InDesign, tips and friends

I’m very stoked to have been asked to speak during this year’s CreativePro Week event (happening online again). This year I’ll be presenting 2 sessions on Adobe InDesign.

10 Essential InDesign productivity tips

Let’s kick off Day 2 with a fast-paced, fun-filled tip-a-palooza to boost your productivity! We’ll zip through a ton of handy tips and tricks that every InDesign user needs to know. Plus, you’ll get amped to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.

• If you’re not customizing InDesign, you’re not doing it right
• Essential shortcuts
• What to do when something (inevitably) goes wrong

New InDesign features you should be using right now

You’ve been using InDesign for a long time, but why are you still using it the way you did 5 or 10 years ago?! Adobe has released a ton of new features, but most InDesign users don’t take advantage of them. Take this opportunity to get up to speed again and learn what you’ve been missing!

More information here.

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I’m super happy to announce that I’m speaking at CreativePro Week early June. Well, virtually at least since this year CreativePro Week has become an online event due to the quarantine. And because of these changed circumstances you’ll be able to follow all of my sessions online and rewatch the recordings later (which might be very valuable to some). Of course this is not the same as being able to say hi to myself and other speakers in person. But at least no one will have to miss out on great content this year. Here’s a quick rundown of my sessions.

InDesign+Photoshop+Illustrator

Tuesday, June 2, 10:30 am – 11:30 am Central

It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

• Why layers are such a big deal
• How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
• Choosing between layers and artboards
• CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
• Best practices for managing vectors and pixels
• And much more!

Managing Your Assets with Libraries

Tuesday, June 2, 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Central

Working smarter-not-harder is possible when you leverage features in InDesign like native libraries and Creative Cloud libraries. Both offer a way to save, organize, and share your brand assets. In this session, you’ll explore the differences between InDesign native libraries and Creative Cloud libraries, and see how you can significantly speed up your daily workflow and help you push through global updates over multiple programs and projects.

Topics will include:

• The difference between InDesign libraries and Creative Cloud libraries
• How to create and manage Creative Cloud libraries
• How to store your assets in online folders
• How to use the web portal to manage your assets
• How to share your libraries and collaborate with others
• Best practices when re-using assets in multiple Adobe applications

XD for presentations

Thursday, June 4, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Central

Adobe XD is changing the way many think about designing and prototyping for the web and mobile applications, but it’s also found an unexpected use case. With its blazing fast performance and intuitive features like Auto-Animate, more and more users are starting to craft their presentations completely using XD. In this session, Bart will share their tips and tricks for how to get the most out of Adobe XD for presentations, how to build incredible animations to tell your story (without having to use a complicated timeline interface), how to collaborate with others to build your presentation, and how to share and present your final masterpiece.

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MakingDesign

Personally I wasn’t really familiar with this conference, though the 2015 edition seems to be their 11th event which is pretty amazing. It’s only thanks to my friend Erica Gamet that I got in touch with the organisation and from there one thing led to another.

The conference is aimed at Adobe users of design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Muse , etc. and is hosted by an organisation called IGM. IGM is a company that offers professional Adobe and graphic design training in a classroom environment.

My sessions

Here’s a description of the 2 sessions I’ll be presenting in English.

Illustrator Creativity Blast

Many of Illustrator’s features are often overlooked by designers. And most users do anything other than drawing shapes and applying colours. It’s time to introduce the real Illustrator to designers and show off a series of tools and options that make Illustrator the great program it is today. Creative brushes, patterns, swatches and other appearance options will be demonstrated for your amusement and to sparkle your creativity.

Building interactive folio’s with Adobe DPS

Learn how to build rich interactive documents using Adobe’s built in digital publishing panels. You’ll discover how to build interactive slideshows, image sequences, buttons and embed custom HTML. We’ll also discuss how you can share your publications with others like colleagues or clients.

Information

All information: http://www.makingdesign.no/
9.-10. juni 2015

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Adobe CreateNow event

During the CreateNow event Dimitri and I will showcase the latest Creative Cloud features and services, share tips and other need to know CC information. If you’re using Adobe Creative Cloud today then you have no excuse to miss these events. You’ll learn now things and get to network with peers.

The first session will be held on 04/11/2014, presented in Dutch. The second session is later this week on 06/11/2014 and is presented in French. You can find more information and an enrolment form here.

Digital Publishing Event

This event will be held on 18/11/2014 and is presented in Dutch. The digital publishing lanscape is constantly evolving because of the constant evolution of mobile devices and ever growing market. But many designers have lost track of what digital publishing is actually about. What’s the difference between an interactive PDF, ePub, iBook or an app? And what should you look out for when staring your digital publishing business? These and many other questions will be answered during a half day presentation. Click here for more information.

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I’ll be hosting the next Adobe Users Group meeting in Sydney on 8th may in the Adobe office. During this 2hr session I’ll be talking about how you can build and publish your iPad app to the App Store using the DPS Single Edition solution. Remember, your Creative Cloud licence entitles you to create as many single-publication apps as you want.

If you want to attend my session, or just check out the agenda be sure to visit this link.

See you there!

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