Hi Friends

The most important reason for this posting is to give me an opportunity to see how 'Blogger' works! However, Photoshop appears to be the most popular piece of non-Apple software used by our membership. Alan R will be concentrating on Retouching techniques and Workflow on 30th August, but if there are other areas of photoshop you would like to see explored at a future meeting, please post your requests here!

We hope there may be time for a few questions from the floor on 30th, so if there's anything you would like to ask Alan you could post your question here and we can pass them on before the meeting.

Thanks

Mike Kwas

QUESTIONS FOR ALAN?

We thought it might be idea to use some 'web 2.0' technology to collect some of your questions for Alan prior to the event. It would be nice for him to have an advance idea of your interests, future aspirations and work beforehand - it might help inform his talk?

You should all have recieved the passwords which allows you to make posts to this blog from Mike Kwasniak. Simply go www.blogger.com, enter the username and password provided and you will be taken through to what's called blogger dashboard. Select new post, this will take you through to a text-box which will allow you type in comments. Once you have finished, select publish post and subsequently elect to republish entire blog. We hope this works, you will need to choose to View Blog via the dashboard or www.suffolkmug.blogspot.com and refresh your browser after any editing to view your question. If you wish to make changes to your post simply follow this process again, but this time slect the edit posts option.

This is a bit of a trial (in the experiment sense) so feel free to play - but please respect other content.

THE VENUE

St Nicholas Centre: A conference and exhibition facility in the heart of Ipswich town centre under the management of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The Church is a Grade 2* listed building built in the early 14th century. In 1475 Thomas Wolsey (or Wulcy), later Lord Chancellor 1515-1529 under Henry VIII, was baptised in the church.

ALAN ROSENFELD

Alan Rosenfeld has over 15 years industry experience and describes his five years at Adobe as his ‘dream job’. Alan has recently relocated to the Adobe UK office from its office in Australia to take on new challenges as a Senior Product Evangelist. During his time with Adobe Alan has been responsible for helping to significantly build its business and is recognised as an expert in the following areas:

• Adobe’s strategy for development of its creative software
• Creative Suite and all of the point products within it
• The direction and development of the creative market in EMEA regions

Alan will be demonstrating workflow and retouching techniques in Photoshop CS2, as well as discussing the future of Photoshop as we head towards the launch of CS3, and Adobe's new software for photographers, Lightroom.