VegasPUG and VegasAUG User Group Meeting

Monday, November 16th at 7:00PM, Room 511

Snacks and drinks will be available. 

Speakers:

Jeff Foster : Demonstration of Artisteer - The Automated Web Designer

Krystal Hosmer : Find Your Tribe, Social Media and Meaningful Customer Connections for Business Professionals

John Olson : Basic Server Communication with Flash CS4 Professional

To view more info on the presentations: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/95fc69908d

The November/December issue of Flash & Flex Developers magazine is out and ready for download.  The magazine is free.   Head over to : http://ffdmag.com/download-6-2009 and download the PDF issue.

In this months issue:

• Getting Started with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework
• Tips for Encoding Flash Video
• Flash Player 10 Features
• and much more... so check it out..  its FREE.

Net Tuts has lesson 1 online from their new video series ASP.NET from scratch series.   During last months meeting, Terence gave a quick intro to PHP and ColdFusion.  This video series from NetTuts is a good intro to ASP.NET

http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/asp-net-from-scratch-lesson-1/

Video Co-Pilot has a good two part series on using After Effects to add rain, atmosphere, and lightning strikes and composite it all together to create a gruesome sequence for halloween.   Lots of good concepts here to pick up on. 

Part 1:http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/lightning_strike/

Part 2: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/lightning_blast/

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/fireworks-vs-photoshop-compression/

"Photoshop is alway my first choice for designing—from image
editing to designing mock-ups. But, did you know that Fireworks is way
better than Photoshop in term of image compression? I’m not a software
engineer, I can’t explain why Fireworks can compress better. But I can
prove it to you by showing a series of experiments I did. "

Quick and easy tips to prepping your business card in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign will be provided to attendees at our next meeting. Hope to see you at 7pm!