Win A iPod Touch
Next TMUG Meeting, July 13th 
8gb iPod Touch will be raffled at the July meeting. Tickets are 1 for $5 or 3 for $10
TMUG will raffle a new 8Gb iPod touch + $15 iTunes gift card. One lucky person will win both at the July TMUG meeting. Tickets are $5 for 1, $10 for 3.
2009 TMUG Officer Elections
The annual election of TMUG's officers was held at the June 8th, 2009 meeting. Past President Stefan Jeglinski welcomed those in attendance, and presided over the election of the nominated slate of candidates who have agreed to serve as officers for the 2009 fiscal year. The newly elected officers are Smythe Richbourg as President, Duane Reaugh as 1st Vice President, Allen Emory as 2nd Vice President, Chips Chapman as Secretary, and Cort Boylan as Treasurer. They were accepted by acclimation, as no other nominations were made by the members present.
As a reminder, TMUG is a volunteer organization. Any TMUG member who would like to assist with the organizational efforts of the group, meeting planning, program presentations, or website contributions – at any level – is certainly welcome. Remember, TMUG is your group!
June 8 Meeting — Digital Photography
For our June meeting, we are going to look at digital photography — so that you can take great vacation photos and share them with your friends, family, and the world more easily. The preso will cover the taking, organizing, and sharing of digital photos with a little touch-up tossed in.
The program will begin with an overview of digital cameras – how to choose and use one. After you take your pictures, you will need to move them out of your camera, into your Mac, and organize them. Probably the most popular Mac tool to organize photos is iPhoto®. Pranav Patel will be the guest presenter for iPhoto '09. Pranav will focus on the new features including Faces, Places, and Events – the face-recognition, location, and event tagging organizational tools built into iPhoto '09.
One step after taking pictures is to edit them. iPhoto's editing capabilities have improved with each release – now including exposure, brightness, and contrast adjustment, cropping, red-eye removal, and enhancement of too bright or too dull pictures. We will also look at some rudimentary touch-up and editting techniques that can be done with Preview®. (Since Photoshop is so huge, we will leave that to a future meeting specifically devoted to detailed edits.)
After making sure your photos look good, you will want to share them. We will look at some photo sharing websites like
Picasa™,
MobileMe®,
flickr®,
SmugMug©, and
Facebook©, and how to publish your photos to them.
If you have any other photo tools or sharing sites you would like to have included in the program, or if you can help out as a presenter, let us know. Post your suggestions and desire to participate to the TMUG-list, or email Smythe.
The meeting will begin with the annual election of TMUG officers. The nominees for President, 1st Vice President (Programs), 2nd Vice President (Public Relations), Secretary, and Treasurer are listed below. And, as usual, we will have our always interesting Question & Answer session, moderated by Bob Chandler. Bring your questions and contribute to the answers. No doubt, there will be several drawings for fabulous door prizes, too!
(Attendance at the June meeting was 54, including 1 new member & 9 visitors.)
Read other past meeting announcements on the Previous meetings page.
Velomac 15:10, 14 June 2009 (EDT)
