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SPD Speakeasy // All You Need to Know: Adobe CS5, July 14th

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)

New York, NY

SPD Speakeasy // All You Need to Know: Adobe CS5, July 14th

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
SPD MEMBER (FREE with advance RSVP)   more info Ended $0.00 $0.00
GENERAL ADMISSION (advance purchase)   more info Ended $20.00 $0.00
STUDENT RESERVED ADMISSION (advance purchase)   more info Ended $10.00 $0.00
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Come Alive with CS5: All you need to know about the improvements and additions to Adobe's newest Creative Suite.

Adobe CS5 + SPD Speakeasy

Improve your print skills and make your sites better than ever. SPD Members, this is free for you when you RSVP in advance! Seating is limited, so... reserve now.

        

Come Alive with CS5!
 
With the new tools in Creative Suite 5, you can expand your creative possibilities. This release makes it easier than ever to breathe interactive life into your masterpiece. At this seminar you will discover new features that allow you to experiment faster and easier, with buttons, animation, video and sound. You will also learn how to finish routine tasks, from masking images to adjusting layouts to finessing strokes, more quickly and efficiently.

Bring your questions and get ready for an overview of everything that's going to make your life, and your work, better in CS5. Here's a sampling of what you'll learn:

 

InDesign Interactive and Improved Print Tools
- Easily animate content using intuitive motion presets.
- Add video and sound.
- Create multi-state objects for slideshows and more.
- Plus great enhancements to the print layout tools you know and love.
 
Flash Catalyst:
- What is Flash Catalyst?
- Create buttons.
- Animate transitions between states.
- Create scrollable areas with working scrollbars
- Edit artwork in Photoshop or or Illustrator.
 
Illustrator & Photoshop:
- Vary the width of individual strokes.
- Build shapes more intuitively with the Shape Builder tool.
- New drawing modes and a perspective grid make drawing easier.
- Crisp web graphics and text.
- Remove elements like magic with content aware fill.
- Complex selection are made easy with the enhanced Refine Edge.
- Distort photos in new ways with Puppet Warp.
- New realistic painting tools.

 

Leading us into this brave new world? Dan Rodney, the Senior Tech Guru and Instructor at Noble Desktop where he's been teaching and developing course material since 1999. Dan has a wide range of experience in both web and print design--from hand coding in a Silicon Alley web studio to book design/production in SoHo. His real-life work on projects and experience training thousands of students not only make him the ultimate power user, but also give Dan a rare ability to inspire and educate people.


COME ALIVE WITH CS5!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Helen Mills Theatre

137-139 West 26th Street (between 6th & 7th Aves), NYC


Doors open at 6:30 PM

Presenation at 7:00 PM


Tickets:

SPD Members, $FREE WITH ADVANCE RSVP ($10 at the door, if tickets remain, CASH ONLY)

Non-Members, $20 in advance ($30 at the door, if tickets remain, CASH ONLY)

Students & faculty with valid ID:  $10 in advance, ($5 at the door, if tickets remain, CASH ONLY)


RSVP early!  All tickets, and seating, are first come, first served.

When & Where



Helen Mills Theatre
137-139 West 26th Street
(between 6th & 7th Aves)
New York, NY 10001

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)


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The Society of Publication Designers (SPD)



SPD is a membership organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging excellence in editorial design across all print and digital platforms.  Our members are art directors, designers, photo editors, photographers, illustrators and information graphics professionals, editors and students.

Since drafting its charter in 1965, SPD remains the only organization specifically addressing the visual concerns of print and digital editorial professionals, whether that be journalism, storytelling, service or more. Editorial design plays a crucial role in shaping and documenting our common history; as such, the efforts of the Society serve to educate and enlighten our members, and the general public about the importance of magazines, newspapers, and other publications.