A big "Thank You" to Jeff and Krystal for presenting last night.  Both were great presentations.

If you want to learn more about Artisteer, the product that Jeff demonstrated, click on the logo below:

The files from my presentation on basic Flash to Server communication  using URLLoader are available here: http://www.vegasaug.org/misc/flash_server_presentation.zip  The zip file includes the FLA files, and the slides in PDF format.

Krystal posted her presentation PDF over at the VegasPUG site: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/4d6f281a5d Be sure to go grab it.

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!

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-create-a-3d-floorplan-in-illustrator/

"In this tutorial I'll show you the process I use for creating a 3D floorplan from scratch, in 6 easy steps. This technique can be applied to infographics, such as escape-plans or to show the layout of a building that you normally wouldn't be able to see. Let's get started!"

With Halloween coming up now is a great time to add a few grungy and dirty based typefaces to your font collection. Here we have a large A-Z list of some of the best free grungy and dirty fonts to use in your designs from the ever-popular dafont.com!

http://designm.ag/resources/free-grungy-dirty-fonts/

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/get-your-disco-groove-on/

Use Trapcode's Particular and Lux plugins to create this disco funkadelic After Effects project.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*

Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform Evangelist, just uploaded a new tutorial on using the FLARManager library to create augmented reality applications. This library makes things much easier than using the FLARToolkit directly, especially when dealing with multiple markers. In this example, Lee will display a video on a 3D plane that follows the AR marker. The tutorial also covers how to properly create markers using a new online tool.

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=114

As a Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Master Collection customer, you are eligible to use Adobe Flex Builder 3 at no additional cost.  If you purchased either product after September 15th, visit the URL below to get details on how to receive your free FlexBuilder Standard license.

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/cs/