Everyone knows Photoshop is full of amazing features — but where the heck are they hidden?! And which ones are worth using when you really need to be efficient and productive. This session concentrates on using automated features and techniques that most people never think to use.
“Damn it, Kirk, I’m a designer, not a Photoshop expert!”
Many designers have a love/hate relationship with Photoshop. On the one hand, it lets you control the universe; but on the other, it can be overwhelming. This session will help with essential Photoshop techniques and concepts that every designer should know:
Working through an interactive project means lots of collaboration between designers and developers. Watch a real-time collaboration between Jesus and Chris as they share assets between Photoshop and Illustrator. And once they complete their layout, they’ll use these same tools to generate a range of ready-to-use assets, including bitmap files, SVG, and even some CSS code.
If you had to pick a “most valuable player” in Photoshop, it would have to be the tools used for making selections. Selections, masks, channels, alphas… these are all basically the same thing, and if you’re going to do high-quality work quickly, it’s essential that you understand how to use them efficiently.
In this focused and fast-paced session, world-renowned Photoshop expert Dave Cross dives into:
We live in a 3D world, but most of the work we produce is 2D — flat images or pages that need to represent the richness of our real lives. We dream of having the flexibility of 3D, to change the angle, texture, and lighting of our subject according to our creative desires.
In this session you’ll learn how to do just that, using your favorite apps as well as reviewing what’s new from Adobe when it comes to 3D compositing.
This session is for you if you want to:
Learn how to work more efficiently in Adobe Illustrator using the way we do it in the fashion industry, where time is short, pressure is high, and deadlines are looming (no pun intended).
Incorporating text and typography into your Illustrator images is such an important part of your design process. We’ll cover several way to approach typography design within the context of Illustrator to make creatively engaging and impactful designs. Explore easy methods for producing and controlling typography that will liven up any layout. Explore some fun tips and tricks for making your text pop, stretch, and engage your audience.
Humans weren’t meant to design and create with one hand on a mouse and the other clawing a keyboard. We were meant to move, to stand, to explore. In this session, Paul Trani will show the latest in mobile apps that make it more natural to work.
Come explore how new mobile and touch apps help expand your creative abilities while still having the power of your desktop when you need it.
synergy: the interaction or cooperation of two or more agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their parts
Holmes and Watson, Bert & Ernie, Lennon and McCartney… Photoshop + Illustrator! These two powerhouse applications are better together. Learn effective and simple techniques for using PS/AI in ways that play to their strengths and extend your creative palette.
Join Dave in this information-packed session where he will share some of his coolest Photoshop + Illustrator tricks and power techniques for designers!
You will learn how to customize both applications to help you work faster, timesaving keyboard shortcuts, and ways to improve your workflow. This session will leave you saying “I wish I knew that years ago!”
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