February 16 - 18, 2017
Broward County Convention Center
Ft Lauderdale, FL
1. Adobe Creative Cloud: New Features & Productivity Enhancers
Jennifer Smith, Chad Chelius, Greg Heald
Thursday, Feb. 18 • 9:00–10:15
With new, connected Creative Cloud apps and services, you have all the tools and assets you need to create amazing work across desktop and mobile devices. Discover what’s new in the powerful Adobe CC 2015. Find out ways to improve your design and publishing workflow, by taking advantage of features that will allow you to collaborate more easily with teams and clients, and how the combinations of tools in the cloud can help you work more efficiently and creatively. In this session you also discover new features specific to CC 2015 in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
5. Fundamentals of Great Design
Jennifer Smith
Thursday, Feb. 18 • 10:30–11:45
Learn concepts and principles to increase your confidence in design. This session introduces best practices that will help you more effectively create successful information designs. Find out how history affects modern design, how to create aesthetically-pleasing layouts, use type effectively, and better understand white space by talking understanding known design proportions. This is the class you want to take if you are interested in creating more impactful and strong design statements.
10. Designer's Power Hour
Greg Heald
Thursday, Feb. 18 • 12:30–1:45
How do you design quickly and easily using multiple applications in the Creative Cloud? In this session you learn the secrets for combining images in Adobe Photoshop quickly using gradient masks and blend modes. You also find out how to combine those images into other products such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. You discover how to maintain silhouettes, transparency, blends and more throughout your design process. Get up to speed with Adobe CC’s new capabilities and powerful features that extend your creative power and allow users to work more freely and efficiently.
14. Tips & Tricks for Building Multi-page Documents in Adobe Illustrator
Jennifer Smith
Thursday, Feb. 18 • 2:00–3:15
Several versions ago, Illustrator introduced artboards which allow designers to create multiple page documents in this power illustration program. Using artboards you can reorganize your pages, work with multiple pages sizes, output specific elements to various formats as well as create multi-page PDF’s. If you have not yet been introduced to the power of artboards this session is for you!
17. Illustrator CC 2015 Print Production Tips & Tricks
Greg Heald
Friday, Feb. 19 • 9:00–10:15
Discover ways to prepare, check, and edit Adobe Illustrator artwork for use in print. This session will show you how to work with process and spot colors, handle strokes and fills to allow for misregistration on press. You will also discover the best methods to integrate Illustrator files with Photoshop and InDesign documents so that you have the correct resolution and color separations. Whether creating small die-cuts or large wide-format designs, you will benefit from practical guidance on how to effectively prepare and print artwork using Adobe Illustrator.
23. Creating Digital Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
Greg Heald
Friday, Feb. 19 • 10:30–11:45
Only have a scan, sketch, or printed artwork to start with? In this session you find out how to build digital artwork from non-digital artwork to create scalable vector graphics that can be used as logos, illustrations, and assets for web pages and more. Learn how to place images and then trace them automatically, or more precisely with the Pen tool. You will also find out how to change and apply colors, as well as take advantage of color books, such as the Pantone® library.
25. Typography Essentials
Jennifer Smith
Friday, Feb. 19 • 12:30–1:45
In this session you’ll discover best practices for selecting typefaces and see how text impacts design, usability and readability. You will also be introduced to time-saving keyboard shortcuts that will make designing more productive than ever. This session is suitable for both design professionals and those who have no formal design training but are seeking to understand best practices for the use of type across a variety of formats.
30. Graphic Secrets for Graphic Pros
Greg Heald
Friday, Feb. 19 • 2:00–3:15
In this session, you will glean time-saving tips for creating tough selections in Photoshop, drawing and transforming objects in Illustrator, and managing text and images in InDesign. Also learn about the four secrets of great design that make layouts look the very best.
32. Getting Creative with Illustrator & Photoshop
Greg Heald
Saturday, Feb. 20 • 9:00–11:45 (Double Session)
If you have been looking for an advanced session that will save you hours of work…this is for you. In this session we show you how to take advantage of hard-to-find keyboard shortcuts and other productivity enhancers in Photoshop and Illustrator, and InDesign. You will find out how to work with symbols, smart objects, graphic styles and more. You will also find out how to create more interesting type effects in Photoshop and Illustrator by mastering features such as effects, strokes, outlines and more. This session will also show you how to style graphics, text, tables and more in order to speed your workflow as well as keep your designs consistent.
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