Tag Archive for: design

Using Vectors in After Effects: Illustrator Users Rejoice

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Imagine… You’re in Illustrator, swinging those bezier curve handles around… have you ever wished that could be an animation?! Well, it can be if you import your Illustrator files into After Effects, which lets you animate anything you can imagine — including bezier curves, nodes, strokes, dashes, and much more. This session will show you how to bring your Illustrator files to life inside of After Effects, and how to publish them to video, animated GIF, or even an interactive animated SVG using the Lottie format.

Adobe After Effects for Print and Web Designers

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You can WOW your clients with new and creative graphics in no time… with After Effects! Best of all, After Effects works just like Photoshop — and can be used for any print, web, or design project.

In this session, we’ll explore quick-and-easy techniques to create jaw-dropping graphics for any creative project. We’ll remove colors from a photograph, generate editorial graphics for blogs and social media, create amazing lighting effects within a photo, and make beautiful unique textures from any image or graphic.

How to Prevent Misteaks from Ruining Evrything

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See the errors in that headline? Of course you do.

No matter how beautiful your design is, errors can ruin it. Your perfect color palette, your gorgeous typography, your fabulous imagery… if you have even one mistake in your finished product, it will demand attention, invite criticism, and dump toxic rain all over your parade.

You can’t just depend on writers, editors, proofreaders, and other approvers. Oversights happen. If you want to make sure your design is perfect, you’re going to need to read the text and look for problems yourself.

Sara Rosinsky is a copywriter who’s been working with designers for decades. She’s seen her share of nightmarish mistakes and their unfortunate consequences. She’s also seen heroic designers who manage to catch errors and save the day. She wants to help you be one of the heroes.

Come learn what to watch out for so you can make sure your designs win the recognition they deserve—without any distractions, detractors, or disasters.

Wow-worthy Type Projects

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It’s all about the type. If you can’t help but critique the typography of restaurant menus, need to pause Netflix to figure out the font that’s being used in your favorite drama, or get excited when you stumble upon a piece of ghost type or beautiful signage, then this session is perfect for you.

In this fun, fact-filled, and educational hour, we’ll look at a range of projects that have typography at their core. We’ll talk about the choices made and the techniques used to make them tick.

Premiere Pro for Print and Web Designers

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Premiere Pro sounds scary and overwhelming — after all, it’s used by Hollywood studios and high-end pros around the world. But here’s a secret: In this one-hour session, you can get introduced to Premiere Pro from a designer’s perspective — which will help you get you up and running in no time.

Upgrade your social media posts and presentations with stunning visuals that combine graphics and photos with video and motion templates in Premiere Pro. Learn to edit and combine videos together with audio and music while making use of some amazing features powered by Adobe Sensei.

Topics include:

  • How Premiere Pro is similar to Photoshop and other CC tools you know
  • How to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and even InDesign to build assets for your videos
  • Exporting video for social media, YouTube, Vimeo, and more

Patterns: Find Them, Make Them, and Edit Them

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Patterns are everywhere! Pattern features in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Adobe Capture make it easier than ever to create repeating artwork. In this session Laura and Theresa walk you through multiple options for generating inspiring patterns in Adobe Capture and Illustrator. Then they will show you how to put them into real-world projects using Illustrator and Photoshop. Along the way, you’ll learn what makes a design repeat successfully with a focus on which features to use to get the best results for your pattern project.

Topics include:

  • Finding patterns in the real world with Adobe Capture
  • How to use pattern tiles: from design projects to passion projects
  • Tips and shortcuts for editing and using your patterns with Illustrator or Photoshop

Adobe Capture: the Swiss Army Knife Tool Every Designer Needs

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Every designer needs to do two things: First, install Adobe Capture on their phone or mobile device. Second, learn how to use it! We can’t help you with the first part, but we can definitely help with the second!

In this session, we’ll show you how you can use Capture to find inspiration for your design work using CC Libraries, images, shapes, gradients, and more. We will focus on the Capture assets we use most for our design work, while also providing an overview of the app. Attendees will be encouraged to follow along capturing assets for themselves.

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

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When it comes to creating accessible documents, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but a third-party tool or online resource can often help you work smarter and faster. Discover this art director and accessibility expert’s favorite add-ons and services that can upgrade your accessibility workflow from good to great.

Topics include:

  • Demos of 3rd party plug-ins for accessibility
  • Reviews of online tools and resources for accessible design

Accessible PDF Files: Key Acrobat Techniques

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In the two earlier sessions (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign and Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility), we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign documents 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:

  • Key Checkpoints to Check Every time
  • Accessibility versus Usability
  • Testing with a Screen Reader without being an Expert
  • How to Use the Preflight Panel to Your Advantage
  • Testing Tools You Should be Using

Interactive PDF is Dead

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Have you ever exported an interactive PDF from InDesign only to find that the interactive parts were missing?

It turns out that a PDF doesn’t really support most of InDesign’s interactive features. In this session, you’ll learn why that is, and what options you do have to create interactivity without coding.

In addition to PDF, we’ll look at

  • Publish Online
  • Fixed Layout ePub
  • in5

You’ll get to see live, interactive projects that were created with InDesign and include

  • Animation
  • Audio & Video
  • Object States
  • Pop-ups
  • Buttons
  • Flipbook transitions
  • 3-D Flipcards
  • Responsive Layouts

This session brought to you by our partner, Ajar Productions.