Date and time:
Sep 8 (Tuesday)
From 6:45 PM to 8:45PM
Venue:
Ang Mo Kio Public Library
4300 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6
Singapore 569842

Map: 
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_10532/travel_site_101170/
How To Get There
Nearest MRT Station : Ang Mo Kio
Nearest Bus Interchange : Ang Mo Kio
Buses : SBS Transit 13, 86, 162, 138
SMRT 851, 852, 853

Programme:

6:45 PM Registration

7:00 PM CREATING A THUNDERSTORM IN AFFER EFFECTS by Lynus Hee
Find out how you can create a thunderstorm for your video entirely in After Effects. 

7:20 PM FINDING YOUR INNER CREATIVITY by Carlsson Chee
Finding yourself lacking inspiration lately? Worry not. Carlsson will be giving you a few tips on getting back your creativity back on track.

7:40 PM Break
8:00 PM PREFLIGHT FEATURE IN INDESIGN by Sven Berg Ryen. 
InDesign is the tool of choice for professional graphic design and Sven will talk about the new Preflight feature and how useful it is.
8:20 PM USING RICH SYMBOLS IN FIREWORKS by Linus Lim
Learn what is Rich Symbols in Fireworks and use it to further enhance your prototyping experience.

8:45 PM End

SEE YOU THERE!

Dear Crew,

Next Creative Crew's meeting will be held at Bedok Public Library

This month we are glad to also have friends from Creative Commons Singapore with us.  Perhaps these questions can help you understand and adopt Creative Commons in your work. So come and find out more with us!!

1. What is the value of Creative Commons to me?
2. How exactly does Creative Commons protect me as a creator? And what does it not do?
3. Would I be able to change a Creative Commons license?
4. Does adopting Creative Commons really make a difference

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Date and time:
Aug 11 (Tuesday)
From 6:45 PM to 8:45PM

Venue:
Bedok Public Library

21 Bedok North St. 1
Singapore 469659

Map: 
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_692/travel_site_76158/

How to get there:
Nearest MRT Station: Bedok
Nearest Bus Interchange: Bedok
Buses: SBS Transit 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 30, 30e, 32, 33, 35, 38, 40, 60, 66, 69, 87, 168, 196, 197, 222, 225W/G, 228, 229, 401
SMRT 854



Program:

6:45 PM Registration

7:00 PM ADD LIVE TO YOUR ART WORK by Stefano Virgilli
Synopsis: Stefano's 3 favorite ways to add live and depth to images and photos. Unsharpen Mask, Bevel and Emboss, Burn-Screen tools. Three
quick technique that will change your Photoshop workflow.

7:20 PM ABSTRACT ON THE FLY by Obhet Cristobal
Manipulating photos and textures to create unrecognizable abstract designs. Exploiting the powers of layer blending, filters and color techniques to transform imaginations to digital artworks.

7:40 PM Break

8:00 PM CREATIVE COMMONS in by Chung Nan, Creative Commons Singapore
Chung Nan from Creative Commons Singapore will give an introduction on what Creative Commons is about and how it can benefit in your creative work.

8:20 PM FLICKR AND ITS USES by Preetam Rai
I have been a paid user of Flickr since 2004. Flickr is the largest image site in the world. In addition to a photo storage and photo album, Flickr has several other features that you might find useful. Let me demonstrate these to you.

8:45 PM End

REGISTRATION HERE > http://creativecrew14jul.eventbrite.com/ 

Tuesday 14 July, 2009 from 6:45pm - 8:45pm
Venue:
Details on Geylang East Public Library 
50, Geylang East Ave 1 
Singapore 389777

How to get there: 
Nearest MRT Station : Aljunied 
Buses : SBS Transit 80, 155 via Geylang East Central 
SBS Transit 40, 62, 63, 80, 100, 158 via Aljunied Road 
SBS Transit 2, 13, 21, 26, 40, 51, SMRT 853 (on weekends) via Sims Avenue

Programme

6.45pm - Welcome address 

6.50pm - 3D STUDIO MAX for the Web by Jeremy from ACA Pacific
Mental Ray Production Shaders & How to Render for Web in Autodesk 3D Studio Max

 

7.10pm - Third dimension in PHOTOSHOP by Stefano
Discover with Stefano all the new 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS4. Import an OBJ files, change lights, textures and point of view. Use a virtual camera in Photoshop! Learn how to paint directly on the 3D models using your custom brush. 

7.30pm - Break (20min)

7.50pm - 3D Channel Effects in After Effects by Lynus Hee
Export your 3D scenes into AE maintaining its 3D information.  Learn how you can use after effects to exploit 3D information in your 3D scenes and integrate effects and 2D compositing into a 3D environment.

8.10pm - Vanishing point in PHOTOSHOP by  William Aung
Discover this cool feature within Photoshop that allows you impose a 3D framework on top of any 2D image

8:45 PM End

 

Dear Crew,

after the April's meeting in the West, now it is time for the East.

As usual, the meeting will be free of charge.

A refreshment will be offered by our sponsor Ctrl Print (http://www.ctrl-ps.com/)

 

Registration: 

http://tampines0509.eventbrite.com

 

Venue:

Next Creative Crew's meeting will be held at Tampines Regional Library, 31 Tampines Avenue 7 (S) 529620.

Map: http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_8823/travel_site_84115/

 

How to get there:

Nearest MRT Station : Tampines

Nearest Bus Interchange : Tampines

Buses : SBS Transit 8, 15, 18, 19, 27, 28, 29, 37, 38, 81, 168, 291, 293

 

Date and time:

May 12 (Tuesday)

From 6:45 PM to 8:45PM

 

Program:

 

6:45 PM Registration

 

7:00 PM Inexpensive Video Making by Preetam Rai

Synopsis: Last couple of years have seen a spate of inexpensive video cameras that are also very easy to use.  In these 20 minutes, I will share my video shooting and publishing experience with one such camera - Creative's Vado HD.

 

7:20 PM Ctrl Print for InDesign by Ctrl Print (http://www.ctrl-ps.com/)

 

Sponsored session: CtrlPrint, a leading global supplier of workflow solutions and plugins for the publishing and media market, based in Stockholm Sweden is launching its products together with Software Exchange Singapore. The plugins are for the Adobe InDesign family of products that increase efficiency and add extended functionalities to Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy.

CtrlPrint will launch two new Plugins for Adobe Software: CrossTalk for InCopy and CtrlChanges for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy.

 

 

7:40 PM Break

 

8:00 PM Nesting Composition in After Effects by Stefano Virgilli, Adobe Video Specialist

Nesting (or pre-composing) is one of the keys to have a pleasant time in After Effects. If you are not making use of nested compositions, yet, you cannot imagine how much time you would save. Learn the ABC of nesting in After Effects with Stefano Virgilli. He will show you the most common advantages of pre-composing animated items.

 

8:20 PM Taking your design template from photoshop and implementing in PHP by Leon Lim

Leon will demonstrate a simple workflow of how to take a design template that you have done in Photoshop, export it out to HTML and then use PHP to replicate and reuse that template.

 

8:45 PM End

 

Registration: 

http://tampines0509.eventbrite.com

 

Dear Crew,
We are glad to invite you to our next monthly meeting. Our venue for the month is:

Level 1
Jurong Regional Library
21 Jurong East Central 1, 
Singapore 609732

Thanks to NLB for sponsoring the venue.

How To Get There:
Nearest MRT Station : Jurong East
Nearest Bus Interchange : Jurong East
Buses : SBS Transit 51, 52, 66, 78, 79, 97, 98, 105, 143, 160, 183, 197, 333, 334, 335, 506 (via Jurong East Bus Interchange)
SMRT 176, 178 (via Jurong Town Hall Road)


6.45PM - 6.55PM
Registration

6.55PM - 7.00PM
Opening
Linus Lim (Hon. Secretary General of Creative Crew Society)

7.00PM - 7.20PM
Title: Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder
Catergory: Video
Speaker: Lynus Hee (Lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic)
Synopsis: Part two of Video Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder with Lynus Hee. Now that you have an idea of how video compression works, let's see how we can put it all to work with the new and improved Adobe Media Encoder. We will explore the settings and what they mean and compare the strengths and weaknesses of a few compression systems.

7.20PM - 7.40PM
Title: Quickly edit and fix a picture
Catergory: Web
Speaker: Preetam Rai (Regional Editor of Global Voices Online Project)
So you have a picture that you want to email someone or use on your blog. And you find that the picture is too big and a bit dull. Let me show you a couple of web tools that help you resize and improve your pictures. These tools are free and you don't even have to download anything. 

7.40PM - 7.50PM
Break

7.50PM - 8.10PM
Title: Quick and Easy Party Tricks with Adobe Photoshop
Catergory Print
Speaker: William w. Aung (Lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic)
This time, we will share quick and easy party tricks in one of Adobe Photoshop's most powerful tools; the Automate menu. 
In this session, we will include several short and fun topics such as making Panorama images, using Batch command along with the Actions, and most importantly, things we can ask Photoshop to do for us, while you enjoy your coffee and take credit for it.


8.10PM - 8.30PM
Title: The Journey of Creative Crew Singapore 
Catergory: Miscellaneous
Speaker: Carlsson Chee (User Group Co-Manager, Art & Managing Director of Rephlexion Designs)
You may have heard of us, or even attended one of our sessions. But what exactly happened from where we started? Let us look back at how Creative Crew Singapore grew into what we are today, our milestones and achievements we've had for the past 1 year. 

8.30PM - 8.44PM
Q&A - Start Packing Up Everything!

8.45PM
END

Dear Crew, We are glad to invite you to our next monthly meeting. As you know we have been changing venue every month. This time our meeting will be held in a special venue:

The National Library in Victoria street! 
Level 1, Multi-purpose room
Central Public Library
100 Victoria Street
Singapore 188064

Thanks to NLB that sponsored the venue. We are going to deliver one of our best session. Do not miss out meeting on March 10th!

- 6.45 Registration

- 6.55 Opening, Stefano Virgilli, 5 minutes

- 7.00 Ivan Chew on Creative Common, 20 minutes
Synopsis: You may or may not have heard about Creative Commons (CC). In this 20-mins talk, Ivan (aka RamblingLibrarian.blogspot.com) will share: what CC is and isn’t; what it means to “adopt a CC license”; how to search for CC-licensed materials; implications to creators when they license their works as CC. The talk aims to raise awareness of what CC is about (and how it relates to Copyright in general) as well as to allow creators to decide how and why CC might be relevant to what they wish to achieve.

- 7.20 Linus Lim on Fireworks, 20 minutes
Synopsis: Fireworks CS4 is turned into a solid graphics tool with a strong focus on rapid prototyping of websites. In this fireworks series, Linus will explain some of the new Fireworks features to do a clickable prototype of your web site to an interactive Adobe PDF file for demo your designs to clients. - 7.40 break, 10 minutes

- 7.50 Lynus Hee on Adobe Media Encoder, 20 minutes
Synopsis: Adobe Media Encoder is the new revolutionary software available in the Adobe Creative Suite 4. The flexibility of an independent rendering software, allows users to keep working meanwhile rendering is in progress. Discover with Lynus the formats and compressions available in AME.

- 8.10 William Aung on Photoshop layer masks, 20 minutes
Synopsis: One of the most powerful tools in Photoshop since many years already. Are you sure you know everything about Layer Masks? William will give a demo on advance use of Layer Mask to compose an outstanding believable-surreal image.

- 8.30 Q&A and start to pack up everything

- 8.45 End

Showcase of Flash and Dreamweaver CS4 capabilities. After Effects in cinema post production.

Evangelist	:	Paul Burnett and Tad Leckman (Lucas Film)
Date	:	4 March 2009 (Wed)
Time	:	5.30 - 7.30pm
Venue	:	Pagemaker Training Room     No. 8 Temasek Boulevard Suntec Tower 3 #06-02 Singapore 038988

Paul Burnett is Senior Worldwide Evangelist for the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe, specializing in Flash and the web. In this role, Paul travels throughout the world, speaking at industry conferences, presenting at trade shows and seminars, talking with customers, and leading specialized, advanced training sessions featuring Adobe’s Creative Suite.

Read Paul’s bio

Tad Leckman will share his experience with Adobe After Effects. Tad has lectured at the VES Festival of Visual Effects, SIGGRAPH, AnimFX NZ, The Port Townsend Film Festival, The Savannah Film Festival, Apple Computer, GDX, The Scriptwriter’s Network, The Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, and at the Brooklyn Museum. He has served on Apple Computer’s Customer Advisory Board and is an active member of the Visual Effects Society.
Read Tad’s bio 

 

 

Barcamp Singapore 3 is here!

BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. This event will bring together interesting people in the IT, creative, media, energy, bio-tech and other sectors to share ideas in an collegial atmosphere of unabashed geekery. 

Join us together with Creative Crew for the 3rd annual Barcamp event held in Singapore. We will talking about the industry trends with tutorials about this multi-disciplinary design real world. Creative Crew is proud to be one of the official supporter for this event.

Catch us in Room 2

Topics we are presenting:
1. Designing with Photoshop by Carlsson Chee
2. Motion Graphics with After Effects by Stefano Virgilli
3. Rapid Prototyping for Web with Fireworks by Linus Lim
4. Photography in the real world by Samuel Chia

Top 5 Reasons to Attend
1. Creative Crew will be the speakers at Barcamp!
2. Gain insight into the greatest trends and creative minds ever assembled.
3. Explore the latest trends in creative, digital, mobile and social media.
4. Attend 5 distinctive rooms featuring industry speakers from the technology and creative community.
5. It’s FREE!

DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO BE PART OF THIS EVENT WITH CREATIVE CREW

Date: Sat Feb 28 2009 
Time:10.30am to 6.30pm
Venue: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Blk 27, Level 2 (Teaching and Learning Centre), 535 Clementi Road, Singapore 599489 . 

Buses from Clementi MRT: 154, 184
Busses from Dover MRT: 74
Buses plying along Clementi Road: 52, 61, 74, 75, 151, 154, 184  

What is RIAction?

Singapore’s very first RIA ( Rich Internet Applications) Event - RIAction will be taking place on the 26th February 2009, RIAction will see speakers from Google, Microsoft, Adobe, together with community leaders, coming together for a day of technological updates, roadmaps and application showcase!

Why RIA?

In the recent years, we have see a proliferation of RIA applications, ranging from Instant Messaging on the Web, to image / video editing. Users now achieve desktop functionality with nothing but just a web browser. Client technologies like Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR , Microsoft Silverlight, and the maturing of Javascript Frameworks like JQuery has enabled end-users to enjoy never before desktop-like features on web applications. Together with the lowering cost of server solutions enabled by Cloud technologies like Google Apps Engine and the access of various web services like Google Maps and Google Contacts, the industry and the end-users are seeing more and more quality and engaging Rich Clients that enable them to purely use the browser to access functionality that was previously ruled by Desktop applications. On the other hand, desktop applications can now access various web service easily, creating a new range of occasionally-connected applications.

Sounds Interesting. How do I get involved?

Creative Crew is proud to be part of the event and will be there with a booth on the 26th February 2009. You can volunteer to help us with the booth on that day.

Venue:

Microsoft Auditorium
1 Marina Boulevard #22-01 One Marina Boulevard Singapore 018989
Nearest MRT : Raffles Place MRT

Register for FREE now!

Our January meeting was simply amazing! Thanks to Samuel, Carlsson and Lynus, we explored the secrets of camera raw and the new features of Photoshop CS4.

Check out the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMURwWlAP8

Join Creative Crew now

Date: 13th January 2009
Time : 7.30 p.m - 9.30 p.m
Venue: Motion Elements Pte Ltd, 81a Maude Road, Singapore 208355 (Closest MRT Lavender)
Map: http://tinyurl.com/meetingvenue

- 7.30 p.m - Registration and pizza

- 7.50 p.m - Welcome to January meeting
Synopsis > A warmest welcome from Creative Crew’s Co-Manager, Carlsson Chee

- 7.55 p.m - The RAW truth part 2, by Samuel Chia (30 minutes)
Synopsis > A continuation from December’s meeting, Samuel will Demonstrations of Image Processing Workflow in Camera Raw.
The tools and functions of camera raw - live conversion of a raw file using the ideas proposed in the previous session - showcase of how camera raw may be used to process jpegs and its advantages.

- 8.25 p.m - Break (Remember to bring your name cards!)

- 8.40 p.m - Creating a website in Photoshop CS4 by Carlsson Chee
Synopsis > Learn how to design and create a simple website from scratch in Photoshop CS4.

- 9.00 p.m - Cool New Features of CS4, by Lynus Hee (30 minutes)
Synopsis > Now that the euphoria of the CS4 launch is done and dusted, it is about time to start integrating the new features into our own workflow. From the new tabbed interface and navigation to the new and improved smart objects, Lynus will explore some of its new features in a practical demonstration.

- 9.30 p.m - End

Dear Crew,

CS4 has been launche quite a while ago. I guess it's time to say what you like the most.

My favourite new feature is the CAS (content aware scaling) transform.

What do you like of Adobe CS4?

Cheers

Stefano