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Advanced Tech Meetup

Posted by Chris Morrell on February 26th, 2009 in Philly

I’ve been thinking lately about starting an “Advanced Tech” Philly meetup. The idea is to do a quarterly meetup that discusses topics that are particularly advanced in various fields. The proposed topic for the first meetup:

Photoshop

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 12 years, and at least once a month I discover a new technique or tool buried somewhere in the software. Most people use such a small subset of the software that there are often whole classes of tools that they never use (adjustment layers is a good example). I think it’d be really interesting to get 5-10 people in a room, and each present a few concepts that it took them a long time to discover/master (20-40 minutes each).

Topics might include:

  • Non-destructive techniques (adjustment layers, smart objects, vectors, etc) — this could probably be the topic of an entire meetup
  • Masks (vector masks, layer masks, clipping masks, quick mask mode)
  • Layer effects
  • Blending modes
  • Channels
  • Layer comps
  • The brush engine
  • Filters (going beyond the lens flare!)
  • Layer locks & links
  • The list could go on forever…

So, two questions—1) would you be interested in attending? 2) would you be interested in presenting (and if so, what?).  If we can get at least 3-4 other people to present, I’ll start looking into a date and a venue.  You don’t have to present something from the above list, but it should fall somewhere under the umbrella of “advanced” (whatever that means to you).

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Video Platform Roundup (follow up)

Posted by Chris Morrell on February 18th, 2009 in Business, Microblogging, Politics, Video, Web Development (tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , )

This post is a follow-up to my previous post about video platforms.  I didn’t get to check out all of the platforms on my list, but here’s what I did find.  We ended up choosing Ooyala for a number of reasons, which I’ll touch on below.

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