Tag Archive for: illustrator

From Sketch to Mockup: Designing in a Cross-App World

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Stop thinking about using “an app” and start thinking about using “the app ecosystem”! Join us for a fun and wild ride through the “cross-app world,” where you’ll get to see how to implement the power of working with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign together in a practical and productive way.  Keep your focus on the design by quickly changing apps and managing assets with the power of the CC Libraries! Are you ready to empower your workflow? Let’s get started!

Topics include:

  • Building vector sketches in Illustrator
  • Creating dedicated libraries to store all your project’s assets in one place
  • Launching your favourite apps directly from the CC Libraries panel
  • Implementing the power of working with the Creative Cloud apps  together in your everyday workflow!
  • Creating a product mockup to professionally present your InDesign art

Logos and Icons, Part 1: From Ideation to Construction

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In this focused and inspirational talk, you’ll walk you through the creative process — from ideation to color exploration, art direction, rejection, and ultimate usage of iconic brand designs.

This is Part 1 of a two-part session. See Part 2 here.

Three Minutes Max: Illustrator

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We can’t get enough tips and tricks! Come watch our favorite Illustrator experts compete in an epic battle for the title of “Best Tipster of 2021!” Remember: each tip can be no longer than 3 minutes long, and you — the audience — will be voting.

Three Minutes Max is always fun, often funny, and definitely full of useful and fantastic techniques you can use.

Textile and Fashion Design with Photoshop and Illustrator

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Do you need to design for fabric? Trying to create realistic textile or clothing? This session will act as a quick overview of the tools and skills you need to understand to be successful. Topics include:

  • Scanning, coloring, and rendering hand-drawn illustrations
  • Using filters and brushes to simulate textures such as linen, flannel, wool, denim, or fur
  • Manipulating patterns and textures with the Transform and Puppet Warp tools
  • Using Symbols for maximum flexibility

Advanced Pattern and Tessellation Tricks

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In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned how to make basic patterns in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Capture. Now, it’s time to take it to the next level with tessellations (regularly repeating patterns)! Learn tricks of the trade by a professional with years of pattern-making experience!

  • Making seamless repeating patterns
  • Patterns that appear 3D
  • The 17 core patterns of the Alhambra palace
  • Random vs regular patterns

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: How Three Apps Work as One

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It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • Best practices for managing vectors and pixels

Patterns: Find Them, Make Them, Edit Them

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Patterns are everywhere! But as much as Adobe wants you to think it’s easy as clicking a button, creating and using great patterns is an art as much as science. Whether you’re creating patterns for textile/fashion design or print, it’s critical that you understand what makes a great pattern work.

Topics include:

  • Big patterns: From wallpaper to wrapping paper
  • Tips and shortcuts for building high-quality patterns with Illustrator, Photoshop, or Textile designer

This session is Part 1 of 2. See Part 2.

Coloring and Recoloring in Illustrator

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Choosing the right colors for your project usually isn’t hard, but applying them properly to maximize efficiency and flexibility can be tricky! Even harder: hearing from your boss or client that the colors need to change.

In this great HOW-TO deep dive, you’ll learn the techniques of the Illustrator power users and never have to worry about color changes again.

Working Happier Not Harder with Photoshop and Illustrator 2021

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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are incredibly rich and deep apps, with a 25+ year history behind them. Many people still use them the way they were taught 10 or 20 years ago. Stop it! Get up to speed with the amazing new features that have appeared over the past few years, so that you can become more productive, more efficient, and more creative with this amazing tool.

Wow: Vector Projects

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Join us for an educational and inspirational session, as we showcase some of the world’s most amazing vector illustrations. From infographics to diagrams, commercial art to crazy special effects, you’ll not only see the art, but how the art was made.