January Meeting – Adobe Touch and Lightroom 4 Beta Overview

Happy New Year!

Our first meeting for 2012 will be on Saturday the 21st! Join us as A.J. Wood takes us on a tour of the Adobe Touch Apps! After that Gene McCullagh will give us a tour of Lightroom 4 Beta!

This is the first meeting in our new format of bringing you two shorter topics each month. Come ready to enjoy and ask questions!

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Photoshop Bootcamp with A.J. Wood

Don’t miss this chance to learn from the BEST!!!  Join A.J. Wood for a great day of Photoshop!

Photoshop is a great tool for enhancing photos, painting pictures, sketching/coloring ideas, and designing with precision.  In this one-day workshop, you will learn the following topics:

 

  • Introduction to Photoshop (Raster vs Vector Graphics)
  • Sizing Images (Print vs Screen)
  • The Photoshop Three Method (Brushes, Menus, Layers)
  • Working with Brushes (History, Clone, Heal, Background Eraser)
  • Menu – Image Adjustments (Levels vs Curves)
  • Working with Selections
  • Working with Layers

 

One lucky attendee will win a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite 6.

This event is scheduled from 10am until 4:30pm. Pizza lunch will be provided.

Cost is $79. Use code “AdobeWan” for $10 off the ticket price.

**PLEASE REGISTER ON THE EVENTBRITE WEBSITE**

http://photoshopbootcamp.eventbrite.com/

 

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Happy New Year!


Happy New Year and welcome to 2012!

We’ll be starting up our regular meetings shortly so get set for more great content! Also, we’re now on Google+ so if that is where you prefer to hang out these days why not circle us? You can find us at http://gplus.to/dfwaug

So stay tuned for more information about upcoming meetings!

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Forums Are Now Closed

Because of continuing spam and hacking attempts we have decided to close the forums here at DFWAUG.net.  Please feel free to take advantage of our discussion boards over at our Adobe Groups site or our meetup.com site. Additionally, if you are looking for jobs or have jobs available, please use the jobs board at our Adobe Groups site.

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November Meeting – Retouching Basics with Chris Tarantino

Join us as Chris Tarantino walks us through some of the basics of retouching images using Photoshop. Chris calls Flower Mound home and is an expert at color management and retouching and has worked in the retouching and color correcting field since 1983. Chris has been described as someone who “breaks” Photoshop to make it work better. His retouching work has graced many fashion and beauty magazines worldwide, including Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Harper’s Bazaar. He has worked with many leading photographers to help them achieve their vision in the new digital world, including Steve Meisel, Mario Testino, Melvin Sokolsky, and Enrique Badulescu. Books Chris has written include “Digital Fashion Photography” and “Digital Photo Processing”, and he is a contributor to leading photography and creative magazines. Currently Chris is working for Vaught Studio as their Beauty retoucher and in-house Photoshopopedia. Chris is a Adobe Certified Expert as well as a Adobe Community Professional and is a moderator on the Adobe Help Forums for Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge and Camera Raw. Of which programs he is either/both a Alpha and Beta Tester. In addition to writing and consulting about Photoshop, Chris also speaks at major Creative and Photography venues such as PMA and PhotoExpo.

RAFFLE ALERT!!!! This is our last meeting before the holiday break and we will be raffling off some prizes! Here’s your chance to win a full copy of the Creative Suite!!! Tickets, as usual, will be $5 each or 5 for $20. Proceeds go into our snack budget. Don’t miss your chance to win!