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