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LA Web Professionals Group (LAWPG Los Angeles)

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About this Group:

As one of the largest Adobe User Groups in the country, the Los Angeles Web Professionals Group (LAWPG) attracts world-renowned speakers and a dynamic group of business, marketing and creative professionals. Every month, we meet, network and learn from LA’s hottest web designers and Internet marketing experts. Sign up to receive our meeting schedule and join us for monthly presentations on web design, marketing and the latest internet trends.

User Group Mgrs: Daniel Kramer and Janine Warner

This group normally meets at ING Cafe on Santa Monica Blvd. LA

Main Website: http://www.lawebprofessionalsgroup.com/

Upcoming Events

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Our 2012 Summer Event:

LA Web Professionals Group August 2012 Meeting -

Instant, Expressive and Awesome Painting and Illustration in Photoshop, featuring Jack Davis

Thursday August 9, 2012 – 6:15 PM – 9:30 PM

LOCATION: ING Direct Cafe – http://www.facebook.com/INGDIRECTLA
11175 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025

FREE PARKING::REFRESHMENTS::NETWORKING::DOOR PRIZES

Can you REALLY paint traditional media convincingly in Photoshop (especially in the new CS6)? Absolutely YES! Easily? YES! Quickly? Your head will spin! To expressively paint, where your emotion, as well as your mind, get to come out and play, is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Especially when you can use a computer, a Wacom tablet and Photoshop to do all the laborious set up (and clean up!) that is typically involved with traditional medias like oils, watercolors or even pastels. All of these different media types will be demonstrated and simulated in this evening seminar led by award winning designer and artist/illustrator Jack Davis (who knows a thing or two about Photoshop as well .

And all these projects will start with a photograph – yes, Jack will be cloning sheep that night! These photographs (once first “enhanced” in Photoshop’s Adobe Camera Raw) will be the “palette” of colors, tones and shapes that we will use in creating the masterpieces. And that means for these techniques no expert drawing skills are needed – though certainly if you can paint and draw traditionally then you will have an advantage when it comes to creatively “drawing outside the lines”! Come ready to be trained, entertained and inspired!

6:15 PM – Doors Open (Please don’t arrive before 6:15)
6:40 PM – Part 1
7:50 PM – Networking Break / Tweetup @lawebprosgroup and Light Refreshments
8:10 PM – Prize Drawing
8:15 PM – Part 2
9:30 PM – Meeting End

Please register early, space is limited and usually fills up fast. We also offer an early bird special when registering the first few days once registration is open. If you still want to attend without registering ahead and space permits, it will be $7 at the Door and include 1 door prize ticket.

Register Here: Register Here: http://lawpg-august2012.eventbrite.com/or by email events@lawebprofessionalsgroup.com if you want to register and have issues with eventbrite
Please feel free to invite as many friends as you want.

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Speaker Bio:
Jack “Wow” Davis is one of the world’s leading experts on Photoshop, as well as himself being an award-winning designer. Jack is coauthor of the bestselling (a million copies+ in 12 languages) guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography (Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book, Computer Press Assoc: Best How-To Book, International Digital Imaging Assoc: Most Useful Book). For over 25 years Jack has been an internationally renowned spokesperson on digital imagery, and routinely teaching at conferences and workshops around the world. Davis is part of the “Dream Team” at the Photoshop World Conferences and was one of the first inductees into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his lifetime contributions to the industry. Jack has an MA and MFA in Digital Imagery, and when he’s not in his studio in San Diego, he’s usually somewhere in Polynesia, camera and paint brush in hand, capturing the local color.

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Parking Info: Free Parking is available in the garage located next to ING Direct Cafe between the cafe and the Tesla dealership.

Register Here: http://lawpg-august2012.eventbrite.com/

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Big Turnout at LAWPGs first meeting of the year
Photo posted on Jan 19 by grooveva

We had a great turnout at LAWPGs first meeting of the year. This is only half of our great crowd that came to hear the stellar artist Lee Varis speak. Thanks everyone for kicking off 2010 with a bang. :D
©2010 Eva Crawford Creative

LA Web Professionals Group January 2010 Meeting
Photo posted on Jan 18 by Daniel Kramer

A LAWPG member picks up a few tips from the great Lee Varis!
©2010 Eva Crawford Creative

Thanks Lee. :D
Photo posted on Jan 19 by grooveva

A few more members pick up tips from Lee at our last meeting.
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