Speaker and Session Details Released for the Melbourne InDesign User Conference

CreativePro Staff

A dynamic line up of Australian and International speakers and a diverse range of session topics has just been announced for the InDesign Users conference taking place in Melbourne on 30th and 31st August 2007.
Speakers from a wide range of backgrounds including advertising, graphic design, pre-press, publishing, teaching and training will be presenting in
Melbourne at the RMIT Brunswick Campus.
“We have the best Australian and International InDesign speakers available including speakers from Adobe Systems in the USA and Australia,” says conference organiser Barry Anderson. “They will be sharing design secrets, unlocking some of the lesser known capabilities of InDesign and giving practical tips, tricks and shortcuts in 19 in-depth training sessions,” says Anderson.
Speakers include:

• New York computer graphics teacher and InDesign guru Sandee Cohen, an author of design solutions and a frequent speaker at Seybold, MacWorld Expo and Thunder Lizards events;
• Frasier Crozier the business liaison manager from Seven Media group’s IT applications who has been involved in large scale transition of users from QuarkXPress to InDesign2 and involved in CS1, CS2 and CS3 beta programs;
• Melbourne based photographer and trainer David Harradine;
• Printing management specialist Eliot Harper currently with Fuji Xerox but previously responsible at Adobe for the pre-release programs of InDesign 2.0;
• Publishing automation consultant and co-convenor of the AppleScript Pro sessions Shane Stanley;
• Australia’s premier Photoshop and InDesign trainer Mike McHugh, a certified Adobe expert;
• Californian based pre-press and graphics specialist Noha Edell who is currently responsible for promoting Adobe Systems next generation publishing tools;
• Adobe Systems’ Michael Stoddart who is responsible for helping advertising and design clients transition to InDesign;
• Adobe Certified Instructor, trainer and consultant Cari Jansen from the Western Australia design and printing community.

The conference averages five sessions a day with topics ranging from the fundamentals of colour management, to mixing RGB and CMYK in a single workflow, and from building interactive PDF files, to automating your workflow with scripts.
Included in the conference ticket price will be entry to Desktop Magazine’s ‘Create:Awards’ gala night, Australia’s only annual multi-discipline graphic design awards.
About the InDesign Conference
The InDesign conference is a popular international event that is held annually in Australia for InDesign Users and trainers. The conference educates users on the latest information and techniques for InDesign and provides advice for clients for smooth transitioning from other products. InDesign users include creative professionals from design houses, advertising agencies and those involved in design and print. Sponsors of this year’s conference include Adobe Systems, Aquent, Creativepro.com, DES, Desktop Magazine, Enfocus, Fuji Xerox, InDesign Magazine, itip, Total
Training and Typefi.
To register for the conference visit https://www.IDConference.com.au