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Meeting Summary
Great job tonight. Excellent projection, excellent audio. Illustrator was great change of pace. I like new variety format.
James E.
Web Designer/Owner
3D Master
Wed, Jan 28th, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Winter Park Civic Center
Event Details
The Orlando InDesign Users Group (IDUG) meeting was held on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, which was our second meeting in the new location at the Winter Park Civic Center, and marked the first meeting of the 2009 year. Out of the record 145 members registered, 108 members were in attendance. A large number were new members. All enjoyed the comfy new digs, the great speakers, big screen and clear audio system, friendly faces, and of course, the amazing spread of food and desserts. There was something for everyone!
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4th Year for Orlando, Meeting Dates 2009, Great Speakers for Entire Year
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We are excited to start our fourth year as the Orlando chapter. We already have the *best line up of speakers ever!* to fill the rest of the year. Be sure to mark your calendars for these Wednesdays:
March 25th
May 27th
July 22
September 23rd
November 18
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First presenter: Douglas Mitchell, Certified Adobe instructor
Illustrator Essentials: How to Draw with Pen tool and more...
doug@trainingbrain.com, http://www.TrainingBrain.com, Free Ai workbook on website.
Pen Tool Drawing
Douglas demonstrated Pen Tool essentials, saying the pen tool has only two missions in life: creating straight lines and curves lines and gave us the only (5) possible conditions to face when using the Pen tool. He also went over other basics such as straight segmented lines, view/preview, Selection/Direct Selection tool, Lasso tool, anchor points, nudging, open/closed paths, Pencil tool, curved paths, drawing simple shapes, using special brushes, and more.
On-Board Free Illustrator Artwork using the Symbols library. Douglas showed to Break Link and edit symbols for use in your projects.
Follow-up Workshop: Illustrator Essentials, April 18. See "Upcoming Industry Events" below.
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Second Presenter:
InDesign Basics with Mark Poulalion
Mark discussed several things such as templates, hierarchy within master pages, libraries, styles sheets, and nested styles.
Mark's cool website share (thanks to the gang at InDesign Secrets):
InDesign Proxy: Making Mac OS X launch the correct version of InDesign or InCopy, no matter how many versions you have installed on your computer.
http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2008/11/13/recipe-making-mac-os-x-launch-the-correct-version-of-indesign/
His handout is available online.
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NEW: “Stump the Chumps”
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Between 6 and 7pm, we nosh on food while you ask technical questions (or listen to others ask) to our Adobe Certified Experts. Here's an example:
Q: My InCopy files on PC are exporting to Mac corrupted. Why?
A: Your PC person should open the InDesign (.indd) file within InCopy. Things could be getting corrupt when you open the placed InCopy stories (.incx) files separately.
Q: Without MarkzwareQ2ID and without older versions of Quark available, what’s the best way to convert a Quark doc to InDesign?
A: Buy Markzware Q2ID!
Q: InDesign CS3 doc with 60-70 pages in one document, including invoices. When we make minor change on a middle page, and save, the doc jumps up to page one. How can we solve this?
A: Consider creating a book of smaller page documents, rather than a single long document.
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Thanks for your support...
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Before our main presenters got started, Faith Amon talked about all the 'tools of the trade,' our prize diva, Kristan Braswell, collected and discussed the importance of purchasing raffle tickets. We don't have a membership fee. The money raised from our raffle tickets help us rent the space, provide an abundance of food, and fly in and accommodate our presenters.
Thank you
A special thank you to Cameron Thorp for taking the photos, Faith Amon for helping with the auction, cleanup, and registration, and Susan Pfeil for setup and cleanup.
Thanks as always to our location and communication sponsors.
Thank you Max Your Macs, one of our new sponsors. Please support their services.
We appreciate everyone who attended! Tell your friends they can join us, too!
Job Opportunities
Aquent has several local opportunities posted online:
http://jobs.aquent.com/myaquent?APROC=AWUISubmitAdvancedJobSearch
Upcoming Industry Events
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Hands-on Workshop: UCF Computer Lab
Adobe Illustrator Essentials & Beyond (applies to AI: CS, CS2, CS3, CS4)
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Adobe Certified Instructor, Douglas Mitchell, 407.616.0854 (call with any questions, please)
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 9am - 4:30pm for $79 at UCF Downtown
36 West Pine Street (behind Church Street Station).
Register/confirm: doug@trainingbrain.com
Download Free Workbook: http://www.trainingbrain.com
Payment: $79 check or cash (at door on 4/18)
Lunch: one hour many shops within walking, including Subway
Illustrator Class Topics
- Determine key preferences for ease and control
- Set up panels, tools, and interface
- Learn to view, zoom, and move artwork for accurate drawing
- Learn artwork construction using paths, anchor points, stroke, and fill
- Select all or parts of artwork using different selection tools
- Use Copy and Paste Identical, Stacking Order, Layers Organization
- Create infinite color schemes using Color Guide
- Create artwork using gradients and Gradient Mesh
- Create artistic type for Illustrator and Photoshop
- Create artwork using the Pen tool with Bezier curves
- Create artwork using shape tools and the Symbols library
- Create artwork using the Graphic Styles library, the Brushes library, and the Gradient Mesh tool
- Create artwork automatically using Live Trace
- Create artwork using Effects filters
- Combine artwork using Illustrator and Photoshop
- Troubleshoot artwork for printing problems
- Create artwork using Effects filters
- Combine artwork using Illustrator and Photoshop
- Troubleshoot artwork for printing problems
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*Wednesday, May 27th Meeting: James Maivald, author “Cooking with XML”
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XML - Automating Print and Web Workflows with James Maivald
Wed, May 27, 2009, 6:00 PM
Winter Park Civic Center
1050 Morse Blvd.
Winter Park, FL 32789
James Maivald, author of “Cooking with XML” will present May 27th (XML is hot, get started now).
Don’t miss these power hitters, who are teaching all over the country.
Details at: http://indesignusergroup.com/chapters/orlando/events/761/
Comments from attendees
"Good range of topics from entry level to advanced. Balanced overall session, something for everyone."
"Especially enjoyed Mark's presentation. Please invite him back!"
"Mark is very knowledgeable, understandable, and a good communicator. I would like to see him back again for future events. I really like the different levels of presentation provided, too. Everyone gets something out of it."
"These meetings are excellent and provide such a valuable resource to both learning folks and professionals."
"Wow! This guy is great! Great information (things I didn't and will use) and a dynamic speaker. Please bring him back!"
"Both presenters are very good -- would like to see both again. Love that you addressed the beginner aspect of Illustrator. I have been trying for at least 10 years to understand how and why to use Illustrator."
"I really liked tonight's presentation on the pen tool. It was nice to see how to use the tool effectively."
"Nice venue. Food a bonus, especially the dessert!"
"Both presentations were very helpful, although I'm just beginning with InDesign. Mark is a very inspiring and fun instructor!"
Next Meeting
Instant InDesign with Gabriel Powell
Wed, March 25, 2009, 6:00 PM
Winter Park Civic Center
1050 Morse Blvd.
Winter Park, FL 32789
Learn the Art of Template Design
Faced with tight deadlines? Tired of laboring over repetitive layouts? Then this meeting is for you! Gabriel Powell, author of Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout and Adobe Certified Instructor, will be introducing us to the art of template design. He'll begin by showing us how to develop the right layout grid for any publication. Then he'll explain best practices for setting up master pages, generating style sheets, and preparing your templates for success in a live production workflow. You'll also get a wealth of indispensable tips that will ease the tedium of production and give you the freedom to concentrate on concept and design.
What makes templates so important? First, they guide the placement of text and graphics, and provide a well-established starting point from which a publication can be easily created. Second, and most important, they save a lot of setup time, ensure design consistency, and significantly minimize the possibility for error. Designing a template is expert work, demanding all of your attention, skill, good judgment, and experience. Gabriel's book, Instant InDesign, is dedicated to teaching you the tricks of the trade and provides you with the knowledge you need to create exceptional templates.
A limited supply of discounted copies ($35 each) of Instant InDesign will be available for purchase at the meeting. If you already own a copy of the book, be sure to bring it so Gabriel can sign it. If you'd like to buy a copy of the book before the meeting, click the following link to save up to 30%:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=CCEpI6PE6RY&offerid=163295.10000034&type=3&subid=0
Bring a friend or new member to the March meeting and you and your friend will be entered to win one of the boxed versions of CS3 software. We would like to see our membership grow!**
About Gabriel Powell
As the Training Director for Metafusion Training, Gabriel teaches InDesign, InCopy, and other applications to creative professionals throughout the United States and Western Europe. He is also the founder of the Portland InDesign User Group and the founder and chapter leader of The Netherlands InDesign User Group.Raffle Tickets
Proceeds from raffle tickets offset meeting expenses: 3 raffle tickets for $10, 8 tickets for $20, 15 tickets for $30; Students with ID: 1 ticket for $5.
Reflecting our new location and a broader constituency and interest, our group will no longer focus solely on Adobe InDesign. Instead, the group will be renamed the Adobe Creative Suite User Group: Orlando Chapter and will rededicate itself to supporting all programs of the Adobe Creative Suite.
Artists, designers, students, interested professionals or amateurs, print and new media, everyone is invited to this exciting User Group.
Adobe Creative Suite Applications work on both Apple and Windows platforms. Therefore, our user group is non-specific for platform, open to any and all interested; we address very current and topical information.
Our presentations are by industry experts, local designers, authors and Adobe representatives. We explore their experiences, projects, how they did it, what programs they used and how these programs work. Be sure to visit your member page to check our user group benefits and see examples of topics and meeting notes from our local group and other national and international groups.
Our presentations are informative and focused. There will be answers to questions and you’re guaranteed to discover new methods and means to accomplish new things with your chosen toolset.
If you would like to be a presenter, sponsor or have a service or product that you would like to share with our User Group please contact Edward Feldman at efeldman@mac.com.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Edward Feldman, Orlando Chapter Representative
and the Orlando Creative Suite User Group Steering Committee
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