March 2010 – Vancouver InDesign User Group Meeting

On Tuesday March 23, 2010, was the first meeting of the year of the Vancouver InDesign User Group, arranged by Jeff Kew, The Chapter Representative. The topic this meeting was Tips & Tricks hosted by Seattle native David Blatner of InDesignSecrets. The meeting was a great turnout as nearly 120 members attended the Vancouver Film School, http://www.vfs.com.

David presented a 90-minute tips and tricks session which was packed full of interesting tips, shortcuts and tools you never even knew existed! He also introduced us to a range of extras that are available to download  to take InDesign further with even more functionality!

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book – Review

Easy to follow Illustrator lessons

The book ‘Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a book’ contains 15 in depth lessons on Adobe Illustrator CS4. Each lesson is 20-30 pages long and additional files and instructions are contained on the included CD.
The book covers the areas: the general work area in CS4, selecting and aligning, creating and editing shapes, transforming objects, drawing with the pen and pencil tools, colour and painting, working with type, working with layers, blending shapes and colours, working with brushes, applying effects, applying appearance attributes and graphic styles, working with symbols, combining illustrator CS4 graphics with other Adobe applications and output in Illustrator.

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Matt Andersen & Wil Poster Design

Poster design for the Matt Andersen and Wil show presented by the Whistler Arts Council.

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