Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign

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Wednesday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Face it: You have too many files—images, graphics, icons, photographs… Hey, that’s okay! By the end of this half-day tutorial you’re going to understand how to manage them efficiently, whether you’re producing artwork for web, print, tablet, or any other medium not yet invented.

  • Bridge: you’ll learn to love the glue that holds it all together
  • CC Libraries: collaborating with others has never been easier
  • Making Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator (and a host of other apps) work together
  • The ultimate Search, right on your own desktop!
  • Stuff you never knew Bridge could do that will blow your cerebral cortex
Colin Smith

Covering Your Assets: Bridge, Libraries, and Other Secret Weapons

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Wednesday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Face it: You have too many files—images, graphics, icons, photographs… Hey, that’s okay! By the end of this half-day tutorial you’re going to understand how to manage them efficiently, whether you’re producing artwork for web, print, tablet, or any other medium not yet invented.

  • Bridge: you’ll learn to love the glue that holds it all together
  • CC Libraries: collaborating with others has never been easier
  • Making Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator (and a host of other apps) work together
  • The ultimate Search, right on your own desktop!
  • Stuff you never knew Bridge could do that will blow your cerebral cortex
Colin Smith

Compositing and Masking

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Wednesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

If you don’t understand masking, channels, and compositing, you simply cannot function efficiently in Photoshop or create the highest-quality images. Fortunately, it’s not as hard as it looks… when you understand the fundamentals and a few good tricks! Come learn from one of the best in the business and take your Photoshop work to the next level.

  • Discover workflows you never thought of!
  • Combining photos for real-world production needs
  • Unlock the deep power of Photoshop’s channels and masking
Mark Heaps, 2015

How-To: Recreating Popular Design Trends

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Wednesday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

You use Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, but are you using them well? Soak in a half-day of awesome techniques for making the most of these three programs, and helping them help you make your final publications even better. If you use Creative Cloud (CC) or the Creative Suite, it’s a day you won’t want to miss!

  • Moving artwork from one program to another with no loss of quality
  • Picking the right tool for the job
  • When copy and paste is awesome (and when it will cause you problems!)
  • Sweet effects you can only achieve when you use the programs together
Colin Smith

Blow You Away Images

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Tuesday, 3:20 – 4:00 pm

Images can make or break your whole message. Get inspired with techniques that will help you create images that blow your audience’s mind. Award-winning, best-selling author and artist Colin Smith will reveal some of his favorite tricks for building brilliant imagery.

  • Drone-ography: Yes, you can do it!
  • Adjusting lighting long after the shoot
  • Compositing for maximum power

Retouching Techniques for Designers

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Tuesday, 3:20 – 4:00 pm

Images can make or break your whole message. Get inspired with techniques that will help you create images that blow your audience’s mind. Award-winning, best-selling author and artist Colin Smith will reveal some of his favorite tricks for building brilliant imagery.

  • Drone-ography: Yes, you can do it!
  • Adjusting lighting long after the shoot
  • Compositing for maximum power
Michael Ninness

Lunch with Adobe: Sit Down with the Adobe Development Team

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Tuesday, 11:20 am – 12:00 pm

You might think that Photoshop’s blend modes are just for wacky effects, but they’re actually very powerful tools that designers and publishers can take advantage of for easy and fast image editing. Join Adobe’s own Michael Ninness as he explains the building blocks of layer blending and demonstrates how blend modes can be used for color correction, compositing, and sharpening.

  • Understanding the three must-learn blend modes
  • Adding texture overlays
  • Recovering detail and enhancing highlight and shadow details
Michael Ninness

Blend Mode Magic

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Tuesday, 11:20 am – 12:00 pm

You might think that Photoshop’s blend modes are just for wacky effects, but they’re actually very powerful tools that designers and publishers can take advantage of for easy and fast image editing. Join Adobe’s own Michael Ninness as he explains the building blocks of layer blending and demonstrates how blend modes can be used for color correction, compositing, and sharpening.

  • Understanding the three must-learn blend modes
  • Adding texture overlays
  • Recovering detail and enhancing highlight and shadow details

Photoshop for Video

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Tuesday, 9:00 – 10:00 am

We all have to deal with dull images sooner or later, but that doesn’t mean they have to stay dull! Join us for this fast-paced session packed with tricks for sharpening, color correction, cropping, and adding practical and professional effects you need to take your work to the next level. This is for every designer who stares at Photoshop and thinks, “I just want to make this dull image… better.”

  • Sometimes the smallest change can make the biggest bang
  • Finding inspiration in the image (and beyond)
  • Make the image pop (without going overboard!)

Just Make The Image Better: Techniques Every Designer Needs

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Tuesday, 9:00 – 10:00 am

We all have to deal with dull images sooner or later, but that doesn’t mean they have to stay dull! Join us for this fast-paced session packed with tricks for sharpening, color correction, cropping, and adding practical and professional effects you need to take your work to the next level. This is for every designer who stares at Photoshop and thinks, “I just want to make this dull image… better.”

  • Sometimes the smallest change can make the biggest bang
  • Finding inspiration in the image (and beyond)
  • Make the image pop (without going overboard!)