UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog

Kelby training is hosting a one day InDesign conference in Boston on June 30th. If it is as good as their Photoshop tour it is well worth the $99 cost. If you become a member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) you receive a $20 discount, access to a terrific website with dozens of tutorials and a wonderful magazine 8 times per year. Join myself and other Extension staff at the conference. You won't be disappointed. See details from the website below:

Unlock your hidden talents and raise your InDesign skills to new heights. In one day of hard-hitting InDesign training, Terry White will show you how to put sizzle in your layouts with advanced typography and graphics techniques. You'll manage workflow better and more efficiently from pre-planning to pre-press, and become the InDesign power user you've always wanted to be!

Class Schedule
Setting Up InDesign - Getting it Right

10:00 to 11:00 A.M.
Many people taking this class will be coming from all different backgrounds and levels of understanding. Some will be very used to the desktop publishing workflows of the past while others will be fairly new to InDesign. In this first class we'll get everyone on the same page, get our preferences set, and hone the application to perform at its best.

Unleash Your Creativity - Working with Images

11:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.
As I always say, "when it comes to page layout, it's all about laying out text and images." In this class we'll go from the beginning to the end learn all the ways to not only layout images on the page, but to take advantage of InDesign's transparency and effects, cropping, round tripping between Photoshop and Illustrator as well as working with native Photoshop and Illustrator files. We'll also learn creative ways of creating image frames as well as time saving techniques to get your images laid out as quickly and accurately as possible.

LUNCH BREAK
12:15 to 1:15 P.M.

Mastering Text

1:15 to 2:30 P.M.
Handling text is where InDesign really excels over all other page layout apps. In this class we'll really explore the power of InDesign's text handling capabilities. We'll learn about InDesign's text frame linking, kerning, tracking, justification settings as well as editing, use of the Story Editor and updating placed content.

Essential Techniques of the Pros

2:45 to 3:45 P.M.
Now that we've gotten our feet wet with InDesign, it's time to dive even deeper in this class. We'll explore more of InDesign's power with Object Styles, long document features, master page secrets, anchored objects and much more. Also learn about setting your documents up properly to cause your output house less headaches as well as pre-flighting your documents to find and fix common mistakes.

Advanced Tips & Tricks

4:00 to 5:00 P.M.
In this last class of the day we'll learn some time saving tips and tricks that will really make InDesign® fly. We'll take a look at some of the less discoverable aspects of InDesign that you'll want to know so that you can dramatically boost your productivity when you get back to business.

An on-line training module has been developed to help familiarize mentors with the goals of the UNHCE mentoring program. You can view this guide in your browser window at: Mentor's Goals on-line module

Note that you will need to have Flash installed on your computer to view this module.

For more information on the mentoring program, go to the UNHCE New Employee Orientation page and scroll down to the section on the mentoring program.

Recently, an email was sent to users with unh.edu addresses, asking them to provide sensitive information to keep their accounts in good standing: DELETE the email and don't respond. This is a classic phishing scheme.

Phishing is the term for an attempt by "bad guys" to obtain your sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, etc. This is often done through email. For tips to avoid falling victim to such attacks, see this article from US-CERT.

Layers Magazine has lots of great information on Adobe products (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Here are some tutorials they offer (free):

• Zoomify Objects in Photoshop CS3
• Transparency Tricks in Adobe InDesign CS3
• Magazine Design with InDesign (includes downloadable support files):
• Part 1 of 3
• Part 2 of 3
• Part 3 of 3
• Quick InDesign Tips with Scott Kelby - video
• InDesign CS3: Give Your Tables Some Style!
• Text Wraps in InDesign
• Photoshop CS3 - 16 Bit Versus 8 Bit Mode - video
• Photoshop Realistic Illustration - video
• Creating Silhouettes in Adobe Illustrator
• Circle of Stars in Adobe Illustrator

Please note that I added some links to Adobe Illustrator as some of our staff is now using the program.

A new blog for Adobe InCopy (professional writing and editing program that tightly integrates with Adobe InDesign) is available. The site InCopy Secrets is a sister site to InDesign Secrets. For more information on InCopy go the the Adobe site.

On Wednesday, April 9, Adobe launched Adobe TV and Adobe Media Player with tons of free video content for designers, photographers, video pros, and developers. Both applications are free.

Adobe is offering free sessions on eLearning design. These sessions are being led by Michael Allen, a respected leader in the ELearning design field.

For further information or to sign up for this series, go to Adobe's event details and registration at:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=472090&loc=en_us

A good article on how to construct questions in eLearning experiences, so that you ascertain if the learner can apply knowledge rather than just spit back what they've heard, is available at Catchy Moore's blog. Click here to read the article.

• Because the calendar is now on the extension.unh.edu server, events should begin appearing in the internal search results, and appear higher in Google search results.
• Users can easily subscribe to or import calendars and events into their own calendar application, such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Sunbird, iCal, etc.
• Events can have specified locations, which will link to a Google map for that address.
• Events can be tagged with keywords. (Once a sufficient number of events have been tagged, we'll institute a feature to show related events, and eventually other related resources from UNHCE.)

A few years ago, Adobe started to phase out PageMaker and replace it with InDesign. Although InDesign is a powerful tool for creating flyers, newsletters and posters, it is also very complex and has a completely new layout. Here are some training opportunities that may help you:

• Lynda.com - online training library and DVD's for purchase. This is a terrific site with many training opportunities for all Adobe programs. A one month subscription is just $25.
• Total Training - $99 for DVD or $249 for unlimited training for a one year subscription.
• UNH Computer Services InDesign CS3 Level 1 training June 2-3, 2008 from 9-4pm. Cost $198
• APEX Web Media - online training tutorials - $30 per month or $250 per year
• Adobe InDesign Templates
• Adobe InDesign Basics
• InDesign Basic Tutorials