I was very surprised with the presenter. He was very engaging and knowledgeable, but still was able to explain simple terms. I thought the layout of his presentations had great direction and kept surprising us with all the new stuff...
J. Stubbs
International Academy of Design and Technology
Event DetailsOur August 5th the InDesign User Group Meeting: Open Your Eyes to CS5, with Patrick Koster, proved to be one of our biggest turnouts of the year.
Thanks to Jorge Diaz and the folks at the International Academy of Design and Technology for hosting our 70+ member turnout. The meeting started early so that Patrick could cover as much ground in the three hours as he could.
Patrick began the presentation with showing the group Adobe TV (tv.adobe.com). Patrick pointed out that there are over 250 new features in CS5 and that Adobe TV would be a great place to visit to review many of the features and learn new ones.
Patrick continued his presentation in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and rounded off the presentation in Flash Catalyst. Some of the points he covered included:
* When engineers were working on Photoshop CS5, they had three main themes: How can we give you more creative freedom? How can we make you more effective on the software and how to make smarter tools? How can we help our users collaborate?
* "Content aware" is new to Photoshop fill. There is constant awareness in the spot healing brush.
* Illustrator (Drawing in perspective) Perspective guides...1,2,3 Point Perspective under perspective guides. Under the Free Transform tool, you will find the perspective grid tools and perspective tool. You can work with live type and design elements in perspective.
* Use the Width tool (beautiful strokes) to create variable width and even variable width profiles. Check out the Stroke pallete for all of the new elements you will enjoy.
Patrick also showed us when he drew inside with a selection, the new tools will create a temporary mask. Live type can also act as mask with draw-inside action.
* The Shape builder tool helps you edit and combine shapes together quick and fast.
* InDesign has gone multimedia big time.... Patrick showed everyone how to create a whole layout web page microsite in InDesign. New actions in InDesign CS5 included movement presets such as flying in and when it occurs. You can draw the path of animation now in InDesign. Patrick showed us the timming panel. Using the Objects states panel, Patrick made a little slide show.
* You can work with video streaming and real video into the files and setting up controls as well.
* You can now create pages of different sizes, and each element that comes in is on its own layer (like Illustrator currently)
Patrick finished the presentation by showing us three separate projects using Flash Catalyst.
Finally, the meeting closed with a raffle drawing for fabulous prizes including Creative Suite 5 Design Premium donated by Adobe, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a book donated by Peachpit Press, 12 ebooks from O’Reilly and many other great CS5 prizes. Patrick and Richard also brought two boxes of Lightroom to raffle off.
-Many thanks to our sponsors for their ongoing and generous support...including the education team (Patrick Koster & Richard Volkmann)
-Thanks again to all of our partners for support and raffle prizes...
-Facilities for the meeting supplied by Jorge Diaz & the International Academy of Design and Technology, http://www.academy.edu.
-A special thank-you to Patrick Koster for going the extra miles to be with us and for providing such a useful presentation...
-Many thanks to
• KW Media, publishers of Layers Magazine and Photoshop magazine (http://www.layersmagazine.com/) & David Rogers for picking the magazines up to deliver to the meeting.
• Lynda.com
• Adobe Press: http://www.adobepress.com
• Total Training: http://www.totaltraining.com
• Adobe Systems: http://www.adobe.com
• O'Reilly Media: http://www.oreilly.com/
• Peachpit Press: http://www.peachpit.com/index.asp
Thanks as always to our location and communication sponsors:
• Tampa Business Journal
• Create Magazine
• Ad2 Tampa Bay & the AAF Tampa Bay
• Creative Tampa Bay
• Tampa Tribune Business Section
• Weekly Planet
• Sarah Schweiger Creative Design Services
• St. Pete Times
• AIGA
• The Tampa Graphic Design Meetup.com Group
for underwriting these meetings to help us keep them free and open to all!
22 squared
22 squared is looking for a studio/mech artist who is proficient in all of the Adobe apps, as well as Flash. If you are interested in applying for the position, please email Valerie Bogle at valerie.bogle@22squared.com
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WEB DESIGNER FOR BRADENTON HERALD/Bradenton.com
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: Web Designer
Company: Bradenton Herald
Location: Florida
Job Status: Full-time
Description:
The Bradenton Herald is seeking a web developer to drive the company's multimedia direction, leading the integration of the company's online technology with new and emerging technologies. We want to clearly establish the Herald and Bradenton.com as a digital media leader in the region, and this person will help lead the way. Primary include setting up databases, manipulating open source code, writing database queries, and using multiple applications to enhance the Bradenton Herald's web sites, digital products and processes. Candidates should have at least a two-year technical school degree; bachelor's degree preferred.
Requirements include exceptional planning, organization, technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
Send resumes, work samples and a letter explaining why you're right for the job to Joan Krauter, Executive Editor, Bradenton Herald jkrauter@bradenton.com.
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SCREENING QUESTIONS
1. Describe your experience with Javascript.
2. Describe your experience with CSS.
3. Describe your experience with Perl (cgi, mod_perl).
4. Describe your experience with Apache or other web servers (conf,
etc.).
5. Describe your experience using data bases.
6. Do you know how to read/write SQL queries?
7. Describe your experience with any Unix-variant OS / system
administration:
o vi
o find offending processes
o top
o grep
o sudo
o crontab
o symlinks
8. Describe your experience with any monitoring/analytics
applications (Hobbit/Xylon, Omniture, Gomez, Google Analytics, Yahoo Web Analytics)
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Our friends at the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) at Eckerd College are seeking a registration coordinator – a support clerical position – to begin immediately on their beautiful St. Pete campus.
For more information or to send your cover letter and resume to:
Megan Watson Kramer
Director, Client Relations
Leadership Development Institute (LDI)
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
watsonma@eckerd.edu
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Progress Energy is seeking a Communication Specialist in Crystal River.
This position is the lead communication consultant and strategist for the Crystal River 3 Nuclear Plant. This employee must be able to manage multiple tasks and activities while looking toward the future and understanding the "big picture." This includes working with corporate, plant and regional management and personnel. This position is responsible for planning, executing and measuring all site internal communications, using a multitude of tactics and communication tools, while reinforcing corporate messaging and communications and translating them so they are relevant for site personnel. As the site’s lead communication consultant, employee will also support external communications and serve as the site’s primary media spokesperson. Employee should be engaged with issues associated with the nuclear power industry, the electric utility industry and Progress Energy's businesses. Communication leadership and support during refueling outages is considered highly valuable and requires significant commitment of planning, resources and time. Some early morning and late evening work may be required, as is week-long, rotational on-call periods.
This position reports to the Director - PEF Communications with matrix responsibility to the Director - Media Relations and PEC Communications.
All applications must be made online: https://secure.progress-energy.com/sid/aboutus/employment/extgateway.html
Interactive Design for Print Designers with Keith Gilbert
The interactive design marketplace offers new opportunities for designers. Designing for interactivity on screens is different from designing for print. And just as the print world has unique terminology, concepts, and production problems, so does the world of interaction design. This seminar is specifically for print designers, to help you become literate in interaction design, get excited about the opportunities it presents, and learn what you need to add to your skill set to tackle interactive design projects.
You will learn:
* What you can expect to do yourself, and when (and how) to work with a developer or programmer
* Which tool(s) to use for the job: InDesign CS5, Flash Professional or Flash Catalyst
* When to use animation and motion in a project
* How to work with onscreen color, scale, and typography
* About object properties, components, timelines, events, states, and other interactive terminology and concepts
* The current options for outputting to tablets, desktop Web browsers, smartphones, and other devices
. . . and much more!
Who should attend: Experienced print designers who want to learn more about Interaction design
Discounted entry fee for IDUG Tampa members:
see http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/tampa, near the top of the page, and make sure you are logged in.
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About the presenter
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Keith Gilbert has worked as an independent consultant and educator in the design industry for 25 years for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, Lands’ End, Medtronic, Target and the United Nations. Keith recently authored an interaction design primer for Adobe titled "Designing for interactivity on screens: a primer for print designers. His work has taken him throughout the US and Canada, as well as to Barbados, Kenya and Monaco. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat, and the Chapter Representative for the Minneapolis InDesign User Group. You can read his Tips & Techniques Blog at blog.gilbertconsulting.com.
To register, go to: http://www.aaf-tampabay.org/Page__1/EventID__73467/calendar/Events-Details.html
"This meeting was great. Hope to have CS5 soon." T. Morgan
"Excellent meeting, Thank you Adobe for supporting this group." M. Brown
We are currently scheduling our next meeting. Please be sure to attend the Interactive Design for Print Designers with Keith Gilbert on August 21st.
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