Tag Archive for: AI

Scripting Success: Finding and Creating Your Own Automated Solutions

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You’re in the driver’s seat for this fun and collaborative session. Bring your frustrations and nagging problems. Bring your feature requests and wish lists. We’ll brainstorm solutions and create a custom collection of scripts that you can take home.

If your workflow always stops working at certain point, you don’t have to wait around hoping that Adobe or someone else will fix things. You can do it right now—with the help of scripts (even if you don’t know the first thing about coding).

Key takeaways:

  • Where to find great scripts
  • How to build and organize your script collection
  • Understand what is and isn’t scriptable
  • How to make your own scripts with the help of AI

Three Minutes Max: AI

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This crowd favorite is back and better than ever! Don’t miss this fun-filled, action-packed, highly educational, and mind-blowing session where each of our instructors will have just three minutes to share their favorite AI tip for design—then you get to vote for your favorite!

In past years, some of the best tips have been held for this session, so you don’t want to miss it!

AI in Design: Helpful, Overrated, or Both?

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AI shows up everywhere in creative workflows today—and sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s distracting, and very often it’s misunderstood. For designers juggling many tools, projects, and expectations, the real question isn’t whether to use AI, but how to use it without losing your human judgment, authorship, and creative intent.

In this session, Michael Flarup shares a grounded, designer-first perspective on working with AI as part of a broader creative practice. Drawing from real projects, he explores where AI can support ideation, exploration, and momentum—and where human taste, decision-making, and craft still matter most. This is not a pitch for automation or replacement. It’s a practical look at using AI selectively and critically, alongside familiar design tools, to enhance creative thinking rather than shortcut it.

Key takeaways:

  • Develop a realistic, designer-centered view of AI’s role in creative work
  • Identify where AI helps ideation and exploration—and where it falls short
  • Learn how to integrate AI output into polished, intentional design workflows
  • Understand how to protect authorship, ethics, and personal style
  • Gain language and perspective to have better conversations about AI at work

Accessibility Quickstart Podcast

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Join us for this fun, live recording of the CreativePro Podcast, in a special crossover episode with the Chaxchat, the #1 accessibility podcast. If you’re new to accessibility and don’t know where to start, you just found the perfect session!

Acrobat Studio: An AI Solution for Document Overwhelm

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Ever feel overwhelmed by your own documentation? Even content you created yourself can take hours—or days—to review when you’re managing hundreds of pages. This session cuts through the noise to show you a practical, safe approach to AI integration using Adobe Acrobat Studio’s AI Assistant. Discover how to leverage AI as your productivity ally—not a replacement—by working exclusively with your own trusted data.

Nicte shows how her team transformed a real-world project involving 200+ pages of PDF documentation, landing page content, and social copy into actionable insights and deliverables that extract key summaries, data (with reference pages), and insights faster than you could possibly read through it all yourself.

You will learn how to:

  • Quickly review and synthesize lengthy PDF documents into digestible brief summaries
  • Analyze your own project data without random external internet sources
  • Generate marketing copy for social campaigns
  • Automate tedious document workflows while maintaining creative control
  • Collaborate effectively with team members using AI-enhanced processes

Vibe Building with AI for Creatives

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Now that you have started adopting AI tools into your creative production workflows—generating images or ideating concepts—let’s take it one step further. In this session you’ll begin building your first applications with vibe code environments. We’ll look at some of the options available to you and how to customize your applications by choosing models and cloud API services In the end you’ll better understand how to get started with building a first tool or design assistant for your projects.

Even better, because you are a designer and not a software engineer, you know how to articulate things better than your clients do. You have what it takes to start vibe coding: strong communication skills.

Writing Alt Text Without Overthinking It

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Alt text doesn’t have to be intimidating, overly technical, or perfect to be effective. It just needs to be clear, intentional, and written by someone who understands the content.

In this session, Dax Castro breaks down alt text in a way that feels practical, human, and doable. You’ll learn how to describe images with confidence, make smart decisions about what matters most, and stop second-guessing every word. Dax focuses on real-world scenarios designers face every day, replacing anxiety and guesswork with clarity and purpose.

Key takeaways:

  • Build confidence by understanding what good alt text is—and what it doesn’t need to be
  • Decide what to describe and what to skip based on context and intent
  • Leverage AI for alt text support while recognizing its limits and avoiding common pitfalls
  • Apply a simple mental framework to everyday design scenarios
  • Treat alt text as a communication skill that improves real user experiences

Build Agentic Solutions for the Work You Dread (Part 2)

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This is part 2 of a two-part, hands-on workshop demonstrating how to use AI to automate tedious, time-consuming tasks. (See Part 1 for additional details.)

In Part 2: Build + Apply, you will:

  • Build a complete AI agent from start to finish
  • Connect inputs, actions, and outputs into a working workflow
  • Adapt the agent to support your own creative work
  • Leave with a fully functioning AI agent

Build Agentic Solutions for the Work You Dread (Part 1)

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This two-part, hands-on workshop demonstrates how to use AI to automate tedious, time-consuming tasks that no creative pro enjoys doing. Over two sessions, you’ll learn what AI agents are, see practical examples, and build one together from start to finish.

These sessions are focused on hands-on building. You’ll follow along step by step as the group creates a fully functioning AI agent in real time, with guidance and opportunities to ask questions along the way. This workshop is beginner-friendly and requires no prior AI or automation experience. Bring your own laptop and work along, or observe if you prefer. By the end of the second session, you’ll leave with a working AI agent and a clear understanding of how these workflows are built so you can adapt them to your own creative work.

In Part 1: Foundations + Direction, you will learn how to:

  • Discover the power of AI agents in creative workflows
  • Explore real examples that automate common, time-consuming tasks
  • Understand how AI agent workflows are structured
  • Choose which AI agent the group will build together

Mastering Masking in Lightroom & Camera Raw

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In modern non-destructive editing workflows, masking is the single most powerful tool for achieving precise, localized control over any image.

This session explores the full masking ecosystem shared between Lightroom Classic/desktop and Adobe Camera Raw (integrated directly in Photoshop), making it highly relevant for production designers who use these tools for final asset refinement, color correction, or creative enhancement.

You’ll discover how to combine AI-generated masks with fine manual control to deliver pixel-perfect selective edits that elevate production quality and creative intent.

By the end of this session, you’ll see why many production professionals now begin nearly every refinement pass in the Masking panel, and how to make masking fast, intuitive, and central to achieving polished, professional-grade results on any type of image.

Key topics include:

  • AI-powered masking tools such as Select Subject, Select Sky, Select People, Select Background, and Landscape Masks
  • Building and refining complex selections
  • A specialized technique for precise edge control, giving you surgical control over edges and blends
  • Proven methods to eliminate common artifacts like unwanted halos and glows that frequently appear in skies
  • Workflow accelerators, including keyboard shortcuts to streamline repetitive production tasks