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November 2017 Meeting Notes
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2017-11-30 15:50.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
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Adobe TV –
- Adobe Create Magazine – http://create.adobe.com/
- Adobe Blogs – https://blogs.adobe.com/
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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
[Adobe Webinar] Author responsive eLearning without programming
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2017-10-24 13:00.Take responsive eLearning to the next level with Fluid Boxes
Experience a smart authoring platform offered by Adobe Captivate (2017 release). Use all-new Fluid Boxes to automatically create virtually any kind of responsive eLearning content—from application simulations to HD product demos, interactions, assessments and more—without writing a single line of code. Register onlie now.
September Meeting Recap/Links
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2017-09-21 15:16.- Adobe’s free visual storytelling tool Spark adds premium features
- Illustrator Updates - AI will soon give designers up to 1,000 art boards to play with
- 5 Great Lightroom Tips
- 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
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.
WordCamp Birmingham - Oct. 21-22, 2017
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2017-09-18 08:46. 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!
March Meeting Recap
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2017-03-20 15:29.- 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
Word Camp Atlanta 2017
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2017-03-15 14:56.WordCamp Birmingham 2016
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2016-10-20 08:57. 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.
Notes From the September AMMUG Meeting
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2016-09-15 12:33.- 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.
- 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 ;-)
- Photoshop Mix – mobile photo compositing/editing
- Adobe Lightroom for iOS 10
- Shutterstock and FontShop
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.
August Meeting Notes & Links
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2016-08-18 15:31.AMMUG August 2016 Meeting
Thursday, August 18, 2016
- Web Fonts & Icons
- WordPress
- Getty Images WP Plugin - costs?
- SEO Friendly Images - Automatically adds alt and title tags to images.
- WP Accessibility
- 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
- Photoshop
- Premier
- Acrobat

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