After Effects + Photoshop: It’s Not Just for Video Anymore!

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After Effects + Photoshop: It’s Not Just for Video Anymore!

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!

  • Learn how the Effects Panel gives you visual tools to create custom artwork in minutes
  • Learn to create bubbles for a champaign glass, realisting lightning, or even a 3D globe from flat Illustrator artwork
  • Create video that can be used in your digital tablet magazines, iBooks, and ePUBs
Bert Monroy

Real World Creations

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Real World Creations

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.

  • How to create imaginary dreamscapes
  • How to create atmospheric effects
  • How to create portraits
  • Creative uses of Layer Styles

You seriously don’t want to miss this in-depth and inspirational session by one of the world’s greatest Photoshop masters!

Inception: Deep Embedding with AI and PS

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Inception: How Deep Embedding Helps Weave Together Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Tuesday, 10:15 – 11:00 am

In this talk internationally renowned designer Von Glitschka walks you through how he creates and manages a complex creative project by embedding Illustrator and Photoshop files into one immersive file by using smart objects. You’ll see how this technique helps to control a range of ever-changing visual assets by containing them within one core master file to make collaboration and continuity of creative content easier.

Jesus Ramirez

Photoshop Power Techniques Every Designer Should Know

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Photoshop Power Techniques Every Designer Should Know

Tuesday, 9:15 – 10:00 a.m.

Join Jesús Ramirez in this information-packed session where he will share some of his coolest Photoshop tricks and power techniques for designers!

You will learn timesaving keyboard shortcuts, better ways to work with filters and blending modes, and ways to improve your workflow. This session will leave you saying “I wish I knew that years ago!” In this session you will learn how to:

  • Work faster with type
  • Use filters in new and creative ways
  • Create awesome effects with patterns and paths
  • Use Blending Modes in ways that you never thought of before
  • …and a whole lot more!

InDesign Tips & Tricks

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Bonus Breakfast Session:
InDesign Tips & Tricks

Tuesday, 8:15 – 8:45 am

Bring your full breakfast plate into the main ballroom and watch 30 minutes of fascinating tips and techniques about Adobe InDesign, by the co-hosts of InDesignSecrets.com! We’ll cover shortcuts, free scripts, and workflow techniques that are sure to make your work in InDesign faster, better, and more fun!

Bert Monroy

From Foundation to Dream

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From Foundation to Dream

Monday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm

To create product illustrations, book covers, or whatever you need an image for, Illustrator and Photoshop are the “Dynamic Duo”! In this session you will see how Illustrator is the pencil on the canvas and Photoshop the paint to create images from scratch that look like photographs.

  • How to establish perspective grids
  • Creating intricate patterns
  • How to unleash the power of Illustrator’s Blend feature
  • Playing with type

Join internationally renowned Photoshop superstar Bert Monroy as he explores setting a strong foundation for whatever you’re dreaming to create.

Deke’s Techniques: Illustrator

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Deke’s Techniques: Illustrator

Monday, 2:45 – 3:45 pm

Join infamous Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he quickly reviews some of his favorite techniques for making eye-catching designs and dynamic drawings in Adobe Illustrator. In this fast-paced session, you’ll discover how to:

  • Dynamically draw an atomic symbol complete with electrons
  • Autotrace a famous masterpiece line-drawing
  • Wrap a gradient around a circle
  • Draw an orthogonal box tower from scratch
  • Create your own custom emoji (angry, but awesome!)

Making Iconic Logos: Process Makes Perfect

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Making Iconic Logos: Process Makes Perfect

Monday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm

In this focused and inpsirational talk, designer and Illustrator rockstar Von Glitschka will walk you through his creative process — from ideation, vector building, color exploration, art direction, rejection and ultimate usage of iconic brand design. Along the way he’ll share creative insights and methodology he uses daily to craft visual identities for companies large and small.

Illustrator Wow!

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Illustrator Wow!
Drawing, Painting, and Coloring Tips and Techniques

Monday, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Discover some of the infinitely inspirational ways you can “dress-up” your paths and lines and distribute colors and objects along a path. Harness the power of the Control, Appearance, and Graphic Styles panels to quickly style paths using width profiles, and to create and apply multiple strokes and effects to paths. Then you’ll be able to explore how with brushes you can:

  • Transform paths into natural media
  • Apply objects as a repeating pattern and quickly populate a scene
  • Determine which portions of brushes distort when applied
  • Distribute objects along a path

Adding global colors and gradients you can create quickly complex and easily editable color effects for paths and fills. With the Blob Brush and eraser you’ll have another way to carve out delicate lines from vector shapes. Finally, you’ll learn some tricks for ways to transform your drawings into Illustrator vectors.

Solving Real World Problems in Illustrator

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Solving Real World Problems in Illustrator

Monday, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm

“I just need this quick change.” It’s something we hear from clients and peers all the time in our positions as commercial creatives. Or, “that didn’t come out right!” and again we are thrust into a position of problem solving. That’s what commercial creative professionals do, we solve problems. But less like a Superhero with special powers we rely on the blend of our tools and experience with some quick thinking. In this session we’ll talk about features in Adobe Illustrator that can really help with certain types of production and design challenges. Things like:

  • Creative Solutions for type that protect your ability to edit
  • Produce assets so they are legacy ready for any changes in the future
  • Making rapid updates to layouts, or graphics, during the “fire drill”
  • Drawing without the pen
  • Using features to help you play creatively building ideas and concepts
  • Building assets for your team workflow

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.