Of course Photoshop CS5 will come with several groundbreaking fresh features like new automated patching tools, warping tool, advanced edge detection in masking, improved color picker and eye dropper and lot more. The release date of Adobe Photoshop CS5 is April 12, 2010 and here are some top 15 features of Photoshop CS5 for designers. This is by no means the all-inclusive collection, yet the most profound ones.

1. Content Aware Fill

Content aware fill is fully automated image “Patching” tool and promises to make revolution in photo retouching. Basically it allows you to alter or create reality in photographs as easily as selecting an area and running the feature. Gone will be the days when photojournalists are caught with embarrassing patterns created by improperly using the stamp tool. The below given video explains clearly how it works.

2. Better Edge Detection And Masking

Photoshop CS5 feature offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even with the trickiest images, like hair. It further let users adjust parameters like feathering and contrast in just one step while previewing the result before applying. Don’t miss out on “Smart Radius” that offers advanced edge detection to create complex selections very quickly.

3. Painting

Have an image you’d like to turn into a painting using natural brushes and strokes? Or how about the urge to create digital paintings from scratch? Painting tool of CS5 offers you to change the size of your brush with the horizontal and vertical movements of your mouse. You are also allowed to change the page size with this amplified tool.

4. Layer And Preferences

This tool helps you save custom layer and closing dialog box option as default. You just need to click on “Make default” button once you are done with creating custom layer style in CS5 and that will be your default option for all new layer you create henceforth. Same trick can be applied for closing dialog box also.

5. Straighten and Multilayer Opacity

When you need to straighten your photo with CS5 all you need is to draw a horizon line, click Straighten button and your image would turn straight with specified line. Further you can also adjust multiple layers simultaneously as easy as selecting layers you desire to adjust and moving opacity slider. Another amazing thing about CS5 is that it now allows you to save 16-bit files as a JPG in a single step without first downsampling.

6. Upgraded Spot Healing Tool

Upgraded spot healing tool works the same way as the content aware fill. It makes much easier to remove unwanted objects and any scratches or damaged regions from photos. For example, you can remove wires from urban photo in seconds. Previously this feature was available in some Photoshop plugins but apparently Adobe developers improved the algorithm a lot.

7. Puppet Wrap Tool

Puppet wrap tool was one of the most wanted features and now it has been added to Photoshop CS5. It allows you to create a skeleton kind of shape by assigning joints on object and wrap image around it. This is being taken from Adobe After Effects program.

8. Dueling Paint

Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides an alternative to either use a special tool to interpret a photograph into a painting or to use a “from scratch” tool and create absolutely new objects. You can convert your photo into a hand drawn painting with much more realistic results. And Wet paint is a new Photoshop CS5 feature that lets you mix up colors with brush in the same way you do it in a real world, ‘wet’ paints can be smudged, smeared and blended. The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application.

9. PatchMatch

PatchMatch is a Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. Algorithm offers substantial performance improvements over the previous state of the art (20-100x), enabling its use in interactive editing tools. The key insights driving the algorithm are that some good patch matches can be found via random sampling, and that natural coherence in the imagery allows propagating such matches quickly to surrounding areas.

10. Lot More New Features

There are lot more new features waiting on the launch, check out the sneak peak of Photoshop CS5 technology below:

Know more interesting upcoming features of Photoshop CS5 at CS5.org

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Managing Multiple users

Most of the blogger, PR agencies , consultants and other guys have various tweeter accounts. Now, you can enjoy the power tweets with an option of choosing your desired accounts.

Anti Spam

Spamming is the most common problem in twitterberry and we often find the frustrating tweets suffering from spams. Now, you can avoid all those useless tweets just from single button click.

Sync and Backup

Customizing the groups, channelizing the search and managing the different columns takes time in TweetDeck and it all depend on the time spend over research work. Now you can sync all the TweetDeck setting and create an online backup so that you don’t need to have headache of deleted groups and accidental crash.

Their are lots of other inbuilt features in the TweetDeck which differentiate it from other applications. Moreover Tweetdeck is also available for the iPhone users and you can also download it for free.

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In last week we collected most Kick-Ass Greatest TOP Rated Featured List and The Greatest Resource For Entrepreneurs and in this month we are over enthusiast to give something new. We know, thousands of weblogs exist on web just based on “how to/tips and tricks”. Those thousands of websites generating revenue from different types of advertisement — which can be millions of dollar, some are really worthy and some are exclusive and overall helping the web users.

From the top ranked sites, we tried to collect “how to” based best posts, where you can get free tips, tricks of Linux, twitter, adobe illustrator tutorials, CSS productivity, PHP, Design, Windows Tips, Google Adsense Tips, Photography tips, Facebook tips, iPhone 3G solutions, security tips, internet searching, beginners guide, professional presentation tips and tons of new things. Most probably this post will cover up all of your needs — you can search out all of your problems.

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We might update new how to, tips and tricks based links. If anything we missed or if any post which you think, it’s so productive — let us know by comments, we appriciate your comments.

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“When you want to stay updated with your friends and other connections on Facebook, you can log into your home page to see a running timeline, or stream, of the information they’re sharing. The more they share, the more you see in the stream and the more you learn about your connections. Starting today, you have the option to access that same stream outside of Facebook.com.

Now, you’ll be able to view your stream and publish information into it from places you never could before — like your desktop computer or your mobile phone. Your stream will appear just as it does on Facebook.com and maintain the same privacy settings. We believe that the ability to see more and more of what is happening around you will lead to greater openness and transparency” — Justin explains.

By installing Facebook Desktop for Adobe AIR,(download adobe air before to install) you have to give the permission to the apps for the access to your facebook account, details instructions are given by official blog site.

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Features list are given below and you will grab what things it’s going to cover for you

• fully customizable color scheme
• MP3 Playing from song.ly and tra.kz
• Jamendo music search (free and legal)
• Displays twitpic images in tweet
• Youtube Thumbs
• Twitter search moving Trends
• Hashtags
• Fast display filter
• contacts groups
• followable Twitter searches
• notifications
• URLs preview
• image/webcam upload
• image/webcam upload to twitter profile image
• multi-account
• search filters
• short URLs (Twitter API)
• encode/decode MinUrl and TinyUrl

I’m sure you grabbed what types of things you can handle from that mini applications or watch the video. You don’t need to round different websites to show off any friendly twitter posts, it’s just in your desktop.

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1. Go to Google Image Search and click on “Advanced Image Search”.

2. Enter your query in the first input box, for example: flower.

3. Select “photo content” from the list of content types.

4. Click on “Use my desktop size” to find images appropriate for your desktop.

5. Perform the search.

6. If you have a favorite color, click on “All colors” and pick one of the 12 options.

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Adobe AIR – rich internet applications which was introduced in 2007 and its supporting cross-operating system. Developers can build any desktop applications using Html, Ajax, JavaScript, Flex and Flash. By using a small Adobe AIR applications you can get connected with the whole world. Developers of Adobe Air, frequently updating their applications features and around the whole web, maximum Adobe AIR applications are free.

From shopping on eBay to managing music, managing your email, reading news, enjoying flickr, youtube video download and so on. Adobe AIR applications that are easier, more powerful, and more fun to use.

1. GMDesk — By using this applications you can run Gmail, Google Calender, Google docs and Google maps in one place.

2. ReadAir — Without directly using reader.google.eom, you can use desktop client ReadAir and working fine.

3. Flickr Desktop Search – Flickr, one of the largest photo sharing websites and by using this applications you can search images in your desktop.
   
   

4. ImageDropr — By dropping images you can upload images to your flickr accounts and even you can input content, titles, tags and so on.

5. Snoto — Snoto photo is a desktop applications which will help you to browse the recent photos of others and you can see all photos in sideshow view.

6. FLVPlay HD — FLVPlay HD plays local or remote flv and mp4 videos

7. AIRTube Video Downloader — Youtube FLV video downloader can download any youtube video for you, just you have to drag and paste the video url and it will do the rest of things.

8. uvLayer — This applications has connection with youtube and truveo video sharing websites and by using this social video applications you can discover, watch and collect and finally share video media with others.

9. Icon Generator — Icon generator, a small applications that will help you to make icons which has computability with CS3 and web 2.0 style icon and easy to pick color, type of characters and save for use.

10. WebKut — By clicking this applications will capture web pages and it’s really simple and great.

11. TweetDeck — Using this tweetdeck applications you can manage your twitter accounts greatly and even enjoy the live streams.
    
    

12. Feedalizr – Feedalizr it’s called ‘life streaming to your desktop’. You can share view, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing on online, using this simple desktop applications.

13. MySocial AIR — This applications will cover up your twitter and friendfeed things and similar functions available in firefox extensions.

14. Twhirl — You can marge your multiple twitter accounts, laconi.ca, friendfeed and seesmic social accounts in one and enjoy all services from on applications.

15. Toro — So faster and speedy and slick twitter applications and all facilities are available in this applications and really great who wants to manage twitter account smoothly.
    
    

16. Spaz – If you’re freeware based, you can use this applications and it has url shorting features and that is splendid and all this are free, open-sourced and customizable.

17. bTT — What your other friends doing in friendfeed and how they connecting with others using twitter, you can track or see their activities by using this applications.

18. Tweetr — Don’t get confused about witter and tweetr and it brings easiest way to share files to your friends and just drag any files, lets it upload and it will give you short urls and share it.

19. DiggTop — Digg, one of the coolest websites in web and their you can submit your websites and get high traffic and this small applications for windows and MacOSX user and help you to track the most popular results from your desktop.
    
    

20. Facedesk — Have you ever think, you can enjoy your facebook from desktop? This application facedesk brings such types of features and you can surf the whole facebook sites from it.

21. Apprise Reader — It’s an exclusive rss feed reader and it’s first name was apprise reader but it has been changed and named as sharefire 1.5. When you input any feed, it will fetch that feeds and let you show the updates of the websites and the authors names – so you can read your favorite writer’s thoughts.

22. Ora Time and Expense — Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating time sheets, expense reports, and invoices.

23. WordPress Comment Moderator — This is an desktop wordpress plugin which brings more control in your comments friends. You can view and moderate comments from your desktop and it’s adobe air based. Can you imagine — how easy?

24. Timeloc — This application will keep track of your time, how long or hours you’re spending on that jobs.

25. Doomi — This is a simple to do list applications and that’s really slick and looks pretty and easier to use.

26. Klok – This tools will track individual time for each projects, task of anything and show your the reports.

27. Agile Agenda — Project scheduling utility that will focus on your projects and this software is capable to adjust the conditions of your projects present situations.

28. Xdrive Desktop Lite — Xdrive desktop lite applications which is great and easy to upload files, folders right from your hard drive and desktop or USB drive and directly it will storage in web.

29. AirTalkr –  By using this apps, you can connect multi-protocol based instant messenger such as MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ and as well it’s supporting flickr and youtube services.

30. Snackr –  It’s an rss feed fetcher and when you’re click on any title it will pop up new windows and show your the whole news in your screen.
31. Blue one Realty search — Real Estate in Florida is a powerful and fast desktop property search where you can search homes by city, filter results, view photos of homes, compare homes, locate homes in a map, save favorites properties and save searches and filters.
32. Polaris – Google Analytics reporting on AIR — One of the first Adobe AIR applications to be built using the recently released Google Analytics API. It’s not built by Google but there is a free single account version or a paid for multiple account option.
33. LoomTV — It brings online radio, games and news within the same application and aims to provide better access to the world of online media.It searches several video hosts simultaneously and display the best quality results only.- (suggested by Michael)

Note: Feel free to suggest your favourite Adobe Ait applications.

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Shortly, TweetDeck getting facebook connection which is now showing status feed and working perfectly. It was on previous version but required to user to download a special beta version — not it’s built in and fixed). On this present apps, it’s getting tighter integration with URL shortening services which will not show you the origin url but it will redirect to you the desired url after the click (using bit.ly, is.gd, tinyurl.com, tr.i, twurl.nl). For showing images it’s using Twitpic and for video recording it’s using 12Seconds — you can directly record video from TweetDeck. Moreover, Seesmic which has no desktop features and not supporting to video such way but other hands, Twhirl supporting this video recording options and working Twhirl apps nicely.

TweetDeck still not supporting multiple twitter accounts which is important matter. Also, if you want to replies or contribute to more than one twitter account you need different twitter apps (e.g: twitterfox)

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Recently while using Ubuntu Studio i feels the need of Adobe Air and other applications so i tried to installed Air for my Linux box. Here is the simple process to install it on Linux (test ed on Ubuntu Studio 8.04)

1. Download the Adobe air from here ( http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/linux/adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin)
2. Save the file in the Home ( file name will be adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin )
3. Go to the start and open a terminal ( Applications–> Accessories –> Terminal)
4. Now from Terminal Window go to the director where we saved Adobe AIR installer (/home/):cd /home/
5. From terminal run

ls -l

• Normally the downloaded files are not have enough privilege so we will make it compatible for installing, for this we will increase its permission level by

chmod 755 filename

or

chmod 755 adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

• Now Adobe Air is ready for installation, use this command to proceed further./filenameor
  ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
• Now you can easily install AdobeAIR
• You can easily install ADOBEAIR applications on your LINUX BOX.

Note: If you want to uninstall an AIR application, open a terminal again (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

In this example I will show how to uninstall Spaz.

To find out the correct name of the Spaz package, run

dpkg --list | grep -i spaz

for example output as

honeytech@honeytech:~$ dpkg --list | grep -i webkut
ii  net.tw.air.webkut.7c34f9ba9fad6689faabbe85f1f5b46ba5a32de5.1 1.2.1
honeytech@honeytech:~$

Hence the package we have to remove is net.tw.air.webkut.7c34f9ba9fad6689faabbe85f1f5b46ba5a32de5.1 1.2.1

Note: If you face any problems in the above installation then feel free to bother me via comments. Comments are open for you.

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