First InDesign Conference in Canada Goes Great, Eh?
May 1st, 2008It’s late Wednesday night as I type, and I’m just buzzing with excitement about The InDesign Conference in Toronto this week. We had a great two-day event, with over 200 attendees coming from around Canada and the United States. (And elsewhere! I had a lovely chat with a woman who few here from Qatar.) Speakers included Anne-Marie, Sandee Cohen, Mordy Golding, Jim Maivald, Chris Converse, Bob Connolly, and Adobe’s own Michael Ninness, Sebastian Distefano, and Lynn Grillo. It’s the first time MOGO has held a show in Canada, and I have to say, this is a wonderful town. Great people, lots of interest, lots of talent in the audience…
There were lots of sessions on ID-related topics (you can learn more about it at the Web site, if you’re curious). I was delighted with all the tips & tricks that came up during the past couple of days. For example, Mordy showed an awesome trick in which he brought video of cars driving across the Golden Gate Bridge into Photoshop Extended. He used some cool smart objects features to create a Median of the frames, and the result was the all the cars (which were moving from frame to frame) disappeared and the bridge (which was stationary across the frames) remained. That is, it went from a bridge with lots of cars on it, to an empty bridge, suitable for flattening and saving to import into InDesign. (This one wasn’t strictly InDesign, of course, but it was a technique that an ID user might find useful!)
Anne-Marie and I did our “tips & troubleshooting” session together, and we hope to find some good audio from that to include in the next podcast. (We won’t do the whole show.)
Sandee Cohen also hosted the mucho fun InDesign “Survivor” game show, in which she asked trivia questions about new CS3 features. For example, one question from her list was, “What is the new item in this picture? Can you explain what it is?”
We’ll both be at the Creative Suite Conference in Nashville in a couple of weeks (along with Photoshop great Jack Davis; David’s co-author on Real World Photoshop, Conrad Chavez; and many others). The next InDesign conference will be in Auckland in June, then in Seattle in November. (The Seattle show will be a “master class,” with more high-end info, and meetings with the Adobe InDesign engineering team.)
Hope to see you at one of these events, soon!
I was sitting in the garden with my mother, and this guy came along and took the gate off the wall, my mother said “are you not going to stop him” and I said “No, he might take offence!”
This isn’t a quizzler is it? The answer is Agates! It’s used in newspapers, for the sports and things like that, it’s about 5 1/2 points in size, and it’s something I’ve never used before, as I’m a mm man myself.
Great news about the conference, it’s great to hear it was a success, I’d love to hear all aboot it, and I guess I will on the upcoming Podcast.
I’ve never been to one of these InDesign Conference and I don’t know if I can make it all the way to the States to attend one. Maybe someday.
Hi David,
Will the InDesign Conference come to Europe soon? I would love to attend one….Preferably one in Amsterdam (in my home country) but I’m willing to travel to other European countries if need be ;o)
Same here Maarten, I was thinking the same thing. Would be great to have a conference in Europe. I’d love to go back to Amsterdam, it’s a lovely city, I just can’t hack those stairs!
Yes, we did an ID conference a couple of years ago in Amsterdam and it was wonderful! What a great city. Are there other European cities that you think would be a good “hub” that would draw people from around the continent for a primarily English-speaking conference? Barcelona? Prague?
London? I know they recently, perhaps last year, got their InDesign Usergroup up and running.
Rome, maybe..?
;-) cheers
Belgium might be an interesting location since it’s the hub for many publishing and pre-press operations?
Did I say they have some great beer?
Jon - not from Belgium but very appreciative of post-work activities
David, you should have consulted the proper usage of ‘eh?’ before visiting the Great White North
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002114.html
(I’d argue against usage #10 in those guidelines, though. That’s stretching the rule a bit, eh?)
Why not Warsaw?
David,
The conference was GREAT !
I can’t wait till next time.