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Main meetings
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home > meeting calendar > main meetings
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Main Meeting July 2008
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This month Adobe came to demonstrate Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoexpress
The first presentation was by Lindsay Brown, in charge of "Knowledge Worker Solutions".
Lindsay demonstrated some of the new features in Adobe Acrobat, now up to version 9.0.
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Lindsay showed us Acrobat.com. It’s in beta and free to join. Lindsay demonstrated how to use Acrobat 9 Pro and acrobat.com to create an online photo gallery.
First bring in the photos and movies you need.
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Then pick a style for the album.
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and once created you can then share your photos on line using acrobat ,com
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Using Acrobat.com you can
- store up to 5 gigabytes of files in your online organizer, accessible from anywhere with a web browser.
- Share large files with others, without sending the files by e-mail and
Limit access to people only you invite,
- Or make your documents accessible to everyone by embedding a link on a web page or blog.
- Convert 5 documents to PDF.
- Create documents with Adobe Buzzword®, an online word processor.
- Hold web meetings with Adobe ConnectNow web conferencing software
Learn more about Acrobat.com here
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Linsay then continued on to tell us about the new forms features in Acrobat 9.
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Using the Electronic Forms and Data Collection. Acrobat will then collect from the form the responses needed to complete the document.
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All this is done and kept in a Form Response File for easy editing
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The second presentation was by Michael Stoddard, Senior Sales Manager, who spoke about
Photoshop Express, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, and Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0.
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Micheal started the discussion with a comparisoin of the three Photoshop Products.
Starting with Photoshop Express
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Photpshop Express is Free.
You can download it at this site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopexpress/
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Michael demonstrated its main features.
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including some of the special effects in action
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Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4.0
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One of the unique features of Elements is its ability to group photos by like image. It can also show all the faces in your collection.
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Need to stitch a series of photos together? Let Elements do the work.
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Lots of free advice is available from Adobe. Michael advised us to check out the video conferencing eSeminars which may be viewed live at advertised times at http://www.adobeeseminars.com.au/ to learn more
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The Raffle
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Adobe generously provided a copy of this latest program as the evenings raffle and the lucky winner was Malcolm Robertson.
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The Lucky Door Prize was won by Robert Israel.
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