graphic designers

Each of the last two version of Adobe’s Photoshop included important content-aware features. Photoshop Creative Suite 4 introduced content-aware scale and CS5 brought content-aware fill.

These were headline features, exactly the sort of shiny new technology that Adobe relies on to catch the eye of graphic designers and photographers who just spent hundreds of dollars on the software 18 months ago.

Tech Drive-in: "Inkscape is the premier open source vector graphics editor for Linux. Following is a collection of 10 of the very best and descriptive Inkscape tutorials from around the web."

If you're looking to take that next step in expanding your development/design knowledge outside of your local area, you might consider attending one of the many conferences out there on a wide range of topics.

Finding them may not be the easiest thing, though, so Smashing Magazine has posted this huge list of conferences yet to come in 2010.

Ross Kimbarovsky is the co-founder of

Musix: "We have released a new version of the 100% free operating system for musicians, graphic designers, video makers, artists and all kinds of users.

Musix 2.0 beta1 Live DVD can be tested on your PC without installing anything on your hard disk, then if you wish, you can install it."