Retouching Images

Speed up your retouching using some extremely powerful Photoshop tips and techniques. AI Technology is revolutionizing the way we retouch and you should be aware of all the time saving techniques Photoshop is silently integrating into their tools. Join retoucher Kristina Sherk as she shows you some of the new ways Photoshop is integrating AI technology into their interface and how these improvements are guaranteed to save you time.

We’ll cover:

  • Making a plan of attack, how marking up can increase your workspeed
  • Clean up methods that are fast and easy
  • Take out objects in a snap
  • Using Frequency Separation (don’t be scared, we’ll make it easy)
  • Color: Matching made simple, Adding Color effects
  • Shaping
  • Using Photoshop plug-ins to cut down on your editing time.

Accessible PDF Files: Key Acrobat Techniques

In the two earlier sessions (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign and Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility), we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign documents to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • Key Checkpoints to Check Every time
  • Accessibility versus Usability
  • Testing with a Screen Reader without being an Expert
  • How to Use the Preflight Panel to Your Advantage
  • Testing Tools You Should be Using

Working Smart with Smart Objects in Photoshop

The introduction of Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop has truly revolutionized how we build Photoshop compositions. But many designers still don’t fully understand the limitless possibilities of this key-feature, first introduced a decade ago! And we can already say it does a lot more than applying a filter non-destructively.

Join us to discover:

  • How to nest compositions for creating beautiful mockups.
  • The joys of linking Smart Objects across multiple compositions.
  • How Smart Objects interact with Filters and layer Adjustments.
  • The role of Smart Objects when working with video layers and animations in Photoshop.
  • Why Layer comps are cool again.
  • Photoshop’s unique capabilities when combining Smart Objects with CC Libraries.

10 Essential Illustrator Productivity Tips

Level-up your illustrator skills by learning how to enhance objects and type in ways that add detail, flexibility, and fun. In this session, we’ll share some of our favorite tricks for getting beautiful results while letting Illustrator do the heavy-lifting.

We’ll explore:

  • Appearance Panel and Graphic Styles skills
  • Symbols and Brushes
  • Creative problem-solving tips

Quality Selections and Masks in Photoshop

One of the most important skills in Photoshop is making selections and masks – and doing it quickly without too much effort. In this two-part session, you’ll learn the most important tools and techniques for selecting and masking, and the role of channels. You’ll see how to use selection tools individually and together, how to fine-tune your selections, and how to take full advantage of layer masks and channels.

Topics include:

  • The magic of the Select and Mask feature
  • Tips for getting the most out of layer masks
  • The 5 most important selection tools in Photoshop

Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility

In the previous session (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign), we laid out the basics: what every InDesign user needs to know. Now, we’ll take the next step and explore some of the most important rules for building accessible PDF files.

Topics include:

  • Working with Accessible Colors
  • Best Practices for Accessible Tables
  • Accessible Hyperlinks
  • Exporting to PDF and Checking for Compliance

10 Essential Productivity Tips for Photoshop

Join us in this information-packed session where we’ll share our best Photoshop tips and power shortcuts for designers!

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Timesaving techniques
  • Better ways to work with the tools that you already use
  • Layer Panel and Blend Mode shortcuts
  • Tips for using Layer Comps and Smart Object
  • Tricks to automate tasks using Actions and Variables
  • Photoshop hidden gems

This session will leave you saying, “I wish I knew that years ago!”

Dramatically Improve Your Vector Skills

Drawing or constructing vector graphics in Illustrator can be challenging… until you learn these simple and fundamental techniques! If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated with Illustrator’s tools, this is the session for you.

Photoshop Features You Never Learned (but need to know)

We all know that Photoshop is one of the most complicated, overwhelming, powerful apps on the planet… and Adobe just keeps adding more and more amazing features! That’s great, except most of us can’t keep up.

In this session, you’ll learn which new features from the past few years you should pay attention to, which you can probably ignore, and how to get up to speed with modern best practices for Photoshop workflows.

Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign

Ensuring that the PDF files you produce are accessible to everyone is not only a good idea, it’s the right thing to do! In this session, learn about what accessibility and “Section 508” means and how you can produce PDF documents that are accessible to all!

Remember, as George Kerscher of the DAISY Consortium said, “Access to information is a fundamental human right.”

This tutorial is split into five separate sessions. This session takes you through the steps of adding accessibility features to your InDesign files.

Topics include:

  • How to build an InDesign document the right way from the start
  • Controlling content order
  • Using features that already exist in InDesign