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  • Thank you all for coming to our recent joint meeting.

    Many thanks to our sponsors for helping us making this event successful. 

    Thank you G.F.C. for hosting the event with home made goodies.

    Thank you Adobe for giving us 2 copies of Adobe Creative Suite CS4.

    Congrat to the winners!

    Hope to have more joint meetings.  Look for our next meeting in January!

    Happy holidays!

    Chana


  •  Date: November 5, 2009 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm


    Moviola

    1135 North Mansfield Avenue
    Hollywood, California 90038
    google map

    Speaker:

    Chana Messer

    A fine artist for over 30 years. Mastering, teaching, and lecturing at the university level in the fields of fine art, oils & acrylics on canvas, paper making and advanced computer graphics and digital imaging. In the commercial world doing retouching, page layout & design, corporate identity, interactive multimedia Design, web design, on-screen presentations, CD covers, magazine covers, movie posters and brochures. Consulting on projects from concept to completion. Special training in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoshopLightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Microsoft Power Point, Keynote.

    Chana has been the main instructor at WDI - Walt Disney Imagineering & UCLA Visual Art Department. Have experience working with Adobe events at Mac world, AIGA and other events in Southern California ,Oregon And Israel. Part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, Adobe Partner and Adobe Community Expert. Adobe Illustrator Users Group Manager.

    http://macinart.blogspot.com/

    http://www.chanamesser.com

    Chana is an exhibiting artist you can view some of her work at:

    http://www.artpic2000.com/artists.php?artist=376-Messer&ref=M-2


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     Date: November 5, 2009 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm


    Moviola

    1135 North Mansfield Avenue
    Hollywood, California 90038
    google map

    Speaker:

    Chana Messer

    A fine artist for over 30 years. Mastering, teaching, and lecturing at the university level in the fields of fine art, oils & acrylics on canvas, paper making and advanced computer graphics and digital imaging. In the commercial world doing retouching, page layout & design, corporate identity, interactive multimedia Design, web design, on-screen presentations, CD covers, magazine covers, movie posters and brochures. Consulting on projects from concept to completion. Special training in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoshopLightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Microsoft Power Point, Keynote.

    Chana has been the main instructor at WDI - Walt Disney Imagineering & UCLA Visual Art Department. Have experience working with Adobe events at Mac world, AIGA and other events in Southern California ,Oregon And Israel. Part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, Adobe Partner and Adobe Community Expert. Adobe Illustrator Users Group Manager.

    http://macinart.blogspot.com/

    http://www.chanamesser.com

    Chana is an exhibiting artist you can view some of her work at:

    http://www.artpic2000.com/artists.php?artist=376-Messer&ref=M-2



  • Contest for Adobe Creative Suite 4:  This contest starts now and goes till the November 2009 Meeting

    Everyone attending the November 5th meeting will receive a free raffle ticket at the meeting. 

    Since the meeting is together with LA Web Professionals Group you will find the same link on their 

    group page:  http://groups.adobe.com/groups/e1b1f38181/summary

    ***To earn additional tickets for this raffle where there are 2 chances to win Creative Suite 4 and many other great prizes here is how it will work: 

    *For every friend who you bring with to the meeting, you get an extra ticket per friend. Bring as many friends as possible and spread the word and your chance at CS4. 

    You can e-mail me for the following information at lawebprofessionalsgroup@gmail.com

    *For every friend who hasn't been to this group yet who you refer to us by email, every 3 friends who you to the group email list, you get an extra ticket. 

    *Find us a great speaker that can commit to speaking at our meeting for 2010 and email us, with the details and the confirmation from the speaker and you will get 2 extra tickets for this raffle.

    *Committing to volunteer to bring snacks to the meetings in 2010, email us,  and let us know how often you plan to bring snacks to the meetings. You will get an extra 3 tickets for each time you commit to bring snacks for the meeting.

    *Find us a sponsor for meetings that can sponsor food, snacks and drinks. For each meeting that your sponsor can do it for you will get 3 tickets for snacks or drinks and 8 tickets for food. Email us to let us know about these sponsors and once they confirm you are eligible.

    Adobe Illustrator LA Group Manager Chana along with Daniel, LA Web Professionals Group manager, will keep track of all of the tickets each person is earning. Chana & Daniel (LA WEB Professional Group Manager) will distribute the tickets at the meeting, if you earned tickets and can't attend the meeting and want to be eligible to win CS4 only, you must email us 24 hours prior to the meeting.

    Thank you Daniel, for coming up with all the promotion ideas. You Rock!

  • Hope you all enjoyed Adobe MAX if you attended and Mini MAX as well.

    Fun week. Lots of information. You can log in and watch some of the events online.

    http://max.adobe.com/

    We are planning a November meeting together with Los Angeles Web Group.

    We are working on the agenda, date etc. This time it will be on the West side .

    Stay tune - for dates and information.

    By the way - Adobe MAX is in Los angeles next year Oct 24-27.  So plan on it!

    Best

    Chana

  • Entry posted Sep 24 by chana Messer, tagged Design, Development, Mobile, Print, Video

    MiniMAX 9INE: October 7th in Burbank. A can't miss 'taste of MAX'

    Join Newmedia Services and CommunityMX author Jim BabbageKeyframer andMudBubble's Chris GeorgenesFire On The Bay's Luke KilpatrickAdobe'sDuane Nickull and KCWebCore''s' Dee Sadler for the ninth annual MiniMAX mini-conference on Wednesday Evening, October 7th at 8PM ET at the offices of Video Symphony, a digital training center located on 266 East Magnolia in Burbank, CA.

    Directions to MiniMAX can be found here-->

    MiniMAX 9INE is a free event with free street parking around the Video Symphony complex in the Burbank Media District.

    MiniMAX is a production of the Los Angeles Adobe User Group in conjunction with the Los Angeles Flex User Group, the Los Angeles ColdFusion User Group, the Los Angeles Web Professionals User Group, the Los Angeles Illustrator User Group and the new Orange County Adobe User Group.

    MiniMAX 9INE is a series of 15 minute tutorials provided by some of the best experts in the web, print, broadcast and interactive design and development community across North America. Expect to see sessions on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver as well as other Adobe related applications mixed in for good pleasure.

    Food and drink will be at the event courtesy of Wine Warehouse, Function Drinks,iChillThe Bomb Steak and many more.

    Prizes from major book publishers like PeachpitO'ReillyFriends of Ed and Focal Press and software companies like OnOne SoftwareAlien Skin, a copy of Creative Suite 4 from Adobe and area businesses will also be offered to all visitors. It's like a mini-conference all in one night! Come meet your peers, make some new pals, stay for the after-party and learn from some of the best and most creative people on the planet! Join us Wednesday Evening, October 7th for the excit ement and fun of MiniMAX 9INE as it returns to crest the waves of Southern California!

     

  • Entry posted Sep 16 by chana Messer, tagged Design, Mobile, Print

    Thank you Andrew for a great talk! You Rock!

    Thank you everyone for attending the meeting last night. It was informative, creative,

    interesting and much more.

    Thanks again to Sally at Video Symphony for making it happen once again.

    Hope to see you all at Adobe Max October 4-6.

    Hope to see you at the Adobe Mini Max at Video Symphony October 7th,

    Keep up the good spirit, the great design, and rember every day is a new day!

    Think good thoughts! "There is no business like Font Business"!