I got more in this 3 hours than I’ve gotten in working with individual tutors all the previous year.
Winter Park Civic Center
Event DetailsOn May 26, a total of 198 attendees packed two Orlando InDesign User Group meetings and were rewarded with a mind-blowing look at the recently launched InDesign CS5.
After checking in, attendees enjoyed a lavish selection of deli sandwiches, fruit, crudités, snack crackers, chips and dips, water, coffee and tiramisu while visiting the exhibits of our sponsors. We want to thank our exhibitors: Connecting Point, Abbott Printing and of course, Adobe.
The presentation began with a bird’s eye view of the new Adobe FlashCatalyst design environment, which allows users to build and prototype apps without coding, tightens workflow between designers and developers, and then smoothly hands off to Adobe Flash Builder for more advanced Flex application work.
That led to a look at Adobe’s new online service: CSLive Services. A 12-month free subscription is included with each CS5 Suite, giving access to tools like CS Review (allows sharing of design content online for review/approval), BrowserLab (a multibrower Web design testing mechanism), Adobe Story (a searchable storyboarding system for video that lives “in the cloud.”)
Appetites more than whetted, the rapt crowd was then treated to an in-depth look at a half-dozen or more of the hottest features in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Among hot items that Patrick Koster, Adobe Senior Solutions Engineer, demonstrated were:
- Adobe Mini Bridge, a browser/explorer/contents panel inside each application
Photoshop
- Smart Radius, which fills in edge details of any selection.
- Content Aware Fill, which makes removal of a component from an image faster and more seamless than you can believe until you see it.
- Adobe Repousee, which creates 3D depth and dimensionality in a 2D image
InDesign
- Now there’s a Layers panel that works just like Illustrator’s Layers panel!!!!!!! Selections can be aligned/stacked from within this panel.
- Different page sizes in one document.
- The ability to have headlines or other text blocks span multiple columns in the same text frame.
- Live Captions: A new text variable feature which allows the user to easily add captions to graphics using that image's metadata.
- Simplified Transformations: Using the content grabber and the ability to transform multiple objects without grouping them.
- The Gap Tool: This new tool manages white space instead of objects.
Illustrator
- Perspective Grid and Perspective Selection Tools, help create realistic artwork with depth, all proportional. (Ooh’s, aah’s and applause from the crowd met this demonstration)
- Beautiful Strokes creates variable widths within a single path quickly and easily, working on only one side of the stroke or both.
- Path Joining - The ability to create dash patterns for strokes and align the dashes to corners and path ends got so much applause it appeared to be what the whole of the Orlando design community has been waiting for.
It was obvious early on that money spent on any of these packages would be made back very quickly in increased productivity. A common theme heard in all the break and post-presentation conversations was that CS5 is going to make users’ lives better. Nearly everyone came away learning about a new feature or several.
To review what was covered or learn more, visit http://tv.adobe.com
A big thank you to our presenter for the evening, Patrick Koster, as well as those who donated prizes for our raffle: Connecting Point (Ipod Nano, Things task management software, IT services), Olive Garden (the night’s dessert, dining cards, event discounts), Adobe Press (Layers and InDesign magazine subscriptions and a plethora of design manuals and other books), Abbott Printing and Adobe Systems (full copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS5).
I love the HDR photography features, which I’ve found no other way to achieve before CS5.
The edge detail refinement features are amazing!
This was great! Wish they were held more often.
After the presentation, Patrick Koster generously spent time offering in-depth answers and guidance to individual attendees – that was so cool!
I learned several things that even supposed local experts have not been able to tell me.
I got more in this 3 hours than I’ve gotten in working with individual tutors all the previous year.
The next meeting of the Orlando InDesign User Group is scheduled for July 28th.
Our guest speakers will be Rhonda Martinez from Aquent Creative Staffing and Janessa Gursky creative directory at Evolve Design Group. They will present an exciting two-part meeting focused on landing that elusive design job, with insights from Rhonda's position with one of the premier creative placement agencies.
Speakers will lead us through the process of candidate selection and the skills companies are looking for when taking on designers for placement. Rhonda's experience is invaluable to the job hunter today, helping us to uncover the top ten keys to finding a job in this tough market.
During the second half of this not-to-be-missed meeting, Janessa Gursky will enter into the InDesign technical how-tos -- what are the most important design skills and creative secrets to build confidence when job hunting. She will address the creative and technical art of typography as well as every designers' and creatives' frustration with font management. You won't want to miss this meeting.
Enjoy job networking, a light supper and mingling with industry colleagues while listening to our special guests.
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Date, time, and location
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Winter Park Civic Center
1050 W Morse Blvd
Winter Park, FL 32789
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Agenda
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5:30pm to 6:30pm: Registration, Food and Networking
6:15pm to 6:30pm: Faith welcomes, explains who we are, introduces our sponsors
6:30pm to 7:40pm: Janessa Gursky creative directory at Evolve Design Group
6:40pm to 7:50pm: Break
7:50pm to 8:00pm: Evaluation, Announcements
8:00pm to 8:50pm: Rhonda Martinez from Aquent Creative Staffing
8:50pm to 9:00pm: Raffle for books, software, a copy of CS5 InDesign
This month our grand Raffle Prize is Adobe InDesign CS5.
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Please register to attend
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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.
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About the Speakers
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Rhonda Martinez is one of the top recruiters at Aquent Creative Staffing. She recruits creative talent within the entire state of Florida and works with many of the fortune 100 and 500 companies such as Disney, Marriott, Starwood, Office Depot, Royal Caribbean and many more. She has spent the last four years at Aquent developing and building solid, long term relationships with both talent and clients. She has extensive experience recruiting and sourcing for niche positions as well as knowledge of and experience with leveraging social networking to achieve her goals.
Janessa Gursky is a Creative Director at Evolve Design Group and has unique ideas that tap the pulse of the Central Florida marketplace. Gursky recently led EDG's creative team in working with Orlando's Downtown Development Board on the rebranding of downtown.
Adobe Creative Suite Applications work on both Apple and Windows platforms. Therefore, our user group is non-specific for platform and open to all those interested; we address very current and topical information.
Our presentations are informative and focused. There will be answers to questions you may have AND those you may not have thought about. You're guaranteed to discover new methods and means to accomplish new things with your chosen toolset.
Our existence depends on your support! Donations are requested to help us cover our room rental, food and other meeting cost. Our group does NOT have a membership fee. Please be sure to register so we have an accurate count for our food.
We offset our group meeting expenses from raffle tickets for room rental and food. Please plan to purchase raffle tickets. 3 raffle tickets for $10, 8 tickets for $20, 15 tickets for $30; Students with valid ID: 1 ticket for $5.
Our Adobe InDesign User Group is a special interest group (SIG) of the Florida Macintosh User Group (FLMUG). Artists, designers, students, interested professionals or beginners, print and new media, everyone is invited. This means all of you - everyone - AIGA, AD2, American Advertising Federation, Florida Creatives, Professional Photographers Society, UCF, SCC, VCC, IADT and more!
We are looking to expand our group and need your support, please contact Edward Feldman via email at InDesignOrlando@mac.com if you or your company wishes to sponsor or be a presenter at our meetings.
If there is anything specific you think our InDesign users would be interested in, let me know.
Thank you for all your support. Please put this notice on your calendar.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
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