Accessibility Community Conversation

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Join us for an opportunity to connect with others who are working in the world of accessibility. Share ideas, explore new solutions, and find a community that helps each other throughout the year.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 3

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In Part 1 of this three-part tutorial, we learned about finding and editing pre-made templates; then in Part 2 we explored how to build our own custom templates, using styles, colors and masters. In part 3, we dive even deeper into:

  • Add elements to Creative Cloud Libraries, sharing and using them
  • Add anchored graphics to a library
  • Build a correct character style
  • Add and use Layers in a template
  • Use a couple valuable scripts to make template creation and template instructions easier
  • Create and embed a custom preflight profile to check your document before printing
  • Make sure all defaults are correct before saving and sharing your template

 

Coloring and Recoloring in Illustrator

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Choosing the right colors for your project usually isn’t hard, but applying them properly to maximize efficiency and flexibility can be tricky! Even harder: hearing from your boss or client that the colors need to change.

In this great HOW-TO deep dive, you’ll learn the techniques of the Illustrator power users and never have to worry about color changes again.

Three Minutes Max: Photoshop

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Everyone loves Photoshop tips — from amazing (but useful) special effects, to essential productivity enhancements, every trick helps! Join us as 8 Photoshop experts from around the world each share their best Photoshop tip or trick in under 3 minutes. Next: you get to vote for which one is best! This is traditionally one of the highlights of CreativePro Week, when attendees gasp with delight and astonishment.

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

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Sure, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but you can often do it easier or quicker with a third-party tool. Discover these expert’s favorite add-ons and services for stepping up your accessibility workflow, from good to great.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 2

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In Part 1 of this 3-part tutorial, we saw how to find, edit, and—most importantly—begin to customize InDesign templates to your own needs. Now, in Part 2, we’ll dive deeper, exploring:

  • How to set up margins so your text frames will move when margins are adjusted
  • Set up page size, column guides, color swatches and more
  • Add text and image placeholders, as well as reusable elements
  • Create smart paragraph, character, and object styles
  • Make a caption both under a photo and on top of a photo (with a fill transparency), and apply all settings with one click
  • Understand how based on paragraph styles can make a template incredibly flexible
  • Combine separate text frames into one (and why your heads/subheads shouldn’t be a separate text frame from the body, like you see in many templates)
  • How to create tints and gradient from a base color
  • Anchor a graphic into a paragraph

Learn about Part 3 here.

Working Happier Not Harder with Photoshop and Illustrator 2021

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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are incredibly rich and deep apps, with a 25+ year history behind them. Many people still use them the way they were taught 10 or 20 years ago. Stop it! Get up to speed with the amazing new features that have appeared over the past few years, so that you can become more productive, more efficient, and more creative with this amazing tool.

Wow: Vector Projects

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Join us for an educational and inspirational session, as we showcase some of the world’s most amazing vector illustrations. From infographics to diagrams, commercial art to crazy special effects, you’ll not only see the art, but how the art was made.

Wow: Photoshop Projects

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You know what we’re talking about: Those images where you just stop, stare, and say: wow. Here’s a treat for every Photoshop user: an opportunity to go deeper and see how some of these “wow” images were created, constructed, shot, layered, and finished.

Acrobat PDF Accessibility

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In Parts 1 and 2 of this multi-session tutorial, we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign to export accessible documents. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, let’s look at the proper next steps you need to take in Acrobat.