Join Our Free Monthly Meetings
The Austin Adobe User Group has been meeting monthly since it was founded in 1993 as the Austin Macromedia User Group. It supports the use of the Adobe Creative Cloud with free presentations by experts in a wide variety of Adobe applications.
With the start of the pandemic, our meeting moved from being in-person to being on Zoom. We use the same Zoom room for every meeting. To get the address, please write to austinadobegroupmrg@gmail.com.
Recordings of each meeting are posted a few days after the meeting. Here are the topics we have recently covered and news of our next gathering.
Monthly Programs
from the Austin Adobe User Group
InDesign – What’s New and Tips & Tricks
Thursday, Sept 10, 6 - 8 pm on Zoom. The Austin Adobe User Group is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Adobe InDesign - What's New and Tips & Tricks Presenter: Tom Berglie Tom H. Berglie is an professional graphic design specialist, textbook author, and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) and Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat Pro. He has more than 25 years of experience in newspaper design and production, journalism, and...
Special Text Effects and Text Animations in After Effects Made Easy – August 13th Zoom Meeting
The Austin Adobe User Group is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Special Text Effects and Text Animations in After Effects Made Easy In this training you will learn how to animate text as well as used various techniques to create special text effects. Presenter: Cornelius Chopin Cornelius Chopin is an Accessibility Coordinator at Texas Health and Human Services. He received an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) title in Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash and teaches at night at...
July 9 Meeting on Zoom: Adobe Photo Fixer, 6 pm – 8 pm
Our free, monthly Austin Adobe User Group meetings will resume on Thursday, July 9th, under the new leadership of our new co-manager, Kenneth Lowenberg, and online. We are going to do a Zoom meeting until the virus is not a threat. For our first meeting, Kenneth would like to help you fix your photos. Please send him your photos that you would like fixed, as well as what you think is wrong with them. Use this address: Kenneth@austinadobeusergroup.com. He will pick a few and show you how to...
Donna Blumberg, Rest in Peace
There is sad news to report about the passing of Donna Blumberg on June 20th, 2020. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=donna-blumberg&pid=196413567 Donna took charge of our Austin Adobe User Group and, along with co-manager Cornelius Chopin, provided strong and dedicated leadership for the past eight years. She’d make everyone feel welcome. She always managed to find good presenters and interesting topics for our live meetings, announce meetings in a timely...
Changes Coming to AAUG
Thank You, Dear Friend Our long-time group leader Donna Blumberg has announced she is stepping down as Co-Manager due to health issues. We would like to thank her for all of years of service and dedication to AAUG and hope to make her proud in our future endeavors. Kenneth Loebenberg, a frequent presenter and member, will step into the Co-Manager position. Kenneth was also previously Co-Manager of the Mississippi Adobe User Group. T He’ll team up with long-time Co-Manager Cornelius Chopin,...
April 2020: no meeting
Due to the shelter in place orders for COVID-19, the April meeting of the Austin Adobe User Group is canceled. Stay safe, we hope to meet in May. Meanwhile, recordings of past sessions are available.
Introducing Adobe After Effects for Photoshop Users
If you know Adobe Photoshop, it is helpful to think of After Effects as “Photoshop Effects in Motion.” Everything that you learn in Photoshop can be ANIMATED in After Effects. This session is Part 1 of a multi-part series on tools, tips, and techniques in Adobe After Effects. Part 1: Adobe After Effects Basics:• Learn what Adobe After Effects can do and how it differs from Adobe Animate and some of its similarities with Adobe Photoshop• Learn how to use the major panels in After Effects: o ...
Dreamweaver: slicker than slime time saving tips, techniques and tools
This presentation will show you time-saving tips, techniques, and tools in Dreamweaver for all user levels Beginner: Productive Dreamweaver Shortcuts Quick-Tag Editor in Desing View Using Multiple Cursors Code Editor Tips How to Use Tag Chooser to select tag effectively How to use the Link Checker Intermediate: How to use the DOM Panel to select and edit HTML elements How to use Emmet Commands How to create a Snippet to save time coding Advanced: How to use the Insert Panel to insert...
Use Premiere Rush and Integrate with Premiere Pro to create/edit videos
Jon Merrifield will be demonstrating Premiere Rush and integrating it with Premiere Pro. (The basic version of Premier Rush is free; details on the basic version and upgrading) Adobe Premiere Rush, which is Adobe’s first all-in-one cross-device app, is a powerful mobile addition to the Adobe video editing arsenal. Premiere Rush includes the power of Adobe’s Pro Tools: you can capture video, edit, color-correct, record and clean up audio, customize animated titles, and publish to social media...
Photoshop Smart Objects and nondestructive edits
Join us as Cornelius Chopin discusses and shows the overall benefits of using a Smart Object that allows a user to perform nondestructive edits:TRANSFORM EDIT: You can transform (e.g., scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective, or warp) a layer without losing any quality of the image. WHY: Normally, you would lose the original image data or quality just by doing a simple transformation. VECTOR EDIT: You can edit vector data (e.g., from Adobe Illustrator) without losing any quality of the...
About the Austin Adobe User Group
Become a member of the Austin Adobe User Group
Membership is free! Simply attend a live event online.
Management – Join Mailing List – Site Credit
Meetings
Each month, at 6 pm on the Second Thursday, an Adobe-related topic or demonstration is presented by a variety of group members (share your knowledge) or visiting experts. The meetings are free and open to anyone interested in learning about Adobe products and meeting other Adobe enthusiasts. Before the Covid Pandemic, our meetings were hosted at the New Horizon Learning Center, 300 East Highland Mall Boulevard #100, Austin, TX 78752; (512) 349-9555.
Now we meet on Zoom. For access details, please send an email to karen@austinadobeusergroup.com.
Miss a meeting?
Check the Presentations page and/or our YouTube channel. When possible we record our presentations.
Membership advantages
Why join the Austin Adobe User Group? Besides meeting other Adobe enthusiasts and learning how to use Adobe software (through demonstrations at meetings), there are
- special discounts that are available only for User Group members on
- Adobe products
- training:
- discounts from some of our training sponsors
- discounts on books from PeachPit and O’Reilly (request the discount)
- Members are eligible to win door prizes provided by sponsors and one of the twice-yearly Adobe software drawings; see below for details. Questions? Email austinadobegroupmgr@gmail.com
Management Team
The Austin Adobe Users Group is made possible through the continued service from volunteer coordinators and others.
Cornelius Chopin of Rich Media Services, Group Co-manager, Presenter
Jon Merrifield of Peli Studio, Group Co-manager, Presenter
Karen Kreps of Net Ingenuity Group Co-manager, Google Distribution List Manager/Website host
Join the Mailing List for News and Announcements from the Austin Adobe User Group.
The group maintains a “many-to-many” email list on Google Groups. Anyone may join. The list is used for official group announcements and members are welcome to use it to post news of interest to other Adobe users and well as provides a forum to pose questions and comments. Messages and replies sent to the list will go to all members. There are approximately 500 members on the list at any time.
Share your Skills and Talents
Showcase your skills by volunteering your skills and talents with website design, email management, and event coordination. Gain visibility for yourself and your company. Contact us about how you’d like to contribute.
Get Involved
Give a Presentation at a meeting
Speaking Opportunities for Adobe Users. Want to share tips and tricks of how you use Adobe products? Besides helping others learn, you can network with other Adobe enthusiasts. And you – and your contact info/website – will be listed as a presenter on this site. Contact us about your presentation
About the Group
Our mission is to:
- Provide a helpful and supportive environment for individuals who want to learn about web and multimedia design and development using Adobe products
- Provide opportunities for Adobe users to share information, tips, and tricks.
- Provide networking opportunities for web and multimedia professionals in the Austin, TX area.
Find other Adobe User Groups
All Adobe User Groups are listed at https://aem-augs.adobe.com/adobe-user-groups/
Twice-yearly Drawing for Adobe Software
To encourage people to join and participate in the local user groups, Adobe allows each user group to have a drawing twice a year for one Adobe software package valued up to $2,100. The Austin Adobe User group holds the drawings at the June and December meetings. All members who are present at the drawing are eligible to win their choice of an Adobe product that retails for up to $2,100.
How to increase your chances to win
- Attend the meetings. You must attend at least one meeting before the drawing to be a member and be eligible for the drawing. Each meeting you attend increases your chances.
- Do something that benefits the group – review a book, give a presentation, or contribute in another way. Giving a presentation at a meeting gives the most “bonus” tickets.
If you want to volunteer and earn extra tickets toward the drawing or have any questions, contact Karen Kreps, austinadobegroupmgr@gmail.com.
Website Credits
All work on the Austin Adobe User Group site is done by group members who volunteer their time. Many thanks to the following folks:
Karen Kreps, Net Ingenuity – hosting the site, maintaining the domain name, design team member
Jon Merrifield, Peli Studio – graphic design team member