This feature alone is worth its weight in gold, for those who have spent obsessive hours trying to create a seamless mask for a subject in a photo or design. In addition to the refine edges technique, a new brilliant solution for cropping a subject out and filling its place with whatever should of been behind the subject. This option is called "content aware", which will make a close guess to fill in the cropped subject's background. Its not perfect, but its still amazing to see Photoshop use such a powerful tool. Below is a snippet of what the new Photoshop can do, and rest assured I will be posting new features of this must have update.

It's been nearly a decade that I have been studying digital art and trying to perfect my craft, though never perfect, and since then I have been a huge fan of 2advanced.com They are definitely pioneers of web development and digital media. I came across the site 8 years ago not sure through what medium perhaps another designer, cant say its been soo long.

One thing is for sure there design presence is something to be taken with a deep breath. Now in its fourth metamorphosis online the site and company has grown into a design powerhouse. Chances are you have visited a site they have created. There sleek and simple design is a formula many have try to follow and use as inspiration, I myself am guilty of both. Here is a sample of that formula, this sample business card model can be found on there website. They have also made available all previous versions of their site which gives you a indepth look at there evolution.

If you have ever seen "American Psycho" the movie when Patrick Bateman shows his business card to his colleagues and it becomes a paper orgy as everyone tries to out do each others cards, well this will truly be topping that movie, here are an amazing 70 sets of business cards that are inspirational to say the least. Business cards these days get very little time in the lime light as they are quickly handed off and then likely to end up in a pile of other business cards, what I like to consider the bone yard. So while poor trees are self sacrificed in order to print your light weight representation, they rarely get a seconds glance. In this age they have even invented card scanners in order to compile all those cards that accumulate, pending on what line of business your in, could be quite a bit. So here are the 70, credit goes to Fubiz for compiling this list.

The days of pop-up windows have long changed, and gladly for the better. From pop-ups to pop-unders, separate java windows and different callout names. Well that has all been simplified, although its not the newest thing on the block it still might need some explanation to new developers and simple html coders. Writers of javascript have pushed the embedded little appications to new levels not just this one.

If any of you readers have facebook or myspace account you will know much of that is done in java. For java experts and coders alike this is not ground breaking, but for those of you that are artists but don't dive in further then your knees into code, this is certainly a helpful way of showcasing your portfolio or just about any other medium you wish to display on your site. Its the simplest way of having a media viewer within your site. If your site is wordpress based then you can simply download the plugin here Shadow JS. What it does is, launch an animated window that will display an image, video, a scrolling window, and even... you guess it another HTML window.

Perhaps you have a gallery of images that you wish to slide show, well this plug-in will allow you to save your self the needless headaches of creating pop-ups to accommodate each image or making links to the next image within your gallery, this plug in does it all for you. Simply adding the extra code to each HREF will instantly have each image that launches in the window communicate and become part of an album. Same can be said about videos, be it SWF or Quicktime and Windows. Again this isn't reinventing the wheel here but its a great addition to management of your website. Great examples can be seen here http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/

Since inception I have run Imagination Squared Interactive studio, for nearly 8 years now and recently mentioned that I will be focusing my efforts into my own personal online portfolio. It has given me a wide array of mediums to work with, and not solely basing my work on web design.

I have met many incredible clients over the years, and they have allowed me to use my creative vision, and incorporate it into their businesses and personal websites. To pay tribute to Imagination Squared and all I have learned and gained while running the business I have made available all three versions of the company site for new visitors as well as old to be able to revisit Imagination Squared. The links to all three versions can be found in the links menu.