Tag Archive for: design

Reinventing Yourself Through Digital Collage

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Follow along in a creative exploration of identity, transformation, and visual storytelling. In this session, Guillermo invites you into his collage-driven process, blending analog techniques with digital tools to rethink how images, portraits, and surfaces can evolve.

You’ll see how cutting, layering, drawing, and texture reshape an image, then how those ideas translate into a digital workflow using Photoshop and AI-assisted experimentation.

Expect inspiration, process insights, and permission to play. You’ll leave with fresh ways of thinking about collage, identity, and transformation—plus ideas you can adapt and explore further in your own professional work.

You will learn how to:

  • Adopt a more playful, exploratory mindset for your professional and personal creative work
  • Recognize how texture, and layering shape meaning and identity
  • Observe how tactile experimentation can translate into digital workflows

Smart Color Decisions for Accessible Design

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Color choices affect far more than aesthetics. They shape readability, clarity, hierarchy, and whether people can actually use what you design. In this session, Dax Castro shows how to make smarter, more intentional color decisions that support accessibility without flattening creativity or forcing dull, “safe” palettes.

This session focuses on building awareness and confidence—so your color choices work for more people, more of the time.

You will learn how to:

  • Make confident color choices that balance accessibility and visual impact
  • Understand how contrast, hierarchy, and color meaning affect usability
  • Evaluate color decisions in real-world design scenarios
  • Apply practical color strategies that work across print and digital designs

Adobe Bridge: Practical, Hands-On Workflows

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When your files are scattered, productivity takes a hit. This session shows why understanding Adobe Bridge matters—and how it can simplify the way you work with creative assets.

In this hands-on workshop, Melissa Piccone introduces Bridge as a visual command center for your files. You’ll see how it helps you stay organized, move faster, and maintain clarity across complex projects. The emphasis is on practical efficiency: reducing friction, minimizing context switching, and building confidence managing real-world file collections.

Leave with a clear understanding of what Bridge does, how it fits into Creative Cloud workflows, and why it’s a tool every creative professional should understand.

Topics include:

  • See, filter, and sort files across multiple folders at once
  • Organize faster with a two-window Bridge workflow
  • Batch rename, convert, and process files with confidence
  • Collect and manage InDesign-linked assets using Bridge

Microsoft Word for Designers: Layout Fundamentals

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Sooner or later, your client or boss is going to insist that you design something in Microsoft Word. Don’t freak out! Instead, learn about Word’s built-in graphic elements such as shapes, icons, SmartArt, and charts. While Word is not InDesign, it has tools to create practical building blocks for professional layouts that non-designer clients can easily edit.

In this session, Jennifer Parkinson shows how common InDesign-style layouts can be re-created in Word, with an emphasis on designing templates that hold up in real-world use. Learn how to leverage Word’s graphic features to create clean, professional templates for marketing documents such as proposals, white papers, and slicks.

Topics include:

  • Best practices for importing and managing images
  • Formatting shapes, icons, and charts in Word
  • Creating and applying a document theme
  • Styling tables and text boxes for polished layouts

Discover Your Creative Advantage in Hidden Dimensions

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In this session, Tony Harmer invites you to rethink everyday design challenges by embracing 3D thinking inside familiar Adobe environments. This isn’t about becoming a 3D expert or learning a new pile of tools. It’s about shifting how you think, explore, and experiment—then realizing how much easier and more flexible your design process can be.

You’ll see how thinking in more dimensions can speed up ideation, simplify revisions, and open creative directions that feel surprisingly natural once you stop designing flat. Along the way, Tony makes a fun, eye-opening case for why some of the most powerful design workflows start when designers add depth to their thinking.

You’ll walk away inspired, a little amused, and probably asking yourself, “Wait… why haven’t I been doing this?”

You will learn how to:

  • Overcome graphic design challenges by thinking in dimensions
  • Discover why designing with depth makes changes and revisions easier
  • Adopt a creative mindset that refuses to stay flat

Portfolio Critique

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Join Nigel French and Theresa Jackson for a live portfolio critique of attendee work. In this interactive session, selected pieces will be reviewed and discussed with practical, constructive feedback you can apply immediately.

Expect thoughtful insights on design decisions, visual communication, and presentation choices, along with broader takeaways that will benefit everyone watching. Whether your work is reviewed directly or you’re learning from others’ examples, you’ll gain a sharper perspective on how portfolios are seen and evaluated by experienced creative professionals.

Why participate?

This is your chance to share something you’ve created with people who get it—people who know the challenges, the constraints, and the decisions behind the work. You’ll hear how others see your work, what’s landing, and where you could push it further.

  • Present your work in a supportive, judgment-free space
  • Receive feedback from Nigel, Theresa, and your peers
  • See how others approach similar challenges
  • Leave with ideas you can apply right away

CreativePro is built on connection—this is one of the best ways to experience it.

What should you submit?

Bring real work you’re proud of, or still figuring out.

We’re looking for a mix of projects, including: brand identity, packaging design, marketing campaigns, logo design, presentations, or publications and book design.

Have something else? Submit it. Variety makes this session stronger.

How to prepare your submission

Keep it simple. Focus on showing your thinking and results.

  • Submit a PDF or MP4s only.
  • Use landscape format for PDFs (best for screen viewing).
  • Include as many pages or images as needed—no strict limits.
  • Upload video as separate MP4 files (optional).

How to submit

What happens next

  • A limited number of portfolios will be selected
  • You’ll be notified by June 26th, 2026 if your work is chosen

If selected:

  • Plan for a 3-minute presentation of your work.
  • Nigel and Theresa will lead the critique and the audience will join in with additional feedback.

Don’t overthink it. Submit something real. This is about learning, sharing, and getting better together.

Submit Your Portfolio Now!

 

Maintaining Brand Consistency

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In this session, Nicte Cuevas shares how professional designers can build a practical brand system that works for both internal teams and clients. See how to use Creative Cloud Libraries alongside Illustrator, Photoshop, and Adobe Express to create a connected brand ecosystem that supports designers and non-designers alike. Nicte shows how brand assets and brand kits can live across Creative Cloud apps, making updates easier to manage and helping teams stay on brand without constant oversight.

This session focuses on real systems designers can adapt to support teams, streamline workflows, and maintain brand consistency at scale.

Topics include:

  • Build a practical brand system that supports both designers and non-designers
  • Create brand kits that stay in sync across Creative Cloud apps
  • Reduce production cleanup by empowering teams with the right tools and structure

You’ve Got This: Designer’s Easy Guide to Motion

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Knowing how to work with motion is quickly becoming a must for every designer. Thankfully, it’s not as difficult as you think! Emmy-winning motion designer Kyle Hamrick is passionate about guiding beginners through their first steps into this exciting and rapidly-growing corner of the design world. By the end of this session, you’ll be armed with a variety of accessible techniques for bringing designs to life through the magic of motion, across multiple Adobe apps.

You will learn:

  • How to leverage your existing design skills while adding time and movement
  • Techniques for structuring your design files for animation
  • Approachable techniques to animate designs in Express, Photoshop and After Effects
  • How to easily customize existing animations using Motion Graphics Templates (aka “MOGRTs”) in Premiere

Practical Use Cases for Firefly Boards

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In this session, Kevin Stohlmeyer introduces Firefly Boards from a practical, real-world perspective, focusing on where they fit in creative corporate workflows. Learn how teams use Firefly Boards to support early creative thinking, align ideas, and collaborate more effectively.

You’ll see how Firefly Boards can help teams explore ideas, respond to feedback, and move concepts forward in a shared visual space. Attendees will have an opportunity to explore together, offering a feel for collaborative workflows without requiring prior experience.

You will learn how to:

  • Understand where Firefly Boards fit within modern creative workflows
  • Explore how teams use Boards for early ideation and concept alignment
  • Recognize different Firefly models and when to use them
  • Compare generation options and outputs across common creative scenarios
  • Evaluate collaborative approaches for exploring, refining, and evolving ideas together

I Didn’t Know Acrobat Could Do That!

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If you think you know everything Acrobat can do, think again. In this session, Bart Van de Wiele reveals how Acrobat can go far beyond viewing and commenting to become a powerful, time-saving part of your everyday workflow.

Learn how to work smarter with PDFs from start to finish. Spend less time fixing files, and more time moving projects forward. Take control of your documents and improve how they’re shared, reviewed, and delivered. Walk away ready to handle everyday PDF challenges with speed and confidence.

Expect plenty of “Wow!” moments—and a fresh perspective on a tool you use every day.

You will learn how to:

  • Optimize and reduce PDF file sizes for sharing and performance
  • Protect and streamline everyday workflows
  • Organize, combine, and restructure documents without source files
  • Secure and redact sensitive information before sharing
  • Discover the power of using artificial intelligence across your PDF documents with Acrobat AI Assistant and Acrobat Studio

Sneak Peek:
Reduce PDF File Size the Smart Way in Acrobat