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Adobe User Group - South Australia
Each month, Digital Lamb hosts the Adobe User Group South Australia (AUGSA). We encourage any enthusiastic Adobe Software user to come along and join the fun - it’s FREE to join!
On the second Monday of every month, members meet to discuss Adobe products including handy tips and tricks and showcase new product features. Each month has a different software theme with members or guest speakers presenting. It’s a great opportunity to meet other Adobe users who share the same passion for Adobe products. It is also a great opportunity to discover what others are doing with the extensive Adobe software package.
The evening starts off with friendly networking over some light refreshments, followed by the feature presentation. Any Adobe user is welcome, simply join by filling out the Sign Me Up! form.
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When: 5:30pm - 7:00pm Where: The Box Factory - 59 Regent St, South Adelaide Wheelchair access |
AUGSA News
Crowd Funding Your Project
Monday - May 13, 2013 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
This month, Steven Ready from Digital Lamb will be talking about their crowd funding project, Friends on the Fridge. Friends on the Fridge is a set of magnet pieces that can be used to create custom characters and scenes on your refrigerator.
The presentation will cover:
- Overview of crowd funding
- Creating the campaign with Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver
- Basic video editing inside of Photoshop CS6
Venue
The Federal Box Factory
59 Regent St,
South Adelaide
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This venue has Wheelchair access
Schedule for 2013
5:30 - Light nibbles and refreshments
5:45 - Welcome and Introductions
5:50 - Main Presentation
6:20 - Questions & Close
Win Adobe Software!
Each meeting you attend you can earn points that go towards winning an Adobe software package of your choice (up to $2000). Each point gives you a chance to win. Earning points is as simple as attending each Adobe User Group Meeting. For every meeting you RSVP for and attend, you will earn points. There is the opportunity to earn bonus points if you bring other people. More points = more chances to win. So come along and bring some friends. Click here for Terms & Conditions.
Past Adobe User Group Presentations
'Best Practices' When Writing Content for Web - Danae Sinclair
Monday - Apr 8, 2013 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
Danae (Dan) Sinclair is a content writer and strategist with fourteen years experience working on online projects. Trained in marketing, she's a word nerd with a secret stash of sci-fi novels and not-so-secret love of new ideas about everything.
Dan plans to talk about 'best practice for web' writing principles, including the use of plain English and how to provide pathways to goals for readers.
Building Responsive Web Templates in Dreamweaver - San Perroud
Tuesday - Mar 12, 2013 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
Today, nearly every client asks for a mobile version of their website. Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 gives you the ability to build fully functional responsive web templates with ease. We'll see examples of each approach and touch on some possibilities of how to push it further.
Join us while we explore the use of fluid grids, adaptative or responsive templates when designing websites. Which one is better? What if I'm not a coder? We'll cover the basics and show how you don't need to be a code wizard to come up with simple and clever responsive web templates.
Download Presentation PDF (15MB)
Photoshop Tips and Tricks - Rebecca Harper-Wells (End-Of-Year Breakup).
Monday - Nov 12, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
Well it’s the last User Group for 2012 and wow has it come around fast!
This week Bex from Digital Lamb will be sharing some tips and tricks with using Photoshop. She will be demonstrating some of her handy “everyday” shortcuts as well as some tips on photo editing. Anyone from beginner through to advanced users are welcome as it will be a perfect opportunity to share user experiences.
New Features of Photoshop CS6
Monday - Oct 8, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
For those who didn't make it to the CS6 Roadshow, this month we will be looking at the new features available in Photoshop CS6 including the Content-aware Move Tool and the new blur filters. We will be watching a couple of videos by Terry White and Gavin Hoey and there will be opportunity for members to experiment with the new features on some example files.
Making Magnetix - Jassa Amir-Lang
Monday - Sep 10, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
This week Jassa Amir-Lang and Nathan Pana of Piñata Games give you an insight into the Adobe tools they used to create their award winning debut title - Magnetix for iPad. They'll be talking about performance, level design, testing, and deployment. They'll also touch on app pricing, analytics, and you may even see a sneak preview of their upcoming title, Revolve - www.wearepinata.com
Insight into Illustrator (Part 2) - Victor Ortegon
Monday - Aug 13, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
Join us for Part 2 of "Insight into Illustrator" with Victor Ortegon. Victor will share some of his insight into Illustrator and logo development.
The session will re-visit some of the basic principals for those new to the program as well as some useful tips for advanced users. Victor will demonstrate using a mixture of text effects, logos and illustration.
Adobe Business Catalyst - Joshua Lee
Monday - July 9, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
This month Joshua Lee from Roomthree will talk about Adobe Business Catalyst.
Josh has been working with BC for the past few years, over which time it has seen some significant changes. Josh will walk through some of the key features the CMS has to offer and give some examples of how the platform is perfect for designers who aren't necessarily developers.
With BC at the centre of Adobe's new Creative Cloud Digital suite, it's a great time to learn a little more about what it has to offer.
Insight into Illustrator - Victor Ortegon
Monday - June 18, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
Join us this month to here Victor Ortegon share some of his insight into Illustrator.
The session will cover some basic principals for those new to the program as well as some useful tips for advanced users. Victor will demonstrate using a mixture of text effects, logos and his illustration work.
Victor Ortegon is a freelance Graphic Designer who has been using Illustrator for over 15 years. Victor also won the best packaging award in the 2006 for the Corona Can in Mexico which is now used world wide.
Adobe CS6 Software Draw - WINNER!
A big congratulations to George Willanski who was our first Adobe Software winner for 2012. Be sure to attend and bring your friends to increase your chances of winning an Adobe Software package of your choice in our next Adobe prize draw.
Photoshop Illustration - Rowan Dodds
Monday - May 14, 2012 | 5:30pm, The Box Factory
This week award winning commercial artist and illustrator, Rowan Dodds, will be presenting a tutorial on how to use Photoshop to create some of the textual effects he achieves in his digital illustration.
For over 5 years Rowan produced illustrations, retouched photography and designed elements for countless national and international campaigns working for the renowned advertising agency – Young & Rubicam (now George Patterson Y&R). In 2002, he went solo launching as InkSplat Studios and has since been awarded the JIA International Illustration Award 3 years running (2007 – 2008 – 2009).
Rowan uses Adobe Photoshop on a daily basis with his commercial work, so feel free to come join us at the Box Factory to pick his brain. http://www.inksplat.com.au/
Tips on using Adobe Fireworks - Peter King
Monday - March 12, 2012
Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Peter will be demonstrating five features he uses on a regular basis:
- Slices/ Adding hotspots
- Using the Export Area Tool
- Creating HTML Mock-ups
- Creating PDF files
- Batch processing
Simple Contact Form (connecting Flash to PHP) - Steven Ready
Monday - February 13, 2012
The first meeting for 2012 will kick off on February 13th. Steven Ready from Digital Lamb will go through a basic tutorial of how to set up a contact email form that uses PHP to send the email message. The code can also be modified to use with a HTML based form. Bring along your USB on the night if you would like a copy of the source files.
Using Flash and After Effects - Levi George
Monday - Novemeber 14, 2011
This month Levi George will be showcasing the new animated series of short films titled "Livin' with Steve" (not based on yours truly). Nate is an eccentric young man, who just wants to hang out with his friend Steve. Steve, however, is a flesh eating zombie who just wants to attack everyone close to Nate. Levi will show a couple of episodes from the series and then discuss the work flow of using Adobe Flash and After Effects used to create each episode. Yes, having an animated series about a flesh eating zombie does call for gratuitous violence so viewer discretion is advisable.
Digital Illustration - John Newall
Monday - October 10, 2011
Join us this week to hear the acclaimed artist John Newall talk about traditional illustration techniques with Adobe Creative Suite. John will briefly cover the use of Photoshop and Illustrator for digital painting and vector based artwork.
How to set up PDFs for commercial printers - Colin Flashman
Monday - September 12, 2011
This month, the good people at Hyde Park Press have invited the Adobe User Group out to their printing factory. Colin will share with the group some valuable tips for setting up PDF files for commercial printers. What you wanted to know but were afraid to ask, this presentation focuses on preparing PDFs correctly from Adobe InDesign, specifically: PDF export options, Preflight Panel and Dos and Don'ts within InDesign files. After the presentation and questions, members are welcome to light refreshments and a guided tour of the factory.
Slideshow effects using jQuery - Melissa Bagnara
Monday - August 8, 2011
With many devices and tablets available in the market today, Adobe users are faced with the challenge of designing and developing for multiple platforms and devices. Next Monday, Melissa Bagnara from Modish Media would like to present a basic demo on how to replace your Flash rotating graphics with a solution using jQuery for compatibility with iPad and iPhone.
Automating InDesign: Speeding Up Repetitive Tasks - Chris Drabsch
Monday - July 11, 2011
Chris Drabsch from Daydream Graphics will be speaking on the topic of methods and processes that can speed up repetitive tasks, layout and presentation in Adobe InDesign CS5. Specifically, Chris will demonstrate how to set up and use InDesign's Data Merge feature to quickly insert and manage large quantities of images, headings, descriptions and other content into a catalog layout; and how to automate the appearance of these items using text, paragraph and object styles. He will then discuss other tips and tricks that can help speed up the InDesign workflow.
Steve Ready - Making Money from Flash Games
Monday - May 9, 2011
This month we will be looking at the various ways of monetising Flash games with the considerations and advantages of each model. It will be a discussion based evening and participation from the audience is encouraged, especially from people who have personal experience. Our case study will use Professor Lambo’s Magnificent Maze which is currently in public beta release on Facebook. You can check out Lambo’s Maze before the evening by going to http://apps.facebook.com/lambosmaze/
Adobe CS5.5 Roadshow - Adelaide
Thursday - 16th June, 2011
The June AUGSA meeting will be the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Roadshow which will be in Adelaide (everyone say *YAY*) on Thursday the 16th of June. Head to the Adobe site to view more details and to register for the event http://www.adobe.com/ap/special/cs55roadshow/index.html Feel free to spead the word and repost this link on your Twitter, Facebook page or blog.
3D in Flash - Matt Thomson
Monday - April 11, 2011
This Monday we have Matt Thomson demonstrating some of the 3D capabilities of Flash. He will discuss the native 3D available in the current Flash Player using AS3 as well as a look at the new Molehill API which is currently in beta. The new API offers real GPU performance and is going to revolutionise online gaming when it is released. Matt will show some examples of basic code along with some demonstrations of his work and what other developers are producing.
Flash Animation and Bind Tool
Tuesday - March 15, 2011 (Monday 14 is Adelaide Cup day)
This month we will showcase a series of 5 short Flash animations developed for Hospitality Group Training. The animations use a mixture of older Flash techniques as well as the use of the bind tool and other CS5 features. We will look briefly at the sort of situations when the bind tool is best used.
After Effects - Amy from Gamelearn
Monday - February 14, 2011
Amy will demonstrate recent After Effects projects she has worked on and discuss some of the effects that can be achieved by using particle effects and camera movement.
End of Year Celebration and Adobe Prize Draw
End of Year Celebration and Adobe Prize Draw!!
The Adobe User Group will be wrapping up for the year on Monday 8th of November. The final event for the year will be an informal, social evening. Come along to network and chat about Adobe products and services. We will be watching the newly released video about the 3D capabilities of Molehill (5 min) and of course the customary Adobe package giveaway for people who have attended over the last few months. There will be some changes to the Adobe User Group next year so stay tuned for details.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - September 13, 2010
With Google's Android OS now natively supporting AIR applications, Flash developers can leverage their existing skill-set to start developing Android apps. In this session we'll be looking at publishing content for Android with Flash CS5. We'll test some content using the desktop Android emulator/debugger, as well as on an Android device. We'll also take a look at the new AIR 2.0/Flash 10.1 gesture API, as well as some of the APIs that are now available.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - August 9, 2010
Joshua Kernich from Gamelearn will discuss the design and development of Juba, "a child-driven and teacher-guided application that nurtures kids' natural desires to explore, create and learn by immersing them in a digital world of multi-sensory discovery and story-telling." User's of this application include one of America's largest child care centres.
Josh will talk about some of the technical issues associated with the Flash development as well as the considerations involved in designing an interface for preschool children. The discussion will also cover how a product designed for use in an educational environment can achieve its learning objectives while remaining fun and engaging for users.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - July 12, 2010
This month Peter King from King Web Design and Computer Services will be explaining the subscription model that Adobe have for software including benefits for small business. Come and hear Peter explain how the system works and the reasons why he chose it for his business.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - June 20, 2010
This month, Richard Huntley will be showing a range of 20 different free tools that they use in house at Gamelearn to assist in their multimedia development.
Online Seminar - CS5 Unveiling
Tuesday - April 13, 2010 at 1:30pm
Yes that’s right, the eagerly anticipated unveiling of Adobe CS5 will happen on Tuesday with lots of demonstrations of the great new features, programs, tips and tricks. The event will happen at 1:30pm Adelaide time.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 12th March, 2010
This month we will be hearing from Richard Huntly of Gamelearn who will show us a range of open source solutions that can be used in conjunction with Adobe Dreamweaver.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 9th November, 2009
This month we have the super guru Jassa coming in to see how you can develop a cross-platform desktop application in Adobe AIR. He’ll be using Photoshop, Catalyst (beta) and FlashBuilder (beta) to show us how powerful the combination of tools can be. Watch Jassa design and deploy the app in 30 minutes.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 12th October, 2009
Business Catalyst offers hosted web solutions for just about everything you could ever want a website to do including CMS, eCommerce, newsletters, email marketing, tracking, blogs, forums and I think I read somewhere that it even does your dishes for you (not really but it wouldn’t surprise me).
Why would Adobe buy a hosted CMS? Come along to hear our guest speakers reveal why Business Catalyst is worthy of the Adobe name.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 14th September, 2009
This month we’ll be showcasing members’ favourite Photoshop tricks. Do you remember learning that great trick that saves you so much time? You can hardly remember how you ever worked without it.
Email your favourite Photoshop tip, trick or tool through and we will showcase the best ones on the night. You can show it off yourself or it can be presented for you. There will be a laptop with Photoshop CS4. Bring any demonstration files you need. Steven Ready from Digital Lamb will be kicking off the evening.
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 10th August, 2009
Are you sick of those client phone calls that you "have to take" but don't make you any profit? Do you know which projects/clients are making you money and which ones you are better off without? Do you have an efficient workflow process? Do you know what your clients really want? What type of work do you enjoy the most and what is your marketing strategy to become the expert in that niche?
Adobe User Group South Australia:
Monday - 20th July, 2009
If you aren't using CSS, Javascript and PHP frameworks in your web design and internet programming work you are literally shooting yourself in the foot with a 3 metre bazooka! In just 20 minutes I will show you the benefits of these amazing FREE, open source, time + stress saving tools. Why bother? Because with these tools, programming and web design is many times faster, easier, more fun and more profitable.
Adobe User Group South Australia: Working with 3D - Extra Artists
Monday - 15th June, 2009
We are in for a treat this month with Sonia and Dan show casing some of their fantastic 3D work. Dan will be sharing on implementing 3D into Flash using Papervision3D and Sonia will share some techniques for using Photoshop to create textures on real-time models. Sonia and Dan are the creative geniuses behind Extra Artists.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Monday - 20th April, 2009
A special treat for the Adobe User Group this month, we have writer/illustrator/director John Willanski presenting his short film Dusk Day. Come and hear John discuss the production process and the use of Flash and After Effects to animate his unique Ink Rain illustrations. “Dusk Day is a modern-day version of a Gothic fairytale.”
Adobe User Group South Australia
Monday - 16th February, 2009
Jassa will be demonstrating how to create a Flash portfolio site using Flickr and Flex. That makes it a Flash, Flex, Flickr Folio.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tuesday - 17th January, 2009
This month we will hear a short report from Peter King about Adobe Refresh in Melbourne. Then we will look at how to create photo galleries using the automation tools inside Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Bridge CS4.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tueday - 18th November, 2008
Yes, that’s right it’s the night you’ve all been waiting for . . . November’s AUGSA meeting is when we’ll be giving away your choice of an Adobe software package up to the value of $US2000.00
On the night, Richard Huntly from Gamelearn will demonstrate how to build a prize draw program in Flash and using XML.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tueday - 21st October, 2008
The October AUGSA meeting is this Tuesday night (21st) and we’ll be doing a hands on tutorial with the new Flash CS4. The tutorial will be at a basic level but it will give everyone a chance to have a play with the new layout.
Please note the change of meeting location:
MAD Academy, 19 Young Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Ph: 08 8221 5814
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tueday - 23rd September, 2008
This month’s AUGSA meeting will be held on Tuesday the 23rd of September so that we can make a very special announcement from Adobe. There will be extra giveaways and lots of new stuff to see on the night.
For those that missed September's meeting, the announcement is CS4 is being released. Check out www.adobe.com.au for more details.
Adobe User Group South Australia: What Makes a Good Website?
Tueday - 19th August, 2008
Round table discussion about the importation factors in a good website.
Adobe User Group South Australia: After Effects
Tueday - 15th July, 2008
This month Mark Ready will be presenting an overview of Adobe After Effects. Mark is a Video Producer for SmartMedia at the Tea Tree Gully campus of TAFE SA and has been working in the video production field for over a decade. Mark will share some of his insight, tips and techniques for using After Effects in an educational setting.
Adobe User Group South Australia: Networking and Conference Highlights
Tueday - 17th June 2008
Steven Ready will be bringing some highlights from the recent AGIdeas conference in Melbourne as well as the recent CeBIT expo in Sydney. The night will have a shorter presentation and more of an emphasis on networking (that's business networking not computer networking).
Adobe User Group South Australia
No AUGSA meeting May 2008
Adobe User Group South Australia: Introducing AS3 - Final Session
Tueday - 15th April, 2008
Richard Huntley from Gamelearn will conclude his series on AS3 this month.
Visitors and new members are always welcome, RSVP is essential. Starts at 5:45 with Pizza at the Digital Lamb studios: Level 2, 54 Currie Street, Adelaide SA 5000.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tueday - 18th March, 2008
Richard Huntley from Gamelearn will continue his series on AS3 this month.
Visitors and new members are always welcome, RSVP is essential. Starts at 5:45 with Pizza at the Digital Lamb studios: Level 2, 54 Currie Street, Adelaide SA 5000.
Adobe User Group South Australia
Tueday - Introducing Action Script 3 (AS3)
Following on from Steven Ready's "Absolute Basic Flash" last year, we will be starting 2008 off with a new series called "Introducing AS3" presented by Flash Action Script programmer Richard Huntley of Gamelearn.