Meeting Summary: Part II - “Just Show Me How” and “Show Me The Free Stuff”

Wed, Nov 16th, 2011 at 5:30 PM

Winter Park Civic Center

Event Details

Our own Doug Mitchell, Adobe Certified Instructor presented his “Just Show Me How - Part 2” all-time favorite Adobe Creative Suite top production features, options, and techniques for Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator to 70 members. Doug also presented a bonus session about Migrating to iCloud. Everyone also enjoyed Doug’s delicious lasagna dinner and the opportunity to mingle during breaks.

iCloud

Step 1
Mac must be upgraded to Lion ($29.99) and PC must be Windows 7 or Vista
iPhone, iPad and iPod must be upgraded to iOS 5
This is necessary to access iCloud

Step 2
Must Have iTunes on your computer to install Lion and iOS 5 onto your iPhone, iPad, and iPod

Step 3
Install Lion and restart Mac

Step 4
System Preferences click on iCloud and turn on what you want to store
Click on Manage to buy more storage space

Step 5
iPhone go to settings click on iCloud and turn on what you want to store
iCloud automatically backups what is on your iPhone while you are asleep at night

iCloud’s Photo Stream
You must update to iPhoto 11 to use Photo Stream on your Mac. When you turn on Photo Stream it takes the last 1,000 photos or movies at one time. The photos and movies on Photo Stream are an alias from you Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod. When you upload image 1,001 it removes the image 1. You can only have 1,000 images. No way to organize images once it is in Photo Stream.

Best way to manage Photo Stream
Go to iPhoto Preferences
Turn off Enable
Make an Album
Select all images in the Album and put what you want in Photo Stream

To remove photos from Photo Stream
Go into iCloud
Click on your name
Reset Photo Stream removes all photos from Photo Stream
Go back to your System Preferences and click off Photo Stream
Now all photos are removed from Photo Stream on iCloud

To Find iCloud Help
Mac System Preferences
Go to iCloud
Click on ? in lower left corner
Goes to iCloud Preferences
At bottom lower left click on iCloud Help


“Just Show Me How - Part 2” Doug’s Tips and Tricks
Below are quick notes about the different tips and tricks Doug demonstrated.

Please note you can download PDFs showing Doug's step-by-step instructions at http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/DMitchell/resources.cfm.

You can also contact Doug at doug@trainingbrain.com.

Adobe Illustrator
Create element – 7 color rectangles stacked
Take Font letter and turn into outline
Place outline letter on top of rectangles
Under View - Lock Guides
Select all (letter and rectangles)
Under Window – Pathfinder - Divide
Where lines intersect a separate piece is created
Take separate pieces of color
Remove pieces you don’t want

Photoshop
Smart Object keeps a high resolution – can go up or down with resolution
If you right click on a Smart Object you can rasterize it – now it is resolution dependent
When rasterized, can add effects such as shadows

To Remove a background color from an image
Use Magic Eraser tool with Solid Colors
Click with Eraser tool identifies pixel to erase and any within a range of 12%
Great for removing white backgrounds

Layer Mask
Drag layer into Layer Mask Icon
When you are in Layer Mask black hides and white shows
Brush black 100%
(Hardness is a feather on the brush – 100 equals a hard edge – 50 equals feather – 0 lots of feathering)
Paint with brush to hide or show

Quick Texture
Choose a forground and backgroud color
Filter – Render - Clouds
Makes Clouds with the forground and background colors
Filter – Distort – select twirl, wave etc.
Command I inverts the image changing the color – try this, you may like this color more

Content Aware
If what you want fixed is surrounded by texture you want
Select area to fix
Choose Fill > Content Aware

Reform image to fit to the space
Be on specific Layer you want to resize
Edit – Content Aware Scale
Resizes the image to fit the space

Constrain Cropping Tool
Click on crop
Tell it what resolution 150
Tell it what Width and Height

Create Plates for Screen Printing
Image – Mode – Indexed Color
Choose Local (Selective) and deselect Transparency
Type in number of colors you want example 6
Just told image to index the entire image into 6 colors
Images – Mode – Color Table
At Color Table you can select the colors and change them
Change to RGB
Select – Color Range
Fuzziness: 0
Select a Color
Paste onto a layer to create the color plates for screen printing

Thank you

Thank you for Supporting Our Raffle!
All raffle proceeds pay for our excellent meeting facilities and food.

InDesign Magazine (1yr subscription)
Rose Buchanan
Kat Guevara

StockLayouts (3mth subscription)
Agi Bussanich

O'Reilly Media Inc. (Free E-Book)
Victoria Mandracken
Shirley Belleville
Amanda Wagner

Grand Prize (Adobe InDesign CS5.5)
Brandie Tate

Comments from attendees

• Great Review. Thanks for reminding us that we can use multiple apps to make our designs more creative!

• Great Food - Veggie Lasagna best I ever had!

• Love Tips and Tricks! Future meetings, more like this!

• Great Presentation with lots of helpful hints. Doug was very good at going back over every thing to be sure everyone got it. Really enjoyed it.

Next Meeting

Adobe Acrobat X
January 25th
Two identical sessions: Afternoon (12:00-4:00pm) and Evening (5:30-9:30pm)



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Edward Feldman and Douglas  Mitchell
Chapter Representatives
Orlando InDesign User Group
orlando@indesignusergroup.com

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