Easy AR (Augmented Reality) for Print Designers

Augmented Reality (AR) is a new medium for designers and marketing professionals to explore and take advantage of.

You’ll learn:

  • Steps for setting up AR scenes and triggers
  • Best tools for building AR, including Adobe Aero
  • How you can take your audience from print piece to web to AR in super easy steps

Three Minutes Max: PowerPoint 2021

It’s time for another game where instructors will share their best tip or trick for Presentation Design in under 3 minutes. There are always great tips attendees learn during this time, and we have a lot of fun.

Premiere Pro for Print and Web Designers

Premiere Pro sounds scary and overwhelming — after all, it’s used by Hollywood studios and high-end pros around the world. But here’s a secret: In this one-hour session, you can learn everything you need to know to get up to speed and making videos.

Topics include:

  • How Premiere Pro is similar to Photoshop and other CC tools you know
  • How to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and even InDesign to build assets for your videos
  • Exporting video for social media, YouTube, Vimeo, and more

Putting it Together: InDesign, HTML, Video, and More

In earlier sessions today, we’ve learned about creating animations and multi-state objects, adding timing and buttons, and more. Now, let’s put it all together, incorporate video and custom HTML widgets, and create a rich, interactive document!

Crafting Navigational and Non-Linear Presentations

Instead of a one-way linear slideshow, what if you could navigate your presentation content based on the audience’s interests?

Enter Navigational Slideshows!

In this session, we’ll show you how to strategize presentation content to maximize alignment between what your speakers have to say and what your audience wants to hear. Then, we’ll show you how to create menus and links directly in PowerPoint and Google Slides so you can quickly navigate to the section of the slideshow that’s most useful.

Advantages of Navigational Slideshows:

  • Provide a custom experience for every audience
  • Avoid wasting time on topics your audience isn’t interested in
  • Minimize the amount of slide customization you have to do before every meeting

Sales meetings and trainings should be about conversations and engagement. Don’t let linear, one-way slideshows get in the way of connections and deeper learning experiences!

Quick Fixes for Bad Slides

You’ve been given a PowerPoint deck and told to improve it before the big meeting this afternoon… Don’t panic! Instead, make use of these simple yet highly effective techniques for making bad slides look great.

Animation and Video for Print and Web Designers

Everything in the real world moves, so why should your designs and layouts stay still? Making stuff move with animation or video doesn’t have to be scary or difficult with easy tools that you probably already have (or can easily get).

In this fast-paced session, we will look at how to:

  • Create video for social media
  • Build HTML web ads with simple tools
  • Use Photoshop for video and animation
  • Learn about online services that can make your life easier

Diversity and Design

Audiences are changing and becoming more diverse by the day, and their wants and needs of are evolving—as are the expectations of us as designers. Diversity, inclusion, and equity is a critical component of a healthy design community and workplace. Learn what you can do to do the right thing.

From Surreal to Real: Building Composite Images in Photoshop

Come along my creative journey as I show you the steps to bring to life a Surreal photo composite in Photoshop and teach you real-world photo compositing techniques.

Topics include:

  • Various ways of selecting your subject
  • Easy ways to remove the background from your subject 
  • Utilizing Layer Masks to blend two images together
  • The diverse variety of layer blending modes
  • Simple keyboard shortcuts to make working in Photoshop easier
  • Non-destructive editing utilizing Smart Objects/Smart Filters
  • How to make your image pop with Color Grading in the Camera Raw filter
  • Add selective contrast with Adjustment Layers
  • How to save your composite with Export As and Save for Web

Accessibility for PowerPoint

Yes, PowerPoint can accessible. It doesn’t matter if you are just presenting or exporting to PDF. There are specific accessibility considerations you must use to have an inclusive presentation. This session will explore the built-in accessibility tools, some “hidden features” and the best way to get the most accessible PPT documents into PDF or for presenting to a live audience.

  • Accessibility barriers in PowerPoint
  • Setting the Read Order
  • Writing effective alt-text
  • Using the Accessibility Checker
  • How to handle video and audio content
  • Tables, charts and graphs
  • Exporting to PDF and beyond