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June 3rd: Creative Suite 5.5 Live with Paul Trani

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1002902709 3 June 3rd: Creative Suite 5.5 Live with Paul TraniJoin LAdobe and the entire Los Angeles Adobe community for a special event on Friday evening, June 3rd at 6pm at the offices of AlmerBlank located at 525 Venezia Ave in Venice, CA. Free Parking will be available on the streets surrounding the AlmerBlank offices and we suggest you arrive early as this is going to be one of the biggest Adobe events in Southern California this summer.

To register for this free event and ensure being part of the door prize drawings, sign up here on EventBrite –>

PaulTrani June 3rd: Creative Suite 5.5 Live with Paul TraniFor this event, we’re going to celebrate the launch and upgrade of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5. This is no ordinary update as Adobe has added a lot of new and exciting features to many of its’ applications. Especially when it comes to designing and developing for the burgeoning mobile industry. Not to mention the new subscription model Adobe has installed for people who just want to use CS5.5 on a temporary basis. For this event, we’re bringing in one of Adobe’s best presenters, Paul Trani, to provide the LA tech community with the insights into this upgrade and all the new features each Adobe Creative Suite app can produce no matter what screen it is for.

In addition, Aaron Houston from Adobe will also be present for a Q&A on the new Creative Suite features and anything else Adobe related you would like to ask him.

We’ll have all sorts of prizes to give away from our various book sponsors, swag from Adobe and Blackberry, plugins from Alien Skin, food and drink from Cookie Good, G.F.C. Catering, O.N.E. Coconut Water as well as Beer and Wine courtesy of the Calabasas/Malibu Wine and Food Festival on June 18th (courtesy of Adobe and Artisan Creative) and much, much more! Plus we’ll end early enough for all of us to continue down Abbot Kinney for the monthly First Fridays block party that takes over the entire strip. It’s going to be one incredible evening and we want you to be there!

To RSVP for this evening and ensure you will be in our door prize drawings, please go sign up at either our Eventbrite page You can also learn more at our Facebook event page.

AcademyX 20% Discount

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AcademyX Logo small 120x43 %28color%29 AcademyX 20% DiscountAcademyX is pleased to offer a 20 % discount to all LAdobe members. AcademyX is one of California’s most established independently owned computer training centers, having been in business for over ten years and serving over ten thousand students. AcademyX’s corporate office is located in downtown San Francisco, with offices also located in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Sacramento. We are extremely high rated on Google and Yelp with 4.5 stars out of 5 possible. We are Adobe and Microsoft Certified Partners and serve a variety of students from those who want to brush up on Microsoft Office skills, to others who want in depth training on creating and designing a website to learning Social Marketing skills. To take advantage of this distinct discount, please use code LAADUG in your shopping cart upon checkout at the AcademyX website.

Creative Suite 5.5 released

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box design premium cs55 111x140.png.adimg.mh.138.mw.138 Creative Suite 5.5 releasedAdobe has rolled out a major update to it’s Creative Suite 5. Unlike past versions, where you would wait 18 months for a new version of the Suite, now you’ll get a .5 update a year after the original release. So expect CS6 to be released in the Spring of 2012 instead of the Fall of 2011.

CS5.5′s major emphasis is web. Basically designing not just for a PC or Mac but for any type of screen from an iPad to the new Blackberry Playbook to an Android device or other type of smartphones. Much greater support for HTML5, JQuery Mobile and using Flash and Dreamweaver for application development. Not to mention using the soon to be released Digital Publishing Suite with InDesign CS5.5 to create rich interactive content.

We’ll start delving more into this at our April 28th meeting which will focus on HTML5 and CSS3 web development. We’ll show off the new Adobe Wallaby tool for converting Flash movies into CSS3 animations and how Dreamweaver CS5.5 uses JQuery Mobile and HTML5 in general. Please join us at Working Village in Santa Monica on the 28th.

Creative Suite 5.5 will be released in mid May and we’ll have a full look into it at our May 26th meeting at Border Stylo in Hollywood.

A series of videos have been released on AdobeTV focusing on many of the new features of CS5.5