This session is sponsored by Adobe.
Kickstart your week with the Adobe team in a lively town hall environment and meet the minds behind your favorite creative tools, see the latest breakthroughs in action, meet the Adobe team members, preview new Illustrator and InDesign features, and learn about opportunities for connecting with the team throughout CreativePro Week.
Come see and/or share amazing software demos from around the world! CreativeWow is an informal and fun lunchtime event where designers and developers can connect and find ways to make magic.*
Designers: Do you enjoy finding ways to become more efficient and productive? Do you like seeing amazing technology? Bring your lunch and see what cool things the devs have been up to!
Developers: Do you have a software challenge that you’ve been working on in your spare time? Or some feature, tool, or service that you’ve developed that is just so cool you have to share it? Come show it at the CreativeWow! event. The rules are simple: You have 5 minutes to fire up and demo your stuff in front of an audience of your peers. To sign up, contact David.
*Author and futurist Arthur C. Clark once wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Take your color workflows to the next level by mastering Adobe Illustrator’s Swatches, the most powerful tool for managing and organizing colors across your design projects.
While Illustrator offers the best functionality for swatch management, this session goes beyond just one app. We’ll also explore how swatches work in InDesign and Photoshop, comparing their strengths and limitations. Learn how to create, organize, and share color palettes efficiently across these three key applications, ensuring consistency in your designs from start to finish.
Learn how to save time, reduce mistakes, and collaborate more effectively with your team to maintain color consistency across projects. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, you’ll walk away with actionable tips that make working with color a breeze.
You’ll learn how to:
In this session, we will dive into InDesign’s Find/Change feature and take a step-by-step approach to investigate its often overlooked power. See how it can be your secret weapon for fixing problems with text, objects, colors, and more. And—since no one likes to do the same thing over and over—we’ll cover saving search queries so you can easily reuse them.
You’ll learn how to:
Sooner or later, the time comes for every InDesign user when we need to create or insert charts into our documents. But sadly, even after all these years, Adobe hasn’t given us a way to do that natively with the program. Fortunately, in this session, Nolan Haims will take you on a deep dive into strategies for creating rich data reports in InDesign using tools you already have (or which you can easily obtain).
He’ll cover ways to create standard and non-standard charts, maintain design consistency, and even keep data updatable when needed.
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If you’re an InDesign Secrets podcast fan (or even if you’re not!) you don’t want to miss this rare live-audience recording with InDesign gurus David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción! Laughs and learning go hand-in-hand as these two teachers explore the intricate workings of our favorite page-layout program.
While humans will always have a part in designing and creating, we too often forget why we use computers in the first place: because they’re good at doing things that we’re not so good at, including automating mind-numbing tasks! This is your chance to uncover the secrets of the InDesign power users and learn how to take advantage of powerful tools that can save you time and make you more productive.
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One of the best ways to improve your productivity and efficiency is to use scripts — and scripts are really easy to use! You just need to know where to find them.
In this session, you’ll see a ton of must-have free and low-cost scripts for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop; as well as sources for finding others. You’ll also learn how to make your own scripts with a little help from AI or hire a professional scripter to tackle really hairy jobs.
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A well-built InDesign template can help you and your co-workers create consistently formatted documents that adhere to your brand standards while being easy and efficient to assemble. Setting up templates correctly so they’re easy to understand and use is an art. This session will explore techniques you can start using right away to build bulletproof templates.
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This crowd favorite is back and better than ever! Don’t miss this fun-filled, action-packed, highly educational, and mind-blowing session where each of our instructors will have just three minutes to share their favorite InDesign tip—then you get to vote for your favorite!
In past years, some of the best tips have been held for this session, so you don’t want to miss it!
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