InDesign Styles and Masters Deep Dive, Part 1

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Anyone can build a house, but it takes skill to build a strong one that won’t fall down! In the same way, it takes skill to construct an InDesign document that is solid enough to withstand the test of time.

Even better, you want a file flexible enough to change when you need it to… like an hour before deadline (when your client or boss tells you to make a change).

In this two-part tutorial, we’ll learn the fundamentals every InDesign user needs to understand to make strong and resilient docs.

Part 1 includes:

  • Creating hierarchical master pages
  • Understanding why and when to use primary text frames and Smart Text Flow

Retouching Images

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Overwhelmed by Photoshop? Have too many images that need work, and too little time? Learn some quick techniques for retouching, image balancing, and color matching. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can get your files cleaned up and print ready.

Learn how the pros do it in this session with a veteran retoucher and get a fully annotated PDF to keep you on track after the class.

What we’ll cover:

  • Fast clean up methods
  • The key to extending backgrounds quickly
  • Take out objects in a snap
  • Using Frequency Separation (don’t be scared, we’ll make it easy)
  • Color Matching made easy
  • Color Balancing, fast
  • Color Grading in a few short moves

Outrageous: 30 Years of Images

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Take a journey through 30 years of photographs, photocomposites, illustrations, social media, ads, and more! This session is half “how to” and half “how the heck…!”

Join David Blatner as he interviews five amazing digital pioneers and we see their favorite works of the past three decades:

  • Russell Brown: Sr. Creative Director at Adobe Systems, Emmy Award Winner 2008, and much much more
  • Sharon Steuer: Award winning fine artist, award winning author, and creator of The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book
  • Bert Monroy: Early-adopter Photoshop expert, wrote the first book on Photoshop, fine artist, commercial artist
  • Louis Fishauf: Canadian award-winning graphic designer, art director, and illustrator
  • Katrin Eismann: internationally-known teacher, photographer, retoucher, and author

 

Sponsored Session: CI HUB Connector for Adobe CC and Microsoft

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CI Hub

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Sponsored Session:

CI HUB Connector for Adobe CC and Microsoft

Connecting your Desktop application to any DAM, Cloud storage or Stock Media. Getting your asset was never easier

Wednesday, 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Central

“We connect with data domains throughout your marketing ecosystems” is the philosophy behind CI HUB Connector, an in-app, single source for accessing your brands’ digital assets — easy, fast, and without additional cost. Our portfolio of data domain partners covers both on-premise and cloud-hosted solutions with data models for DAM, MAM, PIM, MDM, and CMS. Plus, we work with stock providers and cloud storage services. Together with the system vendors, we are building the best possible connection, and we are always motivated by our customers to deliver seamless access to their data domain, directly in their marketing ecosystems, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe Premiere Pro… and soon in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.


The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator, with Joe Buchwald

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Joe Buchwald
Senior Creative Director, Adobe



Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator

An Interview with Joe Buchwald, senior Creative Director at Adobe

Friday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Central

The role of the presentation designer is similar to being a translator standing between two people who don’t speak the same language. Your job is to understand both sides and find a way to help them communicate. Join Mark Heaps as he interviews Joe Buchwald, Senior Creative Director at Adobe.

The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator, with Shannon Hollingsworth

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Shannon Hollingsworth
Oracle



Mark Heaps

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

The Presentation Designer as Visual Translator

An Interview with Shannon Hollingsworth from Oracle

Friday, 9:00 am – 10:00 am Central

The role of the presentation designer is similar to being a translator standing between two people who don’t speak the same language. Your job is to understand both sides and find a way to help them communicate. Join Mark Heaps as he interviews Shannon Hollingsworth from Oracle.

Sponsored Session: A Better Way to Create Marketing Publications with priint:Suite

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priint

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Sponsored Session:

A Better Way to Create Marketing Publications with priint:Suite

Thursday, 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Central

Through automation and real time access to corporate data, priint:Suite allows Creatives to spend time creating instead of the monotenous and mundane tasks like copy/paste, table building, and endless revisions. Seemless live integration to marketing data like PIM, CMS, eCommerce, DAM and more directly from InDesign or Illustrator makes like much easier. Create data driven publications like catalogs, flyers, datasheets and more on demand or automatically up to 80% more efficiently with no limit on creative freedom. #NoMoreCopyPaste


Sponsored Session: Designing Maps With Data in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

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Avenza Systems

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Sponsored Session:

Designing Maps With Data in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Central

In this presentation by Avenza Systems, we will be designing a map using geographic data in both MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop—the industry-standard cartography solution preferred by map designers. We’ll add data into a map document and discuss how our mapping tools seamlessly fit into both design environments. We’ll also show how data can be managed, moved around like other layers in Illustrator, and transform map data on-the-fly so its features with the other geographic data on the map. In addition, we’ll highlight how attribute data can be used to easily style areas, lines, and points using stylesheets to automate some of the traditionally time-consuming steps of map-making. In Geographic Imager, we’ll demonstrate how quick and easy it is to add terrain shading to an image and export it as a location-aware file that can be added to the map in Illustrator. Lastly, we’ll finish the map by adjusting map feature styles and creating some surrounding map elements. By the end of the video, you’ll be able to get a sense of how easily you can work with geographic data as familiar layers and images while maintaining precise real-world accuracy. We’re excited to show you these tools and we hope to hear from you soon about how you can get started.

Learn more:
avenza.com/mapublisher (14-day free trial available)
avenza.com/geographic-imager (14-day free trial available)
youtube.com/user/AvenzaTutorials

Follow us at:
facebook.com/AvenzaSystems
twitter.com/Avenza
linkedin.com/company/avenza-systems-inc-


Sponsored Session: Engaging with Customers in Today’s Digital World

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Issuu

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Sponsored Session:

Engaging with Customers in Today’s Digital World

Monday, 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Central

Come see how to bring documents, marketing materials and publications to life with Issuu, the all-in-one content creation and distribution platform for anyone who wants to create and share high-impact visual content across channels and devices. Issuu is the only platform to innovatively convert files into high-quality, native-looking content that is perfectly optimized for each channel and device.

You will also see how you can use the Issuu InDesign plugin to easily create assets for your team. As well as how to provide your team with both finished content and social sharing assets, ready to go all at once. In addition to seeing how to the Issuu solution works, we also have a short session with Joe Hyrkin, CEO of Issuu and Jeff Joseph, Editorial Director & Publisher of Luckbox Magazine.

Learn more:
Try Issuu today –  issuu.com/try
Publisher Education – issuu.com
InDesign Plug-in – stories.issuu.com/adobe-indesign/
Learn more about Luckbox – Getluckbox.com


Sponsored Session: A casual tour with Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts

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Cacidi Systems

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020.

Sponsored Session:

A casual tour with Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts

Monday, 11:45 am – 12:00 pm Central

In this demo we will give you a deep look at the feature set of both Cacidi BarCodes and Cacidi Charts.

Cacidi BarCodes has a wide range of bar codes, all the frequently used, and in a superb quality. It’s very easy to create and modify bar codes… and if you need to, you can automate the production too.

Beautiful infographics are created with Cacidi Charts, in razor-sharp quality, and a great set of features… At the end of the demo we will share features from the next version of Charts, where we expand the functionality to e.g. twice the chart types, and much more.

Learn more: https://www.cacidi.com/