Community Kitchen » AdobeTouch http://blogs.adobe.com/community News and views from the Adobe Community Team Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 LA Web Design Camp Barnsdall Park 15Nov12 http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/12/la-web-design-camp-barnsdall-park-15nov12.html http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/12/la-web-design-camp-barnsdall-park-15nov12.html#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:13:36 +0000 Aaron Houston http://blogs.adobe.com/community/?p=1180
I recently had the opportunity to attend the LA Web Professionals User Group’s Design camp at the Barnsdall theater (BGT) in West Hollywood on 15Nov2012.  LAWEBPRO is an interesting User Group: they are very large (over 900 FB members); they run very large events (often 300+ attendees); and, they attract the very best web designers & internet marketing specialists in LA. And so,  it was no surprise that Daniel Kramer (User Group Mgr) did a great job in organizing this event. Daniel also has a lot of help from his coordinator, Anissa Barton. It’s actually a great combination with Daniel & Anissa.  Daniel handles the logistics, speaker-wrangling, and event-promotion and Anissa is great with the people. The event went down, pretty smooth and there were lots of LAWEBPRO volunteers manning the check-in desk and food line.For the main event, LAWEBPROs hosted a great cast of speakers: noted web designer, Author, certified trainer Brian Wood (askBrianWood.com); long-time Photoshop guru Lee Varis (Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group - LADIG co-organizer), and Adobe Community Professional Chana Messer (Mac in Art). Chana did an overview of Adobe’s TouchApps for iPad.

Attendance was great! Over 250+ attendees throughout the evening showed up for some great tips for the website development. The venue’s auditorium was nearly full and the lobby during breaks was “cozy”. Any more attendees and things would have started getting uncomfortable.  Daniel Kramer also feeds his attendees & guests quite well; This time he had a variety of Chinese food entrees. Attendees seemed very happy with the selections. The LAWEBPRO group does charge a minor fee to attend these events, but the amount was insignificant compared to the value and content that this event provided.  One thing I do recommend to User Group Managers who want to hold events is that it often good to charge a fee to attendees, because it keeps the attendee “no-show” rate low.  And since, this event was funded by Adobe Camp monies, the Adobe Community team appreciates a “personal incentive” for the attendess to ensure they show up. “Details about the sessions and the content can be found at the LA Web Design Camp – Registration Page.All in all, this was a successful event.  

Looking forward to future LAWEBPRO events in 2013.

Lee Varis - Photoshop Guru

Adobe User Group Mgr (LADIG.org) Lee Varis really enjoys presenting!
 After the event, I asked the event organizer to provide me some EventBrite charts on how this event tracked in terms of paid registrations and page views from the time we first started promoting the event till the day of the event.  The charts are interesting in that what we see from attendees is that most decide with 72 hrs whether they will be attending.

LAWEB Pro Web Design Camp – Attendee tracking

2012 LA Web Pro Web Design Camp – Registration Page Views
]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/12/la-web-design-camp-barnsdall-park-15nov12.html/feed 3 Lovers of the Luminous Lights-VegasPhotoWalk http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/10/lovers-of-the-luminous-lights-vegasphotowalk.html http://blogs.adobe.com/community/2012/10/lovers-of-the-luminous-lights-vegasphotowalk.html#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:14:21 +0000 Aaron Houston http://blogs.adobe.com/community/?p=1160

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photowalk badgeThe Las Vegas Adobe User Group hosted a “Neon Photowalk” in the Fremont Street district (Old Vegas) — Sunday, Oct 21st, 2012, from 4-10pm. This was a FREE event for all levels of photographers from pros to iPhone/iPad users. We also had lots of Adobians from out of town (Los Angeles, Florida, San Jose, San Diego, etc) as well as some new friends from the Sin City Photography Group.  And that was the main purpose of the Photowalk: community building between two very different communities.There were over 120 signups to the event; but, we kicked things off with over 60 shutter snappers at Emergency Arts – “The Beat” coffee shop. As it turned out, some of the Beat employees were also lovers of the luminous lights. One employee had already been photographing hundreds of Vegas neon signs for his own art-piece which he presented me a copy which was very cool!

The Beat has definitely got an artistic vibe to it and the Photowalk organizers were so pleased that they allowed us to set up camp there. While onsite, we also conducted few drawings for Adobe Software, T-shirts, and a special drawing for a WACOM tablet (Thanks to Tony Arredondo -WACOM Technology & Stephen Burns). Those in attendance also got a free beverage courtesy of Adobe. With maps in hand, the Photowalkers sallied forth in their quest for best Neon Photo and a chance to win (CS6 Photoshop Extended).

One of our favorite stops was the Neonopolis courtyard and some of us spent a lot of time at this location. At NeonoPolis, Adobe Community Professional Stephen Burns gave lessons to about a dozen Photowalkers on color extractions using timed exposures and also a nifty click and drag technique which produced some interesting abstract neon photos. Here’s one:

 

Abstract Neon Photo — Delayed Shutter Technique

Click & Drag Technique

 

 

ACP Chana Messer finds some new friends on the PhotoWalk
This event spawned TWO other Blog posts worth mentioning:

Chana Messer Photoshop Touch App WorkFlow with Neon: http://adobe.ly/UNmBPE

Lee Varis: “Color & Tone” http://networkedblogs.com/E4BKM

Notable Twitter Posts:

Facebook Posts:

Photowalkers taking a break at Mediterrean Cafe after shooting inside Neonopolis courtyard

“Thanks for sharing with the group! And special thanks to Krystal, Nate, Aaron, Stephen, Chana, et al., for putting on a great event!” – Speer Photography & Design

We gave lots of stuff away to the Neon Photowalkers at the Adobe Table

“I LOVED the photo walk. Well organized and I met some GREAT TALENTED photographers and Photoshop gurus I admire. I had a great time and I can’t wait for the next one!” — Barbette Siller

” I made these images on the Adobe sponsored Photowalk down Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas a week ago Sunday, October 21st at night. It was put together by several hard working folks both from Adobe and the Las Vegas Adobe Users Group. Made slideshow using only iPhone and the Photodex’s Mobile App.! Using the 30 horizontally composed images I posted just below this video. We had about 60 photographers participating walking in small groups.” – John Daniel http://www.facebook.com/johnndaniel
NeonPhotoWalk Photo Winner:

“Viva Vegas” — Cindy Wilson Winner LVAdobe Neon PhotoWalk Photo Contest!

Here is our winning picture for the event. Congrats to Cindy Wallace for “Viva Vegas” and also to the runners-up Jeff Speer and Wayne Wallace — True Pros! There was also some very very nice stuff shot by Stephen Burns, Sally Cox, Chana Messer, Nate Ludens, Krsytal Hosmer, and of course, Lee Varis! Thanks for being good leaders of this Photowalk
As with anything we do with Adobe Community Events we try to capture some data on how the event went down. From the number of signups to the pageviews we try to gage how we will promote the next events. We had a slow start to the promotion of the event, but things ramped up quickly the last 72 hrs before the event as evidence from these EventBrite charts.

Stats — Attendee Signups

Stats – Page Views Up till the Event



 

 Oh What Fun We Had!

Oh What Fun We Had! — Thanks Wayne Wallace Photography!
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