What do you get when you combine a designer’s eye with Photoshop know-how? Designs that are as beautiful as they are impressive! In this session, Nigel French shares his favorite techniques for elevating your work in Photoshop.
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If you’re curious how InDesign can create engaging interactive documents, this is the session for you! InDesign has a rich toolset for adding buttons and animation. But to really use these features well, you sometimes need to think outside the box. In this session, we’ll look at the “trickery” involved in producing a series of interactive effects, using some obvious and not-so-obvious techniques. If you’ve tried InDesign’s interactive features and found them frustrating, this session will make you want to take a second look.
We’ll cover techniques for creating:
If you’re not using scripts with InDesign, you’re not being nearly as efficient as you could be. And scripts are really easy to use! In fact, a bunch of useful scripts come with InDesign—you just need to know where to find them and how to use them.
Join us in this fast-paced session to learn:
Where do you look for inspiration? How do you capture it? How do you convert those inspiring ideas into real usable design assets? Theresa Jackson shares her ideas and techniques with Adobe Capture, Fresco, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Don’t miss this chance to be inspired and learn how to create usable design elements with this Adobe toolkit.
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Right now, you have the tools to create, import, and render 3D objects at your fingertips. It’s time to take advantage of them! If you’ve never made or used 3D objects, you’re missing out on a potential game-changer. For example: Why waste time searching in vain for stock images of objects from exactly the right angle when you can import a 3D model and perfectly pose it yourself?
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Are you interested in creating rich, interactive documents, but your background is primarily in print? It’s likely that your print design skills are more useful than you realize. This session will present an overview of your options, including interactive PDF, HTML, fixed-layout EPUB, Publish Online, and more!
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GREP is one of the most powerful features in InDesign, but sadly it’s one of the least used! In this introductory session, we’ll get you up to speed with this amazing tool for finding, changing, and formatting text patterns.
We’ll look at some design samples and learn essential GREP techniques such as:
Are you hungry for a collection of the hottest, juiciest Photoshop recipes? Join Colin Smith in the Photoshop kitchen, to discover exactly how to reproduce today’s most requested effects for web and print. Along the way, you’ll be fed a smorgasbord of tips and time-saving tricks. This session will keep you the edge of your seat and fill your head with exciting new ideas. It’s one part information, one part inspiration, with a dash of fun! Don’t miss it!
You’ll learn how to:
Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner have spent almost two decades publishing tips and tutorials about their favorite page-layout app in thousands of blog posts, podcasts, magazine articles, and videos. Watch as they battle to find the best of InDesignSecrets, CreativePro, and InDesign Tips for Design Geeks.
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Come join us for dessert, plus a heaping helping of tips, tricks, and fun! Or sign up to present 20 slides in 5 minutes. It’s your opportunity to have five minutes of fame, in the relaxed and friendly confines of an after-hours get-together with your colleagues.
When: Tuesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Where: The ballroom at the Sheraton Grand (the conference hotel)
Who’s Invited: All conference attendees, speakers, sponsors, paparazzi, etc.
Cost: Free!
We’re putting on our annual fun “IGNITE”-style show and need your help! Do you have:
Yes? Then take this opportunity to share it with your colleagues in 5 minutes or less! Only 12 spots are available, and it’s first-come first-serve, so don’t wait till the last minute. We’ll confirm via email with our final roster of 12 Ignite presenters and 2 alternates by Friday, May 26. If you’re not sure of a topic yet, but definitely want to do this thing, then fill out the form with a placeholder idea now to save your spot! You can fill it out again later (before May 26) once you’ve decided on a topic.
Sign-up for your slot below, but first read the rules:
That’s all… nice and simple! Fill out the form below to sign up for fame, fortune, and hilarity. (And did we mention all IGNITE speakers earn a special conference keepsake for their efforts?)
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