Meeting Summary: Tips & Tricks BINGO

Tue, Sep 13th, 2011 at 6:30 PM

Adobe Campus

Event Details

This month we tried a new format for presenting InDesign Tips & Tricks: randomly selected BINGO numbers dictated which demos were presented by our local experts, Colin Fleming (Worldwide Digital Publishing Suite Evangelist, Adobe Systems) & Chris Kitchener (Sr. Product Manager, InDesign at Adobe Systems). A few lucky winners won some fabulous prizes along the way, including InDesign CS5.5!

Colin & Chris covered a wide range of helpful shortcuts, inside information, valuable scripts, production tips & 'Easter Eggs'. Unfortunately we didn't have a Note-taker volunteer this month so we don't have a recap of everything they covered. But here's the one tip they didn't have a chance to demo:

Easter Egg: Holiday Lights (this creates a pre-defined stroke style)
First, open the Stroke palette and select "Stroke Styles" from the flyout menu. Create a new dashed style called "Lights". Select or draw a frame, make sure your line weight is large (30 or 40 pts) and choose the Lights stroke type. Sparkle, sparkle, pretty, oooh.

Thank you

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers – we can't possibly do it without you!

Check-in: Teresa Anderson, Fredric Ueckert
Game Logistics Odds & Ends: Eric McCarthy, Antonia Guerra
Photography: Fredric Ueckert

Thank you also to Markzware who sponsored us with 2 copies of their latest release, Q2ID (Quark to InDesign). They are also offering a limited time discount of 15% on any of their great products to SIDUG members; to take advantage of the discount, email Mary Gay Marchese at pr@markzware.com. You can also check their Facebook page for more info and specials.

Upcoming Industry Events

Photoshop Stumps (a "You make the class" Photoshop class)
Saturday, Sept. 24th, 11:00a.m. to 4:30p.m.

The Photoshop Stumps class is to be a class addressing what you want to know. If you want to know how to save images for the web or how to make your image better-looking, then this is the class for you. If you don't have a clue about specifics but know that you want to learn more about Photoshop, then this is also the class for you. I will create a list of items to cover in the class that are good to know: tips, tricks, and how to's. I will also take your emails with your suggestions and put them on the top of that list. That is what this class will cover.

For more information or to sign up, please visit: http://teresaanderson.com/classes.html

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