Let me start by saying a warm "thank you" to deaprting co-manager Jamie B. She set up the group and got it off the ground. We wish her and Garth the best in their adventures in Utah!

After careful thought, I've reached out to my good friend Nate Ludens to join us as co-manager. Nate brings a wealth of experience to bear as both a print designer and a professional photographer. Some of you may have caught Nate's Lightroom presentation a few months back.

Nate blogs here and you can check him out on Linkedin. He also tweets here and hangs his shingle at facebook.

And of course, since he is my friend, I can't resist congratulating him on his latest achievement. His son, Bode, is expected to arrive in the next few weeks.

Both of us are excited to bring more value to the group in 2010. What you'd like to see as far as presentations go in 2010?

Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turns twenty. To mark this anniversary, we’ve come up with an article that takes you through the evolution of Photoshop from its modest beginnings as a bundled program sold with scanners to its current version.

For each version and major feature listed, we couldn’t help but think “did Photoshop ever exist without that feature?”.

Some of the minor details are fun too, such as the one-liner Easter Eggs that Photoshop developers hid in some versions and the fact that the most current versions of Adobe Photoshop CS are equipped with anti-counterfeiting measures for multiple world currencies.

Please join us in thanking the Knolls and Adobe for making all of our lives more awesome, every day.

keep reading: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/20-years-of-adobe-photoshop/

Another article: http://www.deke.com/content/martini-hour-053-in-which-photoshop-turns-twenty-and-martini-hour-turns-one

http://www.photoshop20anniversary.com/?trackingid=FCRYO&lang=NA

Here's the PDF from my Social Media Presentation given at last month's meeting. Please feel free to use it for personal use ONLY.

Ross Kimbarovsky is the co-founder of crowdSPRING, a community of 43,000+ graphic designers that helps small businesses from around the world with graphic design needs. You can follow Ross on Twitter @rosskimbarovsky and @crowdSPRING.

Capacity – especially to plan and execute effective marketing strategies – is a big challenge for every small business. In this post, I’ll offer 10 suggestions for how small businesses can supercharge their marketing efforts by leveraging social media. For each suggestion, I will discuss a basic strategy – for those who simply want to get their toes wet, as well as an advanced strategy – for those who want to spend a bit more time and go a bit deeper in their social media marketing efforts. These tips are based on my experience leveraging social media marketing for my company, crowdSPRING.

Read the rest of the article containing the tips and hints n using each of the big social media apps at Mashable

20 ways businesses use Twitter from Businessweek

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"Create a Quick Interactive Portfolio Using InDesign"

InDesign CS4 provides new interactive buttons, hyperlinks  and page transitions to quickly provide pizzazz  to your print documents.  Great fix for non-Flash developers.

Presenter: Deb Havre 

"Staying in form-ation using InDesign and Acrobat Pro"

No one likes forms and we like them even less when they must be filled out by hand and then deciphered by some unlucky data entry person. Learn how to create an attractive form in InDesign then convert it in Acrobat Pro to a fillable form that can be emailed out, filled in by your customers electronically and then emailed back to you. End Users only need the free acrobat reader to open and fill out the form. You'll also learn how to replace pages in your form and set up or change fields.

Presenter: Krystal Hosmer

"Create Quick Image & Video SlideShows with SlideShowPro"

Use SlideShowPro to quickly place images or videos online.  SlideShowPro is a flash-based slideshow application that requires very little setup to create slideshows with images or video.  It is very customizable and can work with Flash, Lightroom or just Dreamweaver.  

Presenter: John Olson