CREATE ATX

Best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving. The Austin Adobe User Group will take a short holiday break, skipping the December meeting and reconvening at the start of the new year. Please join us for our free monthly meetings on the Second Thursday of most months, starting in 2025. We will meet on January 9th, 6 pm Central.

We will be exploring the new 3D Substance add-on to Photoshop. In this session, we will show:

1. How to import 3D Substance to use with Photoshop

2. How to import a 3D object to your image in Photoshop

3. How to change the color or the material of the 3D object

4. How to change the light of the 3D object

5. How to render the 3D object with ray tracing for a more photorealistic view

The Presenter
Cornelius Chopin began his career as an engineer at Texas Instruments and Motorola for more than 19 years. After leaving Motorola, he began teaching at the ITT Technical Institute in Austin, Texas, and, as a freelance, for several major training coobtained an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) credential in Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop–as only one of seven ACIs in Texas. He is currently an Accessibility Coordinator at the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). He has been a speaker for over 15 years and has presented on topics from accessibility to advanced programming for the web, multimedia, and mobile. He enjoys learning new technologies and teaching them to others.

Jon Merrifield will review the implementation, layer conversions, and best uses for importing and utilizing Photoshop and Illustrator files and paths in After Effects animations, maintaining vector shapes, and the differences. We’ll examine when and why there may be a preference for one or the other as source files for After Effects.

Meeting Date is June 8th, 2023, at 6pm CST
To get the Zoom link, please write to adobegroupmgr@gmail.com.

Merrifield is a creative media professional with core skills in visual effects compositing and motion graphics. Jon operates a post and visual effects boutique, Peli Studio, based in Austin with global clientele, working on over 1,000 commercials, 100 music videos, 10 feature films, and a plethora of broadcast design projects. In addition to his creative film and design endeavors, Jon also has contracts with several high-end tech companies such as Salesforce to create social and promotional episodic media. Jon also is currently a trainer and consultant in After Effects and Premiere Pro at Lumenbrite, an international Adobe training company.

In Part 2 of this 2-part series on creating and using SMART OBJECTS, Cornelius Chopin will discuss some additional benefits of using them. For example,
you will learn:

• The advantage of DUPLICATING a SMART OBJECT
• How to REPLACE content in a SMART OBJECT
• How to LINK SMART OBJECTS instead of embedding SMART OBJECTS
• And more, made easy for beginners to advanced users.

This meeting will be held online, via Zoom, Thursday, April 13, 2023, 6pm- 8pm. To get the link (same as used in previous meetings), please contact austinadobegroupmgr@gmail.com.

The meeting was online on Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 6 pm CST.  It is the first of a 2-part series. Here is the recording:

Join us at the October meeting, online, at 6 pm CDT on Thursday, October 13th. We’ll be in the usual Zoom location. If you need the link, please write to adobegroupmgr@gmail.com.

Program description, How to Make a Dynamic PDF Portfolio in InDesign:
Already have a portfolio website, but need a PDF version for sharing? Join designer and teacher Roman Villarreal to learn tips and tricks for laying out and designing a dynamic professional portfolio using InDesign and Creative Cloud. You’ll discover how to create a slick PDF portfolio that changes dynamically based on your needs and lets you stand out and get noticed by potential clients.

As Roman Villarreal shares his techniques, you’ll learn how to:
• Use Creative Cloud Libraries to create, store, and access assets from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Create layout templates with InDesign that let you rapidly swap out content to keep your portfolio fresh and relevant
• Explore timesaving tools to redesign your portfolio for each position to emphasize your qualifications, especially when applying for multiple jobs or projects

This is a preview of the presentation that will be delivered at Adobe Max.

About the Presenter:
Roman Villarreal has been a designer and teacher for over 20 years. He is the founder of Lumenbrite, a company that specializes in teaching marketing courses to help boost the skill sets of digital and print content creators.

Bonus: Logo design in Illustrator
After Roman’s presentation, AAUG co-manager Cornelius Chopin will demonstrate how to re-create a logo in Illustrator.

After covering some but not all of the advanced new features in the 3D engine of Adobe Illustrator last month, Cornelius Chopin will show yet more. If you missed part IV, you can watch the session below.

Online, at 6 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2022. We’ll be in the usual Zoom location. Contact us for the link if you don’t have it.

After covering some but not all of the advanced new features in the 3D engine of Adobe Illustrator last month, Cornelius Chopin will show yet more.

Join us CreateATX and the Austin Adobe User Group–free, online, at 6 pm on Thursday, July 14th. We’ll be in the usual Zoom location. If you need the link, please write to adobegroupmgr@gmail.com.

Thursday, December 9, 2021, 6 pm – 8 pm, the Austin Adobe User Group’s monthly meeting, a free event, features a presentation by Roman Villareal. In this session, Roman will show you how to create looping animated Gifs using After Effects and some plugins. This is a beginner- to intermediate-level tour of features, how-tos, and tips/tricks.

Bio
Roman Villarreal is a designer and the principal at Lumenbrite Digital Design Training.

Session Recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/4VlH2msyQ4w

This is also the twice-a-year meeting when the big raffle is given away. Be present to win a free annual subscription to the Creative Cloud.