Sessions

CC Collaboration with Files, Libraries, and Cloud Docs

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The Creative Cloud is far more than a bunch of cool apps… it’s an entire ecosystem of integrated tools, services, and resources. If you work on your own, it’s cool. But if you work with a team or collaborate with others, it’s life-changing.

Topics include:

  • CC Libraries: storing, sharing, collaborating, and more
  • CC Files: how to make the most of your storage
  • Cloud Docs: what they are, when you want to use them (and when you don’t)
  • How to automate and extend Adobe’s ecosystem to Google Drive, Dropbox and others

Building Video and Animation for Social Media

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Let’s bring it all together. In this final motion-graphics session of the day, we’ll look at combining techniques from Premiere Pro, Rush, Photoshop, After Effects, and Express to help you create the perfect assets for any social campaign. Learn how to leverage animations from a wide range or apps, including video from your phone, animated PowerPoint and Keynote charts, and event web-based animations — and seamlessly incorporate them into your projects.

Microsoft 365 Meets Creative Cloud and Document Cloud

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The two most important software developers for creative pros are Adobe and Microsoft, so it’s critical that you find ways to integrate their suites of apps. In this in-depth session, Bart Van de Wiele will explore how to use Adobe’s Document Cloud apps (Acrobat and Sign) and Creative Cloud products within the Microsoft suite of products for collaboration and approval.

Topics include:

  • Converting Office files to PDF using Acrobat, and back!
  • Acrobat commenting workflows within Word
  • Collaborating and approving PDF documents within Microsoft Teams
  • Harnessing the power of Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Stock in PowerPoint
  • Leveraging Acrobat within SharePoint
  • How to use legally binding signatures within Office 365

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.