| Time | Vector/Pixel Dual Track A | Vector/Pixel 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.
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| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break | | |
| 10:30am - 11:45am | 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!)
• New features in CS3
• Getting Flash and QuickTime into InDesign documents for building presentations
• 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
• New CS3 features!
• When pixels just won't do: Live Trace tips & tricks
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| 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm | 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
| 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 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
| 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again, Part 2
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 building 3D effects, managing transparency, tracing bitmaps, and more!
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Snack Break | | |
| 2:30pm - 3:45pm | 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
• 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
| Bridging the Gap: Managing Files Across the Suite
Anne-Marie Concepción
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.
• New CS3 features, including stacks and the loupe tool
• Automation in CS2 and CS3
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| 3:45pm - 4:00pm | Break | | |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | 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.
| Fireworks CS3
Sandee Cohen
Adobe Fireworks 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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| 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
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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| 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 and 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 | | |
| 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 | Snack 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. You will learn how to create a shell to play various videos on the web and CD Rom. We will wind up the session with some creative new ways of displaying Flash video that will set you apart from the masses, including the use of green screen, vector video and colorizing effects.
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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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