Sponsored Session: CI HUB Connector for Adobe CC and Microsoft

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CI Hub

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Sponsored Session:

CI HUB Connector for Adobe CC and Microsoft

Connecting your Desktop application to any DAM, Cloud storage or Stock Media. Getting your asset was never easier

Wednesday, 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Central

“We connect with data domains throughout your marketing ecosystems” is the philosophy behind CI HUB Connector, an in-app, single source for accessing your brands’ digital assets — easy, fast, and without additional cost. Our portfolio of data domain partners covers both on-premise and cloud-hosted solutions with data models for DAM, MAM, PIM, MDM, and CMS. Plus, we work with stock providers and cloud storage services. Together with the system vendors, we are building the best possible connection, and we are always motivated by our customers to deliver seamless access to their data domain, directly in their marketing ecosystems, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe Premiere Pro… and soon in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.


Sponsored Session: Designing Maps With Data in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

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Avenza Systems

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Sponsored Session:

Designing Maps With Data in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Central

In this presentation by Avenza Systems, we will be designing a map using geographic data in both MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop—the industry-standard cartography solution preferred by map designers. We’ll add data into a map document and discuss how our mapping tools seamlessly fit into both design environments. We’ll also show how data can be managed, moved around like other layers in Illustrator, and transform map data on-the-fly so its features with the other geographic data on the map. In addition, we’ll highlight how attribute data can be used to easily style areas, lines, and points using stylesheets to automate some of the traditionally time-consuming steps of map-making. In Geographic Imager, we’ll demonstrate how quick and easy it is to add terrain shading to an image and export it as a location-aware file that can be added to the map in Illustrator. Lastly, we’ll finish the map by adjusting map feature styles and creating some surrounding map elements. By the end of the video, you’ll be able to get a sense of how easily you can work with geographic data as familiar layers and images while maintaining precise real-world accuracy. We’re excited to show you these tools and we hope to hear from you soon about how you can get started.

Learn more:
avenza.com/mapublisher (14-day free trial available)
avenza.com/geographic-imager (14-day free trial available)
youtube.com/user/AvenzaTutorials

Follow us at:
facebook.com/AvenzaSystems
twitter.com/Avenza
linkedin.com/company/avenza-systems-inc-


Sponsored Session: Engaging with Customers in Today’s Digital World

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Issuu

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Sponsored Session:

Engaging with Customers in Today’s Digital World

Monday, 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Central

Come see how to bring documents, marketing materials and publications to life with Issuu, the all-in-one content creation and distribution platform for anyone who wants to create and share high-impact visual content across channels and devices. Issuu is the only platform to innovatively convert files into high-quality, native-looking content that is perfectly optimized for each channel and device.

You will also see how you can use the Issuu InDesign plugin to easily create assets for your team. As well as how to provide your team with both finished content and social sharing assets, ready to go all at once. In addition to seeing how to the Issuu solution works, we also have a short session with Joe Hyrkin, CEO of Issuu and Jeff Joseph, Editorial Director & Publisher of Luckbox Magazine.

Learn more:
Try Issuu today –  issuu.com/try
Publisher Education – issuu.com
InDesign Plug-in – stories.issuu.com/adobe-indesign/
Learn more about Luckbox – Getluckbox.com


Sponsored Session: A casual tour with Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts

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Cacidi Systems

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Sponsored Session:

A casual tour with Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts

Monday, 11:45 am – 12:00 pm Central

In this demo we will give you a deep look at the feature set of both Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts.

Cacidi BarCodes has a wide range of bar codes, all the frequently used, and in a superb quality. It’s very easy to create and modify bar codes… and if you need to, you can automate the production too.

Beautiful infographics are created with Cacidi Charts, in razor-sharp quality, and a great set of features… At the end of the demo we will share features from the next version of Charts, where we expand the functionality to e.g. twice the chart types, and much more.

Learn more: https://www.cacidi.com/


Sponsored Session: Streamlining access reduces version management headaches

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Santa Cruz Software

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Sponsored Session:

Streamlining access reduces version management headaches

Survey results and demonstration

Wednesday, 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Central

Design teams working in the same office or scattered throughout the globe all struggle with managing assets and files within projects. To assess the magnitude of this issue, Santa Cruz Software commissioned a study of 500 design professionals to better understand their experiences. One theme was clear – 97% believe their jobs would be easier if the latest version of every embedded asset was easily identifiable. In fact, well over a quarter (28%) of respondents said it would be “extremely easier.” In this session, we’ll review the results of this recent survey (Feb 2020). We’ll also demonstrate our solution using LinkrUI. LinkrUI is a best-in-class extension to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign that enables direct searching, opening, placing and synchronizing of assets stored in a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) system or other storage services, such as Box and Dropbox. All of this can be done from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Learn more:
Get the Creative Survey Results

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LinkrUI


Sponsored Session: InDesign Productivity Tools – Preview and Conversion

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Markzware

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Sponsored Session:

InDesign Productivity Tools – Preview and Conversion

Monday, 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Central

In this presentation from Markzware, we will be highlighting InDesign productivity through the use of our preview, conversion and file information tools. Many will know the first part of the demonstration, Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) and PDF2DTP (PDF to InDesign). We will, in particular with PDF2DTP, show some cool things you can do to open multi-page PDF documents as new InDesign layouts.

The meat of the video will be on our new “Markz” line of stand-alone applications. This will be highlighted with our newly available IDMarkz, which is an easy and effective way to preview, export and transition your InDesign files. Exporting, as a stand-alone process, from a native .INDD file to IDML is very handy and you’ll see why.

We will also highlight our most popular feature in this new app, the InDesign to Affinity Publisher “open in” function! We will show several useful recipes you can create in your InDesign workflow with IDMarkz.

Lastly, we round off with a technology preview of the rest of the Markzware lineup, being QXPMarkz, PDFMarkz and OmniMarkz. We look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:
http://markzware.com/products
http://markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp/
http://markzware.com/products/idmarkz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0Y02ExNW0


Special Lunch Presentation: Celebrating 30 Years of Photoshop

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Special Lunch Presentation:
The Past, Present, and Future of Photoshop

Wednesday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Central

It was 30 years ago that Adobe released Photoshop 1.0, and the world was changed forever. Join us for a “birthday party” as we celebrate 30 years of digital innovation!

Lunch Talk: Knowing What’s Real — Exploring the Content Authenticity Initiative

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Leonard Rosenthol

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Knowing What’s Real: Exploring the Content Authenticity Initiative

Tuesday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Central

When you look at a photograph in social media, how do you know if it’s real or fake? Either way, can you tell who created it? Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times have launched the Content Authenticity Initiative to help verify the “authenticity” of images online, and fight misinformation on digital media platforms. Join Adobe’s Leonard Rosenthol as he explains CAI and how it relates to creative pros.

After Effects for Designers

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Chris Converse

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After Effects for Designers

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Central

Get to know the “other” design application in the Creative Cloud. Chances are you know Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. But did you know After Effects supports just as many file formats, provides amazing design and compositing features, and can be used in any print, web, animation, video or photo compositing project?

What you’ll learn:

  • The After Effects interface
  • Starting a new project from scratch
  • How After Effects is similar to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
  • How to import photos, videos, and artwork into your project
  • Applying effects (it’s all about effects!)
  • Introduction to animation in the timeline panel
  • Getting started with Animations in After Effects
  • Exporting animations for social media, web, and email animations

Photorealistic Photoshop and Illustrator

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Bert Monroy

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Photorealistic Photoshop and Illustrator

Wednesday, 9:00 am – 11:30 am Central

The saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” has never been truer than it is today with the need to tell a story on a global scale. Whether it is a product illustration, book cover, political view, or whatever type of image you need, Illustrator and Photoshop are the tools to get the job done. In this session, you will learn how to create photorealistic imagery from scratch. You will also see how photographic elements can be altered using the tools in Photoshop to create images that can’t be photographed.

Topics include:

  • Creative uses of Layer Styles
  • How to establish perspective grids
  • Creating and modifying Brushes
  • Creating type effects
  • Using Filters for special effects

You seriously don’t want to miss this in-depth and inspirational session as internationally renowned Photoshop superstar Bert Monroy explores setting a strong foundation for whatever you’re dreaming to create.