CC Collaboration with Files, Libraries, and Cloud Docs

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The Creative Cloud is far more than a bunch of cool apps… it’s an entire ecosystem of integrated tools, services, and resources. If you work on your own, it’s cool. But if you work with a team or collaborate with others, it’s life-changing.

Topics include:

  • CC Libraries: storing, sharing, collaborating, and more
  • CC Files: how to make the most of your storage
  • Cloud Docs: what they are, when you want to use them (and when you don’t)
  • How to automate and extend Adobe’s ecosystem to Google Drive, Dropbox and others

Building Video and Animation for Social Media

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Let’s bring it all together. In this final motion-graphics session of the day, we’ll look at combining techniques from Premiere Pro, Rush, Photoshop, After Effects, and Express to help you create the perfect assets for any social campaign. Learn how to leverage animations from a wide range or apps, including video from your phone, animated PowerPoint and Keynote charts, and event web-based animations — and seamlessly incorporate them into your projects.

Straight Facts About Photoshop Vectors

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We all know that Photoshop is primarily an image editor, designed to work with pixels, but what about vector content? In this session, Theresa Jackson shows you everything you need to know about vectors in Photoshop. You will learn when and why to use vectors instead of pixels, how to retain vector content, when vectors can be output from Photoshop, and how do it.

Topics include:

  • When and why use vectors
  • Warping text while retaining vector paths
  • Pen tool, paths, vector masks, shape layers, custom shapes and path operations
  • Working with Illustrator Smart Objects
  • Using the new paste shapes to retain appearances feature
  • Outputting vectors from Photoshop (when it works and when it doesn’t!)

Microsoft 365 Meets Creative Cloud and Document Cloud

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The two most important software developers for creative pros are Adobe and Microsoft, so it’s critical that you find ways to integrate their suites of apps. In this in-depth session, Bart Van de Wiele will explore how to use Adobe’s Document Cloud apps (Acrobat and Sign) and Creative Cloud products within the Microsoft suite of products for collaboration and approval.

Topics include:

  • Converting Office files to PDF using Acrobat, and back!
  • Acrobat commenting workflows within Word
  • Collaborating and approving PDF documents within Microsoft Teams
  • Harnessing the power of Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Stock in PowerPoint
  • Leveraging Acrobat within SharePoint
  • How to use legally binding signatures within Office 365

Favorite Tips from InDesignSecrets and DesignGeek

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Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner have spent almost two decades publishing tips and tutorials about their favorite page-layout app: literally thousands of blog posts, podcasts, magazine articles, videos… Watch as they battle to find the best of InDesignSecrets and and InDesign Tips for Design Geeks.

Topics include:

  • Little-used InDesign features that you really should be using
  • Obscure tricks that could literally change your life (or at least your workflow)
  • Shortcuts for improving your productivity
  • Using common features together in uncommon ways for maximum benefit

Lightroom Classic for Designers: Take the Leap

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You don’t need to a be a photographer to get the benefits of Lightroom! Designers can (and should!) take advantage of its amazing file management and non-destructive image editing features.

If you have to deal with thousands of images, Lightroom is a must.

Topics include:

  • Understanding the Lightroom catalog
  • Importing and organizing your images
  • Filtering and finding images
  • Using Collection and Virtual Copies
  • Editing images with the Develop module
  • Exporting and Sharing images

Using Vectors in After Effects: Illustrator Users Rejoice

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Imagine… You’re in Illustrator, swinging those bezier curve handles around… have you ever wished that could be an animation?! Well, it can be if you import your Illustrator files into After Effects, which lets you animate anything you can imagine — including bezier curves, nodes, strokes, dashes, and much more. This session will show you how to bring your Illustrator files to life inside of After Effects, and how to publish them to video, animated GIF, or even an interactive animated SVG using the Lottie format.

Collaboration Through Comment and Review

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Most of us have had the experience of leaving comments in a PDF. But there are a number of other options to aid in the comment and review process, including Share for Review, Send for Comments (Document Cloud), Import PDF Comments, and PageProof.

Learn how easy it can be to set up an approval process, allowing quick collaboration between members on a team, or designers and their client stakeholders.

Topics include:

  • Choosing an appropriate commenting workflow
  • Understanding the range of commenting tools
  • Running a Document Cloud online review
  • Viewing PDF comments in InDesign
  • When Share for Review works better (and when it doesn’t)
  • Third-party tools for expanding the review and approval process

How to Let Other People Edit Your InDesign Docs (even if they don’t have InDesign)

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You’re an InDesign user but you’re surrounded by people who aren’t: editors, bosses, clients, stakeholders… Life would be so much easier if everyone had InDesign, but that’s not realistic. So what can you do? What tools, services, techniques, and workflows can you take advantage of to ensure that the right people can edit the right stuff at the right time—and no one screws up your layout.

Adobe After Effects for Print and Web Designers

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You can WOW your clients with new and creative graphics in no time… with After Effects! Best of all, After Effects works just like Photoshop — and can be used for any print, web, or design project.

In this session, we’ll explore quick-and-easy techniques to create jaw-dropping graphics for any creative project. We’ll remove colors from a photograph, generate editorial graphics for blogs and social media, create amazing lighting effects within a photo, and make beautiful unique textures from any image or graphic.