| March 4, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:45 pm |
MacLearn presents ways to keep and use your photos and iMovies using your Mac and some cheap to free online services. March 4, Thursday evening at ING Direct Cafe at 1958 Kalakaua Avenue. Join us! Free. Click for more details.
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This post was written by jomats on February 25, 2010
Are you a victim of your own success as a photographer? Are your grandchildren, children, girlfriend/boyfriend too darned cute not to photograph every day? Did you go on a trip and take 1000+ great photos? Perhaps you’ve taken movies with your iPhone or still or digital camera and they’re still in your device. Read More…
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This post was written by jomats on February 24, 2010
November 21st was a sampler day for MacLearn. Norman and Dorothy Hallett, Robbie Gee, Joan Larcom, Marcy Katz, Richard Sato, Lorie Goodman and Terrence Young had fun with all kinds of great apps for making things with images.
Terrence first shot a clip of each person in front of ING Direct’s green wall using the video feature of his regular Canon camera. The clips were brought into iMovie using the green screen effect and voila! folks were transported to Branson, the grandchildren’s house, Chicago or Europe.
Next was Photo Booth. Lorie took a video ride on a moving roller coaster and others tried the 4-up, sepia tone and miscellaneous effects. The computer’s built-in camera captured a still or a video clip which could be sent to iPhoto with one click.
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This post was written by jomats on November 30, 2009
| November 21, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Join our November MacLearn session to learn how to make cards and calendars with iPhoto; edit a picture with Picnik, a free online photo editing service; create a Christmas newsletter with Pages and record a little movie against a green screen — then add it to a new background. Fun photo stuff! Free.
For details click here….http://www.hmaus.org/2009/11/18/package_pictures/
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This post was written by jomats on November 18, 2009
Join our November MacLearn session to learn how to make cards and calendars with iPhoto; edit a picture with Picnik, a free online photo editing service; create a Christmas newsletter with Pages and record a little movie against a green screen — then add it to a new background. Fun photo stuff!
You can just come to listen or if you want to actually do stuff:
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This post was written by jomats on November 18, 2009
Mactoberfest was, for the first time, combined with Leeward Community College’s new Geek Day on October 24th. It was a great idea, but there was a major problem – it was too short! There were 17 presentations in 5 hours and each was worth participating in. The sessions should have been strung out sequentially so you could attend all of them. Seventeen hours later . . . you’d be done!
But choices had to be made and about 120 good folks did that! The HMAUS sponsored talks were standing room only! Rolf Nordahl presented Mac 101 for newbies and switchers. Gregg Kamei presented iPhoto, and Mark McMahon handled iTunes, iPod and iPhone. Burt Lum and Ryan Ozawa closed the day in the HMAUS track with Social Media 101.
LCC’s Digital Media faculty and students presented Illustrator, Flash, Alice a 3D modeling program, Ning for making a free website, Picnik for online photo editing, home security and iApp development. They were hands-on but aimed at the beginner. Meanhile students and staff did demonstrations on Voice Thread, making a Hawaiian tattoo, drawing an anime character and Dreamweaver for artists and displayed their work.
As always we had door prizes and the top prizes were an 8 GB iPod Nano with video, a $65 backpack and a watercolor print donated by HMAUSer Candace Fernander. Mac Mouse Club and O’Reilly Books donated books and other prizes.
A big mahalo goes to our great presenters and volunteers, to LCC’s Kathleen Cabral and Cindy Martin who coordinated and marketed the day, to Christian, his faculty and the Digital Media student who set up, cleaned up, assisted and did presentations! Good job!
Read what HMAUSers had to say. Read More…
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This post was written by jomats on October 31, 2009
September and October are good months for working our Macs and our brains. MacLearn had a series of workshops on iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD and iWork that did just that. Three excellent instructors made it happen! Here’s the run down.
iMovie and iDVD 09 Hands-on Workshop September 5, 2009
Joe Zaret, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy Iwilei presented iMovie and iDVD. He began with a bonus Snow Leopard sneak preview. Then he demonstrated how you can select movie clips, add transitions, create titles and rolling credits and add music with drag and drop ease. You can send your movie to iDVD to create a one click DVD or use one of many templates to easily add a menu, music and graphics.
iPhoto 09 Hands-on Workshop September 12, 2009
Gregg Kamei, one of our skilled and patient HMAUS members presented iPhoto. Participants created albums, edited photos with a palette full of tools, created slideshows, and added titles and keywords to images. If you store your photos in iPhoto you can easily grab them from any other iApp.
iWork 09 Presentation September 26, 2009
Colin Murphy, Apple Solutions Consultant from Best Buy, Aiea presented iWork, Apple’s productivity suite of Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The interface is consistent across all three products, making it easy to know where to look for things. Controls for customizing text, objects and animations are tucked neatly into 10 Inspector palettes. Seven of the 10 Inspectors are the same in all three programs. You learn one, and the others are easy to navigate and use. Colin gave away a copy of iWork ‘09 to lucky Dorothy Hallet and Everett Young won a copy of Snow Leopard which he already had. He donated it to the upcoming Mactoberfest on October 24, 2009!
Pages 09 Hands-on Workshop October 3, 2009
Colin Murphy presented a second great workshop, this time a hands-on Pages session. Participants used one of Pages’ 44 templates to type or drag images into. They learned to easily put a border or picture frame around an image, make columns, and create charts and tables. Pages can open, save to and email files in Microsoft Office Word format.
Mahalo to Joe, Gregg and Colin for taking the time to prepare and present these excellent session! Thanks also to those of you who took the time to join us, and to our photographer Norm Hallett.
Here are Dwayne and Ellen Dorschu, Susan Saka, Junie Hayashi, Lisa Oi, Cliff Young and Barbara Lusch at Gregg’s iPhoto workshop. Kimo Sutton, Everett Young and Mike Brein are involved in Colin’s Pages workshop.
Handouts for these products can be downloaded from http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn. We recommend you print from the PDF file rather than directly from this website. These handouts link to Apple’s iLife and iWork video tutorials.
Watch the hmaus.org site for more HMAUS events!
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This post was written by jomats on October 5, 2009
| September 12, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Gregg Kamei, Business Support Analyst and HMAUS member presents a hands-on iPhoto session at ING Direct Cafe on September 12th. Participants bring their laptops with the current (preferred) or previous version of iPhoto and learn how to use its tools and functions. Handouts are available at http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn
Currently filled, members have priority. Nominal cost.
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This post was written by jomats on August 30, 2009
Kepano Kekuewa, Apple Higher Ed Account Executive packed a two hour MacLearn presentation on July 25th with a slew of cool features of iPhoto ‘09. Here are a few things he shared, how-tos are in the handout linked below:
iPhoto is an organizer – Photos are imported as, and reside in Events. Drag over an Event to skim the photos in it and easily merge and split Events. Albums are virtual collections you drop photos into. Smart Albums grab the photos for you, based on your criteria. Choose an album or any set of photos and make an instant slideshow, a picture album or calendar. You can also easily label and sort your photos according to Titles, Ratings (1-5 stars) and Keywords, either individually or in a bunch.
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This post was written by jomats on August 9, 2009
Learn how to take those great and not so great photos and import them into iPhoto and organize them so you can actually find them later. Edit them, make slide shows, calendars and cards and send them to friends and family. Tools for removing spots, lightening, darkening, boosting color, cropping and sharpening your images are built right into iPhoto. Want your original back too? No problemo, it’s always there, iPhoto is non-desctructive. Want to search for all of your pictures of your daughter? No problem there either. It recognizes faces. You can even geotag pictures and pull them up by city or other location.
Kepano Kekuewa, Apple higher education representative is our presenter. Can he cover all that? Yes he can! He’s the expert and has done it many times before!
Want a hands-on followup session? Let Joan know on that day. One will be coming up. Priority to HMAUS members. Date and nominal cost TBA.
Location: ING Direct Cafe at 1958 Kalakaua Avenue. We’ll have 3 carafes of coffee so come early. Other drinks and pastries available so come early and chat. When we’re done, stick around for $3 chili and rice.
Please click here for driving and parking directions (very important if this is your first time there).
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This post was written by jomats on July 2, 2009
