Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Still hungry for more?! Watch our presenters each take three minutes max to show off their best tip, trick, or technique! Which one will blow your mind? You get to vote and shower one lucky attendee in the room with prizes… it might be you!
Wednesday, 2:45 – 3:45 pm
What happens when you put two experts in the same room, and get them talking about the interaction (and/or inherent superiority of) Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign? We can’t be exactly sure, but we can say it will be inspiring, interesting, and infinitely instructional.
David maintains that Photoshop and Illustrator are really just plug-ins for InDesign. Deke insists InDesign and Illustrator are just add-ons for Photoshop! (Or perhaps everything feeds into Illustrator?!) Come see this fast-paced, technique-packed smackdown of the century!
Wednesday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Photoshop is a powerful tool, and it does amazing things. The more amazing it gets, the more spectacular our clients expect us to be. So whether your client is your manager, art director, or an outside business, you need to be able to solve problems that pop up during creation. In this session we’ll look at the various fundamentals of Photoshop that we can use in a way to support an optimal workflow. Whether you are editing a photo you took, or manipulating an asset from a stock house, or a graphic made by a member of your team, having the right workflow and solution can save you hours later. In this session we’ll discuss things like:
Collecting a database of questions from real world professionals working in the field, we’ll share the solutions that we’ve offered to peers like yourself at some of the biggest and littlest companies around the globe.
Wednesday, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
For 15 years, PhotoshopCAFE.com has been one of the most visited Photoshop resources on the web. Over 40 million visitors have feasted on the quick, easy-to-follow, practical and eye-popping tutorials created by founder Colin Smith.
In this quick fire, action-packed session, you will learn more than you thought possible in one hour. Colin will be sharing the most requested of today’s Photoshop tutorials and tips. This fast-paced session will be surprising easy to follow, in a plain English, Jargon-free delivery and who knows? There may be giveaways too. You will learn:
Wednesday, 10:15 – 11:00 am
Every Photoshop image consists of three specific attributes: image resolution, color model, and bit depth. These attributes can be manipulated in Photoshop to reduce overhead and increase quality. What you don’t know about these attributes might surprise you!
Wednesday, 9:00 – 10:00 am
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Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Join notorious Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he quickly reviews some of his favorite techniques for making eye-catching design and first-rate photos in Adobe Photoshop. In this fast-paced session, you’ll discover how to:
Tuesday, 2:45 – 3:45 pm
While Photoshop is a creative wonderland, InDesign and Illustrator are natural environments for developing design and illustration because they are object-oriented (vector) applications. Learn strategies and solutions to customize Photoshop so that you can develop a powerful workflow that will allow you to maximize flexibility, encourage experimentation, and help you to generate new and alternate ideas. After a demo of real-time application of a flexible workflow, you’ll:
Keeping your files organized you’ll be able to freely experiment with different ways to use adjustment layers, layer comps, layer groups, and masks upon masks, so you can maximize your ability to retouch, transform, and create.
Tuesday, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
You know Adobe AfterEffects is “like, the coolest animation program,” but did you know if can be used to print, web, and even HTML5 animations? If you know Photoshop, you know the basics! Remember, if you have CC, you already have all these tools at your fingertips!
Tuesday, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
In this session you will see how to illustrate what your imagination conjures up. You will learn how to create photorealistic imagery from scratch. You will also see how photographic elements can be altered to create images that can’t be photographed but generated using the tools in Photoshop.
You seriously don’t want to miss this in-depth and inspirational session by one of the world’s greatest Photoshop masters!