My Adobe User Group, Creative Suite: San Jose will be doing its monthly meeting this time around on Business Catalyst and Flash Catalyst. I just wanted to spread the word about why this would be useful for folks like us.This month we will be raffling off a copy of Creative Suite 4 (premium suite of your choice: web/production/design). Other prizes include books, InDesign Magazine, and more. You must be present to win. Tickets are $5, proceeds fund our user group raffle prizes, food/drinks, and events.If you Plan to attend, You mus RSVP online at www.creativesuitesanjose.com.If you are unable to attend in person - I will be broadcasting this event online via Adobe Acrobat Connect:http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/BCandFCWhat is Business Catalyst?Right now, thousands of web designers are building successful online businesses for their clients. Business Catalyst is helping them do it with higher profits and faster than ever. BC is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.Read more about how incredible Business Catalyst is and what it can do for youWhat is Flash Catalyst?Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a brand new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code. Create interactive portfolios, product guides, microsites, site navigation, interfaces for RIAs and more.- Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe Fireworks® into interactive designs.- Rapidly create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product- Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distributionWork more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs).Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.Also, look for some cool ideas for creative portraits in Photoshop, using layer masks, filters, blending modes, and more!
