Los Angeles InDesign User Group

Topic 1: Don't Re-invent the Wheel, Topic 2: What's New in InDesign CS6

Thu, May 17, 2012, 7:00 PM

Los Angeles Valley College

5800 Fulton Avenue, Campus Center, Room 206, Van Nuys, California 91401

Free and Easy Parking

Continuing the policy of holding meetings in various locations so that it’s in someone’s backyard at least once during the year, the May meeting will be held at Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys where the parking is free and plentiful.

Double-Barrelled Meeting: Topic 1: Don't Re-invent the Wheel, Topic 2: What's New in InDesign CS6

Topic 1: During the design process, we often find ourselves doing the same tasks over and over, a real waste of time – unbillable time. But InDesign lends itself to automating tasks and re-using settings very well. In this session, Presenter Erica Gamet will show us time-saving techniques for working with presets, templates, object libraries, graphic standard files, and other productivity tools to make our InDesign life easier.

Topic 2: Adobe has announced a May 7 release date for CS6. The second half of the meeting will show you what's new in InDesign CS6. Enuf said.

About the Presenter

Erica Gamet is an InDesign and pre-press trainer with over 20 years’ experience in the pre-press trenches. She regularly contributes to InDesign Magazine and Design Tools Monthly, is the author of The InDesigners Workbook series, and tech edited How To Do Everything with Adobe InDesign CS4 from McGraw-Hill Osborne. Erica is co-owner of Digital Dimensions with her husband, Jeff, and is the chapter representative for our counterpart in Denver. For more information visit www.ericagamet.com. Erica will be in San Francisco presenting at another conference, and graciously agreed to travel to Los Angeles to be with us.

Agenda

7:00 p.m. - Meet and greet

7:30 p.m. - Welcome and announcements

7:45 p.m. - Presentation (with mid-presentation break)

9:45 p.m. - Raffles

10:00 p.m. - Goodbyes

Campus Location

The meeting is being held in room 206 on the second floor of the Campus Center. Looking onto the campus from the Fulton entrance, the Campus Center is the big building directly behind the lawn slightly to the right of center.

Silent Auction for HOW Design Conference in Boston

One lucky LAID member will win a $1295.00 registration to the HOW Design Conference in Boston June 22-25, 2012. The registration only – not airfare or accommodations – is being offered in a silent auction that began at the March meeting and will conclude at the end of the May meeting. The current bid is $50. The winner can pay by cash, check or credit card, but not PayPal. Last meeting’s winner of the $600.00 registration to the TYPO conference in San Francisco snagged it for 20 bucks.

Farthest Attendee

The person who travels the farthest to attend the meeting will receive a one-year subscription to InDesign Magazine. This prize has a $69 value. If everyone is kinda sorta in the area, then this prize will go the person who just had or is about to have a birthday.

Raffles

• SOFTWARE: one eDocker product

Value to $995.00

Your choice of ONE of the following:

eDocker2, eDocker Tablet Publisher

• SOFTWARE: one Adobe CS6 product

Value to $699.00

Your choice of ONE of the following:

InDesign CS6, InCopy CS6, Illustrator CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, Flash Professional CS6, Flash Catalyst CS6

• SOFTWARE: Markzware product

Value to $399.00

Your choice of ONE of the following:

Q2ID plugin, ID2Q, PUB2ID, PageZephyr, FlightCheck

• 3-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION: Fotolia

Value $349.00

50 high resolution photos or vector images per month for three months. (two raffles)

• 3-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION: Stock Layouts

Value $299.00

Full access to the entire Stock Layout template library for three months.

• SOFTWARE: Suitcase Fusion 3 for Mac from Extensis

Value $99.95

• PUBLICATION: InDesign Magazine

Value $69.00

• SOFTWARE: TypeDNA

Value $49.00

• WEBINAR: In-Free: 25 Freebies for InDesign from Pariah Burke

Value $11.23

• WEBINAR: Creative and Easy PDF eForm Design for Designers using InDesign from Pariah Burke

Value $11.23

Discounts

Special LAID-only discount this month:

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