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November User Group meeting - Imagery and LiveCycle (2 Comments)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:36:22 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

November 20, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Speakers

Mike Ellis, Livecycle

Alun Ward, Eye Division

Glenn Clarkson, WebCAL Internet Services

Agenda

In November at OFVM Film Oxford, the Dreamweaver User Group will focus on imaging software, and the Flash User Group are visited by Mike Ellis who will talk about LiveCycle.

Since the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, they have been busy integrating the Flash and PDF technologies. The best example of this is their LiveCycle Enterprise Suite platform. Livecycle is a J2EE server based platform for delivering improved user experiences and document automation. It is an area that runs in parallel with the main developments in the Flash platform so this session will be of interest to Flash and PDF developers/designers alike.

The presenter, Michael Ellis, formally of Adobe Systems, has now set up a company focused on the use of Livecycle. He will explain what the platform is, how the underlying technologies are being used, and why this is very relevant to those interested in Adobe technologies.

Alun Ward will take us through Photoshop.com the Adobe tool for editing images online and how it integrates with existing photo collection sites such as Flickr.

Glenn Clarkson will show how he created an award-winning presentation for a housing association using Illustrator, Photoshop and PowerPoint.

Glenn will also show the beta release of Lightroom V3.

In addition, in response to members’ requests, we shall be visiting Lynda.com to look at Using Masks in Photoshop.

If you have any specific areas of these tools you would like to have covered please let us know (info@dreamweaveroxford.com).

Bring along a friend or colleague, there will be lots of opportunities for networking with likeminded creatives.

See you there.

Advance warning of our December meeting. Thursday December 17th, 7:30pm, OFVM Film Oxford, Christmas social and guest animators.

OFVM Film Oxford, can be found here:

http://tiny.cc/yTEyB

Link

Adobe LiveCycle

Keywords

Photography, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, Flickr, photoshop.com, Lightroom, LiveCycle, enterprise

Adobe design products with Stephen Newberry from Adobe (4 Comments)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:14:18 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

October 21, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM Film Oxford
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Speakers

Stephen Newberry, Senior Technical Sales Engineer, Adobe Systems Europe Ltd

Agenda

Stephen will talk about integration between existing and forthcoming Adobe design products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Catalyst.

Meeting Minutes

We had a great night on Wednesday thanks to Steve Newberry who drove down from Adobe HQ to give us a whirlwind tour through some of the timesaving devices in Illustrator, Bridge, Photoshop and Flash CS4.

I noted down just two of the millions of tips, feel free to send in the ones you remember if you were there.

In Bridge, Ctrl-Space-B (PC) on a selection of images brings up the ‘cover show’ cycle of images full screen. Very nice.

Photoshop: zoom even when using the Hand tool on a pic by pressing Ctrl, phew!

Then we had a quick tour through Adjustment layers in Photoshop – for the casual user, which must still be me then.

Content Aware Scaling – a reminder of this amazingness. How many times could I have used that recently if I’d remembered it was there!

Examples of 3D usage – only available in Photoshop Extended, however, along with video editing and medical imaging.

In Design: we had a pretty in-depth example of exporting an In Design document to SWF and to XFL format, an interchange format which brings all the design imagery and text through correctly preserved, ready to play with in Flash CS4. We looked at FLYP – a more complex online magazine format.

We watched a quick preview movie from Russell Brown about potential Photoshop developments. If you like his quirky presentational style, he’s all over the web.

Steve answered a bunch of your questions and was both helpful and entertaining, so it was a great night.

A reminder that the next User group meeting is on Friday November 20th, but there’s also a soft-launch of

Keywords

indesign, bridge

First Autumn User Group meeting (1 Comment)

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:03:08 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

September 24, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

Film Oxford, OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Speakers

Chuck Freedman of Ribbit.com

Link

Chuck's blog

Meeting Minutes

Chuck talked about his microphone app for Flash which uses a C application and merapi (application by Adam Flater of Roundarch) which is a bridge between C and AIR, to talk to Flash.

The problem in Flash currently is that stereo microphone input is not supported natively, and that there's really not much you can do with the audio feed other than check activity levels.

Chuck showed us a way to use a C application to analyse data from a stereo microphone attached to his laptop, and change values in a Flash application accordingly.

There's some other fantastic stuff out there utilising microphone input, in particular everyone loved the microphone leaves SWF by Bartek Drozdz on EverdayFlash.co. Plug in your mic and try:

http://www.everydayflash.com/flash/pv3d/leaves/

Thanks Chuck!

Keywords

microphone, audio, flash, stereo

User group meeting: Brothers McLeod and the Christmas social

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:43:35 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

December 17, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:00pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Speakers

The Brothers McLeod, BAFTA nominated great British animators.

Agenda

Presentation by BAFTA nominated animators, The Brothers McLeod + Christmas social event - pizza, beer, juice, films, fierce competitions!

Bring your own (short) animation to show us all.

The award winning, BAFTA nominated Brothers McLeod (Greg and Myles) have a track record in creating animation for TV, web, and film. They are represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors and have directed campaigns for Skittles, Stena Line, and Guinness amongst others. They have written and directed series for BBC (Pedro and Frankensheep) and Tate Galleries (Art Sparks), and written for a range of TV, Games and web projects (Noddy, SpongeBob SquarePants, NHS Relationships and Sex). They have a well established YouTube channel and have had several internet successes including Spamland and Fuggy Fuggy which was picked up by MTV and Mondo Media. In 2009, they were nominated for a BAFTA in the Short Animation category for their film Codswallop.

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Link

The Brothers McLeod

Video

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Keywords

animation, social, christmas

User Group May meeting

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:34:05 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

May 6, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford OX4 3AH
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Speakers

Andrew Shorten

Agenda

Andrew Shorten from Adobe tells us about the latest developments for Flash and Flex - May 6th at 7.30pm

Andrew Shorten works for Adobe as a Platform Evangelist and has offered to talk about Flex, Flash and AIR and the opportunities these technologies present to enrich web and desktop experiences. He will be presenting an update on the Flash Platform, showing an early build of Flash Catalyst and demo-ing some of the new features in Flex Builder Gumbo. You can find out more about Andrew at his web-site http://ashorten.com .

Meeting Minutes

Last night’s session was our most popular yet, with Andrew Shorten from Adobe speaking for over an hour on the forthcoming Catalyst and Flex releases.

There are definitely some interesting times ahead for designers seeking to use Flash. It’s always been a bit of a headache for designers to get their heads around interactive interfaces using Flash Pro.

Here’s a quick list of some of the links Andrew talked about :

Andrew’s blog
In education or unemployed? Get free tools at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/
Photoshop Express - free online image editing
Acrobat.com - Buzzword: online word processor + whiteboard app
Adobe Labs - the place to go for the beta of Catalyst when it emerges, probably in June

For some of these tools, you’ll need a free Adobe ID. Once you’ve got one of those, don’t forget to access our Group page too on Adobe, to subscribe to updates, RSVP to our events etc.

Thanks to everyone for making it a great night, and many congratulations again to Dan Govender for winning the $2,000 of Adobe software. Commiserations to everyone else.

Keywords

oxford, shorten

June User Group meeting

Thu, 28 May 2009 09:52:40 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

June 4, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM, Film Oxford
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Agenda

This month we are planning an informal social meetup and providing pizza and drinks. So do come along and meet other tormented web designers, illustrators, digital artists, games developers, video jockeys and other geeks who love (or just use) Adobe software. This is a good chance to find out a bit more about what we all do during the day.

We will have a copy of Flash Catalyst and there will be a chance to get hands on and see if it really is as easy as Andrew Shorten made it look last month.

There should be lots of Catalyst and Flex related freebies, the Adobe Dreamweaver Classroom-in-a-book to give away, as well as the most popular $2100 free software bundle.

For further information about Dreamweaver Oxford see http://www.dreamweaveroxford.com

RSVP us your pizza order, and please do bring along your own drink/snacks if you feel generous or just want to stand clutching your own favourite brew to yourself.

This is the last meeting before we take a two month summer break.

Keywords

pizza, social

User Group February meeting (1 Comment)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:32:28 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

February 4, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford OX4 3AH
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User Group March meeting

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:33:17 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

March 6, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford OX4 3AH
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User Group Christmas Meeting

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:32:55 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

December 10, 2008 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH
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Agenda

Show and tell - bring us a web site you've made or you're fascinated by (and make sure it's legal)

Link

ODUG

2009 First meeting

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:29:35 +0000

Event by alun

Date and Time

January 7, 2009 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Address

OFVM film oxford
54 Catherine St
Oxford OX4 3AH
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