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Lesa Snider King presents PhotoShop Elements 4 and iStockPhoto

Thursday, September 14, 2006
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Our special guest for the September 14 CapMac general meeting is Lesa Snider King, a nationally recognized graphics expert, trainer, author, and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com.

Lesa will arrive fresh from PhotoshopWorld in Las Vegas to teach at the FlashForward conference in downtown Austin. From there she'll join us for our monthly meeting to demo Adobe's PhotoShop Elements 4.0 and images from iStockphoto.com.

As founder of the free creative tutorial web site GraphicReporter.com, Lesa's mission is to teach the world to create better graphics, and her road schedule proves she's intent on her purpose!

Lesa is a regular writer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Macworld magazine, Layers magazine, and planetphotoshop.com. As personal assistant for New York Times technology columnist David Pogue she serves as production editor and graphics designer for his Missing Manual series of books.

Photo: Rex Covington of HAAUG

Lesa also contributes a weekly "Graphic Tip of the Week" to the internet radio show "Your Mac Life" hosted by Shawn King. Lesa and Shawn were married at the January 2006 Macworld Expo. Originally from Fort Worth, Lesa spent several years as an officer and award-winning webmaster for Cowtown Macintosh Users Group. She now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Photoshop Elements is considered the consumer version of Adobe's professional image editor, Photoshop. Often bundled with scanners and digital cameras, Elements is available in both Mac and Windows versions, and sells for much less ($80.00 vs $650.00 retail).

If you’ve ever wanted to play in the image-editing sandbox, this software is for you. Both powerful and affordable ... Elements may give you all the photo manipulation power you’ll ever need."

Lesa Snider King
Macworld, June 2006

Not just a stripped-down version of it's big brother, Elements includes tools for fixing common image flaws quickly and easily that are especially geared to the growing number of digital camera users that are not photo editing professionals. New features include an amazing Magic Extractor tool and Magic Selection brush to separate objects from their background, compatibility with RAW format image files, skin tone enhancement, instant red eye removal, and the inclusion of Adobe's Bridge software for organizing and managing your digital image collection.

With over one million images contributed by over 23,000 photographers around the world, iStockphoto is the world's fastest growing collection of original, independent, royalty-free images, adding over 12K pictures each week.

Venture capitalist and former
Macintosh evangelist
Guy Kawasaki uses iStockPhoto
to illustrate each of his blog entries.

iStockphoto pioneered the concept of micropayment stock photography with royalty-free images that cost as little as 1.00. Founded by Bruce Livingstone in May, 2000, iStockphoto was purchased by Getty Images in February of this year for $50 million.

Join us for a fun-filled evening with Lesa to learn how to use Adobe's high-quality, user friendly, and affordable Photoshop Elements to make the most of your digital photos, and learn about iStockphoto's vast library of stock images to help fill your picture and illustration needs at a moment's notice.

Our monthly raffle will include a copy of Photoshop Elements 4, Missing Manual books, Apple Store gift cards, and more.

Photoshop Elements Training Resources		Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac: Worth the Wait?
Photoshop Elements Support		Photoshop Elements User
iStockPhoto Firefox Search Plugin		iStockPhoto Downloads: Dashboard Widget, Screensaver, iPhoto Plugin

Plus, questions and answers, our monthly raffle, the nicest Mac friends you could ever hope to meet, and more!

Members and non-members alike are welcome to attend.
Don't miss it!

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
UT Pharmacy Bldg, Room 3.106
University Avenue, between 24th & Dean Keeton (view map)
Contact Person -
512 502-8294

Location: The CapMac General Meeting is generally held on the second Thursday of every month. We are fortunate to have an excellent meeting space in the "new" UT Pharmacy Building in a tiered auditorium style classroom equipped with state of the art audio and video projection and internet access. There's even power outlets for your PowerBook or iBook!

Getting there: The UT Pharmacy Building is located on University Avenue near the intersection of West 26th Street (which becomes Dean Keeton St. as it passes by the UT Law School). View a map of the vicinity and get driving directions here. The white square in the graphic below shows the location of the Pharmacy Building.

map to Pharmacy Building

Click here for a more detailed map.

Ample parking is now available just two blocks away in a new multilevel garage (PG4) recently constructed by the University. The garage is located at the corner of 27th Street and University Avenue, with the entrance on 27th Street. Cost is 3.00 for the whole evening.

Get driving directions to the garage and learn about their payment process. Other parking options are available around campus.

The next CapMac Board of Directors meeting is on Thursday, September 7, 2006.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schlotzsky's Deli, Center Park at Tech Ridge (see map)
Parmer at Interstate 35 (note new location)

Contact Person - , CapMac Treasurer/Membership Coordinator
512 502-8294

The Board of Directors meeting is generally held on the first Thursday of each month and is open to all members.

Directions are available from the Schlotzsky's web site. Bring your appetite and AirPort enabled PowerBook or iBook - Schlotzsky's has free wireless internet access!

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