04.19.12
Posted in General Announcement, Meeting Announcement
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We will be discussing the Creative Cloud and what that means to you. What is it? How much is it? We’ll answer these and all your burning Creative Cloud questions.
We will also be showing off many of the great new features in InDesign CS6.
Bring your questions and excitement for the new version of our favorite software and all things new and Adobe.
In addition, we will be celebrating our group’s 5-year anniversary! There will be cake (no lie)!
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Agenda
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6:00-6:30 Networking
6:30-6:45 Chapter Business
6:45-7:30 Creative Cloud
7:30-7:45 Break
7:45-8:00 Auction
8:00-8:55 InDesign CS6 New Features
8:55-9:00 Wrap-up
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Date, time, and location
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Front Range Community College: Westminster Campus
3645 West 112th Ave.
Westminster, CO
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03.26.12
Posted in Meeting Announcement
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The next meeting of the Denver InDesign User Group is scheduled for April 3rd.
Betty Taylor will be spearheading this month’s meeting, as Erica will be out of town. Let’s all give Betty a warm welcome and thank her for taking on this task. Betty will also be the main speaker at the meeting, details are below.
“Putting it All Together: A project from start to finish”
Text, photos, logos, and tables: Even a one-page sell sheet can contain a lot of elements. In this demo, Betty will cover various aspects of creating a sell sheet for a client, from receiving content to styling text, using different types of image files, styling data in a table, and making final PDFs.
Betty’s Bio: As a professional graphic designer, I work in InDesign for hours most days. As a nerd, I spend a lot more time finding out what else this cool software can do. I’m available for one-on-one tutoring as well as freelance design work.
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Date, time, and location
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Tuesday, April 3 2012
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Front Range Community College: Westminster Campus
3645 West 112th Ave.
Westminster, CO
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Agenda
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6:00-6:30 Networking and Mingling
6:30-6:45 Chapter Business and Announcements
6:45-7:45 “Putting it All Together”
7:45-8:00 Break and More Networking
8:00-8:10 Live Auction (one copy of Adobe InDesign CS5.5 – not the usual variety of items)
8:10-8:50 Open Discussion and Informal Q&A
8:50-9:00 Wrap up
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HOW Design Conference — IDUG member $100 discount
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Be a part of the Design Revolution!
How? By attending the the HOW Design Conference!
June 22-25 in Boston (http://www.howdesignlive.com).
As an IDUG member, HOW is extending a special $100 discount on your individual full-conference registration. Just enter HIDUG in the discount code box during the registration process. Combine that $100 discount with the Early Bird rate (until March 30th) and you’ll save $170!
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Denver Announcements
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As this meeting marks our 5th Anniversary, but Erica will not be at the meeting, let’s plan on throwing ourselves a party at the June meeting! We’ll look back over our five years as a group, see who has attended the most meetings, and (most importantly) look at how our favorite program has changed since we started this great community of InDesign fanatics!
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Posted in Meeting Wrap-Up
Our last meeting on February 7th was about output and printing, transparency and color, and sources of design inspiration and training.
Chapter Business:
Our 2012 goal is to grow the group! Please bring a friend and feel free to share the meeting announcement emails.
A few job openings and project leads were shared.
Highlights from Output and Printing:
- Use live preflight to see if your file is meeting the required standards as you work. If you have an older computer, it can be turned off and on to free up memory. One of the most basic/helpful settings is image resolution (300 dpi for photos and 1200 dpi for line drawings).
- PDFs do not have an overall resolution, but the images within it do retain their resolution.
- If you don’t know (or can’t obtain) PDF standards, use PDF/X-1a:2001. (It is ideal to get the .job option file from the printing company that you will be using though.) PDF/X-1a:2001 is a flattened file that removes all transparency, converts RGB to CMYK, and is compatible with Acrobat 4 (works with old software that some printing companies are still using).
- You have control over how much of the font character set is exported with the PDF. Under the advanced tab on the export menu, “0%” sends the whole font, but “100%” sends only the characters used in the document.
Highlights from Transparency and Color:
- Use the effects panel to put different effects on the stroke vs. the fill. They can have different effects.
- Overprint preview shows what colored paper looks like if you change the color of “paper” in the swatch panel. One group member recommended using Color Munki (or a similar screen calibration device) to “read” the CMYK color value of the paper you are using.
- Need to know where a color is used? Go to window, output, separations view.
- When working with color separations, keep in mind the 300% ink limit rule of thumb (100% of 4 color to too much!)
- Flattner settings control image rasterizatione, allowing the RIP to create the illusion of overlapping colors or transparency. The overlapping areas are called “atomic regions.”
The links that Erica shared are provided below:
Design sites/communities:
Twitter accounts and hashtags:
@adobecsdesign
@Creativesuite
#ePrdctn
@CreativeProse
Training and learning:
InDesign Secrets podcast
Creative Cloud:
Fun:
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