The season of love, chocolates, roses, gifts, good feelings, romantic music, and the exchange of hearts is here! The Adobe Community Team wishes you and your loved ones a Happy Valentines Day. To mark the occasion, our Community Expert, Andrea, shares a tutorial on "How to create a Mood board in InDesign."
Also, we have a recap of the Behance live stream by Chana Messer, showcasing a summary of the InDesign features released with the MAX update & a bonus video by Anika showcasing "How to create a Calendar & Planner in InDesign."
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Adobe Community Expert Highlight
I'm honored to feature "Jean-Marc Lévy" as our community superstar for this month. Jean has been a part of our community for more than 18 years. Jean is an expert in multiple Adobe Products like InDesign, Acrobat etc. He has contributed to around 5k community posts so far. We are thankful for his contribution to our community. Let's know more about him in his own words:-
"I was born and raised in Paris, France. After graduating from high school, I began to study history at the university, but I gave up very quickly. What I really wanted to do was to become a movie director. But movie schools were either very expensive or admission was very selective, so I gave up the idea to study this. I found a job as a waiter and dishwasher in an itinerant canteen on film production sets, thinking I could get into the film production industry but it didn’t get further.
I found a job in a newspaper print shop: I was at the output of the rotary press and I packed the newspapers on wooden pallets. One guy at the print shop proposed me to learn how to become a layout designer (it was in 1978, so the tools were phototypesetting and glue). I loved this but I was not very good, to be honest: I was unable to glue correctly, all was always crooked (I found out many years after, that I have a slight eyesight disorder that prevented me to see correctly horizontal and vertical lines).
At the same time, I met a theater stage manager and I began to work with him, and I definitively found what I loved. I made numerous tours with theater companies, ballet companies and opera productions as a stage manager, technical director or lighting designer, during more than 15 years. I had the chance to visit a lot of countries in Europe, America, Asia. One of my most moving experience is a tour with a ballet company in former East bloc countries, just after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
In 1994, my wife and myself decided to emigrate to Canada, precisely to Montreal (Quebec). My job as stage manager was quite different from what I used to do, so I decided to go back to school and I began to study… desktop publishing (back to my other area of interest). After my graduation, I began to work in advertising agencies and at the same time I was hired by a graphic design school to teach XPress, layout design and the basics of typography rules. I discovered that I loved to teach. That’s what I did for 8 years.
Back to France, in 2002, I was hired by an ad agency which planned to switch from XPress to InDesign, so I read the InDesign manual from page 1 to the end! After one year in this agency, I decided to quit and I started to teach again and was hired by a well known French training center to teach InDesign. I also had one client who was one of the largest magazine publisher in France, Prisma Media. In 2012, Prisma Media offered me a full-time position in their IT team who was in charge of all the editorial workflow tools (DAM, electronic flat plan, automation tools…). I joined this 10-person team in which I was the InDesign “referent”, training the users, giving guidelines to build templates, and writing manuals. I also had in charge tools as PitStop Server to proof PDFs, MadeToPrint Server to automate PDFs batch production, FontExplorer Server to distribute fonts on the designers’, subeditors’ and prepress department computers.
I write this in the past tense since I have been retired since January 1st. I live now in a very small village, 80 km west of Paris, in Normandy. I continue to make InDesign templates as a free-lancer for Prisma Media magazines.
My next project is to try to publish a book about my typography works.
As a hobby, I learn how to play the handpan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(instrument)”
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New tutorial:- How to create a mood board in InDesign
Behance stream flashback
Top Issues-
- Issue:- Under the new document panel, the template previews are blank.
- Action:- Bug has been logged with the product team for this issue & they are working on a fix.
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