Posts Tagged ‘Anne-Marie Concepción’

Catching up with InDesign expert and lynda.com author, David Blatner

Published by Megan O. Read | Friday, November 13th, 2009

David Blatner is a man on the go! He is the author of many lynda.com courses, well known InDesign speaker (most recently jetting over to Moscow for an Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop conference), a regular on Twitter, and has recently announced his new plug-in package for Adobe InDesign, appropriately named Blatner Tools.

Blatner Tools is a suite of about 12 plug-ins to make your InDesign experience more fluid.  It has been in public beta for about a week now, and will ship in another few weeks. Also in the InDesign-y world of David Blatner, is the exciting news that the popular website he runs with fellow InDesign guru Anne-Marie Concepcion, (InDesignSecrets.com) has just announced it’s free forum and membership. And, because Anne-Marie and David never stop working, they’ve announced their first eBook today, too!

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David Blatner at the Kremlin in Moscow, who was there speaking with Russell Viers (not pictured) at an Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop conference last week.

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Photoshop Live and The InDesign Conference Wrap-up

Published by Megan O. Read | Friday, November 6th, 2009

This week, eight lynda.com authors and other talented industry speakers gathered in Washington DC for the MOGO Media conferences Photoshop Live (November 2nd & 3rd) and The InDesign Conference (November 4th & 6th).

Mordy Golding, Jan Kabili, Lesa Snider, Ted LoCascio, Michael Ninness, Derrick Story, Anne-Marie Concepcion, and Michael Murphy were all in fine form teaching an eager audience at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center, located just off the Mall in downtown DC. If you were in attendance, you know this was an excellent opportunity to get to sit and listen to some inspiring instruction, go on an evening Photo Walk with Derrick Story, and eat pizza while Michael Ninness gave an awesome three and a half hour (by demand!) session on InDesign. If you missed this show, be sure to check out other MOGO conferences and seminars.

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Left column: Photoshop Live poster, Michael Ninness. Middle column: Mordy Golding, Derrick Story, Jan Kabili, Anne-Marie Concepcion, Michael Murphy, Right column: Washington Monument, White House, Author Dinner featuring Lesa Snider, Jay Nelson, Garrick Chow, Jan Kabili, Derrick Story, Ed and Megan Read, Michael Ninness, and Mordy Golding.

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lynda.com author news: dinners, unicycles, Photoshop, InDesign, Twitter, Facebook, and more

Published by Megan O. Read | Friday, August 14th, 2009
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Top group dinner shot, left to right: Some of the lynda.com production team, Andy Ta, Roon Tamuli, Nick Brazzi, Samara Iodice, Max Smith, and Andrew Geibel. Then it's Ian Robinson (author), Megan Read (me), Nigel French (author), and Nigel's friend. Center unicycle shots: the first and second photos are the multitalented author Ian Robinson, third photo is our own Nick Brazzi. Bottom group shot, left to right: Max, Nick, Deke McClelland (author), me, Robbie Carman (author).

Over the last two weeks, we’ve had authors from all over the place in our recording booths. Ian Robinson from Virginia was in-house recording some eye-catching new Motion 4 training, Nigel French was here all the way from the UK recording an interesting new InDesign typography course, and Michael Ninness was here from Seattle recording the must-see InDesign Power Shortcuts.

This week is another busy one at lynda.com! We’ve got Robbie Carman also from Virginia recording some brand spankin’ new Color 1.5 training, Anne-Marie Concepción in from Illinois recording a cool new course about marketing your business with Twitter and Facebook, and of course, Deke McClelland from Colorado recording handfuls of must-see Photoshop training.

Our authors are all hard-working professionals, but occasionally, they get to let their hair down at a nice dinner with their lynda-peeps, or let off some steam with a fun Friday lunch playing on unicycles in the parking lot. Yes, there are actually quite a few unicyclers here at lynda.com!

Enjoy the pix, and as always, the training!

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10 things you should know about iPhoto, InDesign, Bridge, and more

Published by Megan O. Read | Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

For those of you looking to brush up on a few skills but are limited on time, lynda.com has developed a new “10 Things” series. This series is a great way to get the highlights of a software application before deciding to dive into the full-length training course. We’ve been really excited about these new “10 Things” courses and hope you enjoy them as well! Here are some of the current 10 Things courses with more on the way. Let us know what you think!

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10 tips for reining in misbehaving InDesign CS4 files

Published by Crystal | Friday, June 5th, 2009

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Get ready to take on those misbehaving Adobe InDesign CS4 files. Adobe Certified Instructor Anne-Marie Concepción shows how to take on the top ten InDesign file issues and get back on track with a project. From rebuilding preferences, to deleting a crashing recovery file, to finding corrupt images and testing for corrupt fonts, InDesign CS4: 10 Tips for Troubleshooting Files teaches how to diagnose and repair these problems.

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