Morning Star Design
109 Third Street
Linden

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Phone Carla on 083 585 6309 or Miguel 082 716 1938

Adobe Photoshop and After Effects

Working Smart with Photoshop Smart Objects and Smart Filters

Miguel De Carvalho

This topic will be a demonstrating how smart object and smart filters optimize your workflow.

PhotoShop CS4 and DreamWeaver CS4 new work flow

Miguel De Carvalho

Friends of Design
60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town, South Africa

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Phone James on 021 683-3861 or 083 225 9297

Adobe Flash

Common design patterns

Johannes Nell

This session will be a low level explanation of common design patterns and how simple design patterns fit together to make more complex ones. This will be followed by some practical examples of when to introduce certain design patterns for common problems experienced in Flash and Flex.

PaperVision 3D

Wouter Huizinga

This talk will be a basic introduction to pv3d with examples of online work and perhaps a basic worked example. In addition to this I want to talk about augmented reality using the flarToolkit in combination with pv3d.

Dax Data
Unit 1 Doncaster Office Park
Punters Way,
Kenilworth

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Phone James on 021 683-3861 or 083 225 9297

Photoshop Strategies for sharpening Images

Claude Felbert

Intro & What is Sharpening

The talk is made up from information gleaned over 10 years from various books and helpful individuals on the Forums that Claude frequents.
Most of all it has been taking the time to experiment, on his images, with the methods described and seeing what works and then adapting the combined wisdom of others to suit his workflow.

The other side of the coin – NOISE

Different Sharpenning Methods:

• Unsharp Mask
• Smart Sharpen
• ACR Sharpening
• HIRELOAM
• High Pass Sharpening
• Selective Sharpening
• Negative Sharpening
• Sharpening in Cie Lab
• Channel Sharpening
• Luminosity
• Sharpening using Layers:
• Masks
• Blending Modes
• Using 3rd Party Sharpeners
• Plug-Ins

Actions:

Where to Start – Decisions Decisions
When :- Initial Sharpening
Output Sharpening
Where :- Creative Sharpening
Method :- Suitablity
How Much :- Subjectivity

Who must it satisfy?

You
Your Boss
The Printer
The Client

Keyline Graphics
Suite 10 Bexhill - Ground floor
453 Windermere Road
Durban
4001

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Dreamweaver CS4: Building a Better Web (DAUG Meetup #1)

Matthew Would

Join this presentation on the huge developments in Dreamweaver CS4, which have elevated it once again to a must-have integrated tool for Web design and Development.

Once upon a time, everyone used Dreamweaver. Then, when dynamic sites began to reign supreme, the developers jumped ship. Now, Designers and Developers alike are returning to Dreamweaver as word spreads that it can really accelerate the design and compliant coding workflow.

The event is at Keyline Graphics in Morningside, Durban. The Google maps link, above, doesn't work well. Click here instead: Map

We will discuss Dreamweaver CS4 features such the CSS best practices, related files toolbar, code navigator, and topics including standards-compliance, accessibility and usability.

As this is the first Durban AUG, we'll also be discussing the direction of future meetings, so make sure you come along if you're free to be a part of the birth of something great!

Matt is an Adobe Certified Expert, training consultant and print, web & 3D freelancer. He works with and trains the whole Adobe CS4 suite, but has a soft spot for the Flash Platform.

NMMU
North Campus
University Way
Summerstrand
Port Elizabeth

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Stephen Walker

First Session


Stephen Walker

This will be the first meeting of the Adobe User Group for Port Elizabeth.

We will discuss the way forward for the Group and see where interest lies as far as future topics go.

Stephen will present quick fire interesting tips and tricks - some are sure to amaze !! - however the main focus of the meeting will be planning the way forward for the group. Items to be discussed include:

Potential future topics. Future speakers.
Best days and times for future meetings.

A no holds barred Q&A session will follow the items above. So come along and bring your thoughts, ideas and questions. We're going to have a fun and relaxing few hours and I'm looking forward to seeing you all there.

Memorphic offices
Dorp street
Stellenbosch

Phone Francois - 082 746 7226

Flex Update


Francois Dempers

The meeting will consist of a presentation in which I'll be
introducing you to a couple of new developments, both in flex as well as the user group, including the following:

GroupSite - Which is an flex app that is part of the Community
Projects part of our user group site, and in particular the
application's modular architecture.

Commando - Which is a design pattern and component library that builds upon the existing Flex 3 RPC framework. (This should be an interesting 1 for all you Caingorm'ers out there)

Cocomo - Which is Adobe's new real time collaboration service. (really exciting if you want to easily add text chat or video conferencing to your existing flex apps)

4th November 2008

Greenfields Centurion - (Cnr. Lenchen and M34)

Open Session

Dinesh

Open Session so come armed with lots of questions
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