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The Portland Macintosh Users Group (PMUG) holds a MacCamp twice yearly at Silver Falls Conference Center. Last month, 43 Mac fans came together in Silver Falls State Park for a weekend conference.

We had 6 classes to choose from in three time periods: Illustrator, Portraiture Lighting, Fave Mac Apps, Photoshop photo repair, Windows on Mac, and Podcasting. In the Illustrator class, I learned how to use this program to make simple and artistic drawings without using the Bezier tool! The brush tool is powerful. Just look what I created using only the brush tool.

Saturday afternoon, I enjoyed Rob Griffith’s Favorite Mac Apps and Utilities. Rob is an entertaining speaker who gets a great deal of information across quickly. He must have demonstrated close to 50 useful and inexpensive apps that can make your work on a Mac more efficient and let’s not forget, more fun.

Sunday morning, I went to Steve Riggins‘ class on podcasting. He demonstrated how to use GarageBand to create podcasts. He has been podcasting for a little more than a year and explained his process, what tools he uses, and podcast hosting options. I recorded some of the class and hope to upload a snippet soon.

The grounds are beautiful. MacCampers experienced cool temps, few clouds, and an almost overhead pass of the International Space Staion. It was the brightest I have ever seen it!