Find out how to get the most out of the new, groundbreaking features in Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended.  Our next Photoshop User Group Meetup, on May 6 will feature a demo by Zorana Gee, Photoshop Product Manager, showcasing the innovative changes in this newest release. Furthermore, Ivan Belaunde, one of the engineers responsible for Content Aware Fill, will give us a demonstration of this amazing new feature. Ask a Pro! Both presenters will also be available for a Q & A.

Join the Photoshop Users Group on our Meetup page and RSVP for this exciting event!

Learn how to master your digital photography workflow with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 2 software at 6pm on March 3, 2010 in San Francisco. Import, manage, and showcase large volumes of photographs or perfect a single image. Tom will conduct an in depth walkthrough of Lightroom and show some of his favorite techniques.

Plus, Tom reveals a sneak peek of Lightroom 3 Beta!

Tom Hogarty is the Senior Product Manager for Adobe Systems Professional Digital Imaging Department. His primary product and marketing responsibilities center around Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Camera Raw and the DNG File Format. Prior to joining Adobe Hogarty worked in New York City as a consultant to many of the industry’s leading professional photographers as they converted film to a digital workflow.

Refreshments are made available by our sponsors. Should you know of a potential sponsor specific to this meeting, who can be promoted online and be given time to present to the group onsite, please let us know as soon as possible via email at getcut@switchblade-studios.com.

RSVP now to get the most out of your digital photos with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Where there is design, there is Photoshop. It is the tool for print, web design and photography enhancements and in the last two years, it has become the perfect tool for designing iPhone application interfaces. Whether you are part of an iPhone app project or want to design an iPhone app on your own, you need to understand the design intricacies of this new medium and adapt your Photoshop skills to create a successful iPhone app.

On Thursday, February 4th at 6:30 p.m., Marine Leroux of Bamboudesign Inc. will show how easy it is to design iPhone apps efficiently with Photoshop. Through a step by step method combined with tips for smart user experience design, she’ll guide you from sketching an app interface to designing it in Photoshop, building libraries and template files to expedite the design process. She’ll define Apple’s design requirements and the workflow between design, development, and publishing of an iPhone app to the App Store.

RSVP online to learn how to design iPhone apps with Photoshop.

About Marine Leroux
Marine is the founder and CEO of Bamboudesign, a mobile software design and development startup in San Francisco. Marine ensures that user experience design is the backbone of all mobile products built at Bamboudesign. Some of the iPhone apps she worked on include Bacardi, Remy Martin and the French Metro system. At Bamboudesign, she also offers iPhone software training classes. She founded the iPhone Network Lounge, a growing professional networking community of 180+ members in San Francisco. She talks at universities nationwide and other business engagements about iPhone design. Previously, Marine was ecommerce manager at Macromedia, where she developed the company’s european online stores. She launched Bamboudesign in France in 2004, offering user experience design for complex web applications, until the iPhone came to life.

Great photos courtesy of Darwin Seegmiller.

Please join the SFPSUG group on Flickr and share your own photos!

Adam Jerugim, the speaker at this evening’s meetup, has been part of the Photoshop engineering team for the last 10 years and is mainly responsible for performance and hardware compatibility testing.  He provided very detailed information on how to get the most of Photoshop in his presentation “Optimizing Photoshop for Peak Performance” (6.5 MB PDF) and we look forward to his guest blog to be posted here soon.

We would also like to express our gratitude to our “Photoshop Til You Drop” Sponsor, AMD, for their continued support in providing beverages, snacks, and raffle items for our meeting.

Stay tuned for more information on our Meetup in January with guest speaker Marine Leroux who will provide insight on utilizing Photoshop to design for iPhone apps!

October 21, 2009: Mingle & Network Happy Hour

Special thanks to Darwin Seegmiller for these great photos!

We wanted to try something different than previous meetings by holding a Happy Hour and Member Showcase on October 21st. Our main objective is to provide expert speakers and topics of interest to our Photoshop community, but as we grow in size, we’ve become a strong community for networking and sharing opportunities for business, employment, events, and even friendship! The objective of these Happy Hour and Member Showcases would be to encourage such networking.

Would you like these type of meetings to be regularly scheduled? Any thoughts and/or suggestions are welcome.

As you may know, funds are donated by sponsors, and with these funds we are able to provide beverages and snacks during meetings. We are happy to announce that AMD has been generous in offering to sponsor our group from October 2009 through March 2010. With their sponsorship, we are able to provide light appetizers and drinks.

Additionally, they have also donated some awesome raffle prizes!

Thank you, Kim White and AMD!