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Moving Pictures: Exploring a Workflow with After Effects and Premiere
Moving Pictures: Exploring a Workflow with Adobe After Effects and Premiere As graphic professionals, we are all familiar with the old maxim "A picture is worth a thousand words." At 24 "pictures" per second or more, you can get even more "said" with video! As you know, digital technology is revolutionizing media, bringing "movie-making" into the reach of anyone with a camera and a computer. More than that, however, it is also blurring the lines that historically existed between film and television/video. We are fast approaching a time when creating video content will become "media agnostic" and the the same basic principles of camera and timing (editing) will apply to all content, from Web videos displayed on phones to the screens at your local cineplex. This is your chance to see two local professionals explain the basics of how to use Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects to create video worth watching. In this presentation, Jim May and Adam Kilbourn will offer a glimpse into the Adobe production pipeline. Jim will use AfterEffects to integrate computer-generated elements with a live-action scene, using compositing tools, color correction and effects to simulate a rainy scene. Adam Kilbourne will then take the final result and edit it together with titles, music and other live-action footage into a short movie trailer using Adobe Premiere. Adobe AfterEffects is a visual effects and compositing tool which enables artists to integrate a myriad of computer generated imagery with live action footage to create a seamless result. http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/features.html Adobe Premiere is an editing package optimized for assembling and editing footage from diverse sources from cell phone video to RED cameras, adding titles, audio and graphics, and outputting the final result to any platform, from web video to theatrical release. http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS: Jim May is a digital effects artist, with over twenty years of experience in the creation of digital video and graphic content for multiple meda. His work spans multiple industries, from graphical effects and cinematics for the PC game market to visual effects for commercials, film, television and animation. As a Visual Effects Artist, Jim has worked on numerous commercial projects, with clients such as Nationwide Insurance, Jeep, McDonald's, Cingular, the Royal Canadian Mint and Cache Creek Casino. His movie credits include "Serenity", and his television credits include "Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica". His work has earned him a Regional Emmy award (Regional, Graphics, Daytime non-news, "Auto B Good"), a Primetime Emmy nomination (Oustanding Visual effects for a Movie, Miniseries or special – "Life After People") and a Visual Effects Society nomination (Oustanding Visual Effects for a Movie. Miniseries or Special, "Infestation"). Jim's life in Las Vegas began in 1998 when he accepted an offer from Westwood Studios to become Lead Artist on the best-selling Command & Conquer franchise. He recently returned to Nevada in 2009 as an FX artist for Petroglyph Games. Learn more about Jim at Liquid Sky FX Adam Kilbourn is the Founder and President of Black Raven Films, a Las Vegas based video production business that specializes in corporate video production and political advertising. A graduate from UNLV with a bachelors degree in Theater Arts and Business Finance, Adam’s film and video production expertise has been developed over the years from watching and learning from others in the business as well as from good old fashioned trial and error. Having recently won the Audience Award for Best Nevada Film Maker at the Dam Short Film Festival 2013, the team is currently working on their first feature film to be shot in the spring of 2014. An active volunteer, Adam is currently affiliated with a number of professional and charitable organizations including the Las Vegas Jr. Wranglers Organization (Past-President); the Nevada Amateur Hockey Association (Board member); and Project 150, a non-profit that helps homeless and displaced high school students (webmaster). Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, Adam has lived in Las Vegas for 15 years and is married with two dogs and two cats. THANK YOU!!!! Once again, space for this month's meeting is being generously donated by UNLV Continuing Education. Like the User Groups, UNLV Continuing Education is all about lifelong learning. From dog training, to fashion design, to software of all kinds, to wine tasting to personal finance, classes are waiting for curious minds at the Paradise Campus. The summer catalog is online now! Why is there a Free ticket and an Admission + Food Donation ticket? If you've attended any of our events, you know that we provide drinks and a selection of snacks. The Mangers feel that since our events are right after work, it's nice to have a little something to tide attendees over so that they can concentrate on the speakers. However, the AUG spends about $40 per event for food & beverage and the left over cash from the CS6 Launch party is dwindling fast. If possible, we are simply asking you to pitch in a few dollars to offset this cost. You are also invited to bring snacks or drinks to share or to put a dollar or two in the jar at the meetings. Thank you!
Photoshop, Illustrator and Blender: Adding 3D to your work flow
You've seen some impressive 3D work out there and you've always wondered... how do they do that? Of course, you think it's expensive in both TIME and MONEY. Join Lejon Lin of Cannery Resorts to learn how to get started with 3D using a free, open source application called Blender with the tools you already know in Photoshop and Illustrator. Here's your chance to get started on a new passion with your fellow Las Vegas Adobe User Group members. Lejon will share his early missteps while showing you that 3D modeling, rendering and composting is not only for hardcore 3D artists, but accessible to ANY creative. During his presentation, Lejon will be demystifying 3D for the beginner. He will go over the basics of getting around in a 3D application and explain some common terminology. He will walk you through how to use Adobe Illustrator to start a basic scene, bring the vector file into Blender and polish the final render in Adobe Photoshop. About our Presenter: Currently the Jr. Creative Director for Cannery Casino Resorts, Lejon has been the lead on three massive brand relaunches for properties in California, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Responsible for the migration of all video production from outside vendors to the in-house Advertising Department, he has developed and directed TV and radio spots for all the Cannery Casino Resort's gaming properties airing over their local television stations. Lejon freelanced artwork for start-up companies that have pitched to Miller, Coors, Ford and Buffalo Wild Wings. Lejon graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a BSBA in Marketing. _________________________________ THANK YOU!!!! Once again, space for this month's meeting is being generously donated by UNLV Continuing Education. Like the User Groups, UNLV Continuing Education is all about lifelong learning. From dog training, to fashion design, to software of all kinds, to wine tasting to personal finance, classes are waiting for curious minds at the Paradise Campus. The summer catalog is online now! 
InDesign Speed Clinic: Nested Styles
If you use Adobe InDesign then you probably already know the power of InDesign Character and Paragraph Styles. With just one click of the mouse button or an assigned keystroke you can instantly change formatting of highlighted text. It’s a fantastic time saving-device that everyone should include in their design repertoire. But did you know you can KICK IT UP A NOTCH when you tap into yet another time-saving feature, the incredibly powerful Nested Style? Join the Las Vegas Adobe User Group as we amp up our InDesign skill-set with UNLV Continuing Eduction Instructor and User Group Member Alex Frazier. Alex will be teaching you the in and outs of specifying multiple formats within a paragraph style, setting them to repeat and making text formating faster! You’ll breeze through drop-caps, lead-in type treatments, and even formatting tedious formulaic information all by the SINGLE stroke of a key or click of a mouse. And those days of tediously highlighting each section of text and applying styles one at a time? KISS THEM GOODBYE ! If you use InDesign for layout, YOU NEED TO COME TO THIS MEETING! Here's a short video on Nested Styles. 6:00 - 6:30 : Networking, snacks and AUG Intro 6:30- 7:45 Main Presentation 7:45 - 8:45 Q & A Bring your ID documents and a laptop. There will be plenty of time for Q & A after the main presentation.
Muse-ing on a new way to Create the Web
Join as on a journey to creating websites with out EVER touching the code... Enter Adobe Muse. A tool designed specifically for people who are used to the workflow of Adobe InDesign to embrace web design without the headcahes of learning html or touching code. User Group Member and Muse Beta Tester Adam Bucci will be taking us on a tour of the Adobe Muse workflow. Adam will be showing us just how easy it is for even a novice to create a website in about an hour. YES.. PRINT DESIGNERS.. this means YOU!!!! Work along with Adam as you create a simple four page website that will include a home page, a portfolio gallery, a contact page, and a blog page from the materials you'll be able to download during the session. So bring your laptop and make sure you sign up for the Adobe Muse demo and download the software prior to the meeting. Adam will attempt to answer any questions after the main presentation. Adobe® Muse™ software enables designers to create HTML websites for desktop and mobile devices, without writing code. Design web-standard sites, like you design print layouts. Use familiar features, hundreds of web fonts, and built-in tools to add interactivity. Then, publish with the Adobe Business Catalyst® service and redeem site hosting support, or publish with any hosting provider. About our Presenter: Adam Bucci Adam was born and raised in London, England. Rabid Arsenal FC Supporter. Worked at eight newspapers in the bay area in ad graphics, editorial design, marketing and promotions and pre-press. He learnt html by backward engineering established websites - and subsequently forgot html over the years. Adam has been using macs as a creative tool since 1986. He moved to Las Vegas in 2000, where he went to work as graphics editor at the Las Vegas Sun. During his time at the Sun, Adam replaced Quark Xpress with InDesign and got new G5s to replace the aging G5s. In 2005, he left The Sun and worked as senior designer at Greenspun Media Group, working primarily of one off special publications. After Greenspun, Adam became the Art Director for DAVID magazine, responsible for creating the look and feel of the publication, its website and all collateral. Adam is currently a freelance designer, photographer and art director of Golfing Nevada and Golfing Oregon Magazines. He is also a certified jet engine mechanic. Adam has been actively involved with Muse since 2010, when he was invited by Adobe to participate in the private beta testing. From that time, until its release, Adam has seen the program grow from a simple layout program to an almost ready for primetime website creation tool.
LAS VEGAS AUGs Holiday Party
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Wordpress Security and Email Marketing Best Practices with Dreamweaver
RSVP Sergio Chavez, local wordpress developer, group manager and Barb Davis, Email Campaign Admin for Station Casinos will be presenting these two topics! How to secure a wordpress site from scratch, get your basic security off the ground.
Sergio Chavez is a local Vegas developer and has been building Wordpress sites for 3 years now. He learned the hardway by getting one of his biggest clients sites hacked. Here are his words: "One day I got a call from one of my major clients that their wp site was being used for a phishing banking scam it took me many days and other developers to fix and secure the site, absolute nightmare. After that I found basic protocols that I follow everytime I do a Wordpress site, to ensure that basic security is there so come join me on this talk to show you how to start a secure basic Wordpress site from the bottom up. There are no guarantees but I have not gotten a Wordpress site hacked since I have started these procedures" Email Marketing Best Practices Barb Davids is lead Email Marketer at Station Casinos, leading provider of gaming and entertainment in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
VEGAS ADOBE USER GROUP: CS6 LAUNCH! Party
Do you use any of Adobe's software? Then you can't miss this great event! Join us for an afternoon of education on Adobe's newest products from some of the best trainers in the business! You'll see all the cool new features of CS6 in action and get the low down on Creative Cloud and how it will change the way you use Adobe software forever! ALL ATTENDEES will have a chance to win! Raffle prizes for this event include One of THREE Adobe Creative Suite Collections (each valued at over $1700) One of Twenty FIVE -- 3-month Creative Cloud subscriptions (each valued over $300) Creative Cloud & Creative Suite 6: A new way to work wherever you are! Creative Cloud is here! As the way we work evolves, so has Adobe’s offerings. You can now get your Creative Cloud membership, which starts with the complete Creative Suite 6, as well as Adobe Muse, our new visual web design tool, and Edge, the HTML5 animation app. Add in Business Catalyst for web hosting, Typekit for fonts, and up to 20 gigabytes of cloud storage for syncing and sharing your files. Why is Creative Cloud so transformative and what does its future hold? http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-creative-cloud/creative-cloud-introductory-tour/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-creative-suite-6-creative-cloud-launch-week/adobe-creative-cloud-and-adobe-creative-suite-6-launch-event/ Adobe Community Professional Chana Messer Chana Messer : Fine Artist, Designer, Trainer & Software EvangelistTeaching at the university level for 25+ years in the fields of Fine Art, Digital Imaging in the Departments of Visual Arts at UCLA. Lead Instructor at the Walt Disney Company.She is an Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe Partner, Adobe Community Professional, part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, and an Adobe User Group Manager. As such she has been invited to present at Adobe events at Mac World and AIGA, Adobe MAX and other events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, New York and Tel Aviv. Adobe Community Professional Kevin Stohlmeyer Kevin Stohlmeyer is a designer specializing in digital illustration with over 15 years experience in the field. Kevin has been teaching professionally since 2000 both as a faculty member at Madison Area Technical College, Adobe Authorized Training Centers and most recently Milwaukee Area Technical College. His experience with publication design, production workflows and illustration enhances his credibility as an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Catalyst, Acrobat and Fireworks.He is also the co-manager of the Milwaukee Adobe Users Group and the Milwaukee Graphic Design Meetup Group. Kevin also serves as the Higher Education Coordinator for C2, Wisconsin’s only Adobe Authorized Training Center and sits on the advisory board for Milwaukee Area Technical College, ITT Technical Institute, and Waukesha County Technical College developing curriculums and software training using the Adobe Creative Suite.Kevin is also an Adobe Community Professional for Adobe Photoshop, speaking at conferences and user groups on Creative Suite 5 and Photoshop nationwide and an official Adobe Representative as a member of the Freelancers Team. Author, Photoshop Guru & Trainer Stephen Burns Stephen Burns, the president of the San Diego Photoshop Users Group and most recent instructor to the Light Photo Workshops. He has written the books, Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX, The Art Of Poser 8 Pro & Photoshop CS5, The Art Of Poser & Photoshop, Author of Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX, Author of "Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX, Author of "Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX and also Photoshop CS Trickery & FX for Charles River Media. http://www.chromeallusion.com Also on hand with additional goodies..... Adobe User Group Community Manager, Aaron Houston http://blogs.adobe.com/community/author/ahouston BRING THE WHOLE GANG! Please select either the 5 or 10 pack tickets if you wish to bring a group — say your entire design department. Email your group members names to User Group Manager Krystal Hosmer at Krystal@sparkcreative-lv.com with a copy of your event brite reciept. If you need an odd number of tickets, please email me krystal@sparkcreative-lv.com to create a package. UNLV Division of Educational Outreach 
A little mobile magic with Adobe and WordPress
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AUG Spring Photowalk - FIRST FRIDAY Photo scavenger hunt
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