Thanks again to those that attended this month's online meeting about photos and social networks (the original event post can be found here). We were able to record the meeting - the recording is at the following link (the recording starts a minute or two in, after we got some of the audio issues worked out).

https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p37136134/

Also, thanks for working through the few small issues with us in our first go at meeting online! Also thanks for the patience as we ran through some of the pieces rather quickly - we learned a lot about pacing using the tool and will make future meetings even better. We had a great time and hope you did too.

Next Meeting

Don't miss our next in-person meeting, which will be held in September at Denver Pro Photo. We'll cover some information on Brushes in Photoshop and Lightroom, as well as look into the gear bags of the group's User Group Managers. Also, Wacom will be helping sponsor the meeting and kindly donated a Wacom Intuos4 Medium, which will be given away to a lucky attendee!

More on that meeting here:

http://groups.adobe.com/posts/e0a4c3a0cf

Wrap-up Notes

The following are some of the resources and other items we discussed during the meeting:

Flickr

• www.flickr.com
• Cool tools for viewing/managing Flickr feeds:
  • Destroy Flickr
  • Flickroom

Facebook

• www.facebook.com

Picasa

• picasaweb.google.com

If you have a google account (gmail), picasa is sort of a ubiquitous option,
as it's built in with the rest of the google services. While you can share
pictures to anyone with Picasa, you can only apply security (login to view)
if everyone you want to see these images also has a google account.

Twitter

• twitter.com
• twitpic.com

So much more than just sharing what you had to eat at each meal, Twitter can
be a deeply layered tool used for nearly anything. While the majority of my
own twitter posts that include pictures are just random sillyness, twitter
can be an excellent vehicle for marketing yourself. Post a sample of a new
gallery to twitter, using a service like Twitpic for instance.

Lightroom

• Export to Flickr Plugin
• Export to Facebook Plugin
• Mogrify plugin for more advanced photo watermarking (I really only mentioned this - we'll cover it in more depth in a future meeting)

Bridge Photoshop

Using Bridge and photoshop, you can prepare your images for upload to
services like Picasa and Twitter. Neither of these adobe apps will send
diretly to services, but you can get them ready to display properly on the
web.
Consider Sizing your images down to something reasonable for web upload,
such as 1000px.

A Fun Resource

During the meeting, you may have seen a picture of Ninja Nick. He created it using this site:

cameroid.com

Thanks,

Brian and Nick

At our inaugural meeting, we discussed a number of things. I thought it would be good to share them with the entire group. The first is a list of useful Lightroom and Photoshop resources. The second is a list of potential meeting topics that we brainstormed during the meeting.

If you'd like to add any other resources or suggest other topics please do so in the comments.

Resources

www.scottkelby.com/blog
www.photoshopuser.com
www.brianreyman.com/tools_downloads.html
blogs.adobe.com/jnack/
www.lightroomkillertips.com
www.lightroomforums.net
www.lynda.com

Topics

Topics
Plugins
Actions/Automation
Workflow/managing versions when going to PS
General Workflow
Camera Raw
Adjustment Brush/Cloning, PS Brush
Photography Tips/Tricks (Portrait, Landscapes, Travel)
Lighting
Web (Sharing photos)
Printing
Photoshop vs. Lightroom (differences in various features)
Metadata
Cameras
Retouching (red eye, etc.)
Stitching (panoramas)
HDR
Compositing
Masking
Layers
Shooting Pictures Tethered to a Laptop
Color Management/Monitor Calibration
Clipping Masks
Video Primer (overview of video and what you can do in Photoshop)

Thanks to those that came in for our inaugural meeting! For those that weren't there, we had a good time discussing the group and its future, as well as covering an overview of the power of Lightroom.

The following are a few key points. I'll also place some resources from the meeting and topic ideas in blog posts shortly.

- The group meets in person every other month on the third Thursday. The next meeting will be on September 15.
- On off months, we'll have webcast meetings online.
- Check back to this site frequently for event postings and other news.
- Want to win some great prizes? We give away books and other items at every meeting and will be raffling off large pieces of software (including the Adobe Creative Suite). You can enter by 1) attending meetings 2) bringing others to meetings and 3) referring others to join the group on this site (just let them know to let me know that you referred them and you'll get another entry in the raffle).

Just a reminder that we'll be holding our first meeting tomorrow night, July 21 at 6:30 p.m. We'll be meeting at Denver Pro Photo. When you arrive at Denver Pro Photo, enter the main store entrance and you'll be directed to the area we're meeting in.

We'll be talking a lot about the formation of the group and where the members would like to see it go over time.

We'll also cover some Lightroom and Photoshop tips and tricks to fill any remainder time.

Some giveaways will wrap up the evening.