Working online comes with many advantages, but collaboration could be a challenge at times since you might be working with clients from all over the World and meeting them face-to-face is not always possible. This is where the collaboration tools come into play and they are the tools that allow you to share your tasks, projects, and work with clients and partners online, without having to leave your desk. Some of these tools offer only basic features, while others are more suitable for larger organizations, but we have decided to list the ones, which many web designers might find useful.

One of the most difficult and frustrating tasks in Photoshop is making a clean and decent selection on photos that involve super fine hair, fur, leaves, and any fiber like elements. When using the standard selection tool or the masking process, you may able to accurately select smooth edges. We may use the color range tool and the tweaking of levels and channels to select much difficult areas but that would also take too much time on manipulation and very complicated to follow.

The surge of the social media site’s users has presented small, medium, and large business owners with new opportunities, which allow them to promote their products and services and reach larger audience easily. Web sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and MySpace are as popular as ever and connect millions of users Worldwide. While in the past these sites were often blocked by the business LAN administrators, deemed as an unnecessary distraction that resulted in thousands of unproductive hours, today independent freelancers and large companies alike are using the same social media sites to grow their business and reach new customers.

iOS, the operating system, which runs on iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch was known as iPhone OS before June 2010 and at the time of this writing is the third most popular smartphone operating system, holding 16% of the global smartphone market. From the date of its original release, it has been updated every single year, with every update adding some exciting features and the next version, iOS 5, which is expected to be released in the fall, is no different.

Another Friday another awesome list of links. Whether you are interested in Photoshop tutorials, jQuery plugins, CSS, or WordPress I am sure there is something here that you will enjoy.

With the increasing importance of relevant and content-rich websites, many web designers are starting to pay special attention to typography, a crucial element, often ignored in the past. There is no use having excellent content if that content is not presented well to the visitors, and most of them would quickly hit the “back” button on their browsers if they see illegible text, conflicting colors, or mixture of different font types and sizes, crowded on the same web page.

This tutorial will guide you on creating a typographical piece of art again. But this will be on a whole new level. The project is very inspired on break-dancing moves thus; you will need to download a silhouette of break dance moves. Also you will need a wood texture which is easy to find in free stock images sites.

For the folks who are more user and less technology buff things like wireless protocols can get very confusing. One of the main difficulties with wireless G and N is trying to figure out which one you need. Lets go over the differences between the wireless G and N protocols.

After the not so well-received Vista operating system, the software giant Microsoft released Windows 7, which is, according to many, the best Windows operating system to date. It is fast, robust, user-friendly, and functional, and most users have responded to it extremely well, but while some are still contemplating whether to take the leap and purchase, install, and use Windows 7 on their personal computers, the company is already actively developing its successor, unofficially named Windows 8. Windows 8 has been the talk of the town for quite a few years, with leaked screenshots and Milestones appearing here and there, and it has been surrounded by many rumors and speculations. On June 1st Microsoft has finally spoken up and revealed some of its features and the concept behind it.

The evolution of graphic design is a very is very interesting. It is hard to believe the way we do things now that thousands of years ago “graphic designers” were chipping pictographs into cave walls. While some designers would probably be much better at that than they are with Photoshop it is really fun to look back and also think about what is in store for the future of graphic design. Without further delay, here is The Darwinian Evolution of Graphic Design.

Online shopping is safe, easy, and convenient and the choice of merchants abundant and there is no surprise that we spend billions on online deals every year, in spite of the financial and economic crisis. Whether you are looking for the latest in fashion, an expensive watch, or the newest gadget, you can find it online and often you can find it at much lower price than the brick and mortar stores offer. Here are some great sites, where you can find great deals: