| Time | InDesign: Track A | Creative Suite: Creative | Creative Suite: Worfklow |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am | Breakfast and Registration
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| 8:30am - 9:00am | Font Management: Best practices in OS X
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Extensis
Take control of your fonts! 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 | Get Smart: Smart Filters and Smart Objects
Mordy Golding
One of the most important rules of electronic publishing is: Stay flexible and keep your options open! Watch us avoid commitment and benefit from the ability to change our minds at any minuteeven right before a deadline.
- Using Layers and Layer Comps the Smart Way
- Smart Objects and Smart Filters
- Building a good foundation in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop that can withstand an art director's whims
- Keeping your vectors when moving artwork among Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat
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| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Getting Started with XML
Jim Maivald
XML sounds like something for geeks, but it can truly become a "one-click .. done! technology." Come and see why you could care about smart and easy automatic document creation.
- The important link between styles and XML tags
- How to bind graphical rules to information structure
- The tremendous power of keeping content and presentation apart
| 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 expos, 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
- Converting pixels to paths and vice versa
| Color Management Fundamentals
David Blatner
The color on screen doesn't match the color in print? The color in Photoshop doesn't match the color in InDesign? You need color management! Learn the basics in this fast-paced tutorial on one of the most important features in desktop publishing.- Getting colors to match across all your Creative Suite programs
- Softproofing: Trusting what you see on screen
- The 5 most important rules of color management in InDesign
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:15pm - 2:15pm | InCopy for InDesigners
Anne-Marie Concepción
If you haven't heard about Adobe InCopy as a replacement word processor, you need this session! If you've heard about InCopy but you're not sure if it fits into your workflow, you need this session! If you want to get really efficient with text edits, you need this session!
- When InCopy is better than Microsoft Word (and when it isn't)
- Tracking changes
- Using InCopy features even if you don't own InCopy!
- Managing Assignments in InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3
| Blend Mode Magic
Michael Ninness
The layer blending modes are a big mystery, right? If you are one of those designers that forever cycle through the different blend modes until you find the "right" one, 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
| Reliable End-to-End PDF Print Publishing Workflows
Sebastian Distefano
In this tutorial you'll be immersed into the world of PDF workflow for print publishing using the Adobe Creative Suite applications, including important, detailed background information which will help you in your daily production, including:
- PDF Print Publishing Workflows
- Principles for Reliable PDF workflow
- PDF File Creation Methods
- Technical Realities (fonts, color, transparency, images, etc.)
- PDF/X Standards (including the new PDF/X-4 standard)
- The Adobe PDF Print Engine
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Building Long Documents in InDesign
Lynn Grillo
Whether you are building a magazine, a catalog, or a book, it's essential that you master InDesign's long document features.
- The Book file and its amazing features
- Auto-numbering and auto-pagination
- Sections: how and when to use them
- Controlling page numbering, styles, and colors across multiple files
- Tables of contents and indexing
| Masking, Masking, Masking!
David Blatner
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)
| 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
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| 3:30pm - 3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | "Need to Know" Add-ons
Ensemble
Think outside the InDesign box and learn which plug-ins and utilities for Mac and Windows our presenters find essential in their day-to-day work!
- Favorite font management
- Essential InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator plug-ins
- Cool utilities you should be using
| Building Forms: To Acrobat 8 and Back
Lynn Grillo
Making forms in InDesign—especially interactive PDF forms—has long been a painful practice, but we’ll explore new features and new workflows that help you build forms with InDesign and Acrobat 8 Professional.
- Using InDesign’s powerful layout features to create forms
- Acrobat’s amazing Run Form Field Recognition (RFFR)
- Adding form elements in Acrobat
- Distributing and collecting your forms
- Importing your data into a spreadshee, then importing that into InDesign
| InDesign and the Web: The Cross Media Workflow
Jim Maivald
InDesign is just one piece of a larger publishing puzzle that includes the Web and mobile devices. Learn how to manage your content so that you can repurpose and reuse efficiently. |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Tip, Tips, Tips!
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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. Plus, stay until the end for a chance to win great prizes, including a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Premium! |
