshop daunting. I use it a lot in web design and so forth. But I find it a little overwhelming. There is just so much available and so much to forget. My problem is that I will use it a lot for a month then not at all for two months. By the time month four comes, I stare blankly for ten minutes.  Except for the basics, the only way I sometimes get through it is by using specific guides. MakeUseOf have great...

I have just come across a very simple website. Its called CutMyPic. Its a simple three step setup for doing some basic edits like, cutting, drop shadowing and cornering or rounding the edges. You upload a picture in step one by browsing to the file and click Go. Choose your available edits  as I listed and click done or preview. When happy, then either save it or email it. This is what I did in seconds… I uploaded...

In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google’s enterprise division. Girouard, one of the company’s four presidents including founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, said in an interview with ZDNet Asia that he expects Google’s online document application, Google Docs, to reach a “point of...