Tampa InDesign User Group Home Meeting Summary Archive

Monday, June 5th marks the next meeting of the Tampa Bay InDesign User Group. Featured speakers will be Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and Sarah Schweiger of Sarah Schweiger Creative Design Services. For the first half of the evening Matt will be sharing the ins and outs of using Photoshop to process, fix, correct, and just plain make your photos look better. In this presentation we'll look at some ways to fix your photos as well as some workflow secrets to make you work faster and smarter in Photoshop. Following Matt's presentation, Sarah will demonstrate the process of taking the corrected images from Photoshop and placing them into InDesign. We'll take a look at sizing, text wrapping and fitting images and text to frames. Sarah will also share some additional tips and tricks she learned at the InDesign conference in Chicago. The event will culminate with another exciting raffle where we'll give away valuable books, merchandise, and software. If you miss this evening there won't be another until October, so sign up today. Come Early if you can: At 6:30 The Art Institute will delight us in a tour of their facility. A member of the Art Institute's Admission team will lead the tour. The Art Institute of Tampa offers associate's degree programs in Culinary Arts, Graphic Design, and Interactive Media Design, and bachelor's degree programs in Advertising, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design, Interactive Media Design, Interior Design, and Media Arts & Animation. Agenda 6:30 - 7:00: Sign In & Take a tour of the Art Institute 7:00 - 7:15: Sign In continues & Welcome comments & Introductions 7:15 - 7:45: Matt Kloskowski: Adobe Photoshop CS2 7:45 - 8:15: Sarah Schweiger: Placing Images in InDesign: Tips and Tricks 8:15 - 9:00: Q&A, Group Discussion, and Raffle: Fabulous prizes & giveaways