Tag Archive for: In-Person

Scripting Success: Finding and Creating Your Own Automated Solutions

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You’re in the driver’s seat for this fun and collaborative session. Bring your frustrations and nagging problems. Bring your feature requests and wish lists. We’ll brainstorm solutions and create a custom collection of scripts that you can take home.

If your workflow always stops working at certain point, you don’t have to wait around hoping that Adobe or someone else will fix things. You can do it right now—with the help of scripts (even if you don’t know the first thing about coding).

Key takeaways:

  • Where to find great scripts
  • How to build and organize your script collection
  • Understand what is and isn’t scriptable
  • How to make your own scripts with the help of AI

From Paper to Possibility

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Step away from your screens in this hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to turn sheets of paper, napkins, newspapers, playing cards, and more into clever puzzles, addictive toys, and delightful magic tricks that spark conversation and connection.

This is a lively, approachable session ideal for professional development, creative warm-ups, and team collaboration—no special skills required. You’ll discover simple creations to break the ice with colleagues, entertain kids, and even score free drinks at the bar.

You’ll learn:

  • Turn a cocktail napkin into a rose
  • Create a newspaper tree that reaches the ceiling
  • Turn a playing card inside out
  • Add color to a black-and-white drawing with a single snap
  • And more “impossibilities”

Vibe Building with AI for Creatives

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Now that you have started adopting AI tools into your creative production workflows—generating images or ideating concepts—let’s take it one step further. In this session you’ll begin building your first applications with vibe code environments. We’ll look at some of the options available to you and how to customize your applications by choosing models and cloud API services In the end you’ll better understand how to get started with building a first tool or design assistant for your projects.

Even better, because you are a designer and not a software engineer, you know how to articulate things better than your clients do. You have what it takes to start vibe coding: strong communication skills.

The Human Touch: Hands-On Creativity for Digital Designers

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In a world of polished presets and AI-generated perfection, creating with your human hands is more powerful and important than ever. This session invites digital designers to step away from the screen and rediscover the creative power of analog processes. You’ll see how rolling up your sleeves and letting go of your mouse can not only enhance your professional digital projects, it can also nourish your mind and soul. Whether you’re feeling creatively stuck or just craving something more “human” in your designs, this session will help you reconnect with the joy of making—so you can bring that energy back to your digital projects.

Takeaways:

  • Fresh perspectives on common materials
  • Ways to incorporate analog textures and handmade elements into digital design
  • Resources and inspiration for ongoing experimentation and creative play
  • A fresh mindset for embracing imperfection as a design strength

Build Agentic Solutions for the Work You Dread (Part 2)

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This is part 2 of a two-part, hands-on workshop demonstrating how to use AI to automate tedious, time-consuming tasks. (See Part 1 for additional details.)

In Part 2: Build + Apply, you will:

  • Build a complete AI agent from start to finish
  • Connect inputs, actions, and outputs into a working workflow
  • Adapt the agent to support your own creative work
  • Leave with a fully functioning AI agent

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

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

Build Agentic Solutions for the Work You Dread (Part 1)

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This two-part, hands-on workshop demonstrates how to use AI to automate tedious, time-consuming tasks that no creative pro enjoys doing. Over two sessions, you’ll learn what AI agents are, see practical examples, and build one together from start to finish.

These sessions are focused on hands-on building. You’ll follow along step by step as the group creates a fully functioning AI agent in real time, with guidance and opportunities to ask questions along the way. This workshop is beginner-friendly and requires no prior AI or automation experience. Bring your own laptop and work along, or observe if you prefer. By the end of the second session, you’ll leave with a working AI agent and a clear understanding of how these workflows are built so you can adapt them to your own creative work.

In Part 1: Foundations + Direction, you will learn how to:

  • Discover the power of AI agents in creative workflows
  • Explore real examples that automate common, time-consuming tasks
  • Understand how AI agent workflows are structured
  • Choose which AI agent the group will build together

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.

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