Get to Know Your Community: Drop a Quick Intro!

[Preran]

Hello Community, 

I’m Preran, and I am thrilled to welcome you to our Adobe Firefly community! 

Use this thread as an opportunity for you to introduce yourself to the community and tell us more about yourself and what you’re looking to get out of this community. 

Whether you’re new here or have been around but haven't posted much, we'd love to hear from you! 

How to Introduce Yourself 

• Your Name: You can tell us your first name, nickname, or whatever you feel comfortable with. 
• Location: Where are you joining us from? 
• Interests: What are you passionate about? This can be your hobbies, books, films, or anything else you love. 
• Fun Fact: Share something unique or interesting about yourself. This could be an ability, a hobby, or even a little quirk. Surprise us! 
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Let us know what you’re looking forward to in this community. 

Get started by dropping a reply below! We look forward to connecting with you. 

Cheers, 

Preran

[Preran]

To kick things off, I’ll go first: 

Name: Preran Kurnool

Location: Toronto, Canada

Interests: I’m a huge fan of digital design and technology, and I love spending my weekends cooking and entertaining.

Fun Fact: I completed my post-graduation in Pharmacy before veering into the software industry.

Looking Forward to Meeting all of you, learning about your unique experiences, and seeing this community thrive! 

Cheers,

Preran 

[CMass]

• Your Name: Carissa
• Location: The Bay Area 
• Interests: Reading, adding to my already massive TBR (To Be Read) pile, and Photography! 
• Fun Fact: In my early 20's I worked serveral different jobs. My favorite being a Limo Dispatcher at MGM Grand. Our office was located in old MGM Grand Adventures theme park.
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Sense of community and share tips and trick with each other. 😄 

[Mariam Hovhannesyan]

• Your Name: Mariam
• Location:  Armenia, Yerevan
• Interests: Playing games, watching anime
• Fun Fact: I can forget the movies and animes I saw because of my Adhd and watch it again like the first time.
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Meeting other people, have fun and help others.

[Preran]

Thank you, Mariam, for sharing info about yourself and your interests!. 

[Highness]

• Name: Highness
• Location: The USA Area 
• Interests: I'm a creative, so basically anything creative.   Art, music, movies, books, designs, etc.
• Fun Fact: We all live in an age when politicians rewrite history and Artificial Intelligence write full length books.  Let that soak in a bit. . . 
• What I Hope to Give and Get From the Community: A community where imagination brings us together.  Where unique ideas inspire us to view the world from a different perspective.  "O Captain, my Captain!"
• Always

[mrspiering]

• Your Name: Markus
• Location: San Francisco, California
• Interests: Music, architecture, and my family of 5.
• Fun Fact: I work here. And an actual fun fact: One of my iPhone photos was shown around the world by Apple in their "shot on iPhone" campaign.
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: I would love to learn and hear from you how we can make this space better. 

[Preran]

Apple shortlisted your photos for their iPhone campaign! Fabulous! I cannot even imagine how wonderful that must feel. Thanks for sharing!

[Preran]

Welcome to our community! We are glad to have you here. Thank you for sharing. I have to say we share a lot of similar interests - I love movies, music, and books.

[Monika Gause]

• Your Name: Monika 
• Location: Hamburg 
• Interests: Trains 
• Fun Fact: I'm German. What is this "fun" you are talking about? 😄 
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Seeing what everyone does with this tech. And I like that language part about it.

[mrspiering]

@Monika Gause Guten Abend! We share the same fun fact then. 

[@mj]

• Your Name: mj
• Location: The Mother Continent 
• Interests: Al things creative
• Fun Fact: Sharpening a pencil with a Stanley knife gives much better results than a pencil sharpener
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Teach, learn, share, converse

[shubhangi37192640gt5e]

Oh This is me 

My name is Shubhangi Srivastava
Location: Mumbai, India
Interests: Doing and interacting new things using AI and Graphic Design. Dancing and drinking ( only weekend)
Fun Fact: Five year back I got selected in my first job in Metro. 
Next Step : Looking into new things and providing our creative and innovative input for that ( like AI ) and make that thing ahead of ages. 

[Dave Gustafson]

• Your Name: Dave
• Location: North of Pittsburgh PA
• Interests: Image creator, Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/ Science geek, and music lover from Dubstep, alternative/grunge back to Bach and Mozart.
• Fun Fact: Old school illustrator when everything was done by hand. I worked for Prentice Hall, IBM, and other major corporations doing book covers and inside art. I was also involved in the fledgling computer game industry in the mid-late 80s as a concept artist, yeah you can blame me lol.
• What You Hope to Give and Get From the Community: Use my 40+ years of knowledge & experience to show this is just a tool and we can adapt.  What I want from here is more knowledge.