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Member Showcase: Travis 

General Meeting - Tuesday, February 16

 

WHOA! -The ever-energetic Greg Rostami was a no-show and failed to present the latest products from Topaz Labs. For the last 21 years Greg Rostami has been involved in the visual effects industry. Both in the field of 3D computer graphics as well as 2D (image processing and compositing).

   

Greg met Dr. Albert Yang from Topaz Labs 5 years ago when he was researching some of the latest innovations in Super Resolution. Ever since then Greg has been representing Topaz Labs' products.

 The products that were to be showcased:

 Topaz Adjust: Ultimate control over image exposure, detail, and color
 Topaz DeNoise: The best photo noise reduction tool on the market.
 Topaz Simplify: A stunningly simple photo to art conversion plug-in
 Topaz Detail: Halo-Free Detail Enhancement and Sharpening
 Topaz Clean: Powerful stylized image cleaning (perfect for instantly cleaning portraits)
 Topaz ReMask: Lightning-fast cut-out and masks (cut images from backgrounds in seconds)
 Topaz DeJPEG: Remove compression artifacts for high-quality JPEG images 

All of Topaz Labs' products are Filters that work in Photoshop as well as other image editing products.

To find out more about Topaz Labs it might be best to visit:
http://www.topazlabs.com/ 

 

Member Showcase: Travis

Travis enlivened the meeting with examples of his very entertaining narration from TV and movies. A big thank you from all of us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Travis”, who goes professionally by just the one name (It’s actually his last name), has performed on literally thousands of commercials, corporate videos, training presentations, documentaries, and internet multimedia productions.  

Travis’s recent voice-over projects have included commercials for Disney and Dish Network, A “Making Of” video for the movie “Blades of Glory”,  a Los Angeles Emmy award-winning educational series aired on PBS stations,  He voices commercials for Cox Communications and The Orange County Performing Arts Center.   He narrated the online interactive tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, training programs for the Los Angeles Fire Department,  Honda, Kia, Mercedes, and Acura, Internet Education programs for Honda, promotional programs for Acura, and a retrospective of the Bob Hope Desert Classic for the USA network, and many others.  Recent documentaries he has narrated, include “Island of the Great White Shark”, “History of the Coronado Bay Bridge”, and “In Search of Ambrosio Gonzales”. 

Visit http://www.votalent.com/ for Travis's demos.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 10:45
 


Time: Food and networking 6:00 p.m.
Meeting: 6:30-9:00 p.m. 
Location:  Digital Media Center
1300 South Bristol Street 
Santa Ana, CA 92704
 

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