Create a Portfolio Website with Adobe Portfolio

Thursday, November 11, 2021, 6 pm – 8 pm

Create a personalized website to showcase your creative work with Adobe Portfolio. Included in your Creative Cloud subscription, Portfolio is easy to use,  requires no coding, and automatically creates responsive versions of your site for desktop, tablet, and phone. 



About the presenter:  Carol Gunn is an experienced  graphic designer and sole proprietor of Gunn Graphics, located  in Austin, Texas. See https://gunngraphics.biz/. She works at expert level in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. When her freelance work is done, she creates labors of love.

Working Remotely and Efficiently with the Creative Cloud – Jan 14, 2021

Discover how to be more effective with less effort using the power of Creative Cloud. In this session, teacher, designer, and business strategist Roman Villarreal will show how you can leverage Creative Cloud to work collaboratively and remotely with your team and clients. He’ll also touch on some cool new features — and hidden gems — of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator as they relate to rapidly developing content on the fly.

You’ll explore

  • Ideas for creating effective business proposals and pitch decks while collaborating remotely
  • How to stay in sync with your team, even while iterating on content, using Creative Cloud Libraries
  • The more nuanced, but superpowerful features of Creative Cloud

Teacher, designer and business strategist Roman Villarreal is the principal of Lumenbrite, a digital design training school that specializes in teaching Adobe creative tools. Lumenbrite was founded to create handcrafted training experiences that aim to both educate and inspire. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has locations throughout the US.

www.linkedin.com/in/rvillarreal123/

Meeting details will be soon coming.

Illustrator, October 2020 Austin Adobe User Group Meeting

Classical Special Effects (F/X) in Adobe Illustrator Made Easy
Thursday, October 8, 6 pm – 8 pm

Please join us ONLINE in October for our monthly FREE meeting, Thursday, October 8, 6 pm – 8 pm.

In this training, you will learn how do create Classical Special Effects in a few steps using: Layer (Clipping) Masks, Opacity Masks and Graphic Styles

You will also learn how to convert simple shapes to a more complex 2D shape and then convert that shape to a 3D object.

Join Zoom Meeting – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 89108101559?pwd= SVNqMHdmRWxaZ0VYRlJMTFhNUnhOUT 09

Meeting ID: 891 0810 1559, Passcode: 5f*CN5

Special Text Effects and Text Animations in After Effects Made Easy – Aug 2020 – Zoom Meeting

Special Text Effects and Text Animations in After Effects Made EasyIn this training you will learn how to animate text as well as used various techniques to create special text effects.

Presenter:

Cornelius Chopin

Cornelius Chopin is an Accessibility Coordinator at Texas Health and Human Services. He received an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) title in Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash and teaches at night at several schools including the Art Institute of Austin. He completed his Master degree in Information Science and Learning Technologies (ISLT) from the Missouri University in December 2012 with emphasis on E-learning and Mobile Application development.

Time:

Thursday, August 13, 6pm-8pm, via Zoom. Recording of event can be reviewed below.

Dreamweaver: slicker than slime time saving tips, techniques and tools

dwThis presentation will show you time-saving tips, techniques, and tools in Dreamweaver for all user levels

Beginner:

  • Productive Dreamweaver Shortcuts
  • Quick-Tag Editor in Desing View
  • Using Multiple Cursors
  • Code Editor Tips
  • How to Use Tag Chooser to select tag effectively
  • How to use the Link Checker

Intermediate:

  • How to use the  DOM Panel to select and edit HTML elements
  • How to use Emmet Commands
  • How to create a Snippet to save time coding

Advanced:

  • How to use the Insert Panel to insert frameworks objects
  • How to use the CSS Designer Panel interactively
  • How to create templates
  • How to creat Media Queries

Since this is an evening meeting, we’ll have pizza available.

About the presenter

Cornelius Chopin is an Accessibility Coordinator at Texas Health and Human Services. He received an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) title in Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash and teaches at night at several schools including the Art Institute of Austin. He completed his Master degree in Information Science and Learning Technologies (ISLT) from the Missouri University in December 2012 with emphasis on E-learning and Mobile Application development.

Date: Thurs, Feb 13, 2020
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m. (the doors are locked at 6:30; the person at the reception desk will open them for latecomers)
Place: 300 E Highland Mall Blvd. Suite 100
Please RSVP to this free event

Dreamweaver and Bootstrap 4 for Designers Who Code

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Learn how to create modern, responsive web pages from scratch using a combination of Bootstrap components and a set of intuitive tools that cater to designers who need to code. Join Roman Villarreal, principal of Lumenbrite and a MAX Master, to discover the latest and coolest updates to Bootstrap 4 and get an introduction to the powerful under-the-hood features of SASS and CSS mixins.

In this action-packed lab, you’ll create a responsive web design project and Roman will show you how to:

  • Use timesaving workflows to efficiently design your pages
  • Apply the best and latest features of Bootstrap 4
  • Work with the Flexbox Grid and Utilities to smartly adjust web interfaces
  • Customize popular Bootstrap 4 components
  • Leverage the power of SASS and mix-ins

Note: You’ll need to bring a laptop with Dreamweaver and Bootstrap installed and have an active Creative Cloud membership to participate in this lab.

Since this is an evening meeting, we’ll have pizza available.

Date: Thurs, Oct. 10, 2019
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m. (the doors are locked at 6:30; the person at the reception desk will open them for latecomers)
Place: 300 E Highland Mall Blvd. Suite 100. Turn north onto Jonathan and park in the Visitor parking area
Please RSVP to this free event

Illustrator Variable Data Techniques

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Explore the unique benefits of Illustrator’s variety of variable-data with a demonstration of a sample workflow: the creation of alternate layout advertisement designs for a frozen yogurt chain with unique file names, all from a spreadsheet!

About the Presenter:

Vasily Hall (LinkedIn profile) is a Dallas area Adobe Illustrator user and graphic arts workflow automation professional. Since picking up Adobe ExtendScript at his first production art job 4 years ago, he has been steadily learning and growing clients in North Texas, as well as nationally, with custom graphics workflow scripting services.

This presentation has demonstration files for a hands-on educational experience, anyone who has a version of Adobe Illustrator installed on a laptop is encouraged to bring your device for a rewarding session of follow-along fun! Download the demo files (100 MB).

Date: Weds, September 12, 2018
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m. (the doors are locked at 6:30; the person at the reception desk will open them for latecomers)

Place: 300 E Highland Mall Blvd. Suite 100

Free Pizza

RSVP to this free event