CreativePro Week 2022 Welcome Reception

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Join us for drinks, nibbles, and a fun opportunity to meet the speakers and fellow attendees!

Sponsored Breakfast Session: Why You Can’t Live Without an Online Proofing Platform

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This session is sponsored by PageProof

The founders of PageProof have experienced the frustration that creatives and marketing teams face when gathering feedback and approvals on work. Their mission: to enable faster execution of brand-approved content by removing the hurdles of giving feedback and approvals. In today’s hybrid marketing world, whatever you create can be proofed with PageProof — artwork, photography, documents, presentations, design prototypes, video, podcasts, HTML emails, websites… even 3D. Simple online proofing for every piece of work you create. More importantly, so much time can be saved for the ever-busy designer with PageProof’s Adobe extension. We can’t wait to show you this time-saver!

“It’s amazing… they nailed the comment and approval process.”
—David Blatner, CEO, CreativePro Network

Watch this session below:

 

Building a Digital Mood Board to Get Your Team on the Same Page

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Aligning a project vision with your team is critical to producing the most successful and elegant designs. A mood board is where the rational and the creative aspects of a project come together to focus you team’s efforts towards a common goal.

Join Kladi as she shows you how to create digital mood boards that will allow you to assemble, organize, and share your ideas quickly and clearly.

Topics include:

  • Creating a dedicated library to store, organize, and share assets
  • Building a clear and consistent layout using grids and parent pages
  • Placing and managing content with frame grids
  • Extracting assets from images and adding them to your library without leaving InDesign
  • Best practices for sharing documents

How to Build Single-Source InDesign Files for Print and EPUB Output

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It is a ton of work to properly set up an InDesign document for professional print output. And to have to do that all over again just to get your EPUB file exported is just insanity.

Let me show you how to build your InDesign documents so that they are ready for both outputs.

Exporting PDF for Print and Digital Documents

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Making a good-quality PDF is one of the most critical steps in the design and production process, and yet most designers don’t have a good grip of this sometimes tedious process. Whether you’re making a PDF for commercial press, desktop printer, or on-screen viewing, it is important that you make the right choices in the export process!

Topics include:

  • Understanding which export dialog box to use
  • Figuring out the PDF/X presets
  • Why the presets should only be a starting point (and which settings to change)
  • Using and creating a .joboptions file
  • Crop and bleed marks
  • Tips for setting up and exporting your pages panel for pages vs. spreads
  • Export a greyscale PDF from your color InDesign file
  • Control the JPG export size for social media posts
  • Use Preflight Profile to check image, color and font problems
  • Tips for creating an interactive PDF

PX: Designing Presentation Experiences

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A presentation is more than just the speaker, the writing, or the visuals — it’s an entire experience that you’re creating. To make the best, most engaging and impactful experience, you have to follow a design path that looks a lot like the UX design cycle. Instead of thinking, “ok, time to open PowerPoint and design the visuals for this presenter,” you need to think beyond the slides!

Pitch Perfect Presentation Design: Make Your Message Sing

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Learn the tricks the pros use to get audience agreement and sell a product, solution, or idea. Use the latest behavioral psychology and neuromarketing techniques. Use what you learn during class to make a clear, compelling presentation that gets buy-in and improves your success rate. It’s easy—when you know how to do it.

Putting it Together: Books, Covers, and More

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Long documents — such as books, proposals, or large reports — require a few special InDesign techniques. Learn from a master of book design and construction as we explore:

  • Building books from multiple InDesign documents
  • Synchronizing styles, parent pages, variables, and more
  • Managing page numbers across documents
  • Building an attractive cover (including front, back, and spine)

Presenting in the Metaverse: Stand Out by Staying on the Leading Edge

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The metaverse has been all over the headlines, but why does it matter for design professionals? This session will explore what the metaverse is (and isn’t), how it is poised to change how we work and connect with each other, and what that means for design, presentations, and interactive experiences. We’ll hop through some metaverse platforms, and discuss both practical applications and how getting metaverse-ready will help you stay on the leading edge and stand out professionally.

Topics include:

  • What is the metaverse and why do design professionals need to understand it?
  • Different types of metaverse platforms and their unique opportunities
  • How the metaverse intersects with 3D spaces, VR, NFTs, and blockchain
  • Examples of how presentations or experiences can be created in VR or 3D environments
  • How to use PowerPoint and 3D models in metaverse environments
  • Practical ways to start experimenting and building your skills

 

The Best PowerPoint Features Nobody Knows Exist

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PowerPoint has a reputation for being boring, and its functions really haven’t changed since flint was the cutting edge tool. But things have been really different since Office 365 came along. Now, there are new tools added every few weeks, and there are tremendous gains to be had from a whole host of functions. There are also a few stunning features hidden away that are really old.

So come to this session and learn how to get the most out of PowerPoint and give your presentations a real boost. You’ll see amazing things with AI-driven design ideas, 3D models, custom video cropping, ink drawing tools, interactive Zoom links, live subtitles, live presentations, and the terrific Morph transition.

In this session, you’ll learn to:

  • Do more with PowerPoint than you ever have before
  • Create sophisticated visual stories in seconds using a variety of tricks and hacks with Morph
  • Incorporate amazing AI functions to dictate, design, transcribe, and translate content