Laurie Ruhlin

Laurie Ruhlin

Laurie is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign and Illustrator and an active user of many of the Creative Cloud programs in her graphic design business. She provides classroom and custom training both live and online as a consultant. This will be her seventh CreativePro Week as a speaker.

In addition to her teaching and speaking, she is a graphic designer, developing brochures, catalogs, newsletters, logos and interactive documents for a wide variety of clients. She is the author of a course for Ajar Productions – Creating your First Interactive Document with InDesign and in5. She is a writer for InDesign Magazine and has several videos on the InDesign Secrets YouTube channel. From her diverse graphic design and consulting work, Laurie brings a wide variety of real-world knowledge into the classroom.

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Khara Plicanic

A camera slinging design geek and Adobe nerd, Khara’s a natural born teacher who’s been sharing inspiration & know-how with fellow creatives around the globe for more than 15 years. Khara’s proud to have authored several books for Peach Pit and Rocky Nook Press and enjoys contributing to CreativePro Magazine. When she’s not presenting at creative industry events, making futile attempts at reclaiming hard drive space, or searching the sofa cushions for a runaway Wacom pen, Khara can be found plotting her next craft project, catching up with her favorite late night hosts, or trying to remember where she left her phone.

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Julieanne Kost

Julieanne Kost

Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Julieanne Kost is the Digital Imaging Evangelist Director at Adobe, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide via live events, Adobe.com, and her blog (jkost.com/blog). She is also the author of “Passenger Seat — Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution” and “Window Seat — The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking”, an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop Essential Training for LinkedIn Learning.

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Russell Brown

Russell Brown is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. His ability to bring together the world of design and software development is a perfect match for Adobe products. In Russell’s thirty-two years of creative experience at Adobe, he has contributed to the evolution of Adobe Photoshop with feature enhancements, and advanced scripts.

With complete mastery and breath taking style, Russell has shown users how to work – and play – with Adobe software. He has helped the world’s leading photographers, publishers, art directors, and artists to master the software tools that have made Adobe’s applications the standard by which all others are measured. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools as a prolific creator of an entertaining collection of Photoshop tips and tricks. His in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike. Keep in mind, a live performance of the Russell Brown Show is not to be missed.

Russell’s session:

    Paul Trani

    Paul Trani

    As Principal Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe, Paul is passionate about empowering designers to create compelling content using their creativity and new AI technology.

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    Laura Coyle

    Laura Coyle

    In her 25-year career, Laura Coyle has illustrated for major brands, including Target, Hallmark, Hasbro, Amazon, Disney, and Papyrus — all while creating in Adobe Illustrator. As an instructor, she loves making Illustrator accessible and teaching you the “why” behind her techniques.

    From her studio in Atlanta, Laura teaches at her online Illustrator community and presents monthly tutorials at Pattern Observer’s Textile Design Lab. On Laura’s YouTube channel, you’ll find tips on working between Adobe Fresco, Express, and Illustrator, with a playlist of tutorials especially for working with Illustrator on the iPad. Laura has been a speaker for Wacom, CreativePro Week, and Adobe MAX.

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    Sneak Peek:
    How to Create Number Callouts in Illustrator

    Robin Schneider

    Robin Schneider is the Reigning Queen of Adobe for Fashion with 8 Illustrator and Photoshop for Fashion courses on Linked In Learning. She has trained designers at top companies including Juicy Couture and Liz Clayborne; and is the co-owner of Belden Schneider Studio, a Los Angeles based textile print design studio specializing in repeats, color reduction, and recoloring.

    Robin is currently teaching at UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, and recording tutorials for her YouTube channel. Her Adobe for Fashion: Illustrator textbook is being used at fashion schools around the world and she is frantically hard at work on her Photoshop book and new courses for LinkedIn Learning.

    She has a dog named Sadie who doesn’t care about any of this and 3 cats that think Zooms should be all about them.

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    Bert Monroy

    Bert Monroy is a pioneer of digital art. He is a hyper-realistic digital painter who builds his digital paintings as a traditional artist would, adding color and texture, but on a digital canvas. He is a veteran of the advertising industry and 40 years as a commercial illustrator. He coauthored the first book on Photoshop and has authored several books since. He was a regular on Tech TV for almost four years and hosted Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy, a weekly Photoshop podcast for Revision3.com which aired for over three years.

    Bert until recently hosted a weekly podcast entitled Pixel Playground on LinkedIn Learning where he also has a vast library of tutorial videos. An accomplished teacher and lecturer, Bert has served on the faculties of the School of Visual Arts (New York), the Center for Creative Imaging (Maine), and California College of the Arts. He has been on the faculty of San Francisco State University for over twenty years. His client list includes Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Pixar and Disney Animation. In 2004 Bert was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

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    Von Glitschka

    Von Glitschka

    Von is the creative director of Glitschka Studios, a small two-person design firm located in the Pacific Northwest. We are illustrative designers who create designs and illustrations for global brands and small businesses to expand their creative possibilities, facilitate their brand engagement, and help their businesses grow and thrive.

    Von also produces and creates a bi-weekly creative series for Linkedin Learning called ‘Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory.’

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    Chris Converse

    Chris has over 30 years of experience in graphic, animation, and interactive design, with a unique focus on both design and development. He earned his BFA in Graphic Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (R•I•T) and has continued to study the landscape of design and its crossroads with various technologies. Through the company he co-founded, his client list includes Adobe Inc., BBC Studios, Pfizer, LinkedIn, CIA, Target, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many more.

    In addition to design and development, Chris has authored a wide range of articles for various publications and websites, created and taught over 100 online courses, and has been a featured speaker in over 340 industry-related events, conferences and webinars, including NAB, Adobe MAX, Post Production World, How Design Live, AIGA, CreativePro, CreativeLive, PHOTOPLUS, and more.

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