Incredible presentation, lots of inspiration — broadening the mind for infinite possibilities.
Robert Emeny
Vancouver Film School - Theatre
Event DetailsWe had a great meeting on Tuesday March 23rd as we welcomed Seattle native David Blatner of InDesign Secrets fame up to Vancouver. David wowed us with his vast knowledge of InDesign by presenting a 90-minute tips & tricks session. (He covered different material from what he will be presenting at his one-day InDesignSecrets Vancouver seminar in April.)
David Blatner is the author or co-author of 15 books, including "Real World InDesign" and "InDesign for QuarkXPress Users," and presents many InDesign titles at Lynda.com. He is the editorial director of "InDesign Magazine." Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 13 languages, and his Blatner Tools plug-ins help InDesign users improve their productivity. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. You can find more about David at:
http://63p.com/
or
http://indesignsecretslive.com/
or
http://indesignsecrets.com/
We concluded by drawing evaluation forms for prizes.
Many thanks to our sponsors for donating the following products and services for this meeting. Best prices for books are usually found at Amazon.ca, and don't forget that there are often discount member benefits for book purchase; check these out in the Member Benefits area on the IDUG website.
*Adobe CS4 Design Premium software ($1799 value) - That's right, it's the full bundle, not just a single title.
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/
*One free pass to attend the DesignWeek conference in Vancouver. ($700.00)
*One free pass to attend the InDesign Secrets Seminar mentioned below in upcoming industry events. ($99.00)
*Books and DVDs on various print to online topics:
http://www.focalpress.com/
http://oreilly.com/
http://www.peachpit.com/index.aspx
InDesign plug-ins from the following companies:
*Zevrix - LinkOptimizer, BatchOutput, InPreflight
http://www.zevrix.com/index.php
Printing Gift Certificate:
TPH - Biz Card Printing: 250 Digitally printed cards
http://www.tph.ca/locations/default.aspx?
(1177 W. Hastings St.)
This was our first meeting without refreshments, but one of the members offered to sponsor our next meeting's refreshments table.
Many thanks to Adobe for their ongoing and generous support. Without them, we wouldn't be having these meetings.
Facilities for the meeting supplied by the Vancouver Film School, http://www.vfs.com.
A special thank-you to David Blatner for going the extra miles to be with us (nearly 8hrs of driving in one day). Also a special thanks to our volunteers who put these meetings together; Jeff Kew, Regina Leung, Miles Harrison and Michael Yee (our guest door attendant). And last but not least, thanks to everyone who came out for this event and gave us their generous feedback.
InDesignSecrets Live Seminar: April 21 Vancouver
http://idbc.eventbrite.com/
Get 10% off your registration (the code is shown in your member benefits area on this site)
InDesignSecrets Print and ePublishing Conference, May 12-14, Seattle
http://indesignsecretslive.com/conference.html
Also get 10% off (same discount code as above; see your member benefits page)
***Blatner Tools
If you liked what you saw, you can download a fully-functional version of Blatner Tools (Mac or Windows) here: http://www.blatnertools.com
You can purchase it from that same site. Until July 1, IDUG members get 10% off! (Discount code is in your member benefits area.)
*15% discount off Adobe Software at the Adobe Store
As an IDUG member, you are entitled to get 15% off your next Adobe software purchase! To see the simple steps to receive your coupon code, look in the right column of the Member Area on this site or your chapter home page -- remember, you must be logged in in order to see this information.
*InDesign Magazine: Discounted Two-Year Subscription
Exclusively for IDUG Members
Get a two-year subscription for only $39! Sign up at www.indesignmag.com/idm/purchase.html.
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At $150USD per exam it's not cheap or indeed easy, so plenty of study and practice is required. AceQuestions Practice Exams are written by an Adobe Certified Expert and are designed to simulate the real exam. The exams are setup as interactive PDFs with clickable radio buttons for multiple choice answers. All you need is the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader (Acrobat 7 or higher recommended). Your result is calculated as a percentage, just like the real thing!
AceQuestions Practice Exams are affordably priced. Good luck with your certification!
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Great Session! Always entertaining and informative - Frank K.
Loved the class, learned so much and everything was pertinent to what designers do - Kirsten S.
More seminars like this in Vancouver - Christina W.
I look forward to the all-day event - Ruth J.
Awesome, very informative - Martyn S.
This was great, I enjoyed all of the shortcuts and scripts available - Anne M.
Another refreshing presentation, David is awesome - Bambs H.
Charismatic presenter, good venue - Murray J.
(There were another 100 comments sheets similar to the above comments. Suffice it to say, David Blatner was a hit!)
Well, with the cat out of the bag about the April 12th announcement, I'm going to suggest that our next meeting might possibly be all about whatever gets announced on April 12th. :-)
Colin Fleming, of Adobe will be coming up from Seattle to be our guest speaker in June. Final date TBD.
Colin is an Application Engineer at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has taught advanced classes on applications and production techniques for print and Web design since 1999. His specialties include InDesign production workflows and custom training for Adobe customers who are moving to InDesign and Creative Suite workflows. Colin is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat, and an Adobe Creative Suite Master Instructor. He was also hired by Adobe to help create and review many of the actual Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams. Colin has been a member of the Seattle InDesign User Group since its original meeting in 2000 and was the chapter representative from 2002-2004.
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