Amped Up PowerPoint: Working Smarter and Faster

In this session, Nolan will reveal his favorite time-saving tricks, secrets, and hacks for working faster and more efficiently in PowerPoint. You’ll see simple (but powerful) keyboard shortcuts, important undocumented features, even how to completely customize the PowerPoint UI. If you’ve ever said to yourself, “There has to be a better way,” this session is for you.

Game-Changing Techniques for Anchored Objects and Object Styles in InDesign

This session is a must for anyone creating catalogs, manuals, or working with threaded text and related, location-specific graphics. It includes practical and imaginative tips for working with anchored objects in InDesign will save you a ton of time and completely blow your mind.

Laurie will share real-world problems and their anchored-object solutions, such as how to:

  • Hang a photo or icon next to a topic in a manual
  • Anchor an icon or graphic inside a table cell
  • Anchor a photo in a story and control the text wrap
  • Anchor a quote or comment box into a story
  • Create an object style that will allow you to anchor graphics precisely with one click

Getting Started with Video for Designers

We might all be walking around with a video creation device in our pockets, but when asked to create or use video professionally, you might realize it’s more involved than you thought! Join Emmy-winning video creator Kyle Hamrick to learn the essentials of video editing and post-production, and ways you can incorporate video into your work across a variety of formats and contexts. This session will be focused on Adobe tools, but includes concepts you can apply to apps of your choice.

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Fundamental technical and creative concepts
  • How to effectively organize your video projects
  • Approachable workflows for quick projects in Adobe Express
  • More advanced (and even automated!) techniques in Premiere Pro

Transformative Tools for CreativePros

Want to get super-efficient and productive? Come learn about a wide range of utilities, apps, and services that can help make you a rockstar! Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference. Theresa Jackson showcases a collection of productivity tools for Mac and Windows, curated from the recommendations of over a dozen fellow experts!

Topics include:

  • Keyboard shortcut tools to turbocharge your workflow
  • Helpful utilities that every design pro needs
  • Tools and amazing OS tips you didn’t know you already have
  • Browser, email, and cloud sync services for increased productivity

Paper Party: Exploring PaperSpecs

Paper is as distinctive as fonts—each type of paper has its own “voice” and personality. And yet, the only way to truly understand paper and printing is to feel it with your own hands. In the old days there were plenty of opportunities for design professionals to experience a wide variety of paper stocks, so they could make good decisions when it came to print. Of course, that’s very rare today.

So, we’re throwing a paper party! Join internationally renowned paper expert Sabine Lenz from PaperSpecs as she leads a fun and educational experience like no other.

Topics include:

  • Understanding paper terminology
  • Why choosing the right stock for your project matters
  • How a printed piece can make or break your sale
  • Why print means “Quality” (and how not to mess it up)

Three Minutes Max: InDesign

This crowd favorite is back and better than ever! Don’t miss this fun-filled, action-packed, highly educational, and mind-blowing session where each of our instructors will have just three minutes to share their favorite InDesign tip—then you get to vote for your favorite!

In past years, some of the best tips have been held for this session, so you don’t want to miss it!

The Power of Paper and Print

Sure, digital is great, but in many situations, print is far more effective! Join us as we explore when and why print excels, as well as how best to take advantage of new (and old!) print techniques for phenomenal results and maximum visual impact.

Topics include:

  • Why print results in measurably better returns than onscreen experiences
  • Bringing your designs to life with coatings and varnishes that replicate the look and feel of any texture
  • Building instant brand recognition
  • Increasing perceived value through haptic response
  • How digital presses can create amazing analog experiences

Bullets and Numbering in InDesign

You’ve found the buttons to apply bullets and/or numbering to your lists in InDesign, but getting them to behave the way you want can be wildly frustrating… until you learn the secrets in this session! Join Laurie Ruhlin as she demystifies this crucial InDesign skill.

Topics include:

  • Tricks and essential tips for applying bullets and numbering to all your lists
  • Understanding the power of Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style
  • Create a character style to color a bullet or change a font
  • Control the numbering of figures or graphics

Leveraging Metadata Across Adobe Apps

Did you know that every Adobe file you work with can contain hidden information that describes your file? Did you know that the Adobe applications give you the ability to leverage that metadata in other applications?

In this session, you’ll learn what metadata is and how to use it your everyday work. You’ll also learn how to leverage that metadata to automate tasks and streamline your workflow, to get jobs done faster and with less effort.

Making Sense of Creative Cloud Libraries

Creative Cloud Libraries sound great in theory, but don’t always work the way you might expect them to. However they are incredibly useful for storing artwork, colors, text, styles, patterns, and more, and then using this content across different Adobe apps. Join Keith Gilbert for strategies to make CC Libraries work for you, not against you.

Topics include:

  • How you can use CC Libraries to manage assets for specific projects and share them with stakeholders
  • How to leverage little-known features of CC Libraries to reduce friction when reusing content between Creative Cloud apps
  • How to use your libraries in non-Adobe apps like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Google Workspace