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October 26: Adobe legend Russell Brown

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RussellBrowncomp October 26: Adobe legend Russell Brown

The Los Angeles Photoshop User Group, LAdobe and The Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group are all involved to be presenting a very special one night event in downtown LA at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising on 919 South Grand Avenue.

“A Photoshop Evening with the Incredible Dr. Brown!” features Adobe’s Senior Creative Director Russell Brown. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 26 at 6:30pm at a soon to be announced downtown Los Angeles location. This event will be a 100% fundraiser and will be open to all LAdobe, LA Photoshop and LADIG members, friends and guests. It is not a free event but will feature a small admission charge and again, all proceeds will be donated to charity.

Additional details (How to RSVP, meeting location and much much more) will be posted very soon.

This event should not be confused with MiniMAX X occurring the following evening in Santa Monica. This is an additional event that will allow for our members to meet one of the legends of our industry for a three hour presentation not soon to be forgotten.

Purchase your tickets here via Eventbrite –>

October 27: MiniMAX X in Santa Monica

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logo October 27: MiniMAX X in Santa MonicaJoin the LAdobe for the tenth annual MiniMAX mini-conference on Wednesday Evening, October 27th at 8PM ET at Coloft in Santa Monica, CA. Coloft is located at 920 Santa Monica Blvd. (8th and Santa Monica) and street parking is available.

MiniMAX X is a free event and is is a production of the Los Angeles Adobe User Group in conjunction with the Los Angeles Flash User Group, Los Angeles Flex User Group, the Los Angeles Photoshop User Group, and the Los Angeles Illustrator User Group.

MiniMAX X is a series of 15 minute tutorials provided by some of the best experts in the web, print, broadcast and interactive design and development community across North America. Expect to see sessions on Flash Catalyst, Flash, Flex, AIR, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver as well as other Adobe related applications mixed in for good pleasure.

Speakers include Humber College’s Tom Green, Flash Catalyst Bible author Rob Huddleston, Flash PHP Bible author Matthew Keefe, KC WebCore’s Dee Sadler, 086 Studio’s Todd Sanders and David Wood Training’s David Wood.

Food and drink will be provided at the event thanks to OnwardSearch and Function Drinks.

Prizes from major book publishers like O’Reilly, Friends of Ed, Focal Press and Wiley as well as software companies like OnOne, FDT, Digital Anarchy and AlienSkin as well as area businesses will also be offered to all visitors. It’s like a mini-conference all in one night! Come meet your peers, make some new pals, stay for the after-party and learn from some of the best and most creative people on the planet! Join us Wednesday Evening, October 27th for the excitement and fun of MiniMAX X as it returns to crest the waves of Southern California!

BrowserLab and Firebug now together at last

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Adobe and the developers of the popular web design tool for Firefox browsers, Firebug announced on Friday a new Firefox plugin that will sync Adobe’s Browser Lab with Firebug. If you’re web developer, this is a big deal as it will allow for users to send the current state of their web page in Firebug (including design and CSS tweaks made directly in Firebug) to BrowserLab. This lets them see how their changes look across different browsers, along with enhancing their workflow with BrowserLab.

Additional features include Smart Align which screenshots can now be automatically aligned to a particular point of a page, for browsers that align pages differently. This helps users zero-in on problem areas of their pages. Also, Safari 5 has been added to BrowserLab’s portfolio of browsers.

You can download the new plugin here –>

Adobe Flash Platform Survey

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Adobe and its’ Flash Platform team is currently running a feature planning survey across Flex SDK, Flash Builder, Catalyst, and Flash Professional users.

The goal of this survey is to gauge the customer’s current usage and satisfaction with Flex and Flash tooling, and to understand how our own users prioritize the next generation of features. This survey will help determine the future direction of Flash, Flash Catalyst and Flex. The survey takes approximately 15-20 minutes. You can take the survey here.