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Just Wow! Cross-Training Photoshop, Illustrator, and Beyond

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Discover how combining familiar tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator with new technologies (both AI-driven and not) can unlock amazing creative possibilities. This session is packed with practical techniques and inspiring examples to help you explore fresh design approaches. Walk away with new ideas and methods to take your work to the next level.

You’ll learn:

  • How to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and AI tools including Firefly to create amazing designs
  • The creative possibilities of cross-training with 3D assets, animation, and more
  • How to integrate experimental tools like Project Neo and Substance 3D Viewer into your daily design workflow
  • Fun and innovative ways to enhance your designs with generative AI

Sneak Peek:
How to Create Artwork with Project Neo

Illustrator Magic (a.k.a. Harry Plotter and the Claimer Of Secrets)

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Join Tony Harmer for a fun, fast-paced session where he’ll show you some Illustrator wizardry. You’ll see how to use Illustrator’s tools, functions, and commands to make your work so slick that to the casual observer you look like you’ve got magic superpowers. Magic-level proficiency in Illustrator is gained by confidence in the application based on some solid fundamental understandings—which maybe 95% of Illustrator users NEVER get to learn! In this session you will stop acting like the sorcerer’s apprentice and enroll at Snogwarts Academy of Illustrator Magic.

Topics include:

  • Transformatio! The power of transforms
  • Changealthees! Making super-fast changes
  • Selectionus! The art of seemingly effortless selection
  • Amazio! Using Illustrator’s mystical appearance powers
  • Wowseramus! The tools to create almost-instant magic

Advanced Construction Techniques in Illustrator

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Ready to take your Illustrator skills to the next level? This intensive course delves into powerful techniques that will transform your designs from ordinary to extraordinary. Whether you’re a graphic designer, illustrator, or creative enthusiast, this class will equip you with the advanced tools and workflows to create stunning vector graphics easily.

Topics include:

  • Blend tool techniques
  • Tips and tricks for making isometric illustrations
  • Shape Builder and Pathfinder – how and when to use each one
  • Clipping masks mastery
  • Making the most of Offset Path
  • Unlocking the Appearance Panel and Graphic Styles

— SNEAK PEAK —
Illustrator: How to Use the Draw Inside Feature

The Ultimate 5-Star Workflow: Making the Most of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Express, and Firefly

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Welcome to the future of creative workflows! In this session, you’ll learn how to harness the full power of five incredible Adobe tools—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Express, and Firefly—so you can work faster, smarter, and more creatively than ever before. It’s the dream team of Adobe apps, working together in perfect harmony to make your design process seamless, efficient, and, even a little magical. We’ll explore how each app fits into your workflow, how to transfer assets smoothly between them, and how to maximize the unique strengths of each tool. You’ll learn how to integrate them all into one smooth, multi-tool operation.

Topics include:

  • Discover how to seamlessly pass assets between Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for a smooth design flow
  • Learn to use Adobe Express to quickly generate social media-ready assets that complement your larger projects
  • Tap into Firefly’s AI magic to accelerate your creative process, from image generation to style enhancements
  • Build a truly flexible, cross-app workflow that adapts to any project, big or small
  • Unlock the power of integrating AI with traditional tools for a dynamic, next-level creative process

Creative Cloud Unleashed

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Explore new avenues for your creativity with professional-level design tools on the iPad. Photoshop and Illustrator have been re-imagined for a touch-enabled experience — and offer a whole new dimension for designing unique and engaging content.

Whether you use your fingers, or Pencil, you’ll discover new ways to seamlessly work across your desktop and iPad apps while creating professional-level content.

We’ll also take a look at Fresco. This natural-media based app brings truly unique features to the iPad for drawing and painting. See how these applications can enhance real-world design projects for any medium.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to Photoshop, Illustrator and Fresco on iPad.
  • How common desktop features translate to the iPad.
  • Unique tools, features and workflows only available on a touch device.
  • How to create, edit, and share documents across devices, projects, and other designers.
  • Drawing and sketching techniques that you can use in any creative project.

25 Years of Timeless Tips and Tricks

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Since 1999, CreativePro has been dishing out amazing tips and tricks to help graphic designers work more efficiently, be more creative, and have more fun. In this session, CreativePro Editor in Chief Mike Rankin will share his favorite tips that have stood the test of time. This is no trip down Memory Lane; these tips are all just as cool and useful today as when they were first published.

This session includes awesome productivity tips for:

  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Illustrator
  • Acrobat

Designing for the Real World

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Working on a screen all day is one thing, but bringing your work into the physical world and creating with your hands (using something other than a mouse) is something else entirely! Atlanta-based illustrator and muralist, George Baker III, shares what he’s learned from transforming your digital world into real-world, physical designs.

You’ll discover:

  • Why you should step out and create physical products with your digital designs
  • Ways to use your digital tools to create tangible goods (i.e murals, clothing, screen-printed pieces, hand-drawn type, etc.)
  • How to bring a hand-made component into your digital world
  • Infinite ways to traverse back and forth between the digital and analog realms

Grids: The Backbone of Design

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We know we should be using grids in our designs, but which ones? How do you choose? Where do you even start? Join Nigel as he shares invaluable insights, practical tips, and real-world examples to demystify the complexities of grid-based design. By the end of the session, you’ll not only understand the importance of grids but also be equipped to use them strategically for visually stunning and harmonious layouts.

You’ll learn:

  • The different kinds of grid: document, layout, baseline, and how to combine them
  • Strategies for working with grids in InDesign, as well as Illustrator, and Photoshop
  • Creative ways to break the grid for added impact

Taking the Fear Out of InDesign and Illustrator Scripts

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A carefully curated collection of scripts is guaranteed to up your game in both InDesign and Illustrator. In this session, you’ll discover how easy it is to find, install, and use an enormous variety of helpful scripts for both InDesign and Illustrator.

You’ll learn:

  • The easy way to reliably download and install any script in InDesign or Illustrator
  • The quickest way to run a script in InDesign or Illustrator
  • The best places to look online for high-quality, useful scripts
  • How to get started customizing scripts to adapt them for your needs

Augmenting Reality with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Aero

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In the coming years, augmented reality promises to be as game-changing as the first graphic user interface. But what is it, exactly? And how can you start experimenting with it? Rob de Winter shows you how to make the leap and some inspiring and creative ways to use it.

Topics include:

  • Taking your Photoshop and Illustrator images into Aero to build AR experiences
  • Adding interactivity and animation
  • Using 3D assets
  • Triggering AR with a QR or printed image
  • What makes AR different than VR