When: Thursday January 22nd, 7pm, doors at 6:30pm

Where: Polara Studio 614 SE Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon 97214

Cost: ASMP Members $10

Non-Members $25

ASMP Student Members Free

ASMP Affiliate Groups qualify for ASMP Member pricing

Please RSVP to [email protected] to secure your spot in what is sure to be an outstanding event.

The Lightroom 2 Workflow Evening

Presented by Mark Fitzgerald

Lightroom is changing the way photographers work. Its intuitive interface creates a streamlined workflow that allows photographers to catalog, process, and output individual and groups of raw files much more efficiently than when using the Bridge/Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop system. Join us for an informative evening as Mark Fitzgerald, author of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow Bible leads us through the complete Lightroom workflow.

In this session you will get a close look at the Lightroom workflow from import to output. You’ll see how files are organized and sorted, and some of the best methods for using keywords and metadata to find the file you need when you need it. Then you will learn to use Lightroom and the powerful Develop module to edit single files or groups of files quickly and efficiently. Finally, you will see how Lightroom and the three output modules are used to easily create slideshows, prints, and web galleries, and how to export files for other uses using the Export command.

Mark Fitzgerald is the owner of The Digital Darkroom in Portland, OR. Mark is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and author of Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible, and Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot. You can learn more about Mark at www.ddroom.com.

Join us for an evening withMark Fitzgerald, Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and author of “Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot”, as we Delve into the recently released PhotoshopCS4. Our exploration will begin with Photoshop’s redesigned user interface. Mark will also demonstrate some of the new and improved features, including:

• The new Adobe Kuler panel that allows you to explore, create, and share color themes with an online community. • Two new panels - the Adjustments panel for quickly creating adjustment layers, and the new Masks panel that allows you to painlessly create and manage layer masks in ways never possible on previous versions of Photoshop. • The cool new Content Aware Scaling feature lets you to protect parts of an image as you scale its size. • The Auto Blending feature that allows you to selectively choose tones, colors, and focal point from a range of images as they’re merged into a single image. • New soft-proofing feature for the color-blind individuals using Color Universal Design Organization profiles. • Updated print dialog that provides superior color management and the ability to preview out-ofgamut areas of the image in the print dialog.

Mark will also give us a tour of the new and faster Adobe Bridge CS4, and show us a few secrets to speeding up the workflow using some of the nifty tools buried in the menus. We’ll also be looking at Adobe Camera Raw 5 and some of its new tools, including the localized corrections and post-crop vignetting. If you’re already using Photoshop CS4, this presentation will point out many of the new features that you may not have seen yet. If you haven’t seen CS4, this will be your chance to get a close look at what all of the excitement is about.

Mark Fitzgerald is a Photoshop consultant and author living in Portland. He helps professional photographers gain control of their workflows through workshops and private training.

Mark is the author of : “Photoshop CS3 Restoration and RetouchingBible”, “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow Bible”, “Adobe Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot”. To learn more about Mark, visit his website at www.ddroom.com.

Pacific Northwest Color Management Users Group (CMUG), www.pnwcmug.com, is a user-based organization dedicated to the education of its members. It is designed to provide a forum to discuss Color Management issues, to test and discuss available technologies and products, and to help members get started or improve their existing Color Management. Sponsors include Alder Technology, CHROMiX, Inkspot Graphics, The Oregonian, PixelTeck, JDA Creative Color, and Zebra Graphics.

This month's topic: Sexier Software with Flex and Java

Outline: Intro to Rich Internet Applications

RIA as the next generation of Software

Back to the Client-Server Model

Adobe's RIA Software Development Platform

Intro to building software with Flex

What is Flex?

Open Source SDK

ActionScript & MXML Languages

Components

How do you use Flex?

Compiler

Debugging

Intro to BlazeDS (Java Integration)

Installing BlazeDS into a Web App (WAR File)

Remoting (RPC style object invocations over HTTP)

Pub/Sub Messaging

Spring Integration

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Speaker: James Ward

James is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

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PJUG meetings start with some time to eat and socialize (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then Q&A, discussion, sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

Though we like knowing how many people to expect, you don't have to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise. Go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for a drink and further discussion following the meeting, at a location determined ad hoc (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

http://twitter.com/pjug http://pjug.org/ (join our mailing list, linked from the website!)

User-to-user sharing for experienced users of Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator.

No-fee meeting, every other month, with a professional presentation and networking. This month's topic: Making vectors look less "vector-y."

"Join" the group on the Adobe Groups website (see link) to get announcements of upcoming meetings, and have online discussions with other Portland-area users.

PARKING: Be sure to see the parking tips on the group's website.

Portland Rich Internet Developers Group - PDX RIA.

This month at PDXRIA we are continuing our series of panel discussions. This month the topic is JavaScript and frameworks.

Our own Chris Phllips and Barney Boisvert have agreed to lead the discussion and tell us about their favorite frameworks and what they love about JavaScript.

Come on out and share your thoughts.

Pizza at 5:30, meeting at 6PM.

Meeting at PCC Sylvania Campus - TCB (Technology Classroom Building) Room 209

For experienced users of Photoshop and/or Illustrator.

Season opener demonstration: Construction of a fantasy landscape and calligraphy.

Network with other users, and enter to win a full Adobe Creative Suite 4 (provided by Adobe -- but only twice a year!)

User group meets regularly.... see website for details.

Website also has parking suggestions.

First meeting Agenda:

1st Hour

Food & drink

Build our contact list

Discover what aspects surrounding AfterEffects and motion graphics people are most interested in learning about and sharing.

Provide access to our working Portland Directory of individuals, firms , and resources surrounding the motion graphics industry.

Introductions

2nd Hour - Speakers

Nando Costa - http://www.nervo.tv/

Stephen Fitzgerald - http://www.monovich.com/

Red Giant Software raffle

First meeting Agenda:

1st Hour

Food & drink

Build our contact list

Discover what aspects surrounding AfterEffects and motion graphics people are most interested in learning about and sharing.

Provide access to our working Portland Directory of individuals, firms , and resources surrounding the motion graphics industry.

Introductions

2nd Hour - Speakers

Nando Costa - http://www.nervo.tv/

Stephen Fitzgerald - http://www.monovich.com/

Red Giant Software raffle

Professional presentation and networking. No-fee meeting, every month, for non-beginner users of Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator.

This month's presentation: Making 3D in Photoshop and Illustrator.

"Join" the group on website to get announcements of upcoming meetings (it's the official Adobe Groups site).

PARKING: Be sure to see the parking and transit tips on the group's web page.

Portland Rich Internet Developers Group (PDXRIA) Summer Social!

This month we are just going to head down to the Lucky Lab in SE and network a little. If you've never joined us after the meeting for libations and conversations, you have missed out. We took that awesome part of the night and just expanded it till it was the whole meeting! This is your chance to brag about the cool stuff your building, or lament about the lame stuff your boss is making you build, or ask questions about the next thing you're planning to build. I think you get the idea. Come and chat and eat and drink. See you soon!

Writing Testable code with Michael Labriola

You all know by now that you should be unit testing your code, but do you know how? It is unfortunately really easy in Flex to architect code which is very difficult to test. In this session, we will explore how to build components and applications in flex which are inherently testable, and see how we test them.

Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the Lead Developer for FlexUnit 4.

Get there at 5:30 for pizza, drinks and networking. The presentation will start at 6:00 pm.

Writing Testable code. You all know by now that you should be unit testing your code, but do you know how? It is unfortunately really easy in flex to architect code which is very difficult to test. In this session, we will explore how to build components and applications in flex which are inherently testable, and see how we test them.

Join us Thursday, October 14, for food and networking at 5:30 PM sponsored by Thetus Corporation in association with the PDXRIA User Group. Our speaker, Michael Labriola starts at 6 PM.

Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the Lead Developer for FlexUnit 4. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and working with Flex since its 1.0 beta. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Professional, and co-author of the Flex 2, 3 and 4 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR.

As an international speaker and team mentor on Flex and AIR projects, he has consulted for many of the world’s most recognized brands. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6735069/OR/Portland/Flex-and-Maven-a-joint-event-by-Thetus-Corporation-and-PDXRIA-User-Group/Thetus-Corporation/ Your RSVP enters you in a raffle for a Powell's gift card!

Spend Valentine's evening with other lovers of Photoshop and Illustrator. Presentation "PDX Loves Photoshop and the Web!" by Nancy Wirsig McClure of hand2mouse.com.

At this month's meeting of the official Adobe User Group, PDDA, learn to use Photoshop to make the best web graphics, animated GIFs and favicons -- and to generate HTML! See Illustrator's latest web-oriented features, too.

6 pm snacks and socializing

6:30 Presentation

7:45 Introductions (brief round-robin), break and networking

8:15 Presentation continues; Q & A

No fee to attend. Sign up on the web site to get monthly meeting announcements via email.

Bring out your laptop with Flash Builder 4.5 installed and we will walk through the basics of getting you started with Flex Mobile.

During the discussion we will talk about the differences in architecture between Flex for the Desktop and Flex Mobile. We will talk about Views and ViewNavigators and we will look at how to move data between them. We will also talk about testing your applications locally and on the phone. And lastly we will talk about how to deploy to Android and iOS devices.

Location: PCC Sylvania Library, room 204.

Of the users, by the users, for the users, sponsored by Adobe. Monthly presentation and networking, book giveaways, and twice-a-year giveaways of Adobe Creative Suite.

Feburary 2012: PRESENTATION on masking and selecting -- by Nancy Wirsig McClure, designer and trainer. Tips and tricks from basic to advanced, mostly Photoshop with a bit of Illustrator. Replacing backgrounds, selecting elements for compositing, and more.

No charge to attend. RSVP not required.

Sign up on the Google Group to get announcements of monthly meetings, focused on the design and illustration aspects of the tools, for users with some experience.

Photoshop & Illustrator Users. Join fellow users for a presentation, discussion, networking and giveaway!

We focus on a level beyond absolute beginner (experience with either or both programs).

No charge to attend. No membership fees. RSVP not needed.

PRESENTATION.

"Vectors to Bitmaps and Vice Versa (Auto Trace and Rasterization)" with two professional presenters: Rick Vazquez and Nancy Wirsig McClure (using both Photoshop and Illustrator).

Plus discussion with other users: designers, photographers, UI folks, artists....

GIVEAWAYS.

Every month we give away a Peachpit book to one attendee.

This month we'll also be giving away Adobe Creative Suite. You are eligible to win this BIG prize if you attend THIS meeting AND attended a prior meeting in 2012. If you're not eligible this time, learn about the next BIG giveaway in November on our web page.

Get announcements of monthly meetings: Join the Google Group.

The next generation of HTML and CSS offer powerful new features for creating content that is graphically rich. It's never been easier to leverage animation, motion graphics, and sophisticated graphical techniques when building for the modern web. Come see what Adobe is doing to move the web forward in these areas by working on new W3C specifications, tools that help designers create content, and services for testing content across screens.

Photoshop & Illustrator User Group meeting.

Presentation and discussion about images in web sites — especially those with responsive design and Wordpress sites.

NO fee to attend. No RSVP required.

For location and time details, visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pdx-adobe/AkDlJBqafFI

SAVE THE DATES. 
Meetings are on second Wednesday of each month. You can sign up to get announcements at the above web site.

Giveaways
We'll be giving away a book donated by Peachpit Press (everyone at this meeting is eligible for the drawing!)
Be sure to plan for our November giveaway: Adobe Creative Cloud. To be eligible, attend in November AND at least one meeting June - October.