
Chana Messer
A fine artist for over 30 years. Mastering, teaching, and lecturing at the university level in the fields of fine art, oils & acrylics on canvas, paper making and advanced computer graphics and digital imaging. In the commercial world doing retouching, page layout & design, corporate identity, interactive multimedia Design, web design, on-screen presentations, CD covers, magazine covers, movie posters and brochures. Consulting on projects from concept to completion. Special training in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoshopLightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Microsoft Power Point, Keynote.
Chana has been the main instructor at WDI - Walt Disney Imagineering & UCLA Visual Art Department. Have experience working with Adobe events at Mac world, AIGA and other events in Southern California ,Oregon And Israel. Part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, Adobe Partner and Adobe Community Expert. Adobe Illustrator Users Group Manager.
Chana is an exhibiting artist you can view some of her work at:
http://www.artpic2000.com/artists.php?artist=376-Messer&ref=M-2
FREE ADMISSION * FREE RAFFLE TICKET * FREE FOOD * FREE PARKING
6:45 PM Doors Open
(Enjoy FREE FOOD Provided Partially by G.F.C. Good Food Catering - Santa Monica Based.)
7:00 PM Meeting Starts, Introduction
7:15 PM Illustrator CS4 Tips & Tricks Part 1 - Chana Messer
Creating radial, Symmetry
Tip for using the Pen tool
Tracing with Illustrator using Live Trace
Live Color and the Eraser tool
Working with Gradient and Blends
8:00 PM Networking Break
8:10 PM Illustrator CS4 Tips & Tricks Part 2 - Chana Messer
The Appearance Panel
Working with Styles
Working with Symbols
Gradient Mesh Tool
Creating 3D Images
9:00 PM Q & A
9:10 PM Raffle
This raffle will include 2 copies of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and many other great prizes. For details on how to get additional raffle tickets read this post Contest to win Adobe Creative Suite 4
Thank you all for coming to our recent joint meeting.
Many thanks to our sponsors for helping us making this event successful.
Thank you G.F.C. for hosting the event with home made goodies.
Thank you Adobe for giving us 2 copies of Adobe Creative Suite CS4.
Congrat to the winners!
Hope to have more joint meetings. Look for our next meeting in January!
Happy holidays!
Chana

Chana Messer
A fine artist for over 30 years. Mastering, teaching, and lecturing at the university level in the fields of fine art, oils & acrylics on canvas, paper making and advanced computer graphics and digital imaging. In the commercial world doing retouching, page layout & design, corporate identity, interactive multimedia Design, web design, on-screen presentations, CD covers, magazine covers, movie posters and brochures. Consulting on projects from concept to completion. Special training in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoshopLightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Microsoft Power Point, Keynote.
Chana has been the main instructor at WDI - Walt Disney Imagineering & UCLA Visual Art Department. Have experience working with Adobe events at Mac world, AIGA and other events in Southern California ,Oregon And Israel. Part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, Adobe Partner and Adobe Community Expert. Adobe Illustrator Users Group Manager.
Chana is an exhibiting artist you can view some of her work at:
http://www.artpic2000.com/artists.php?artist=376-Messer&ref=M-2

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Photo taken during construction of the Beverly Hills Montage Hotel in August of 2008.
Original stencil designs created by mizenHead studio on Adobe Illustrator applied to ceiling and hand painted with various metallic paints and color glazes.
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