As many of you know, LAdobe has been fortunate enough to have Colin Smith of Photoshop Cafe grace us with his presence on many occasion. Now for those of you who want an even deeper dive into learning the secrets of Photoshop CS5 can now attend his very first Photoshop Cafe Tour as it hits four cities in August. San Diego, San Francisco, Portland will get stops but LA gets first crack at Colin’s expertise on Friday, August 6th at the LAX Marriott. The session is entitled “Photoshop Secrets for Digital Photographers” and Colin is giving all LAdobe members a 10% discount by using promo code UGPSS10. Come check out Colin live in just a few weeks by registering here.
July 22: Flash Animation hits West Hollywood
Join LAdobe on Thursday night, June 22nd at 7pm at the offices of Boxador located at 8252 1/2 Santa Monica Boulevard, Unit A in West Hollywood. Their offices are located behind the Eat Well Cafe and parking is available on the street on Harper south of Santa Monica, on La Jolla south of Romain and a parking lot on La Jolla south of Santa Monica. Remember, all LAdobe events and meetings are always free to attend with no RSVP required.
We’ll be using Boxador’s offices for this month’s meeting only for our fans in the WeHo area and beyond. We plan to return to Santa Monica for our August 26 meeting.
For our July meeting we’re bringing back another Flash Animation night once again with animator Ed Olson of Design Loft Studio. Ed will be showing how to do low-cost, low-budget animation for the web. With webisodes becoming more in vogue and budgets being slashed with the economy and all, many producers are looking for a low-cost way to create animated pieces and this is what has always been Flash’s strong suit.
In addition, our own Adam Bell of dataTV will showcase the 3D Transform and Rotation tools. What are the differences between them? How do you use them and how can you put them to your advantage? Adam will show off an animation that prior to these tools arriving in CS4, would’ve taken hours and a lot of tricky animated techniques but now just takes minutes. Learn how to enter Flash’s 3D zone on this night!
We’ll have lots of beverages from Function as well as prizes from a variety of our book sponsors. There’s limited space for this meeting so make sure you arrive early!
Photoshop Idol highlights
On May 27th, LAdobe held the finals of its’ fourth annual Photoshop Idol competition at the offices of the Phelps Group in Santa Monica. This year, we did a twist in that we turned it into a logo design competition to come up with the official logo for Mini MAX X on Wednesday, October 27th. We had three excellent finalists, Elvia Hernandex, Olia Vradiy, and Ed Ward. In the end, our first vote was so close, we had to do a first and only eliminate one finalist (Ed Ward) and then it was down to the final two, Elvia and Olia. And in the end, Olia’s entry was judged the best. Olia, only a resident in the LA area for just a year, was ecstatic with her victory. Her prizes includes a series of brand new CS5 books from Peachpit, a DVD from Photoshop Cafe and guest judge Colin Smith, a plugin from Alien Skin and of course, the big prize, one of the first copies of CS5 in Southern California!
Of course, her logo will be used throughout all MiniMAX promotion we do and she will be credited throughout as the logo designer. We at LAdobe congratulates Olia on her win and hopefully a jump-start on her design career as it blossoms all over the Los Angeles area!
You can view videos of the event at our YouTube channel by clicking here.
Photos courtesy of Adam Bell and David Yoon.
No June LAdobe Meeting
Due to the fact we have so much happening in LA this month and after producing an exciting first five months of LAdobe meetings, we decided to hit the beach and take the June meeting off. Not to worry. We’ll be back July 22nd and start some incredible months of presentations heading to Adobe MAX returning to LA in October! We’ll be posting details of July’s meeting later this month.
And if you haven’t signed up for MAX yet, don’t until you learn of LAdobe’s special promotions and discounts coming later this month. You’ll be glad you waited a few extra days.
July 24: Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk
On Saturday, July 24, the whole world will be walking again with Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), in the Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk.
Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk is the world’s largest global social photography event in the history of photography itself. It takes place on the same day around the world where photographers of all walks of life and skill levels gather together, usually in downtown areas to socialize, learn new tips from each other, and explore their corner of the world through photography.
There is no fee to participate but pre-registration is required. Just go to the Worldwide Photo Walk site, find a walk near you, and join in on the fun. There are already Photo Walk’s stretching out from Santa Monica to La Canada Flintridge. However, if there is no Photo Walk in your area feel free to register to lead a walk of your own.
In addition to enjoying a day of photography you may also be eligible to win prizes from the Worldwide Photo Walk’s sponsors including Adobe, of course.
Adobe announces HTML5 Support for Dreamweaver
Adobe just announced at the Google IO 2010 event at Moscone Center in San Francisco that Dreamweaver CS5 will support HTML5 by use of download of a new extension that just became available at Adobe Labs. The new extension will provide features to help users generate HTML5 and CSS3 code. Features include Multiscreen Preview, Media Query support, code hinting, starter layouts, and WebKit updates for rendering enhancements. You can learn more about these new features here and download the extension here.
May 27: Colin Smith and Photoshop Idol Finals
Join LAdobe on Thursday night, May 27th at 7pm at the offices of The Phelps Group at the corner of 9th and Wilshire in Santa Monica. Parking is available on the street for free after 6pm. Remember, all LAdobe events and meetings are always free to attend with no RSVP required.
For our May meeting we’ll be continuing the celebration of the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5 with a night of dedicated to everyone’s favorite app in Creative Suite, Photoshop. For this event, we’re bringing in one of our most popular presenters, Colin Smith of Photoshop Cafe, who’ll be showing off many of the new features of Photoshop CS5 and some tips and tricks on how to best use them. Colin is one of the top authorities on Photoshop and other Adobe applications and we haven’t had Colin present to LAdobe in over two years and this is the first time he’ll be presenting on the Westside. This promises to be one event to remember, so make sure you put it in your calendar!
In addition, we’ll have the finals of Photoshop Idol 2010. We’ll have our three MiniMAX X logo design finalist, Elvia Hernandex, Olia Vradiy, and Ed Ward will show off their designs and our judges as well as our audience, will help decide the winning design! The winner receives a copy of CS5, a bunch of Peachpit Press books and much more. Come on and help decide who’ll be the next great design star in Los Angeles.
We’ll have lots of beverages from Function and we’re working on some additional surprises. the Phelps Group also will provide free soda and coffee and we should have some additional food and drink sponsors to announce soon. Remember, we totally packed the Phelps Group for our last meeting so make sure you get there on time. We hope to see you in Santa Monica on the 27th! Come celebrate CS5 and LAdobe’s 4th anniversary!
CS5 now available to purchase
Thursday night at 9pm PT, Adobe Creative Suite 5 became available to order and download the trail versions. As usual, all trial versions are save-enabled for 30 days. So you can try before you buy. If you want to order your copy of CS5, follow this link and make your purchase now!
Creative Suite 5 Production Premium Tour hits LA
For those of you who can’t get enough of our CS5 demos this past month and next month, mark June 10th at high noon on your calendar. That’s when Adobe is coming to town for the LA leg of the seven city CS5 Production Premium Road Show to be held at Raleigh Studios on Melrose in Hollywood. Join Creative Suite video experts for a free, in-depth seminar that features the new Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium. Learn how CS5 Production Premium software—including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and more—helps you conquer today’s deadlines and meet tomorrow’s challenges. Discover brand new workflow efficiencies and creative enhancements, and meet partners with complementary offerings that—when combined with CS5 Production Premium—deliver breakthrough performance while dramatically increasing your productivity.
FITC San Francisco coming in August
This week, over 1100 designers and developers are converging onto Toronto for the annual FITC (formerly Flash in the Can) conference. A few years, we had our own version of FITC with FITC Hollywood. That’s not coming back any time soon but in its’ place is the new FITC San Francisco. Where better to hold this event than right near Adobe’s doorstep?
Speakers so far confirmed for this event include Yugo Nakamura, Robert Hodgin, Mario Klingemann, Erik Natzke, Brendan Dawes, R Blank, Jer Thorp, Theo Watson, Ralph Hauwert, Kyle Cooper, Jared Ficklin, Eskil Steenberg, Scott Hansen, Eugene Zatepyakin, Keith Peters, Stacey Mulcahy, Brandon Hall, Didier Brun, Grant Skinner, Joa Ebert, André Michelle, Seb Lee-Delisle, Joel Hooks, Daniel Schutzsmith, Scott Dadich and Scott Janousek.
The event takes place on August 17-19th and LAdobe will be there and if you want to go, LAdobe is offering a $100 discount to the event by going to their site and using promo code ‘laadug’
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