Orlando InDesign User Group

InDesign and Illustrator have an amazing collection of design and layout features — so many, in fact, that few of us know every one of them. Come watch as our groups own Adobe Certified Experts, Mark Poulalion and Douglas Mitchell, demonstrate some of their favorites. InDesign Training Session with Mark Poulalion 1 Libraries, Master Pages, Templates and Snippets. When to use them and how to take advantage of the full power of InDesign. 2 All those Styles: Paragraphs, Characters, Objects and Swatches. More time saving features you must start using in 2009. 3 Indexes and TOCs made easy. We will cover all this in 50 minutes. I hope we have time for questions. Illustrator Training Session with Douglas Mitchell 1 On-board free Illustrator artwork — there are hundreds pieces of clip art, icons, symbols royalty free to use in projects. Find out where to find them, how to modify and export them into InDesign & Photoshop. You DO NOT need to know how to draw with the Pen tool to use these this free vector artwork. Please come and see what you can do starting from ground zero. 2 Create infinite color schemes, then save as swatches to use in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop. Quick start by defining color schemes using Illustrator pre-defined color sets (examples): earthtones, foods, metal, nature, corporate, art history. Your project colors will never be the same. This is unquestionably one of the greatest features ever. This alone is worth using Illustrator. 3 Take away the mystery — learn the five rules to DRAW with the Pen tool. I have developed a method to explain how to draw Bezier Curves (like Perrier) with the Pen tool to hundreds of students, and production staff at all levels, including college. I can teach anyone how to draw with the Pen tool. Please come, you may give yourself a new career. 4 Free Training Videos from Adobe — buried treasures in Illustrator. I wish to share with you where to find these free Adobe training videos. There is so much you can learn in a few minutes. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00 p.m. - Registration; Eat, Meet & Greet; Announcements 7:00 p.m. - Mark Poulalion, InDesign favorite features 7:50 p.m. - Break 8:00 p.m. - Douglas Mitchell, Illustrator favorite features 8:50 p.m. - Q&A and Prizes! ============== 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. Be sure to register so we have an accurate count for our usual pizza, and other refreshments. 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