Nov. 17, 2005
Location
Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), 600 Broadway,
Kansas City , MO
Attendance
Randy Ellis, City of Overland Park
Susan Waters, City of Overland Park
Chris Audano, City of Overland Park
Karen Sorensen, Johnson County Wastewater
Sonya Fendorf, City of Shawnee
Rich Lovett, City of Kansas City , MO
Jan Wilkinson, City of Kansas City,
MO
Barbara Hensley, Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)
Julie Wittman, Mid-America
Regional Council (MARC)
Jim Clarke, City of Smithville
Kelli Behr, City of Gladstone
Kreg Cox, City of Gladstone
Angela Her, Wyandotte County
Nina Betts, Wyandotte County
Anthony Oropeza, Johnson County Parks & Rec
Bradley Hook, Kansas School of
the Blind
Significant software updates
Barbara
Hensley began by showing the new red eye correction tool which can instantly
neutralize red eyes with one-click. She proceeded to demonstrating the revolutionary
Healing Patch tool in PhotoShop CS2 , followed by the Vanishing Point perspective
tool. Barbara also pointed out how file handling and production tasks are simplified
with Adobe Bridge , a next-generation file browser. You can open Bridge from
Illustrator, InDesign, and PhotoShop and quickly find pertinent graphic files
you’ve stored. If you prefer, you can also drag
and drop your image files stored in Bridge directly into your application.
It’s slow to load but is worth the wait.
Susan Walters showed us how convenient Photoshop CS2’s WYSIWYG font menus are, enabling you to preview typefaces visually from the Font menu. She also demonstrated how easy it is to warp an image around any shape using Image Warp. More time was focused on the CSS Style rendering toolbar, which enables more ease in working with complex style sheet information. Plus, new support for media types lets you add styles aimed at specific devices—creating a stylesheet, for example, that only applies when a Web page is printed. In addition, a new XML/XSLT authoring feature simplifies the process of producing and formatting an XML file for viewing in a Web browser. In other words, since RSS feeds are simply XML, you too, can create RSS feed files. Opening a Web browser to preview your design is improved, also. To get started with any of these features, simply do a search in the Photoshop CS2’s Help Center window.
About next year’s NAGW conference
Harrah’s hotel,
in Reno , Nevada, will host the National Association of Government Webmasters
(NAGW) conference. The room rate will be $59 per night. Plans call for heartier
breakfasts as part of the registration fee next year. At least one vendor,
if not more, will help sponsor the event, scheduled for Sept. 27 - 29, 2006
.
Next meeting
Thursday, Dec. 15th, 2005, 10 a.m. at the Overland
Park Police Department, 8500 Antioch Road.
Meeting minutes: Karen Lynne Sorensen, Johnson County Wastewater.