First let me apologize for the lull in blog posts this past month, business and training at Escoe Bliss has been booming.
Although the Escoe Bliss team is out and about in the community most every week, we will be "Painting the Town" later this summer and early fall with some upcoming events. Please join us! We would love to connect.
Connect with us at these local events:
August 17th & 18th - 2010 Navy Gold Coast in San Diego - Exhibitor
September 29th - October 2nd - 2010 LavaCon Conference in San Diego - Speaker & Exhibitor
October 2nd - Project Management Institute, Orange County Chapter - Speaker/Presenter
For more information about the above mentioned events, please feel free to contact us at 949-336-6444 or jatkins@escoebliss.com
Showing posts with label orange county. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orange county. Show all posts
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Has Arrived!
When Escoe Bliss invited me to write a blog entry about my recent visit to the May 18 joint meeting of the Adobe Creative Suite User Group (CS-OC) and the Orange County Multimedia Association (OCMMA) held at Fullerton College, I jumped at the chance to tell people about this friendly group. 81 people attended this well-organized meeting, which included free admission, a free parking permit, and free food, and featured speaker Colin Smith, who gave his thoughts on Photoshop CS5.
Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer from New Zealand who has caused quite a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed in HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. He is also the founder of the world’s most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over 20 million visitors.
Colin is passionate about the difference between HDR graphics and graphics that look similar to HDR but are done using tone mapping achieved with filters. HDR can be used to blend a series of photos taken one F-stop apart into one photo that contains all of the foreground and background detail from all the photos. This technique produces a “crunchy” look and was used to create the “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” movie, which was shot without natural lighting.
The audience responded with oohs and ahs when Colin demonstrated some of the cool features now available in Photoshop CS5. One of the most exciting features is the new Content Aware Fill that allows you to retouch photos by cutting out a piece of the graphic and automatically filling it in with the color/pattern of the rest of the nearby area of the graphic. What a time saver!
Professional users will appreciate that a lens correction algorithm is now available with the Camera Raw feature, which reads the metadata of the camera and the lens and adjusts accordingly.
Another cool feature is the addition of new brushes that have hard and soft natural bristle tips with stroke selections available for thickness, stiffness, pressure, and angle. This is a great help for those painting with tablets.
The CS-OC meets jointly with the OCMMA every third Tuesday of the month at the Digital Media Center in Santa Ana. Hope to see you there!
Guest blogger Virginia Butler has more than 15 years of experience writing software documentation for Fortune 500 corporations in the telecommunications, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, and is currently available for technical writing opportunities in the Orange County area.
Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer from New Zealand who has caused quite a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed in HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. He is also the founder of the world’s most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over 20 million visitors.
Colin is passionate about the difference between HDR graphics and graphics that look similar to HDR but are done using tone mapping achieved with filters. HDR can be used to blend a series of photos taken one F-stop apart into one photo that contains all of the foreground and background detail from all the photos. This technique produces a “crunchy” look and was used to create the “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” movie, which was shot without natural lighting.
The audience responded with oohs and ahs when Colin demonstrated some of the cool features now available in Photoshop CS5. One of the most exciting features is the new Content Aware Fill that allows you to retouch photos by cutting out a piece of the graphic and automatically filling it in with the color/pattern of the rest of the nearby area of the graphic. What a time saver!
Professional users will appreciate that a lens correction algorithm is now available with the Camera Raw feature, which reads the metadata of the camera and the lens and adjusts accordingly.
Another cool feature is the addition of new brushes that have hard and soft natural bristle tips with stroke selections available for thickness, stiffness, pressure, and angle. This is a great help for those painting with tablets.
The CS-OC meets jointly with the OCMMA every third Tuesday of the month at the Digital Media Center in Santa Ana. Hope to see you there!
Guest blogger Virginia Butler has more than 15 years of experience writing software documentation for Fortune 500 corporations in the telecommunications, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, and is currently available for technical writing opportunities in the Orange County area.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Changing lives in our community
In our previous blogs leading up to the Escoe Bliss Suit Drive benefiting Working Wardrobes we played up the hero bit by describing what you would normally see on TV or in the movies; a character wearing a mask and cape with super human powers. We got your attention right? In actuality the definition of hero is:
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2.a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal
These definitions describe all of you! Thank you to all in the Orange County community who donated gently used professional clothing, shoes, ties, belts, purses and even jewelry for men and women in crisis and in need of securing a new career and starting a new chapter in life. Our goal was to collect 500 items and because of your kindness and support we far exceeded our goal, just in time for the Women's Day of Self Esteem on Sunday, May 16th! See our blog on why and how Jerri Rosen, Founder and CEO created her first event.
Please help us in giving a special THANK YOU to the following partners who hosted suit drives on location, donated lunch, and raffle prizes to make this event such a success.
KPMG, Cypress
Wachovia, Irvine
BJ's Restaurant, Irvine Marketplace
BJ's Restaurant, Huntington Beach
Parkville Insurance, Whittier
Administaff, Irvine
ASTD OC, Irvine
For more information on Escoe Bliss' charity of choice and how you can get involved, please visit Working Wardrobes. We also see ourselves as Working Wardrobes ambassadors, so please feel free to contact us for partnership opportunities or upcoming events.
Again, we could not have made this happen without all of your generosity and donations. It takes many to make a village and in one week, we built an entire city! (Gotham?? - okay one last hero reference.)
Check out our photo album of some pictures of the week's events. Enjoy!
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2.a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal
These definitions describe all of you! Thank you to all in the Orange County community who donated gently used professional clothing, shoes, ties, belts, purses and even jewelry for men and women in crisis and in need of securing a new career and starting a new chapter in life. Our goal was to collect 500 items and because of your kindness and support we far exceeded our goal, just in time for the Women's Day of Self Esteem on Sunday, May 16th! See our blog on why and how Jerri Rosen, Founder and CEO created her first event.
Please help us in giving a special THANK YOU to the following partners who hosted suit drives on location, donated lunch, and raffle prizes to make this event such a success.
KPMG, Cypress
Wachovia, Irvine
BJ's Restaurant, Irvine Marketplace
BJ's Restaurant, Huntington Beach
Parkville Insurance, Whittier
Administaff, Irvine
ASTD OC, Irvine
For more information on Escoe Bliss' charity of choice and how you can get involved, please visit Working Wardrobes. We also see ourselves as Working Wardrobes ambassadors, so please feel free to contact us for partnership opportunities or upcoming events.
Again, we could not have made this happen without all of your generosity and donations. It takes many to make a village and in one week, we built an entire city! (Gotham?? - okay one last hero reference.)
Check out our photo album of some pictures of the week's events. Enjoy!
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