Thursday, March 1
Illustration & Design
2. Drawing in Perspective in Illustrator CS5
Greg Heald
Thursday, March 1st, 10:30-11:45
In Illustrator CS5, Adobe has added a Perspective Grid feature. Using a variety of tools this feature allows anyone to draw ‘in perspective’ using a set of tools specially designed for this purpose. You will learn how to draw and manipulate objects in the perspective view as well as learn how to add perspective to your artwork. Although the Perspective Grid can be used at the most demanding levels (such as an architectural drawing) this session focuses on the basics of learning the feature. Even if you are new to Illustrator you will find value in the examples being demonstrated.
14. Design Essentials
John Landis
Thursday, March 1st 12:30-1:45
This creative idea-generation session includes a visual presentation featuring many examples of attention-attracting, and aesthetically pleasing, design as well as ways to come up with those all-important concepts that separate the ho-hum from the extraordinary. This session is critical for all creative and marketing professionals who are involved in print, or web design.
19. What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS5
Jennifer Smith
Thursday, March 1st, 3:30-4:45
This session provides an overview of the features added or enhanced in Illustrator CS5. From the more prominent changes, such as the perspective grid tool and the new artboards panel to the subtle improvements in the workspace that allow you to produce more professional illustrations for print, web and interactive. Illustrator CS5 includes a number of changes that benefit users familiar with older versions of Adobe Illustrator.
Photoshop
8. Graphic Secrets for Creative Pros
Greg Heald
Thursday, March 1st, 12:30-1:45
In this session, you’ll learn many time-saving tips for creating tough selections in Photoshop, drawing and transforming objects in Illustrator, and managing text and images in InDesign. We’ll also take a look at four secrets of great design that will ensure your layouts look their very best in print.
15. Photoshop Retouching Beyond the Clone Tool
Jennifer Smith
Thursday, March 1st, 2:00-3:15
Take retouching beyond the Clone tool by discovering tips and tricks for retouching your imagery. Find out how to integrate important features such as selections, masks and the new content-aware tools to create flawless corrections.
20. Designers Power Hour in Photoshop
Lesa Snider
Thursday, March 1st, 3:30-4:45
Learn secrets for combining images quickly using gradient masks, blend modes. Get up to speed with the new Content-Aware Fill option, and more!
Web & Interactive
3. What's New in Dreamweaver CS5.5
Jeremy Osborn
Thursday, March 1st, 10:30-11:45
In this session, you'll learn how to more efficiently design standards-based web pages, either visually or directly in code, using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Discover new features that allow you to develop pages with content management systems and accurately test browser compatibility, and explore time-saving tips and tricks that will help to streamline your Dreamweaver workflow.
9. Building Effective Websites
Jeremy Osborn
Thursday, March 1st, 12:30-1:45
Discover tips and techniques for creating effective websites that meet the needs of site visitors, tailor the experience for their web device: mobile, desktop, or tablet, while keeping them engaged. Gain an understanding of how to create a great user experience, starting with ideas, and prototyping, then incorporating testing and feedback into the design process. This session also covers design principles and techniques for creating attractive and easy to use websites.
16. Moving from Print to Web
Greg Heald
Thursday, March 1st, 2:00-3:15
If you design content for print using InDesign and also need to share it on-line, this session is for you. You’ll learn about steps you can take in your production process to simplify the transition of your content from print to the Web. You’ll also discover how to take your completed InDesign layouts and export them for easy incorporation into a web layout.
21. Future of the Web: HTML5
Jeremy Osborn
Thursday, March 1st, 3:30-4:45
The future of the Web is arriving in browsers with HTML5. It gives you opportunities to create rich, engaging web sites without browser plug-ins, and works across browsers, computers, tablets, and smart phones. In this session you’ll gain an understanding of what’s new with HTML5 and how you can start to use it today.
InDesign
4. XML Publishing with InDesign
Chad Chelius
Thursday, March 1st, 10:30-11:45
Discover the most efficient ways to create documents that can easily be shared between print layout, on-line, and mobile or e-reading devices. This session explores strategies and processes available using common software to create documents that are portable and can easily be reformatted, depending upon where they will be used. You’ll get an understanding of options available for structuring documents and how XML can make it easy to create documents one time and share them among multiple destinations.
10. Color Management in Adobe Creative Suite
Jennifer Smith
Thursday, March 1st, 12:30-1:45
Discover how to more accurately predict color across devices when working with the Adobe Creative Suite applications – from your computer display to various printers, you’ll find ways to make sure that you get accurate color regardless of where you are printing or viewing. Whether you work using Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, you’ll find this session helps take the mystery out of color management as you receive easy-to-follow instructions for generating accurate color proofs and prints.
17. Get Interactive with InDesign CS5.5
Chad Chelius
Thursday, March 1st, 2:00-3:15
In this session, you discover how to use InDesign to create electronic brochures and publications that integrate animations, movies, and sound. Discover how to include navigational buttons, hyperlinks, and options to create compelling interactive files for on-line viewing.
22. InDesign CS5.5 Tips & Tricks for Long Documents
Chad Chelius
Thursday, March 1st, 3:30-4:45
In this session, you will discover ways to speed up the production of long documents, effectively using powerful tools and capabilities for styling text and objects as well as automatically generating and updating text as documents change. You’ll also discover how to manage long documents by merging them as books, effectively managing formatting, styling, printing, and exporting of multiple documents with a single book file. You’ll learn about ways in which InDesign can automatically format objects for you, or quickly generate a table of contents for you. You’ll see how you can create templates that keep your documents consistent from one version to the next, allowing you to minimize the need to recreate similar content. If you create brochures, magazines, or catalogs, you won’t want to miss this session.
Acrobat & PDF
11. Perfecting Print and PDF Creation
Chad Chelius
Thursday, March 1st, 12:30-1:45
This session explores the best ways to get perfect prints and PDFs from the core Creative Suite applications for print design – Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Discover ways to ensure you get the best proofs, color that meets your expectations, and the highest quality graphics when printing from these applications individually or combining assets into a single job.
Friday, March 2
Illustration & Design
27. Creating Gradients, Blends & Meshes in Illustrator
Greg Heald
Friday, March 2, 9:00-10:15
One of the places where Adobe Illustrator shines is in its complete control over the strokes of lines and the fills of objects. This session explores the use of the vector-based gradient, blend, and mesh tools in Illustrator to add photorealistic effects and tones to your illustrations.
32. Optimizing Workflows using Adobe Bridge
Jeremy Osborn
Friday, March 2, 10:30-11:45
In this session you will discover how Adobe Bridge—which is included with all Creative Suite applications—can help you to work more efficiently and creatively. Explore how to use Bridge to access, view, manage, search, and apply metadata data, as well as to take advantage of batch tools. Adobe Bridge is faster and better than before.
38. Creating Beautiful Type in CS5.5
John Landis & Jennifer Smith
Friday, March 2. 12:30-1:45
This session starts with a short history of typesetting through the years, showing how it affects us today, followed by basic as well as advanced suggestions that can make your typography an effective and beautiful communication to your audience. The session features a dual format of visual examples combined with the latest tips on getting the most from your CS5.5 software.
43. Creating Great Text effects using Illustrator and Photoshop
Lesa Snider
Friday, March 2, 2:00-3:15
In this session you will discover how to create fantastic effects for your text using Photoshop and Illustrator. Whether you create advertisements, publications, banners, posters, or web graphics – this session will show you how to make your text stand-out and get noticed.
Photoshop
28. What's New in Photoshop CS5
Haziel Olivera
Friday, March 2, 9:00-10:15
This session covers essential capabilities and new features that help make you more productive with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Find out how to take advantage of new selection features, as well as retouching tools. Also, discover workflow tips and tricks that will not only make you a better image editor, but more productive as well.
33. Adobe Photoshop: Color Correction Essentials
Jennifer Smith
Friday, March 2, 10:30-11:45
Color correcting images is an old science, and the rules haven’t changed, just how you apply them. In this session you discover the tools that you can use, like curves, adjustment layers, and the info panel, and how to use them. You’ll also find out how to make healthy skin tones, create balanced images, and create professional grade color using a few simple steps. After attending this session you’ll find that your images will look incredible after using these simple techniques.
39. Taking Layers to the Max in Photoshop
Haziel Olivera
Friday, March 2, 12:30-1:45
If you can’t get enough of Photoshop’s layers capabilities, this session is for you. You’ll discover how to take advantage of many possibilities to enhance image quality and expand creative horizons. This session explores working with adjustment layers, layer effects, and clipping groups. You’ll learn how to make color changes with adjustment layers, how to use the black and white adjustment layer, how to combine layer effects, and how to understand layer fill and opacity settings.
44. Advanced Masking Techniques in Photoshop
Jennifer Smith
Friday, March 2, 2:00-3:15
There is an easier way to create masks in Photoshop. In fact, there are many! In this session, you find simple tips and tricks that include the selection tools and then progresses all the way through advanced masking techniques involving channels, layer masks, and clipping groups.
46. Creating Vector Artwork using Illustrator and Photoshop
Glenn Hodgkinson
Friday, March 2, 3:30-4:45
Gain the skills you need to create incredibly good selections, masks, shapes and custom designs by learning basic through advanced techniques using vector tools in Photoshop, and Illustrator. Vector tools are used in almost every graphic application, and with the right instruction, using them is a breeze. In this session, you discover how to eliminate the awkwardness of using the Pen tool and produce graphics in all forms more efficiently.
Web & Interactive
29. Creative Web Graphics with Photoshop, Illustrator, & Fireworks
Jeremy Osborn
Friday, March 2, 9:00-10:15
Discover how to create images that not only look good but are optimized for the Web. When creating web graphics, the goal of speedy download time weighs in against the quality and size of your image. In this session, you will learn how to choose the right compression, file format, and color settings. You will also find out how to slice your images, and take advantage of images in tables and CSS divs.
34. Planning Effective HTML Email Campaigns
Greg Heald
Friday, March 2, 10:30-11:45
Learn how, in this non-software-based look at a burgeoning delivery medium, to design email campaigns that overcome the challenges of list management, bounced mail, and angry subscribers. Discover how to use creative elements, permissions, testing and new technologies to bring layout, graphics, and interactivity to the email genre.
47. Styling Text for the Web Using CSS
Jeremy Osborn
Friday, March 2, 3:30-4:45
Text on the web is an overlooked aspect of web design. Good use of HTML and CSS on your website can improve your site’s search engine rankings, make the site easier to maintain and update and most importantly, make your pages readable to all users on all platforms. Topics of discussion include how to properly structure and style the navigation, paragraphs and headings on your pages, how to apply advanced styling such as letter spacing, line-height and gradient effects. You will also learn how to incorporate text as images without sacrificing search engine indexing.
InDesign
35. Creating with Style in InDesign
Haziel Olivera
Friday, March 2, 10:30-11:45
Create and edit your documents like a pro by taking advantage of styles in InDesign. Styles come in all forms, and can be used to keep you consistent when formatting text, creating tables or other objects. In this session you find out how to create new styles, edit them and apply them application wide.
40. What's New in InDesign CS5.5
Greg Heald
Friday, March 1, 12:30-1:45
Adobe InDesign is known for the creative tools it provides for designing, preflighting and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. In this session, you'll discover the breakthrough productivity and collaboration features added for CS5.5, as well as useful tips and tricks to help you work more efficiently with the program. You'll learn about simplified object selection and editing, integration with online services, and the ability to create rich interactive documents to attract and engage readers. This session is a must for anyone who has recently upgraded to InDesign CS5.5 or is considering an upgrade.
45. Taking InDesign CS5.5 to the Max
Chad Chelius
Friday, March 2, 2:00-3:15
If you’re an InDesign user, this session is for you. You will be taken through time-saving tips and techniques so that you can get the most out of InDesign. Whether you want to use object styles, address complex transparency, or work with variable data—this session will provide you with great time-saving information. Bring your questions—as the presenter has helped more than 100 magazine and book publishers transition more than 5,000 of their staff to InDesign, so he can help you take InDesign to the Max.
48. InDesign Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks
Greg Heald
Friday, March 2, 3:30-4:45
This session will teach you the InDesign shortcuts that will improve your productivity immediately. You will become a more efficient user of InDesign that will allow you more time for creativity.
Acrobat & PDF
30. Adobe Acrobat: Checking, Correcting, and Editing PDFs
Chad Chelius
Friday, March 2, 9:00-10:15
In this session, you will learn how to set up, manage, and use a Shared Review with internal and external customers. Because you can enable the review for people who use the free Reader, you can extend this tool to just about anyone in your workflow. You will discover how to configure a comment repository using iDisk, WebDAV, or a network folder. You’ll also learn review best practices and techniques for getting the most out of an electronic review.
49. Creating Rich PDF Documents
Chad Chelius
Friday, March 2, 10:30-12:00
Discover how to create interactive “rich media” PDF documents that include video, sound and animations. See how you can easily combine multiple documents into robust PDF portfolios that showcase your work in a beautiful and effective way. Discover how to add buttons, page transitions, and interactivity all without programming or scripting using Adobe Acrobat and deliver files that can be viewed online or offline using the PDF file format.
Saturday, March 3
Illustration & Design
53. InDesign Power Workshop
Chad Chelius
Saturday, March 3, 9:00-11:30
If you spend your days working with InDesign and want to boost your productivity, this half-day session with InDesign guru Chad Chelius is for you. You’ll discover dozens of time-saving tips, creative techniques, and features to make work fun and rewarding.
Photoshop
51. Getting Creative with Photoshop & Illustrator
Glenn Hodgkinson
Saturday, March 3, 9:00-11:30
Build artwork and use features such as symbols and smart objects in order to create reusable artwork. Find out how you can create once and use over and over again. In this session you learn how to work with symbols, smart objects, styles and more. Create interesting type effects in Photoshop and Illustrator by discovering how to master features such as effects, strokes, outlines and more.
Web & Interactive
52. Getting Started with Web Design, HTML, & Dreamweaver
Jeremy Osborn
Saturday, March 3, 9:00-11:30
This half-day session gets you up-and-running with Adobe Dreamweaver. You’ll discover essential skills for using Dreamweaver to plan, create, and upload your site. The session is led by one of the co-authors of the Digital Classroom: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 book.
54. Adobe Flash: Introduction to Flash Animation
Greg Heald
Saturday, March 3, 9:00-11:30
In this session, you will explore how Flash allows you to create animated content for the Web. Learn how designers use the basic toolset in Flash to create web banners, animated buttons and intro screens. Flash’s drawing tools, importing Photoshop files, creating basic animation and exporting will all be covered. This session is for Creatives and Graphic Designers.
