Sessions

The Most Important Skill in Photoshop: Quality Selections and Masks, Part 1

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One of the most important skills in Photoshop is making selections (sometimes called 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.

In Part 1 you’ll learn:

  • 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

See Part 2.

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.

Three Minutes Max: Photoshop

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Everyone loves Photoshop tips — from amazing (but useful) special effects, to essential productivity enhancements, every trick helps! Join us as 8 Photoshop experts from around the world each share their best Photoshop tip or trick in under 3 minutes. Next: 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.

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: Photoshop Projects

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You know what we’re talking about: Those images where you just stop, stare, and say: wow. Here’s a treat for every Photoshop user: an opportunity to go deeper and see how some of these “wow” images were created, constructed, shot, layered, and finished.

Designing for Social Media

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It’s a fast-paced social media world we’re living in, and “good” is not good enough these days to catch people’s attention. In this fast-paced session, we’ll demonstrate some of our favorite techniques for making the good look great, whether you’re using desktop or mobile apps.

Improving Cruddy Vector and Image Graphics

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Your client or boss just sent you a bunch of images for your marketing campaign… and they’re terrible! Learn how to use the secret powers of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat to improve your graphics.

Topics include:

  • How to improve grainy low light mobile phone images
  • What to do with low resolution and pixelated images
  • Tips for improving poor quality stock photos
  • How to fix stock vector graphics with blend modes that won’t render in InDesign
  • How to match color tones across all assets
  • Choosing the right ICC profiles for image assets

10 Essential Photoshop Productivity Tips

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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 will learn timesaving techniques, little-know features, and better ways to work with the tools that you already use. This session will leave you saying, “I wish I knew that years ago!”

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Time-saving techniques
  • Little-know (hidden) Photoshop features
  • How to make blending modes work for you

Retouching Images

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Overwhelmed by Photoshop? Have too many images that need work, and too little time? Learn some quick techniques for retouching, image balancing, and color matching. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can get your files cleaned up and print ready.

Learn how the pros do it in this session with a veteran retoucher and get a fully annotated PDF to keep you on track after the class.

What we’ll cover:

  • Fast clean up methods
  • The key to extending backgrounds quickly
  • Take out objects in a snap
  • Using Frequency Separation (don’t be scared, we’ll make it easy)
  • Color Matching made easy
  • Color Balancing, fast
  • Color Grading in a few short moves

Outrageous: 30 Years of Images

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Take a journey through 30 years of photographs, photocomposites, illustrations, social media, ads, and more! This session is half “how to” and half “how the heck…!”

Join David Blatner as he interviews five amazing digital pioneers and we see their favorite works of the past three decades:

  • Russell Brown: Sr. Creative Director at Adobe Systems, Emmy Award Winner 2008, and much much more
  • Sharon Steuer: Award winning fine artist, award winning author, and creator of The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book
  • Bert Monroy: Early-adopter Photoshop expert, wrote the first book on Photoshop, fine artist, commercial artist
  • Louis Fishauf: Canadian award-winning graphic designer, art director, and illustrator
  • Katrin Eismann: internationally-known teacher, photographer, retoucher, and author