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Andrea's tutorial on "How to Create a Presentation in InDesign" will help you to spread awareness about saving our planet in schools, colleges, corporate offices & result in developing a better understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Adobe Community Expert Highlight
I'm honored to feature "James Gifford" as our community superstar for this month. James has been a part of our community for more than 17 years. He is an expert in multiple Adobe Products like InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat etc. He has contributed to around 3.2k community posts so far. We are thankful for his contribution to our community. He has played versatile roles in his career journey so far. Let's learn more about him in his own words:-
" When I am asked what I do, or what my job title is, I always have to pause and frame an answer that makes sense in context of the question and who’s asking it. I’m sure many in this field have the same problem, trying to find one word or phrase that describes their work, unless they’re comfortable just saying “graphic designer.” I’ll say “designer” if a short answer is needed or the question is casual, and “writer/designer” if there’s more wiggle room. If anything more complete is needed, I have to begin with, “Well, several things…” and try to list as few as I can before their eyes glaze over.
And, of course, this gets somewhere between comic and painful when trying to communicate with a client, recruiter or hiring manager. I actually envy people who can say “I’m a _____” and use one simple, readily-understood title like “neurosurgeon” or “quantum physicist.”
I started off as just a writer, and when I am not writing, some form of it is often core to my efforts. I’ve written in just about every field there is; of my seven commercially-published books, no two are even in the same library section. The many other books and things I’ve written for clients and special purposes, though, tend to be informational, how-to, or tech/process-focused work—works that explain complex subjects to introductory or novice audiences. So I’ve sometimes answered the question, when humor is allowed, as “Explainer.”
But I wasn’t a writer for long before illustrations and layout were needed. And providing simple illustrations and diagrams and charts and so forth for someone else to finish quickly became doing reproduction-ready stuff. And then laying out entire product manuals for print. And then doing product and marketing photography. And then doing advertising materials, followed by trade show materials, followed by entire trade show installations, complex fabrications included.
But most of those fall under some shadow of “design,” and often involved quite a bit of writing, so “writer/designer” is the most succinct term I can find, when I need one that fits in a form space. (The second question is then, invariably, “So what do you write?”)
Writing was an early skill, but I was fortunate to be hired by one of the first ‘desktop publishing’ shops to exist . With my basic skill set, I went to work for a pair of crazy guys, both named Steve, who let no detail slide, no matter how small the project or how easy some one-click alternative of that era’s software. We didn’t do the conventional “send a PageMaker file to the printer,” we sent out hand-adjusted Postscript print files, to the first few shops that had PS-ready RIPs. ‘Close’ was never good enough for either Steve; we’d work at layouts and file technicalities until each was right, if not some degree of what’s now called ‘pixel perfect'.
All of those techniques are long outdated—I gave away my copy of the Red Book years ago—but those rigorous principles and practices formed the basis of my work methods from then on. No matter how many shortcuts came along, no matter how many one-click features could emulate a traditional process or method, I’ve always gone past the menus and the shortcuts and the workarounds to do even small details of design and publishing ‘right.’ (And, genuinely appreciated it when a new feature in software got it right, and saved me from having to do it manually ever again.)
I was long a print specialist, but I have also called myself a web designer in the right circumstances. My work on websites is usually a component of a larger project, or downstream from one. Offhand, I can’t think of a case where all I did for a client was build a website. But it’s a useful follow-on service, and more significantly, the skills are essential to the modern execution of my other major role: publisher and publication designer. HTML/CSS is of course core to most digital publishing options, so even if websites and their development are becoming lesser players with every passing year, using these standards to structure and style onscreen visuals remains an important need.
It's as the combination of writer, designer and publisher—plus editor and publication designer, but I’ll stop there, really—that I do most of my current work, bringing books to publication in both paper and e-book form. I’ve developed and mastered a workflow that allows one InDesign document to export directly to both PDF for print and EPUB for both direct and Kindle e-book publication. (Both pixel-perfect, of course.) And then it all comes around sometimes: in working through the production headaches of a monstrously complex book, and getting no useful answers on EPUB technicalities from that general community, I worked them out (with notable help from the InDesign community), published that book in both forms, and then produced a full-length book on professional EPUB and Kindle production from InDesign. Which, yes, is available in both print and Kindle form. My work with EPUB is ongoing, and leading to development of a new e-book format that bridges the gaps between those currently in use and brings both professional creation and distribution to an easier level.
Across a few decades, there have been projects, and clients, and employers for whom I only did one task—‘wore one hat.’ My preference, though, and my pleasure, is in bringing as many of my acquired skills as possible to any one overall effort. Working for smaller companies in particular, who really need a whole communications department or creative agency but have the budget for only one chair, is the most satisfying work I do, from developing concepts through implementing them as a whole new business identity, then guiding a marketing campaign, and building coherent materials to represent it all, including product documentation. I’ve turned down big ‘one note’ opportunities to work instead with such engaging, if smaller scale ones.
To place credit where it’s due, juggling all these skills, hats and multifaceted projects is greatly assisted, if not fully enabled, by the ever-evolving and increasingly integrated feature set of the Adobe tools. I was there—not that long ago—when we had to export-import-export component files all day long to get certain kinds of production tasks done; being able to work on project elements in seamless round-robin form is something I’d never want to lose. I’d probably have to go back to using just one job title, and all things considered, it might be ‘fry cook.’
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