It was with much sadness that we learnt of the death of Steve Cooper — one of AUSOM’s Life Members.
Tributes will be published in the next edition of AUSOM News and I invite anyone who knew Steve to provide two or three sentences if they would like to do so.
Please send by email to editor@ausom.net.au in the next few days if possible.
Pam Doughty (Editor, AUSOM News)
At the Creativity SIG in September 2022 discussion centred around CREATIVE ways of taking photos. See AUSOM News, Sept 2022, page 29
Members were encouraged to enter their Creative photos into the ASCCA Digital Photo competition — see details AUSOM News, Sept 2022, page 20.
Finally, we looked at creative ways photos might be displayed. There is a PDF available showing the many display examples.
At the Creativity SIG in August 2022, we will look at using the Pages app to create cards. Commencing with using the templates available with Pages.
If you would like the Pages document we created it is available here:
If you would like to experiment further with the topics covered during the SIG I have provided an archive of 5 Sample files.
Continue reading “Cards in Pages”
Procreate has introduced new Beginners Series for those starting out with Procreate and the iPad.
An excellent place to start exploring art and animation using an iPad and Apple Pencil. Getting started with anything new is challenging, but this step-by-step walk-through makes learning easy and fun.
It is currently a free four-part video series. I have just completed working through the 2nd video and have enjoyed learning something new at each step. If you follow along while shown the various steps involved, completing the four lessons will leave you with three unique artworks and one animation you will be proud to show to your friends.
The Beginners Series resources were made available for download on July 25 on Procreate’s website (https://education.procreate.art/beginners-series) and viewable at Procreate’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/Procreate).
Leave a comment below and don’t forget to tell your friends you found out about this at AUSOM.
A new special interest group for 2022, the AUSOM “Photos SIG”, will introduce and master the Apple application, “Photos”.
“Photos” comes built-in to all Macs, iPads and iPhones. Whilst we will be concentrating on the desktop version, hints & tips for the iPad & iPhone run parallel much of the time.
In a breakthrough for our SIG, we’re going to spend half our ZOOM time showing novices the joys of “Photos”, and the second half of our ZOOM time working with the more experienced “Photos” users.
Of course, everyone is welcome to attend the entire SIG! See the website or AUSOM News for login details.
Monthly on ZOOM at our main meetings at 11am in Room 4. See you there!
The latest Today at Apple movie — ‘How to Make a Video Montage in Cinematic Mode on iPhone’ — is available on YouTube.
If you have missed some of these all the Today at Apple YouTubes are available at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHFlHpPjgk73JuIQUq0H4AA70mTFVxvUo
Continue reading “Apple Today – a new video”
Video recordings of our second hybrid session are now available as well as the July 2 SIG sessions. Simply use the Quicks Links on the RHS of this page to access them (member login required).
September 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
August 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
July 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
June 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
May 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
April 2022 The SIG was conducted via Zoom. Notes are available here.
Continue reading “Inside the News SIG notes Collection”
Those who are following Apple on YouTube will already know that there is another ‘Today at Apple’ video available.
This one cover many, many features of Keynote on the iPad. If you watched this video TEN TIMES you would still find something new.
Continue reading “‘Today at Apple’ continues”
At this session Ivan Radywonik demonstrates how to send files of any size over the Internet, with just a few clicks and cost free.
He uses Mail Drop, iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox on his Mac but the same techniques and software can be applied on iOS devices.
Just use the Videos option in Quick Links at the top of the RHS of this page…
