United States of AmericaBest meeting yet! So much fun! Exciting! I want CS4.
Attendee
Schoolcraft College
Event DetailsCS4!! Need I say more? The Detroit InDesign User Group (IDUG) welcomed more than 190 creatives to Schoolcraft College on November 4 to see the ultimate toolkit for today’s designer. A great turnout for a Presidential election day.
Everyone was greeted by a beautiful CS4 IDUG banner, donated by Anita and Don Mitzel from GraphiColor. Look for it to help locate us where ever we hold meetings.
Noha Edell, Business Development Manager for Creative Pro products at Adobe, did a spectacular job presenting the latest features of CS4, including the new tabbed interface that can help you jump between multiple documents. Some of the Bridge highlights shown were “bread crumbs” on your top toolbar so you can quickly see where your files are located, and the ability to output photos as an HTML or Flash Web gallery or contact sheets directly through Bridge.
Noha showed Photoshop’s content-aware scaling, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel, enhanced auto-align, auto-blend, 360° panoramas, and 3D interactivity. We saw Illustrator’s awesome multiple artboards and improved gradient features which now include transparency.
She went on to demonstrate the newest Adobe InDesign CS4 features including:
* Live preflight. You can now see as you are working if there are any potential production errors in your document, allowing you to correct the problems at any time and see updated preflight information change on the fly.Check out www.adobe.com to find out more about the newest features of the Creative Suite 4 line of products.
* Links panel. Customize to view image thumbnails, scale, resolution, metadata, and more.
* Smart Guides and proportional place. Quickly align, space, and rotate images based on other images in the document with the smart guides giving the user visual placement cues.
* Spread rotation. No more turning your head sideways to view rotated type.
* Interactivity. There is a library of buttons with actions (states) already attached. Create page transitions in your document that can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat and Flash, then export your document as SWF or SFL files (Flash CS4 will maintain the appearance of your document).
Thanks to the following sponsors:
* Adobe Systems Inc.: www.adobe.comAs we wind down another year, I would like to thank all of our members for their continued support and look forward to seeing new faces at each meeting.
* KW Media: www.kelbymediagroup.com
* Peachpit: www.peachpit.com
* Stocklayout: www.stocklayouts.com
* Schoolcraft College (www.schoolcraft.edu) for the meeting space and food, especially the Computer Graphics Technology Department for event support.
* GraphiColor (www.graphicolor.com) for the awesome banner which you can see in the meeting photos.
I am a first-time visitor to the InDesign User Group and am impressed with the arrangements made! Thank you for putting together a great community resource. Noha is also great! Very informative and keeps the session interesting and lively.
Best meeting yet! So much fun! Exciting! I want CS4.
Noha is a very entertaining presenter. I loved the new features in CS4. This presentation was a great overview of the new suite and hopefully it will be in my Christmas stocking. Thank you for this presentation!
Noha is a riot! New functionality in Photoshop, Bridge & Illustrator are AWESOME! Enjoyed the InDesign as well (I am a novice with ID) -- this sneak peek really makes me want to play with CS4!!
Really good presenter -- keeps your attention. This was a great way to see the new features of CS4 to help decide whether or not to upgrade software.
Love it! Never used Bridge and now I will.
“crumb bread” cute! Just great fun! Laughs, info & now I am desperate to upgrade!
Noha is always a delight and bursting with new information.
Noha is hilarious! Very informative and funny. Very engaging. GREAT! Should have her back for an all day (paid) seminar.
Very informative and entertaining! My first meeting. Want to join the upcoming meetings too. Thank you!
Noha was a wonderful speaker. I’m learning a lot of tricks and I’m very excited in getting Adobe CS4. Also, knowing more about Bridge will help out a lot with future projects. Thanks.
Noha was a very good, well prepared speaker. Kept people’s attention, very informative and also made it funny. Programs look awesome. Can’t wait to use it.
The presenter was amazing. I really enjoyed listening to her. It was very cool to see some of the new features in CS4.
Very engaging with audience -- you can tell she loves what she does!
It is fantastic to have Noha back again showing off the latest products from Adobe. Always entertaining and very informative. I could enjoy a presentation from Noha every IDUG meeting! Please get her back before a CS5 release!
Fabulous presenter! One of the best meetings I have attended. Bring Noha back for more in-depth classes. Very valuable info -- great personality. Four stars -- 2 thumbs up!
Very entertaining, Noha is a very exciting speaker with great energy. As my first IDUG meeting I now know what I have been missing out on. It was great to learn new and old techniques tonight.
Speaker was awesome. She really made learning fun.
I just joined the group and this is my first meeting. I thought it was great. Nice job!
Great humor, Noha! You should be a comedienne! Very entertaining.
Our next meeting will be Thursday, February 5 at Schoolcraft College in Livonia.
Donna Gniewek
Detroit IDUG Chapter Representative
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