The Peachpit Experience Double Feature DVD

Sat, 21 July 2007
Outpost, 2nd Floor, Cineleisure Damansara, Mutiara Damansara
8:00 - 10:30pm

Report : Azul Adnan
Photos : Azul Adnan, Zainul Firdaus

Peachpit have rebranded the "Meeting-in-a-Box" sessions as the Peachpit Experience Double Feature DVD. They've combined the Photoshop World and Macworld conferences into one box which contained 2 DVDs, popcorn, books and other goodies.

Our event was held at a new venue called Outpost at Cineleisure Damansara. It's a sci-fi memorabilia cafe and has a little meeting room at the back.

The show started around 8:20pm with the Photoshop World DVD. It contained highlights of Photoshop gurus giving presentations at the Peachpit booth. There were some really cool tips. Amongst them were Kevin Ames showing how to retouch portraits to repair facial features (without having to go through surgery!) and Richard Harrington demonstrating how easy it was to use Blending Modes.

The Macworld DVD was also full of wonderful pointers. Sandee Cohen revealed some very useful shortcuts in Illustrator and the ever-entertaining Scott Kelby was...err....as entertaining as ever! He showed how to correctly light your subject in digital photography.

Each DVD contained about 7 or 8 speakers and they covered a wide range of topics. They were all experts in their field and it was truly nice to see them share their knowledge. And it was great to see that the audio and video quality and editing of the DVDs have improved tremendously from last year.

Throughout the night we had lemonade and blackcurrant drinks and popcorn, sausage puffs and cake to keep us going. The lucky draws at the end consisted of mousepads and Photoshop books.

Thanks, Peachpit, for another enjoyable session. Can't wait for next year!