Wow-worthy Photoshop Projects

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The word ‘composite’ shouldn’t scare you. Join photographer and retoucher Kristina Sherk as she shares her top tips and techniques to improve your portraits using compositing. From initial concept all the way through execution, Kristina leaves no stone un-turned. Take your photos out of reality and into a whole new universe. The skills in this class will easily elevate your photography out of this world!

We’ll cover:

  • Looking at different images for inspiration and ideas.
  • Color Look libraries. Have a large selection of looks, right at your fingertips
  • Creating your own color gradients/LUT automatically.
  • Resources for getting different elements
  • How to think outside the box for photoshop solutions
  • Brushes and Patterns, they can do so much more for you

How to Prevent Misteaks from Ruining Evrything

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See the errors in that headline? Of course you do.

No matter how beautiful your design is, errors can ruin it. Your perfect color palette, your gorgeous typography, your fabulous imagery… if you have even one mistake in your finished product, it will demand attention, invite criticism, and dump toxic rain all over your parade.

You can’t just depend on writers, editors, proofreaders, and other approvers. Oversights happen. If you want to make sure your design is perfect, you’re going to need to read the text and look for problems yourself.

Sara Rosinsky is a copywriter who’s been working with designers for decades. She’s seen her share of nightmarish mistakes and their unfortunate consequences. She’s also seen heroic designers who manage to catch errors and save the day. She wants to help you be one of the heroes.

Come learn what to watch out for so you can make sure your designs win the recognition they deserve—without any distractions, detractors, or disasters.

Wow-worthy Type Projects

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It’s all about the type. If you can’t help but critique the typography of restaurant menus, need to pause Netflix to figure out the font that’s being used in your favorite drama, or get excited when you stumble upon a piece of ghost type or beautiful signage, then this session is perfect for you.

In this fun, fact-filled, and educational hour, we’ll look at a range of projects that have typography at their core. We’ll talk about the choices made and the techniques used to make them tick.

Premiere Pro for Print and Web Designers

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Premiere Pro sounds scary and overwhelming — after all, it’s used by Hollywood studios and high-end pros around the world. But here’s a secret: In this one-hour session, you can get introduced to Premiere Pro from a designer’s perspective — which will help you get you up and running in no time.

Upgrade your social media posts and presentations with stunning visuals that combine graphics and photos with video and motion templates in Premiere Pro. Learn to edit and combine videos together with audio and music while making use of some amazing features powered by Adobe Sensei.

Topics include:

  • How Premiere Pro is similar to Photoshop and other CC tools you know
  • How to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and even InDesign to build assets for your videos
  • Exporting video for social media, YouTube, Vimeo, and more

Patterns: Find Them, Make Them, and Edit Them

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Patterns are everywhere! Pattern features in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Adobe Capture make it easier than ever to create repeating artwork. In this session Laura and Theresa walk you through multiple options for generating inspiring patterns in Adobe Capture and Illustrator. Then they will show you how to put them into real-world projects using Illustrator and Photoshop. Along the way, you’ll learn what makes a design repeat successfully with a focus on which features to use to get the best results for your pattern project.

Topics include:

  • Finding patterns in the real world with Adobe Capture
  • How to use pattern tiles: from design projects to passion projects
  • Tips and shortcuts for editing and using your patterns with Illustrator or Photoshop

Interactive PDF and Forms in InDesign: Opportunities and Limits

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Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. In this session, you’ll learn how to use InDesign to build PDF forms and then how to refine those forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

You’ll learn:

  • Best practices for adding form fields in InDesign
  • Tricks for adding form fields in Adobe InDesign
  • Tasks you’ll need to perform in Adobe Acrobat
  • Tips and tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: Three Apps Working as One

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It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • When to link, copy, or embed artwork

A Photoshop User’s Guide to Motion and Video

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Get started with animation in an app you already know! Photoshop has amazing features for both creating motion graphics and working with video.

In this session, you’ll learn to work with video in the same way your work with photography — by making adjustments, using Smart Objects, and applying filters.

We’ll also explore two different animation techniques available in Photoshop, which includes both frame- and keyframe-based workflows.

And finally, we’ll take a look at export options suitable for social media, interactive documents, and email campaigns.

Adobe Capture: the Swiss Army Knife Tool Every Designer Needs

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Every designer needs to do two things: First, install Adobe Capture on their phone or mobile device. Second, learn how to use it! We can’t help you with the first part, but we can definitely help with the second!

In this session, we’ll show you how you can use Capture to find inspiration for your design work using CC Libraries, images, shapes, gradients, and more. We will focus on the Capture assets we use most for our design work, while also providing an overview of the app. Attendees will be encouraged to follow along capturing assets for themselves.

Get Up to Speed with InDesign

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You’ve always meant to learn InDesign, but never quite got to it. Well, this is your chance! Jump in to this fun, fast-paced lesson, and get up to speed with the world’s best page-layout tool.

You’ll learn:

  • Fundamentals of frames
  • Understanding linking vs. threading
  • Time saving tricks and best practices
  • Exporting to PDF