Tag Archive for: design

CC Gymnastics: How to Land on Your Feet Every Time

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Imagine if you could jump in and out of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign with ease and perfect balance, moving your work fluidly from one app to the next without distraction, friction, or wasted time. In this session, you’ll learn several clever ways to accelerate and improve the way you work by taking advantage of Adobe’s ecosystem of interactive and connective services.

Learn how to land on your feet every time with topics including:

  • Adding Photoshop Cloud files to InDesign
  • Editing Illustrator assets from CC libraries
  • Adding interactive features in InDesign
  • Searching for the perfect content in-app with Adobe Stock
  • Generating assets from images using Capture

Photoshop: A Designer’s Approach

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What do you get when you combine a designer’s eye with Photoshop know-how? Designs that are as beautiful as they are impressive! In this session, Nigel French shares his favorite techniques for elevating your work in Photoshop.

Topics include:

  • Adding mood with texture
  • Exploring freely with non-destructive editing
  • Understanding blend modes
  • Combining disparate elements into effective compositions

Creative Inspiration Is Everywhere: Make the Most of it with Adobe Capture, Fresco, Photoshop, and Illustrator

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Where do you look for inspiration? How do you capture it? How do you convert those inspiring ideas into real usable design assets? Theresa Jackson shares her ideas and techniques with Adobe Capture, Fresco, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Don’t miss this chance to be inspired and learn how to create usable design elements with this Adobe toolkit.

Topics Include:

  • Finding and collecting inspiration and source material with Adobe Capture
  • Using Capture with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco to turn inspiration into assets
  • Fresco basics for sketching, ideating, illustrating, lettering, animating, and more
  • Using Fresco with Photoshop and Illustrator to create patterns and textures

Watch a special Sneak Peek of this session:

It’s Time to Embrace 3D (It’s not as hard as you think!)

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Right now, you have the tools to create, import, and render 3D objects at your fingertips. It’s time to take advantage of them! If you’ve never made or used 3D objects, you’re missing out on a potential game-changer. For example: Why waste time searching in vain for stock images of objects from exactly the right angle when you can import a 3D model and perfectly pose it yourself?

Topics include:

  • Creating 3D objects in Adobe Illustrator
  • Visualizing your brand on a product with Adobe Stager
  • Staging and rendering 3D scenes in Adobe Stager
  • Rendering 3D scenes in Adobe Dimension and Adobe Substance
  • BONUS: Get introduced to Blender — the world’s fastest growing, free, and open-source design application that’s taking the creative world by storm

Ignite CreativePro

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Come join us for dessert, plus a heaping helping of tips, tricks, and fun! Or sign up to present 20 slides in 5 minutes. It’s your opportunity to have five minutes of fame, in the relaxed and friendly confines of an after-hours get-together with your colleagues.

When: Tuesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Where: The ballroom at the Sheraton Grand (the conference hotel)

Who’s Invited: All conference attendees, speakers, sponsors, paparazzi, etc.

Cost: Free!

We’re putting on our annual fun “IGNITE”-style show and need your help! Do you have:

  • An unusual design or production-related technique that you use?
  • A “from the design trenches” anecdote to share — funny or serious?
  • Some hard-won lessons you’ve learned? Or wish your clients would learn…
  • Tips for getting the most out of a conference?
  • An incredibly complex table you created, or special effect, or the world’s best workspace?
  • Advice for designers or computer users or ?
  • Some other pro design topic that you’re passionate about?

Yes? Then take this opportunity to share it with your colleagues in 5 minutes or less! Only 12 spots are available, and it’s first-come first-serve, so don’t wait till the last minute. We’ll confirm via email with our final roster of 12 Ignite presenters and 2 alternates by Friday, May 26. If you’re not sure of a topic yet, but definitely want to do this thing, then fill out the form with a placeholder idea now to save your spot! You can fill it out again later (before May 26) once you’ve decided on a topic.

Rules (for audience members)

  1. Relax, have fun, and enjoy.
  2. Be supportive of your fellow attendees!

Rules (for presenters)

Sign-up for your slot below, but first read the rules:

  1. No prior speaking experience required. Don’t worry—the audience is very supportive. You’re among friends.
  2. Create a series of exactly 20 pages or slides in landscape format, which you will export to PDF and we’ll project it on screen during your talk. The first one’s your opener, the last one is your closer. Email the 20-page PDF to us or bring it with you on a USB Flash drive. Keep your slides simple!
  3. Content: Your topic must be about something related to the field of design or graphic production — tools, projects, tips, rants. It’s okay to be funny, but keep it clean and appropriate. Please don’t use this as a sales presentation or portfolio review. Violators will get “the hook”! If in doubt, ask Anne-Marie (amarie@senecadesign.com), your friendly MC, beforehand.
  4. Be prepared to talk about your topic for 5 minutes while we project your slides on the screen.
  5. The slides will auto-advance every 15 seconds! That’s the Ignite rule. And what makes it fun for the audience, too! 20 slides x 15 seconds = 5 minutes.
  6. When your five minutes are up, take a bow, enjoy the applause, and hand the mic back to the MC.

That’s all… nice and simple! Fill out the form below to sign up for fame, fortune, and hilarity. (And did we mention all IGNITE speakers earn a special conference keepsake for their efforts?)

Notes

2023 CreativePro Ignite Sign-up Sheet

Virtual Photography: Creating Photos Instead of Shooting Them

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Expose yourself to revolutionary photographic workflows that offer more creative freedom while saving valuable time. Learn to create reusable assets for an unlimited number of new projects — including photographs, animations, emails, social posts, web ads, and more.

Join Lisa Carney and Chris Converse in this inspiring session where they’ll reveal new workflows they created for big-name brands. Reclaim your time — and rediscover the joy of renewed creative freedom.

Topics include:

  • Thinking expansively
  • 3D software options
  • Workflow best practices
  • Bringing it all together in Photoshop

Microsoft 365 for Designers

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You use both Microsoft and Adobe tools and services, right? But while you weren’t looking they became a dynamic duo, with well-integrated technologies to make your workflow more successful and productive. If your organization uses Microsoft 365, this session will help improve your collaboration and efficiency, both within and outside of your creative team.

We’ll explore:

  •  An introduction to Microsoft Teams
  •  Understanding how file storage works in Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive
  • Using Adobe Add-ins to share assets efficiently within the Microsoft environment
  • Leveraging Teams to simplify your workflow

Get Productive with InDesign Forms and e-Signatures

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This session will teach you everything you need to know about designing beautiful PDF forms and web forms with InDesign. And while aesthetics are important, we’ll mainly focus on what you can do with InDesign’s form fields and how to take your forms to the next level, using unique text-tags from Acrobat Sign (included in Creative Cloud).

Topics include:

  • Designing InDesign forms by creating text fields, radio buttons, pull-down menus, and many other field types
  • Adding calculations to existing fields, setting conditions, or masking field information
  • Sending and monitoring forms using Acrobat Sign for information gathering, approvals, and e-signatures
  • The differences between Acrobat Sign forms and PDF forms, and how they relate to web forms
  • Next steps

Production Disasters and How to Fix (or Prevent) Them

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Did you know your computer has a special sensor that can tell how close to a deadline you are? That’s why the worst problems come when you’re the most stressed already! OK, that’s not true, but it seems like it, right?

In this session, you’ll learn how to avoid as many problems as possible, prepare for when things inevitably go wrong, and quickly fix disasters so you can get the job done.

Accessible PDFs: Critical Next Steps

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In Accessible InDesign Documents Part 1 and Part 2, we explored how to set up your file to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • The key items to check in every PDF
  • Accessibility vs. usability
  • Testing documents with a screen reader
  • How to use the Preflight panel to your advantage
  • Which testing tools you should be using