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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