NCMUG News

Join Robert Downard for a fun and educational two hour workshop. Bring a notebook and your questions as we learn how your Mac can handle your pictures, music, and movies (as well as your work too.)

Meets at the Santa Rosa Best Buy and is free to NCMUG members. See the NCMUG SIG page for contact information and directions.

The last thing you need is to be constrained by your software. With Freeway, you are free to create. Freeway works just like the powerful page layout applications you've been using for years, so getting started is a snap. Add in support for a wide variety of media formats (including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, EPS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and more), CSS editing, a built-in ecommerce solution, and world-class phone and email support, and Freeway is the clear choice for professional web designers. And by outputting stunningly standards-compliant code, Freeway removes the stress of compatibility from your workflow. You supply the creativity, Freeway handles the code.

From Snapshot to Art with Photoshop CS4! Explore the many ways of accentuating the subject matter of a photo, thus drawing the viewer's eye. Explore partial color effects, picture within a picture, turning a photo into a pencil sketch, selective blur effects, creative vignettes, and more. Lesa's visit is sponsored by iStockphoto.com, the world's largest resource for royalty-free media. Visit this link to receive 10 free images! http://www.istockphoto.com/lesasnider

Jim Heid writes the world's top selling iLife book and develops iLife training materials for Apple. On September 15, Jim visits NCMUG to share tips for iPhoto '09 and iMovie '09. He'll have copies of his book, "The Macintosh iLife '09," for sale at a hefty discount.

Please join us in October for our annual premiere NCMUG special event, the Mac Computer Expo. As both a fundraising event for our club, as well as an amazing Mac based educational opportunity for our members, this full-day event brings together Mac enthusiasts from all over the country to meet and learn from Mac tech luminaries, guest speakers and product vendors. Attendees can learn the latest on new and upcoming products, and even make great deals with event-only discounts on select products. The Mac Computer Expo will be held from 10 am to 5 pm at the Petaluma Community Center. Please note: There will be no General Meeting scheduled for October.