| Time | Track A | Track B | Tutorials |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00am - 9:15am | Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:15am - 10:30am | Essential Creative Suite Techniques
Sandee Cohen
Join the authors of Real World Creative Suite 2 and learn how to get your work done faster with the essential shortcuts and techniques that top Creative Suite demons use every day.
• Why Bridge makes managing your assets a breeze
• Common keyboard shortcuts you just have to know
• The default preferences you must change for maximum efficiency |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | Illustrator for The Rest of Us
Mordy Golding
Sadly, most Creative Suite users ignore Illustrator as something that only artists use. Not so! Learn how even “the rest of us” can make incredible artwork with this extraordinary tool.
• Turning ordinary artwork into amazing imagery in a few easy steps
• The top five cool Illustrator features you didn’t even realize were in the program
• Using Illustrator to build page elements that can be used anywhere | Acrobat 8: What It Means for Creative Professionals
Noha Edell
Adobe will be releasing Acrobat 8 before the end of 2006 and it is sure to offer several important features for Creative Suite users. What do you need to know for this upgrade? How will Acrobat 8 fit in a CS2 world? | |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:40pm | Paths vs. Pixels: When, What, Where, and How
Sandee Cohen
Paths will be paths, and pixels will be pixels, and never the twain shall meet. But in this indepth exposé, 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 | From Design to HTML
Chris Converse
You have a design—perhaps it’s even mocked up in Photoshop and exported as a JPEG. But how do you turn that design into a Web page? Follow along as we get up to speed with Dreamweaver and build great-looking HTML.
• Dreamweaver vs. GoLive
• The why and how of CSS
• Repurposing print files for the Web | 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Half-Day Tutorial: Acrobat PDF Essentials
Claudia McCue
Acrobat has come a long way from the early days when Adobe was pushing the “paperless office.” From preflighting press documents to optimizing your files for print and the Web, nationally-renowned trainer Claudia McCue will give you the inside scoop on every important tool and feature in Adobe Acrobat 7 and 8. |
| 2:40pm - 2:50pm | Break |
| 2:50pm - 4:00pm | Transparency: What You'd Better Know in All the Adobe Apps
Mordy Golding
If there is one topic that draws admiration from designers and fear from output providers, it's Transparency. Learn why transparency effects don't have to be scary, as well as how to "design responsibly" with these powerful tools.
• What is flattening and why you need to care
• Differences in transparency between InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat
• Making transparency effects work from one program to the next | | |
| 4:00pm - 4:15pm | Break |
| 4:15pm - 5:30pm | 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 bringing out detail in the highlights and shadows
• Removing dust and scratches • Combining multiple exposures and sharpening your sharpening skills |
| Time | Track A | Track B | Tutorials |
|---|
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Photoshop for the Web
Chris Converse
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 don't know about.
- Best practices for web graphics
- Slicing and dicing
- When to use ImageReady (and when you shouldn't)
- Making the most of Photoshop's HTML features.
| Adobe Lightroom Essentials
Mike Ninness
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
| 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
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| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | 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)
| Creative Suite for Print Production
Claudia McCue
Join Real World Print Production author Claudia McCue in exploring best practices for preparing your documents for print.
• Managing transparency
• Best choices for file formats
• Sending files versus PDFs
• What to send when you don't know how it'll be output | |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:40pm | 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.
• Removing an annoying color cast in two steps.
• Recovering unusable images
• Bringing back lost details | Acrobat for Workgroups
Chris Converse and Noha Edell
Acrobat 8 has extraordinary features that allow groups of people to work together. If you're part of a team you owe it to yourself to attend this session.
- Working with others via Acrobat Connect
- Document review tricks
- Local vs worldwide networks
| 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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| 2:40pm - 2:50pm | Break |
| 2:50pm - 4:00pm | Blend Mode Magic
Michael Ninness
The layer blending modes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are a big mystery, right? If you are one of those designers that forever cycle through the different blend modes, then this session is for you.
• Which blending modes are the most important, and how to incorporate them into your daily workflow.
• Instant image correction
• Build up image density
• Painting with light
• Unsharp Mask on steroids
• Reveal hidden details in blown-out image | CS3: It's Coming This Spring
Ted LoCascio
Adobe has let loose a few tantalizing tidbits of information about Creative Suite 3, including a public beta of Photoshop CS3, some details about InDesign CS3’s effects features, and that CS3 will be released in the second quarter of 2007. We’ll explore what we know about CS3 and what it means for Creative Suite users everwhere. | |
| 4:00pm - 4:15pm | Break |
| 4:15pm - 5:30pm | | Cool (and free!) Resources for Creative Suite Users
Kacey Crouch
Creative juices not flowing? Want to push a button and have your document designed for you? Well, it may not be that easy—but close! In this session learn where to find all the hidden goodies in the Creative Suite.
• Find free plug-ins, scripts, and templates for Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Find pre-made swatches and patterns
• Learn how to navigate through Adobe's website to find helpful user-created extras | |
| Time | Track A | Track B | Tutorials |
|---|
| 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 | Bridging the Gap: Managing Files Across the Suite
Sandee Cohen
Adobe Bridge is the newest addition to the Creative Suite, 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. | | 9:00am – 12:00pm
It's Time to Learn Flash
Chris Converse
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. |
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Font Management
Ted LoCascio
With multiple font folders on the Mac in Windows, font management is even more prickly then ever. In this session you’ll and ins and outs of fonts, font managers, and why the Creative Suite does fonts differently.
- Where should you put fonts?
- Adobe’s own font folders
- Why use a font manager
- Answers to most common font frustrations
| Photoshop and Flash: Optimizing Pixels and Workflow
Michael Ninness
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
• Using Illustrator to prepare Photoshop files for import into Flash
• Loading external JPEGs into a SWF file at runtime
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:40pm | Color and the Suite
David Blatner
Color management sounds scary, but it doesn't have to be! Learn the ins and outs of getting consistently great color in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat.
• Synchronizing color settings for consistent color across the applications
• Swapping swatches between programs
• Solving the four-color black problem
• RGB vs. CMYK: All you need to know | Productivity through Styles
Kacey Crouch
You can save a huge amount of time and effort in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator by taking advantage of features that too few people use: Styles. Learn how text, object, and graphic styles are similar and different in each program, and how to use them for powerful results.
• Why styles save time (and money!)
• Illustrator vs Photoshop styles
• Taking advantage of preset styles | 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Photoshop Creative Effects & Techniques
Michael Ninness
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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| 2:40pm - 2:50pm | Break |
| 2:50pm - 4:00pm | 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 Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Bridge, or GoLive? You get to vote in
this friendly and fun competition of the masters. |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm | Break to See the GOA Show Floor |
| Time | Track A | Track B |
|---|
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00am - 4:30pm | Adobe InDesign CS2 QuickStart
Sandee Cohen
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 Sandee Cohen, 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 today 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
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 |
