Sponsored Session: Creating and securely delivering engaging publications to every device and desktop.

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Circular Software

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Sponsored Session:

Creating and securely delivering engaging publications to every device and desktop

Thursday, 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Central

Using InDesign and a combination of Circular Software tools to create interactive, accessible and searchable publications and demonstrating how to securely share and publish them.

Including details of a free special offer for all CPW attendees to get started and to create and share their own publications.


Sponsored Session: Streamlining access reduces version management headaches

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Santa Cruz Software

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Sponsored Session:

Streamlining access reduces version management headaches

Survey results and demonstration

Wednesday, 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Central

Design teams working in the same office or scattered throughout the globe all struggle with managing assets and files within projects. To assess the magnitude of this issue, Santa Cruz Software commissioned a study of 500 design professionals to better understand their experiences. One theme was clear – 97% believe their jobs would be easier if the latest version of every embedded asset was easily identifiable. In fact, well over a quarter (28%) of respondents said it would be “extremely easier.” In this session, we’ll review the results of this recent survey (Feb 2020). We’ll also demonstrate our solution using LinkrUI. LinkrUI is a best-in-class extension to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign that enables direct searching, opening, placing and synchronizing of assets stored in a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) system or other storage services, such as Box and Dropbox. All of this can be done from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

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Sponsored Session: InDesign Productivity Tools – Preview and Conversion

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Markzware

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Sponsored Session:

InDesign Productivity Tools – Preview and Conversion

Monday, 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Central

In this presentation from Markzware, we will be highlighting InDesign productivity through the use of our preview, conversion and file information tools. Many will know the first part of the demonstration, Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) and PDF2DTP (PDF to InDesign). We will, in particular with PDF2DTP, show some cool things you can do to open multi-page PDF documents as new InDesign layouts.

The meat of the video will be on our new “Markz” line of stand-alone applications. This will be highlighted with our newly available IDMarkz, which is an easy and effective way to preview, export and transition your InDesign files. Exporting, as a stand-alone process, from a native .INDD file to IDML is very handy and you’ll see why.

We will also highlight our most popular feature in this new app, the InDesign to Affinity Publisher “open in” function! We will show several useful recipes you can create in your InDesign workflow with IDMarkz.

Lastly, we round off with a technology preview of the rest of the Markzware lineup, being QXPMarkz, PDFMarkz and OmniMarkz. We look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:
http://markzware.com/products
http://markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp/
http://markzware.com/products/idmarkz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0Y02ExNW0


Beautiful Presentation Typography

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Mark Heaps

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Beautiful Presentation Typography

Friday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am Central

Business people who are taught PowerPoint/Keynote skills rarely look at the beautiful world of typography, with all of its history and influence. As graphic designers, we adore type and recognize that it can make or break the effectiveness of a communication piece.

What new typographic opportunities (and challenges) might we have to think about when the typography moves? How can we create builds that integrate with type to engage audiences and peak their interests?

During this session, we’ll look at all the controls and share some ideas to boost your signal when presenting content with type.

Topics include:

  • Learning how to adjust type for improved legibility
  • Creating emphasis and order without defaulting to bullets
  • Integrating with themes in your presentation
  • Using slide master’s parent type format to improve design for common users
  • Awesome use-cases to introduce typography in presentation design
  • Making type move for visual impact

Special Lunch Presentation: Celebrating 30 Years of Photoshop

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Special Lunch Presentation:
The Past, Present, and Future of Photoshop

Wednesday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Central

It was 30 years ago that Adobe released Photoshop 1.0, and the world was changed forever. Join us for a “birthday party” as we celebrate 30 years of digital innovation!

Lunch Talk: Knowing What’s Real — Exploring the Content Authenticity Initiative

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Leonard Rosenthol

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Knowing What’s Real: Exploring the Content Authenticity Initiative

Tuesday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Central

When you look at a photograph in social media, how do you know if it’s real or fake? Either way, can you tell who created it? Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times have launched the Content Authenticity Initiative to help verify the “authenticity” of images online, and fight misinformation on digital media platforms. Join Adobe’s Leonard Rosenthol as he explains CAI and how it relates to creative pros.

“At a Glance” Design

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Mike Parkinson

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“At a Glance” Design

Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Central

We are living in an “at a glance” society. We see proof everywhere we look: social media, advertising, books, television, email, in signs, software, and websites. People no longer expect information to be succinct and clear—they require it. If we fail to embrace at a glance communication, our designs will always fall short. Attend this high energy, interactive, mind-blowing session and learn to design anything—at a glance.

Click: Three Minutes Max

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Mark Heaps

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Click: Three Minutes Max

Friday, 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Central

It’s time for another game where instructors will share their best tip or trick for Presentation Design in under 3 minutes, playing for a grand prize for a member of the audience they represent. There are always great tips attendees learn during this time, and we have a lot of fun.


Bonus: Three Minutes Max Tip from Our 2019 Event


InDesign for Building Presentations

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David Blatner

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InDesign for Building Presentations

Friday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Central

You already have Adobe InDesign, so why not use it to help you make your presentations? After all, laying out a slide is very similar to laying out a page. Join David Blatner as he explores some of the great options for:

  • Exporting InDesign documents to PowerPoint or Keynote
  • Amazing plug-ins, scripts, and resources to help you build high-quality slides
  • Why you should consider HTML5 (exported right out of InDesign!) for your next slide deck

Data Visualization for Presentation

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Nolan Haims

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Data Visualization for Presentation

Friday, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Central

Poor data design leads to overly complicated charts that take too long to understand and steal valuable time from your audiences. Worse, a careless approach to visualizing data can lead to misinterpretation of the messages you are trying to communicate.

This session will focus on fundamental design and data visualization principles to help significantly improve the effectiveness of your charts and communicate the story of your data as efficiently as possible.

We will cover:

  • Reducing color and adding emphasis
  • Identifying and removing “chart junk”
  • Why legends are so bad and how to get along without them
  • Solutions for complex data sets