| Time | InDesign QuickStart | Getting the Most out of Photoshop CS2 and CS3 |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00am - 4:30pm | Adobe InDesign CS2 and CS3 QuickStart
David Blatner
This fast-paced, full-day InDesign course will get you up to speed quickly and help you make InDesign really fly. Taught by internationally-known instructor and author David Blatner, this is the class you need if you're new to InDesign or need to learn this rich, powerful program fast.
- Open to both conference attendees and the public
- Optional: Bring your own laptop or reserve one in advance for a nominal fee
- Limited seating. Sign up to day to take advantage of this excellent value!
- Topics include: Overview of the tools, workspace, palettes, and document construction.
| Getting the Most Out of Photoshop CS2 and CS3
Ben Willmore
Whether you’re a professional photographer, just like taking snaps, or have to work with other people’s images, Ben Wilmore’s nationally-acclaimed class is an essential step toward “digital mastery”! From optimizing tonality and color to precise retouching, you’ll gain a deep understanding of this rich and amazing program.
- Spot Healing Brush
- Vanishing Point
- Lens Correction
- Reduce Noise
- Smart Sharpen
- Image Processor
- Camera Raw & Bridge
- High Dynamic Range imaging
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| Time | Pixel Conference- Track A | Pixel Conference- Track B | Tutorials |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00am - 9:15am | Welcome and Introduction
| | 9:00am – 12:00pm
Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again, Part 1
Mordy Golding
If you're one of the many people who own Illustrator but hardly scratch the surface of what it can do, this is the class for you. Let nationally-recognized trainer and former Adobe Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding give you the low-down on this extraordinary program, including production-oriented tasks to help you build more efficient files that can be edited easily.
- Appearances
- Graphic Styles
- Symbols
- Effects
- Pathfinder
- Live Paint
- CS2 & CS3 will be covered!
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| 9:15am - 10:30am | Radically Transform Your Images in Minutes
Ben Willmore
You know how easy it is to really screw up an image in Photoshop, but it seems like doing good work always takes a long time. Not so! Learn quick-fix tricks that will superpower your color correction and image editing.
- Making the most of CS3's new tools
- Removing an annoying color cast in two steps.
- Recovering unusable images
- Bringing back lost details
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| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Photoshop: Most Wanted
Colin Smith
Based on Colin Smith’s best-selling book and video series, we will explore some of today’s most requested special effects. From photorealistic textures to tricks with light and much more! Learn the secrets of the pros from an award-winning expert who has excelled in the field and understands your needs and deadlines. Say goodbye to boring images forever!
| Adobe Photoshop Tips & Tricks
Terry White
See the most practical uses of the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 for both designers and digital photographers. Take a look at the new Bridge CS3 and see all the ways that Bridge can make your work flow. Take advantage of the new Camera RAW features with your JPEGs and TIFFs.
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:15pm - 2:15pm | Masking, Masking, Masking!
Ben Willmore
Building masks (selections) is one of the most important skills in mastering Photoshop. Learn how to hide parts of your image, merge two images into each other, replace a sky with different clouds, create collages and combine Vector Masks with Layer Masks on the same layer.
- Understanding and using masks in layers
- When to use a vector (clipping) mask over a soft-edged mask
- Applying filters to a mask
- Creating complex masks (like when selecting hair)
| Preparing Images for Layout
David Blatner
Join Real World Photoshop co-author David Blatner as he separates myth from fact and delves into what you need to know to prepare your images for InDesign or QuarkXPress.
- RGB vs. CMYK
- Resolution
- Why metadata is your best friend
- Linking vs. embedding
- What’s different if you’re using InDesign CS3
- What to use: TIFF, PSD, PDF, or...
| 1:15pm – 4:30pm
It’s Time to Learn Flash
Gloria Antonelli
Many of us have held off learning Flash as long as possible, but now that it’s an Adobe product, it’s time to jump on the bandwagon and get up to speed quickly! This class covers the basics and sends you off with what you need to know to create cool Flash artwork.
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Getting Great Images
Ben Willmore
Learn Photoshop from a pixel-master! This indepth session covers some of the most important Photoshop skills you need to get great-looking images.
- Why the words channels and masks shouldn’t scare you
- Optimizing the tonal information and bring out detail in the highlights and shadows
- Removing dust and scratches
- Combining multiple exposures and sharpening your sharpening skills
| Photoshop for the Web
Jim Maivald
You thought you knew the basics of making Web graphics in Photoshop, but Adobe has snuck in a number of cool features over the past few versions that you probably don't know about.
- Best practices for Web graphics
- Slicing and dicing
- Fireworks CS3 vs. ImageReady
- Making the most of Photoshop's HTML features
- Web graphics in CS3
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| 3:30pm - 3:45pm | Snack Break |
| 3:45pm - 5:00pm | One on One with Deke McClelland
Deke McClelland
Deke is a legend in the Photoshop community! Come hear his straightforward, step-by-step approach to the features and functions of Photoshop CS2 and CS3. Deke’s highly-effective One-on-One teaching methods have made him the best-selling Photoshop book author in the world. Whatever your skill level, this session will soon have you speaking fluent Photoshop.
| Retouching Images
Jori Curry
Learn how to retouch images like the pros! Join us in learning why some of the coolest Photoshop CS3 image retouching skills are also surprisingly easy.
- The importance of a good mask
- Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools effectively
- Retouching and still giving a natural appearance
- Enhancing eyes, teeth and eyelashes
- Using the History palette to improve retouching
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| 10:00pm - 11:59pm | Late Night Photoshop and Illustrator with Deke
Didn't get enough pixels during the day? Stay up late and slide in to this two-hour Deke McClelland Photoshop and Illustrator extravaganza! There's nothing like seeing pixels at night.
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| Time | Pixel/Vector Dual Track A | Pixel/Vector Dual Track B | Tutorials |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Font Management: Best practices in OS X
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Extensis
Take control of your fonts! This session will examine the unique requirements required of a creative typography workflow. The use of thousands of fonts in a creative workgroup presents challenges to the creation of a flexible yet controlled computing environment. This session will explore these challenges, present proven workflow solutions and demonstrate them. |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | PhotoFlash: Cool Effects, Hot Techniques
Colin Smith
Pop! Buzz! Splash! There are a hundred phrases and words to describe it, but it all comes down to: Can you catch your audience's eye, and keep them focused on what you're trying to communicate. Join us for an action-packed, eyeball-capturing safari covering Flash CS3 and Photoshop CS3.
| [Same as Track A] | Introduction to Lightroom
Terry White
Adobe has launched an effort to engage the professional photo community by developing Photoshop Lightroom, a powerful tool to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of images.
- How to incorporate Lightroom into your current Photoshop workflow
- When to use Lightroom versus Bridge
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| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Putting it Together: Side by Side by InDesign
David Blatner
Whether you're making documents for print or interactive, rich-media PDF, the more you do in your page-layout program, the more efficient you're going to be. Come learn how to turn InDesign into your digital hub.
- Why InDesign is better than Photoshop (for more things than you'd expect!)
- Getting Flash and QuickTime into InDesign documents for building presentations
- New features in CS3
- Maintaining quality but maximizing efficiency
| Working with Pixels in a Vector Environment
Mordy Golding
Just because you're using Illustrator or Flash doesn't mean you aren't working with bitmapped images. Far from it! But success depends on your understanding how these programs "think" about pixels. Dive into pixels with our Vector Master.
- Illustrator's resolution gotcha's
- Making the most of Ilustrator's bitmap tools
- When pixels just won't do: Live Trace tips & tricks
- New CS3 features!
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| 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm | Illustrating Photoshop and Illustrator
Deke McClelland
Drawing, compositing, creating. No matter what you're doing with these tools, you'll find yourself doing it better after attending this tips and tricks session with one of the best-known masters in the field. | | 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again, Part 2
Mordy Golding
Come hear nationally-recognized trainer and former Adobe Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding give you the low-down on this extraordinary program, including design or artistic-oriented features that help you be more creative in your work, including:
- 3D
- Envelopes
- Live Trace
- Photoshop integration
- InDesign integration
- Transparency
- Graphs
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30pm - 3:45pm | Photoshop and Flash: Optimizing Pixels and Workflow
Colin Smith
Getting a layered Photoshop document into Flash used to be a time consuming and labor intensive process. Learn how to make the headaches go away. This session will also cover how Flash handles embedded bitmap files and how you can control the optimization of each bitmap independently.
- Uncovering ImageReady's Export to Flash (SWF) feature
- How CS3 Extended makes this all easier
- Using Illustrator to prepare Photoshop files for import into Flash
- Loading external JPEGs into a SWF file at runtime
| Working with Vectors in a Pixel Environment
Sandee Cohen
Paths will be paths, and pixels will be pixels, and never the twain shall meet. But in this indepth expose, the "Vector Babe" pries into the hidden secrets of vectors and bitmaps, uncovering tasty morsels such as:
- How to ensure your vector artwork stays that way
- Smart object and Smart layers
- Converting pixels to paths and vice versa
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| 3:45pm - 4:00pm | Break |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Bridging the Gap: Managing Files Across the Suite
Anne-Marie Concepcion
Adobe Bridge is the glue that holds the Creative Suite together, and you have to know how to use it if you're going to be efficient with these programs. Managing your images, text, InDesign documents, and other assets is one of the most challenging tasks in today's fast-paced world. Join us for the inside scoop on keeping track and keeping up with Bridge.
- New CS3 features, including stacks and the loupe tool
- Automation in CS2 and CS3
| Fireworks
Sandee Cohen
Adobe Fireworks CS3 is the ultimate blend of vectors and pixels, letting you create cutting-edge Web graphics in a world that mixes the best of Illustrator and Photoshop. If you create Web graphics but haven't learned Fireworks yet, you owe it to yourself to check out this session!
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| Time | Vector Conference Track A | Vector Conference Track B | Tutorials |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Quark Interactive Designer – Intuitive Design for Flash output
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Quark
Learn about Quark® Interactive Designer, an optional QuarkXPress® 7 module that extends the capabilities of QuarkXPress to allow designers to add motion, sound, and interactivity to their designs and output SWF (Flash) files. Find out how to develop projects for print, Web, and Flash simultaneously and to leverage existing design skills to create interactive projects
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| 9:00am - 10:30am | Illustrator FAQs
Mordy Golding
Everyone who uses Adobe Illustrator — whether you're new it or have been using it for many years — has questions about it. This is the session to get solutions to Illustrator's most vexing and frequently asked questions.
- Illustrator CS3: What's New (including kuler and knowhow)
- Transparent gradients (and other transparency concerns)
- Optimizing images for print and the Web
- How to work more efficiently with Actions
- Color management weirdness solved
| | 9:00am - 12:00pm
Photoshop Creative Effects & Techniques
Break free of the mundane production-oriented Photoshop techniques and learn how to use Photoshop creatively using layer styles and other non-destructive effects. These creative effects should be essential tools in your image toolbox! Layer styles can be used to enhance a photo, type, or graphics instantly by overlaying color, texture, dimension, framing, or any of a dozen other resolution independent effects. We'll also spend time learning creative techniques for combining black-and-white photography with the intrigue of color.
- Hand-colored, antique tinting and film grain techniques
- Hi-key glows, sepia-tone and other color toning special effects
- One-click wonders with custom Layer Styles
- Rendering transparent effects like glass and water
- Shadows, halos, texturing, edges, and more!
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| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Photorealistic Illustration
Brad Neal
What happens when you need a product photograph but the product doesn't exist yet? Explore the wild world of photorealistic imagery built using the creative suite with a master of the craft.
- Thinking through Photorealism
- Working with Illustrator's Gradient Mesh
- Moving between Illustrator and Photoshop
| Flash! Creating and Using Flash with Adobe Illustrator
Mordy Golding
Few people realize how much Adobe has integrated Flash technology into the whole suite (both in CS2 & CS3). Follow Mordy through an eye-opening survey of how each program in the suite lets you import or create Flash and SVG files.
- Importing Flash into InDesign for rich-media PDF files
- Building layers and using symbols
- Interactivity, blends, and animations
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:15pm - 2:15pm | Cool Illustrator Text Effects
Laurie Ruhlin
Illustrator let you do jaw-dropping effects with text, but it’s not always obvious how to achieve greatness. Come have fun as we explore the ins and outs of text effects.
- Text gradients
- Avoid converting to outlines at all costs
| Video Production
Terry White
The award-winning Adobe Production Studio allows you create anything from simple animations to full-length feature films. See the new Production Studio running on the Mac OS! Take advantage of After Effects for creating animations for video and Flash files.
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Vectors Get Down to Business
Sandee Cohen
Put your vectors to work creating pie charts, bar graphs, and other business essentials. Whether you start with the raw data or finished Excel art, this class will show you how to jazz up even the most boring data:
- How to convert clunky Excel art into Illustrator paths
- How to use Illustrator’s built-in graphing tools
- How to apply graphic styles to automate chart creation
- How to create simple Flash animations out of Illustrator graphs
| Video and Flash CS3
Colin Smith
Flash has become one of the primary methods for distributing video on the Web, but many designers aren't clear about how to do it and why. Come get the low-down with clear step-by-step instructions that will get you up and running quickly.
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| 3:30pm - 3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | My Tip’s Better Than Your Tip: A Showdown of the Tipsters
Ensemble
Everyone loves tips and tricks — those cool techniques that use the software in ways you don’t expect to achieve the results you didn’t think possible. Which of our presenters has the most useful tip for Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, Bridge, or any other program we know and love? You get to vote in this friendly and fun competition of the masters.
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