What's New -

• Photoshop Feature – AI select Subjects
  https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/28/adobe-previews-new-photoshop-feature-that-uses-ai-to-select-subjects/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-9qYLr15tU

• Photoshop Express App Now Lets You Add Text to Collages
  Available for Android or iOS – Not to be confused with PS Mix or PS Fix
  http://www.iclarified.com/63585/adobe-photoshop-express-app-now-lets-you-add-text-to-your-collages

• Adobe XD Enhanced - https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/november-update-of-adobe-xd/

  You asked. We listened. Now, XD is even better based on your top-requested features, including:

  Design Specs (Beta). Share a link of your prototype with your developers to get measurements, flows and styles inspected faster.

  • Layout Grid. In addition to the classic square grid, XD now offers layout grids with columns, margins and gutters.
  • JPG Export. Quickly export artboards, elements and images in JPG (as well as SVG and PNG).

• MAX 2017 Keynotes & Sessions - https://max.adobe.com/sessions/max-online/
  (https://youtu.be/BFE5DJjOz-c)

• Adobe Forums - https://forums.adobe.com/welcome
  • Product Specific Sections or Lounge
  • Adobe Community Leaders

• Adobe Training & Tutorials - https://helpx.adobe.com/learning.html

• Adobe TV –

  • https://tv.adobe.com/
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/AdobeCreativeCloud
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAdobeTv

• Adobe Create Magazine – http://create.adobe.com/

• Adobe Blogs – https://blogs.adobe.com/

• Jim Helms –

  • A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study

  Pinterest's new mobile web experience is a Progressive Web App. In this post we'll cover some of their work to load fast on mobile hardware by keeping JavaScript bundles lean and adopting Service Workers for network resilience.
  https://medium.com/@addyosmani/a-pinterest-progressive-web-app-performance-case-study-3bd6ed2e6154

  • Responsive Spreadsheets - https://css-tricks.com/idea-simple-responsive-spreadsheet/

• Scott Rener -
  • Accessing Higher Ground: Resources - http://accessinghigherground.org/virtual/
  • epubtest.org
  • epubcheck.org
  • Ally Software Program Tool to make documents accessible LMS

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• Adobe’s free visual storytelling tool Spark adds premium features
• More on Adobe Spark
• Illustrator Updates - AI will soon give designers up to 1,000 art boards to play with
• 5 Great Lightroom Tips
• More on Adobe Lightroom
• How to move over from Photoshop to After Effects
• 6 great video editing apps for mobile
• Upcoming Conferences
• WP Y'all - It's WordCamp Birmingham - October 21-22
• 2017 Alabama Assistive Technology Expo & Conference (ALATEC) - October 19-20 @ AU
  
• Adobe MAX Conference - October 18-20
• Cascade Users Conference #CUC17 - October 24-26
• Educause - October 31-November 3
• Great Resource Sites
  • Adobe Create Magazine
  • Creative Bloq

Reminder - Our usual meeting day in October will be preempted by the Adobe MAX conference. So we will meet one week later on Thursday, October 26, at 10:00 AM in the OIT Conference Room (Room 201) to discuss what we learned at the conference.

The schedule for WordCamp Birmingham has just been released! Check out the amazing group of Speakers and Sessions we have for October 21 and 22.

https://2017.birmingham.wordcamp.org/schedule/

Just $40 gets you admission both days, a snazzy WP Y'all t-shirt, lunch Saturday and snacks both days.

Buy your ticket today!

• Wordcamp ATL this weekend
• AIGA B'ham – Adobe XD Workshop – 4/7/17 1:00pm-4:00pm @ Books-A-Million 121 West Park Drive 35211 - $10 for AIGA members and $25 for non-members.
• Make the Cut Competition - Create Your Own Edit of Imagine Dragons' next music video- AltPress Article
• Fast Company article on Adobe's automation of web design
• Project Dali – 3D Paint
• Axios article on Adobe in the era of AR & VR
• Adobe Lightroom Mobile App Gets New Raw HDR Capture Mode
• Forbes Article: For VR Storytelling Pioneers, One Adobe Partner Has The Mettle Of An Outfitter

It's coming up fast! March 18-19!

https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/

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• Aaron's video - Adobe MAX Experience 2016

• Adobe MAX 2016 Sessions Archive & Keynotes
  

Some of What's New

• Project Felix
• Adobe Fuse
• Adobe Spark
• Adobe XD
  
  

WordCamp Birmingham is coming up this Saturday, October 29, 2016. It will be held at the Harbert Center in downtown Birmingham starting at 8:00 AM and running until 4:45 PM. Tickets are available on their website.