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

Take responsive eLearning to the next level with Fluid Boxes

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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/

• 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.

• CSS locks
  • Flexible Typography with CSS Locks - This concept, and one implementation, were proposed by Tim Brown in Flexible typography with CSS locks.
  • A CSS lock is a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two values, depending on the current viewport size, rather than jump straight from one value to the other.
    • The Math of CSS Locks
    • Demo 3
• Animation SVG/CSS/JS
  • New Lynda.com Tutorial on Animating SVG with CSS
  • Animating SVG with CSS fron CSS Tricks
  • Creating Complex Interactive Animations with SVG, and CSS, and performant JS 
  • SVG SMIL vs CSS Animation Test
  • Testing CSS 3, SVG 1.2 and HTML 5 particle animation frame rates. Web animation performance
  • Weighing SVG Animation Techniques (with Benchmarks) 
  • CSS/SVG charts and animation 

• Adobe Stock Photos - New Clothing Line ;-)
  • AdWeek - Adobe's Cheeky New Clothing Line Celebrates Some of the Worst Stock Photos Ever
  • Time - Adobe’s New Stock Photo Tees Celebrate Women Laughing Alone With Salads and Firm Handshakes
  • TNW - Adobe put earth’s worst stock photos on t-shirts and we want one

• Photoshop Mix – mobile photo compositing/editing
  • How To Create A Surreal Image With Adobe Photoshop Mix

• Adobe Lightroom for iOS 10
  • Adobe Lightroom for iOS 10 Adds Raw Support

• Shutterstock and FontShop
  
• Shutterstock and FontShop Ship Plugins for Adobe Creative Cloud Applications

Upcoming Events:

• Accessibility for Online Materials: Guest Speaker Dr. Scott Renner, Office of Accessibility - September 19-20, 2016

  Whether you teach in a classroom and augment your teaching with materials in Canvas or through other online resources or whether you teach completely online, you need to consider ensuring that your material design follows guidelines to ensure that the largest number of people can access your materials without major problems. Universal Design is part of the university’s strategic plan, and designing accessibility in mind is the law. Join us for some tips and tricks on how to make your course materials ADA compliant (ADA=Americans with Disabilities Act) and how to evaluate online resources for ADA compliance, delivered by Accessibility Expert Dr. Scott Renner from the Office of Accessibility.

  Monday, September 19, 3-4pm
  Tuesday, September 20, 11-noon

• 2016 Alabama Assistive Technology Expo & Conference (ALATEC) - October 11-12, 2016
  

  ALATEC will provide an opportunity to see first-hand the latest in assistive technologies, practices and services for persons with disabilities that will increase the ability of such persons to access education, employment, housing, transportation, health care and leisure/recreation in the community of choice. ALATEC will provide professional development and training to increase the knowledge and skills in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: Adult Services, Education/Learning, Visual and Hearing Impairment, Communication, and Physical Accessibility/Mobility.

• Tech Talks - October 19, 2016

  Higher education has been the epicenter of technological innovation for centuries; as these technologies have been adopted on campuses, education has evolved in profound ways. Join us for Tech Talks, as we drive the discussion of information and instructional technologies in higher education forward through talks, demonstrations, and poster sessions.

  Call for Proposals - Deadline - 9/15/16

• Adobe MAX - November 2-4, 2016 - San Diego, CA

  The world’s premier creativity conference, MAX is an awe-inspiring mashup of over 9,000 of the world’s top creatives and best-in-the-business experts who come together to learn, share, create, connect and play.

AMMUG August 2016 Meeting

Thursday, August 18, 2016

1. Web Fonts & Icons
   • FontAwesome v. 4.6 Released
     • FontAwesome – Accessibility
     • What’s new in 4.6 & Accessibility Category
     • Stacking Text & Icons
     • Announcing FontAwesome CDN
   • Bytesize - SVG iconset

2. WordPress
   • Getty Images WP Plugin - costs?
   • SEO Friendly Images - Automatically adds alt and title tags to images.
   • WP Accessibility
     • WP Accessibility Plugin
     • New Wa11y Plugin Scans Wordpress Sites for Accessibility Issues

3. Dreamweaver
   • HTML 5 Video in Dreamweaver - Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog
   • Web Design Essentials: Creating Forms in Dreamweaver CC - Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog
   • Content First Web Design - Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog

4. Photoshop
   • PixelSquid – 3D library for Photoshop – Free
     • Online Demo

5. Premier
   • Quickly create closed captions for accessibility in Premier

6. Acrobat
   • Acrobat Reader App Now Works With OneDrive