Sessions

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

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: Three Apps Working 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
  • When to link, copy, or embed artwork

A Photoshop User’s Guide to Motion and Video

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Get started with animation in an app you already know! Photoshop has amazing features for both creating motion graphics and working with video.

In this session, you’ll learn to work with video in the same way your work with photography — by making adjustments, using Smart Objects, and applying filters.

We’ll also explore two different animation techniques available in Photoshop, which includes both frame- and keyframe-based workflows.

And finally, we’ll take a look at export options suitable for social media, interactive documents, and email campaigns.

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.

Three Minutes Max: Photoshop + Illustrator

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Everyone loves Photoshop and Illustrator tips — from amazing (but useful) special effects, to essential productivity enhancements, every trick helps! Join us as 8 experts from around the world each share their best Photoshop or Illustrator tip or trick in under 3 minutes. Even better: you get to vote for which one is best! This is traditionally one of the highlights of CreativePro Week, when attendees gasp with delight and astonishment.

Retouching Images

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Speed up your retouching using some extremely powerful Photoshop tips and techniques. AI Technology is revolutionizing the way we retouch and you should be aware of all the time saving techniques Photoshop is silently integrating into their tools. Join retoucher Kristina Sherk as she shows you some of the new ways Photoshop is integrating AI technology into their interface and how these improvements are guaranteed to save you time.

We’ll cover:

  • Making a plan of attack, how marking up can increase your workspeed
  • Clean up methods that are fast and easy
  • Take out objects in a snap
  • Using Frequency Separation (don’t be scared, we’ll make it easy)
  • Color: Matching made simple, Adding Color effects
  • Shaping
  • Using Photoshop plug-ins to cut down on your editing time.

Working Smart with Smart Objects in Photoshop

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The introduction of Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop has truly revolutionized how we build Photoshop compositions. But many designers still don’t fully understand the limitless possibilities of this key-feature, first introduced a decade ago! And we can already say it does a lot more than applying a filter non-destructively.

Join us to discover:

  • How to nest compositions for creating beautiful mockups.
  • The joys of linking Smart Objects across multiple compositions.
  • How Smart Objects interact with Filters and layer Adjustments.
  • The role of Smart Objects when working with video layers and animations in Photoshop.
  • Why Layer comps are cool again.
  • Photoshop’s unique capabilities when combining Smart Objects with CC Libraries.

Quality Selections and Masks in Photoshop

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One of the most important skills in Photoshop is making selections and masks – and doing it quickly without too much effort. In this two-part session, you’ll learn the most important tools and techniques for selecting and masking, and the role of channels. You’ll see how to use selection tools individually and together, how to fine-tune your selections, and how to take full advantage of layer masks and channels.

Topics include:

  • The magic of the Select and Mask feature
  • Tips for getting the most out of layer masks
  • The 5 most important selection tools in Photoshop

10 Essential Productivity Tips for Photoshop

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Join us in this information-packed session where we’ll share our best Photoshop tips and power shortcuts for designers!

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Timesaving techniques
  • Better ways to work with the tools that you already use
  • Layer Panel and Blend Mode shortcuts
  • Tips for using Layer Comps and Smart Object
  • Tricks to automate tasks using Actions and Variables
  • Photoshop hidden gems

This session will leave you saying, “I wish I knew that years ago!”