Great Tools, Services, and Assets You Already Have That You Didn’t Know About

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Bill Carberry

Great Tools, Services, and Assets You Already Have That You Didn’t Know About

Wednesday, 11:00 am – 11:45 am

Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) has so many assets, services, tools, and resources that almost no one knows them all!. Managing the CC Desktop App is a core competency. Learn how to take advantage of many of these awesome benefits in your CC workflow:

  • Activating and Troubleshooting Typekit Fonts
  • Finding Free Assets from the Creative Cloud Market
  • Accessing Free InDesign Templates from Adobe Stock
  • Adobe Portfolio and Behance Community
  • Finding and Acquiring Free Add-ons
  • More Tips and Tricks for Free Assets

Bill Carberry is an Adobe Certified Instructor for InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat, in good standing since 1999. You will learn how to work smarter, not harder, and how to get the most out of your CC subscription services and assets.


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Converting Your InDesign Files to Powerpoint and Word

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Mark Heaps

Converting Your InDesign Files to Powerpoint and Word

Wednesday, 10:15 am – 10:45 am

Let’s face it! Microsoft Office is one of the biggest software systems on the planet, the most common tool used by clients, managers, and organizations. Yet many design and production pros avoid it like the plague, sticking with Adobe programs, and if a client wants something to distribute, they can use the PDF you provided.

I’ll show you how you can bridge the gap, by taking your beautifully- and thoughtfully-designed InDesign projects and converting them into usable, editable Microsoft Word and Powerpoint files that your clients can run with. My methods don’t require any extra third-party software, all conversions are done natively using the features already built into the software.

  • The main similarities and differences “under the hood” of Adobe InDesign and Word/Powerpoint
  • Font and image format considerations
  • What to do with master pages
  • Maintaining text formatting

If you have to create or convert your designs for business clients, this might be the session that gets rid of your stress and improves your output!


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Breaking Bad InDesign Habits

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Keith Gilbert

Keith Gilbert

Breaking Bad InDesign Habits

Wednesday, 10:15 am – 10:45 am

If you’re like most InDesign users, you were dropped into the deep end without a lot of training — but you survived! Unfortunately, you also learned a lot of bad habits along the way. Now it’s time to break those habits and learn the right way to use InDesign, in order to boost your productivity and reduce your headaches.

  • Convert text to outlines the smart way
  • Why (and when) to use RGB
  • How to use character styles properly

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I Didn’t Know InDesign Could Do That

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David Blatner

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Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepción

I Didn’t Know InDesign Could Do That

Wednesday, 9:15 am – 10:00 am

Learn how to boost your productivity and super-charge your InDesign workflow with these cool tips and hot techniques for getting the most out of InDesign.

  • You can use the Table of Contents feature for that?!
  • Four helpful InDesign features you’ve probably never even heard of
  • (Almost) Magic linking turns objects into symbols
  • Page and item numbering tricks ever InDesign user needs to know

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Master Class in Real World Design Techniques

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Bert Monroy

Master Class in Real World Design Techniques

Tuesday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join international superstar Bert Monroy as he takes you on a journey through Photoshop and Illustrator you won’t forget. Bert will share some of the most useful and creative techniques he’s developed in over thirty years of commercial design projects:

  • Striking and memorable type effects
  • Special effects for poster design
  • Using 3D effects in product illustrations and other projects
  • Compositing real and painted images

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The Triumvirate: Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign (plus Bridge!)

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Russell Viers

The Triumvirate:
Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign (plus Bridge!)

Tuesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join internationally known designer Russell Viers for a special half-day session that covers InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator… and most importantly: How they work together to form a one-two-three knockout punch. If you use Creative Cloud (CC) or the Creative Suite, it’s a day you won’t want to miss!


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Networking Reception

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Networking Reception

Monday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Join us for drinks, nibbles, and a fun opportunity to meet the speakers and fellow attendees!


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Tricks of the Table Pros

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Diane Burns

Tricks of the Table Pros

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Have you ever thought of tables as a design element? If you think tables are just for boring Excel worksheets, you’re missing out on some fun! Tables are a great solution for a number of design challenges, from information presentation to forms creation. But here’s a little secret: they don’t have to actually look like tables! In this session, you’ll see…

  • A quick overview of table controls (just enough to be useful, not enough to put you to sleep)
  • Painless methods for making tables look lovely
  • How to use tables to solve design problems

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Clever Techniques for Images

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Mike Rankin

Clever Techniques for Images

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

How you handle images can make or break your design (and your workflow). Fortunately, there are tons and tons of useful tips and tricks for working with images in InDesign! And in this fun and fast-paced session, Mike Rankin will share as many cool image-related tips as humanly possible in the span of 45 minutes. You’ll see:

  • tips for placing and sizing
  • tips for relinking and exporting
  • tips for working with color and resolution
  • tips for enhancing images with custom frames and special transparency effects
  • tips for leveraging the awesome power of object styles
  • and much, much more!

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Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

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Nigel French

Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Everyone knows that using styles is critical for designing efficiently in InDesign. But did you know that master pages are “page styles”? Learn how to take advantage of InDesign’s powerful (but sometimes confusing) master pages features, including:

  • The amazing Primary Text Frame (it’s not the same as the old “Master Text Frame”)
  • Creating Based on Master Pages for faster updates
  • Syncing changes across documents
  • How less can be more—making fewer master pages work harder.

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