LTMS 611: Extensible Languages for Development

Course Description:  The course addresses the need to extend visual authoring and editing tools with scripting and programming to achieve advanced features.  Proprietary languages will be used along with program, platform and device independent languages to create dynamic data display and advanced interactions.  Web-based, Windows OS and mobile device environments will be considered.

•         Write ActionScript to create advanced Adobe Flash programs and applications

•         Create device and output independent solutions

•         Use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to form and integrate data to create dynamic templates, programs and applications

•         Create dynamic layout and design with Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

•         Use JavaScript to support Dynamic HTML (DHTML) functions

If interested contact:

Charles Palmer
Executive Director,
Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies
326 Market Street, Harrisburg , PA 17101 

Direct 717.901.5127
Fax 717.901.3127
CPalmer@HarrisburgU.edu
www.HarrisburgU.edu
http://about.me/charles.palmer

Meeting Content:

• Dave’s presentation slides with links (PDF)
• Photoshop Tips from the Pros Recording

Here are some of the things we discussed at yesterday’s meeting:

• Thanks to our sponsors  who provided some great prizes!  Code Line, Certified Staffing Solution, Video2Brain, Manning Publications, Focal Press, Peachpit Press, and Adobe of course..
• I’ve mentioned it before, but thank you to everyone who has been using the CPAUG Amazon.com links to purchase items from Amazon.com including ebooks.  All proceeds go back into the group.
• CPAUG is now on Google+  so please add us to your Circles!

Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 24th Harris Toser will be presenting “QR Codes”  and we will be having our CS6 Launch Party. This will consist of a pizza party and the Bi-Annual CS6 Raffle. Hope to see you then!

Be sure to check out the Video2Brain new free CS6 “mini-courses”:

• After Effects CS6: New Features Workshop
• Premiere Pro CS6: New Features Workshop

video2brain’s Special User Group Course Discounts

Point your browser to http://www.video2brain.com/en/UGoffers and receive 25% discount on any or all of the eight courses displayed on the page by using the coupon code: V2BMay. The discounted offer is good until May, 31 2012. The discounted courses include:

• Photoshop CS6 Selections & Layer Masking Workshop
• Photoshop CS6 Image Cleanup Workshop
• Optimal Output with Photoshop CS6
• Photoshop CS6 Image Optimization Workflow
• Prelude CS6 Workshop
• Adobe Flash Professional CS6: New Features Workshop
• Photoshop CS6 Quick Start for Photographers
• Dreamweaver CS6: New Features Workshop

Location: Kline Branch Library
530 South 29th Street, Harrisburg PA

Free Pizza & Sodas at this meeting!

We’ve got a packed meeting this time that you won’t want to miss. We’ll be providing free pizza and sodas for everyone!  

Meeting Agenda:

• QR Codes with CPAUG Member Harris Toser
  QR Codes are everywhere these days, from the back of your cereal box to billboards. Have you ever wondered how they work? What you can do with them? CPAUG member Harris Toser will present a overview of QR Codes including how to generate them, statistics that can be tracked with QR Codes, how to build a ‘better-looking QR Code’, and more.
  Harris Toser is the production manager for Non-Sport Update magazine, a bi-monthly magazine for trading card collectors. The magazine also promotes three collectors shows annually and hosts many online resources for collectors. The magazine has been published continuously since 1990.
• Adobe Photoshop CS6 New Features Demo.  Megan Fister, CPAUG Manager, will show you a few of the amazing new features in Photoshop CS6 (Time permitting).

Meeting Raffle:

• We’ll be giving away one free course certificate from Webucator.  Webucator provides Adobe training, Photoshop training, and Flash training.  Check out their huge selection of courses for Adobe CS6!
• Video2Brain has provided us with a free course certificate for their  brand new “Prelude CS6 Workshop – Ingest, Manage, and Organize Your Media” training!    Video expert Maxim Jago introduces the core concepts of metadata management and tagging using Adobe XMP metadata. You’ll learn how to organize, ingest, transcode, tag, comment, subclip, and build a rough cut before sending media on to Premiere Pro for editing — the complete workflow with the new Adobe Prelude CS6.
• Special Adobe CS6 branded items including tee shirts, stickers and more.
• And of course we’ll have our usual great raffle books from our ever-loyal book publishing sponsors Focal Press and Peachpit Press.

• Bi-Annual Adobe CS6 Software Raffle!

  We’ll also be doing our bi-annual Adobe CS6 software raffle and have other nice prizes including a Webucator free course certificate at this meeting so don’t miss it!!

  Adobe CS6 Suite raffle information and rules are as follows:
  One lucky CPAUG member will be randomly selected from a raffle to win their choice of one of the CS6 Suites! Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile.

  Everyone who is present will get a raffle ticket but the raffle will include bonus tickets for CPAUG members and a better chance to win.
  A) 1 extra ticket for every meeting you’ve attended and signed-in for since January 2012.
  B) 5 extra tickets for bringing a new person to this meeting.
  C) 5 extra tickets for presenting at a meeting since January 2012

  The fine print: You must be a CPAUG member and you must be present to win and this must not be your first attended meeting. Approximate retail value of the prize is up to $1900.00. CS6 Master Collection is excluded. Maximum 16 total tickets per person. Winner must not have won a CS Suite in the past 12 months.

Thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support!

Introducing Creative Suite 6
Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 software delivers a whole new experience for digital media creation, enabling you to work lightning fast and reach audiences wherever they may be. Now, for the first time, CS applications are also available through Adobe Creative Cloud™, giving you the flexibility to download and install them at any time. Plus, access additional applications, publishing services, and new products and features as they are released.

What is Creative Cloud? Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is the digital hub that lets you download and install every Adobe Creative Suite® 6 application; access online services for file sharing, collaboration, and publishing; and benefit from new apps and features as soon as they’re released — giving you the freedom to create anything you can imagine.

We’ll have all the latest news and information regarding the CS6 launch on the CPAUG Twitter & Facebook pages so please check those frequently!

Basically, this person said to wrap the menu in it’s own div tag <div id=”iefix”>, then apply the following CSS to it:

#iefix {
position:relative;
z-index:1000;
}

Worked like a charm for me!

As always, there are a number of new, free lessons on the video2brain site. In this video fromGetting Started with Joomla!, Laura Gordon shows you how to define the different parameters for an Article Menu item.

• The Article Menu Item Type

April’s Free Courses

Be sure to check out our new free “mini-course”, in which Tim Grey shares his top 10 favorite new and enhanced features in the public beta version of Photoshop CS6.

• Photoshop CS6 Beta: Tim Grey´s Top 10 New Features

Also explore the new features of both Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and Adobe After Effects CS6 through Todd Kopriva’s two new free courses:

• After Effects CS6: New Features Workshop
• Premiere Pro CS6: New Features Workshop

video2brain’s April User Group Course Discounts

Point your browser to http://www.video2brain.com/en/UGdeals and receive a 25% discount on any or all of the six courses displayed on the page by using the coupon code: V2BUGM25. The discounted offer is good until 04/30/2012. The discounted courses include:

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: New Features Workshop
• Getting Started with Joomla!
• Fundamentals of Compositing, Tracking, and Roto Techniques with After Effects
• HTML5 for Beginners: Learn by Video
• From Web Design to Website
• Time-Lapse Photography Workshop

Location: Kline Branch Library
530 South 29th Street, Harrisburg PA

Agenda:  Photoshop Retouching: Tips from the Pros

CPAUG Co-Manager, David Lambert, will teach you Photoshop Retouching: Tips from the Pros!

In this meeting Dave will cover what “Retouching” is. Dave will demonstrate retouching techniques like:
-Adjusting Colors
-Sharpness
-Removing Skin flaws or materials
As well as Basic Tips
-Best way to tackle new compostions
-Brush sizes
and other tips to make your compositions beautiful without it becoming a “digital illustration”. Look forward to seeing you there!

Meeting Raffle:

• Code Line  has given us another “Big Bundle” of software for our raffle including Art Files, Art Directors Toolkit 5, SneakPeek Pro, SneakPeek Photo and Clipt (a $120 value!).  Code Line is a proven developer of software geared toward improving the workflow of Graphic Designers using MacOS. Its Mac andiPhone/iPad offerings are tailored to complement Adobe Creative Suite software.  [I (Megan) tried out their SneakPeak for iPhone & iPad and it's amazing - you can view Illustrator & InDesign files and information including fonts used and color swatches - and it's fast and responsive.]  Additionally, Code Line is offering CPAUG members an exclusive 10% DISCOUNT on their software – we’ll have flyers available with the discount code at the meeting for you. Please see our Sponsors page to learn more about Code Line.  It’s affordable software tools that you’ll wish you had 3 years ago and wonder why you didn’t get it sooner!
• video2brain has given us this course for our raffle:  “Getting Started with Lightroom 4“, a great course from Tim Grey that gives a complete overview of the Lightroom 4 interface and workflows as well as how to set up Lightroom to best suit your needs!
• And of course we’ll have our usual great raffle books from our ever-loyal book publishing sponsors Focal Press and Peachpit Press.

Thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support!

http://goo.gl/iie3X

Meeting Content:

• Adobe Connect A/V Recording of the presentation
• Megan’s presentation slides with links (PDF)

Here are some of the things we discussed at yesterday’s meeting:

• Thanks to our sponsors who provided some great prizes!  Code Line, Certified Staffing Solution, Video2Brain, Manning Publications, Focal Press, Peachpit Press, and Adobe of course..
• I’ve mentioned it before, but thank you to everyone who has been using the CPAUG Amazon.com links to purchase items from Amazon.com including ebooks.  All proceeds go back into the group.
• Download Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html
• HTML5 Shim is a cross-browser and cross-device compatibility testing tool that uses Node.js http://j.mp/x2SqYe
• CPAUG is now on Google+  so please add us to your Circles!

Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 24, 2012 and Dave Lambert will be presenting “Photoshop Retouching Tips from the Pros.”  Hope to see you then!