Ignite CreativePro 2019

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Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepción

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Ignite CreativePro 2019

Tuesday, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Come join us for dessert and some late night, after-dinner tips, tricks, and fun! Or sign up to present 20 slides in 5 minutes. It’s your opportunity to have 5 minutes in the spotlight, in the relaxed and friendly confines of an after-hours get-together with your colleagues, and laugh your butts off.

When: Tuesday, June 11, 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Where: The ballroom at the Westin (the conference hotel)

Who’s Invited: All conference attendees, speakers, sponsors, paparazzi, etc.

Cost: Free!

We’re putting on our annual fun “IGNITE”-style show and need your help! Do you have …

  • An unusual design or production-related technique that you use?
  • A “from the design trenches” anecdote to share — funny or serious?
  • Some hard-won lessons you’ve learned? Or wish your clients would learn…
  • Tips for getting the most out of a conference?
  • An incredibly complex table you created, or special effect, or the world’s best workspace?
  • Advice for designers or computer users or ?
  • Something else InDesign- or Photoshop-related that you’re passionate about?

Yes? Then take this opportunity to share it with your colleagues in 5 minutes or less! Only 12 spots are available, and it’s first-come first-serve, so don’t wait till the last minute. We’ll confirm via email with our final roster of 12 Ignite presenters and 2 alternates by Friday, May 31. If you’re not sure of a topic yet, but definitely want to do this thing, then fill out the form with a placeholder idea NOW to save your spot! You can fill it out again later (before May 31) once you’ve decided on a topic.

Rules (for audience members)

  1. Relax, have fun, and enjoy.
  2. Be supportive of your fellow attendees!

Rules (for presenters)

Sign-up for your slot below, but first read the rules:

  1. This event is mainly for attendees: No prior speaking experience required. The newbier the better. The audience is very supportive, not to worry.
  2. Create a series of exactly 20 pages or slides in landscape format, which you will export to PDF and we’ll project it on screen during your talk. The first one’s your opener, the last one is your closer. Email the 20-page PDF to us or bring it with you on a USB Flash drive. Keep the slides simple!
  3. Content: Your topic must be about something related to the field of design or graphic production — tools, projects, tips, rants. It’s okay to be funny, but keep it clean and appropriate. Please don’t use this as a sales presentation or portfolio review. Violators will get “the hook”! If in doubt, ask Anne-Marie (amarie@cpn.co), your friendly MC, beforehand.
  4. Be prepared to talk about your topic for 5 minutes while we project your slides on the screen.
  5. The slides will auto-advance every 15 seconds! That’s the Ignite rule. And what makes it fun for the audience, too! 20 slides x 15 seconds = 5 minutes.
  6. When your 5 minutes are up, take a bow, enjoy the applause, and hand the mic back to the MC.

That’s all… nice and simple! Fill out the form below to sign up for fame, fortune, and hilarity. (And did we mention all IGNITE speakers earn a special conference keepsake for their efforts?)

Notes

2019 CreativePro Ignite Sign-up Sheet

[Sorry, Ignite sign-ups are now closed! But come join us for the fun on Tuesday night in the Grand Ballroom.]


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Managing Your Assets with Libraries

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Brian Wood

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Managing Your Assets with Libraries

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Working smarter-not-harder is possible when you leverage features in InDesign like native libraries and Creative Cloud libraries. Both offer a way to save, organize, and share your brand assets. In this session, you’ll explore the differences between InDesign native libraries and Creative Cloud libraries, and see how you can significantly speed up your daily workflow and help you push through global updates over multiple programs and projects.

Topics will include:

  • The difference between InDesign libraries and Creative Cloud libraries
  • How to create and manage Creative Cloud libraries
  • How to store your assets in online folders
  • How to use the web portal to manage your assets
  • How to share your libraries and collaborate with others
  • Best practices when re-using assets in multiple Adobe applications

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Advanced Solutions with GREP

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Advanced Solutions with GREP

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Take your knowledge of GREP in InDesign even further with this session. Erica will share some in-depth GREP expressions to put into your SuperDesigner’s toolkit. When it comes to automating text in your InDesign documents, using GREP can give you that boost you need to improve your accuracy, consistency, and productivity. We’ll look at some design samples and learn—among other things—how to:

  • Find a range of characters
  • Find all of specific category, such as currency
  • Learn how to master the lookaround
  • Automatically style fractions, figures, and recurring product names

Plus, learn why Erica calls this feature “unicorns and rainbows”!


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Adding Magic to Your Interactive Documents

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Chris Converse

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Adding Magic to Your Interactive Documents

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

We all know that HTML content is king — but how to we leverage this technology in your digital publciations? Check out this session where the “web” technologies are broken down, examined, and reassembled into workflows we can all use to create compelling, interctive, and animated content suitable for ePubs, Digital Magazines, Blogs and websites. Learn how web-based content is conceived, developed, and delivered to millions of outlets everyday.

What you’ll learn:

  • How HTML content is created
  • What role CSS plays with HTML
  • How JavaScript enhances both HTML and CSS
  • Frameworks to simplify animation
  • Animation techniques for HTML and CSS

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InDesign Tables

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Jason Hoppe

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

InDesign Tables

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Tables in InDesign make for a great layout tool when formatting large amounts of information and data. Setting up a Table and using the tools efficiently will no longer make a table a daunting task.

In this class you’ll learn:

  • Setting tabs in a Table
  • Working with inline graphics and graphic frames inside a table
  • Understanding Table and Cell Styles
  • Rearrange and duplicate columns and rows

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Solving Big Projects with Custom Automation

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Dana Kendall



Kris Coppieters

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Solving Big Projects with Custom Automation

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Need to produce 50+ different books per year, in five different output formats? Creating digital or print catalogs? Making custom bespoke documents for thousands of people? While humans will always have a part in designing and creating, we too often forget why we use computers in the first place: Because they’re good at doing things that we’re not so good at, including:
  • Automation with precision
  • Managing huge amounts of data efficiently
  • Creating PDFs on the fly, without InDesign or any other traditional apps
  • Multi-formatting content for tablet, phone, print, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, web, and more

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InDesign to HTML

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Keith Gilbert

Keith Gilbert

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

InDesign to HTML

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

There are all kinds of reasons why you might want HTML output from an InDesign file. Perhaps you want to create a microsite or an interactive document. Or export text and graphics ready to be added to a CMS-based web site. In this session, we’ll explore several techniques to get useful HTML out of InDesign. You will learn:
  • The various options available for HTML export
  • Real-world case studies
  • How to get clean text, formatted graphics, and interactivity from InDesign to WordPress (and elsewhere)
  • How to automate the workflow with scripts and plug-ins

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Object Styles: Your Secret Weapon for Productivity

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Laurie Ruhlin

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Object Styles: Your Secret Weapon for Productivity

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

You ask, why would I bother to create and use an object style? My answer: why would you not?! Object styles tell a frame how to look — stroke & fill, effects, size, position, etc and can also format what’s inside, both text and graphics. Object styles can save you an enormous amount of time applying formatting and especially when you or the client makes a change. We’ll create an Object Style for a simple photo frame, then step it up to create an organizational chart, complete with paragraph styles and box sizes, making the frames easy to create and modify. We’ll explore cool positioning tricks, as well as how to apply effects and text wrap and save them all in an Object Style.

In this session you’ll learn:

  • How to make and apply an Object Style
  • Resize the photo that’s inside a frame
  • Apply text frame attributes and multiple paragraph styles in one click
  • Anchor a frame into text, then use an Object Style to precisely position it
  • Cool tricks & shortcuts for creating and applying an Object Style
  • You’ll leave wondering why you haven’t created more Object Styles!

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Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

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Brian Wood

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

When it comes to headers, footers, logos, guides, and other design elements that appear across the pages our documents, using master pages and primary text frames are a powerful way to maintain consistency and work smarter. In this session, you’ll explore what primary text frames are and learn when to use them. You’ll also see how you can harness the power of master pages to successfully and more easily manage the design content in your documents.

Topics will include:

  • Exploring primary text frames—when to use them and when not to
  • Basing one master page on another for faster updates
  • Easily syncing changes across documents
  • Making your master pages work harder for you
  • General master page tips and tricks

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Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

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Chad Chelius

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. In addition, you can capture information from those PDF forms and utilize that information without having to set up a server or other complicated technology. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage the capabilities of Adobe InDesign (including a new PDF forms feature) to build PDF forms and then how to refine those forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. When planning a forms project, it’s helpful to know which program gives you the features that you need to perform the job at hand and how editing can be achieved most easily. You’ll also learn some tips to make the process easier, not found in the native applications!

In this session 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 & tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

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