Washington Apple Pi Graphic Arts SIG
The Graphic Arts SIG meets Saturday, September 13, 2008 at Mac Business Solutions.
- Time: 10 a.m.
- Topic: Fun with Photo Collages
- Speaker: Judith Smith
Want to learn how to:
- Make beautiful and graphic designs from your photos?
- Enhance your landscapes into spectacular works of art?
- Make photo collages?
- Use Photoschop in a new and exciting way?
This is a meeting not to be missed!
Judy Smith, Graphic Arts Designer will lead GASIG members in all of the above. She is a specialist in graphic design, illustration and printing and owner of Soleil Associates Graphic Design Company located in Washington, D.C. Judy is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburg.
For this program GASIG members please bring:
- Yourselves
- Your laptop with Photoshop on it
- One CD with the attached jpg called Sunset on the CD

We will be able to follow along with Judy and create our own version of the Sunset photo as a graphic design. For persons unable to bring a laptop, snuggle up to someone with the equipment also you will see the demonstration on the screen in the classroom. Judy is providing handouts and you will be able to take notes to try out this exciting design at your leisure.
To see samples of Judy’s work visit this Gallery West website in Alexandria,
VA and choose Judith Smith
http://www.gallery-west.com/artists.htm
Meeting Place: Mac Business Solutions (MBS)
9057 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Directions: http://www.mbsdirect.com/about/directions.html
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See you at this terrific program!
Send ideas for future Graphic Arts SIG presentations to the chairperson, Cheryl Lavoie, cheryl.lavoie@wap.org
Possibilities:
- topics you would like covered
- new software or hardware for people doing graphics
- speakers you know about that would interest this group
- share things you are doing, your graphic hobbies, evaluation of equipment, etc.
- stuff you have tried that did or did not work.
Questions? Contact Cheryl Lavoie, cheryl.lavoie@wap.org
Past Activities
- July 2006: Aperture in Focus
- August 2006: Digital Photography Fundamentals, Presentation (PDF, 776K)
- September 2006: Buying a Digital Camera, Presentation (PDF, 208 K)
- October 2006: Digital Cameras - Trying some Canon digital Cameras
- November 2006: Exposure and Lighting for Digital Cameras, Presentation, pt. 1 (PDF, 744K)
- December 2006: Exposure and Lighting for Digital Cameras, Part II, Presentation (PDF, 836K)
- January 2007: Highlights of Macworld San Francisco
- February 2007: Converting film to digital video
- March 10 , 2007: Understanding Digital Image Characteristics and Viewing (PDF, 724K)
- April 2007: "Light" Demo; demo of MacOSaiX
- May 2007: Image Color Management, Presentation (PDF, 512K)
- June 2007: Image Color Management II, Presentation (PDF, 384K)
- July 2007: Taking Good Photographs, Part I, Presentation (PDF, 3.9 MB)
- August 2007: Taking Good Photographs, Part II, Presentation (PDF, 400K)
- September 2007: Photoshop
- October 2007: Photoshop
- December 2007: Party photos
- February 2008: SIG Photos
Mosaic created with MacOSaix, discussed at the April 2007 SIG meeting.
