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Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Build your 3D skills with Adobe Illustrator and the Substance 3D Collection and do more in less time. Adobe Evangelists Paul Trani and Wes McDermott will take you through a comprehensive 3D workflow.   

This session is for designers who want to grow their 3D skills beyond an introductory level by integrating 3D into their design process to bring more control over lighting and shading effects, integrate realistic 3D models, and help showcase designs in photorealistic digital context.

Learn how to:   

• Get started with 3D tools in Illustrator 
• Use photorealistic Substance materials and combine 3D renders in Photoshop 
• Paint materials directly onto models with Substance 3D Painter 
• Create a full 3D design in Substance 3D Stager 

Technical Level: Intermediate

Dive deep into the world of 3D and elevate your design skills with renowned filmmaker and motion designer Robert Hranitzky. For those of you who have begun to work with models, materials, and motion graphics, this informative demonstration shows how Robert incorporates 3D techniques into his creative process using After Effects, Substance 3D Painter, and Cinema 4D. Watch and learn tried-and-true practical tips to achieve big-budget looks, efficiently.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create captivating animation with 3D assets in After Effects
• Composite elements and add visual effects to create a professional look
• Go from Illustrator to Cinema 4D to create 3D objects and UV maps
• Prepare your 3D files for detailing and texturing
• Get started in Substance 3D Painter to add incredible textures

Technical Level: Intermediate

We all love beautiful typography, right? Why not give your type a 3D boost by exploring new, creative ways to easily give your designs realistic or stylized appeal, complete with studio lighting? In this session, join Nikie Monteleone, senior 3D artist at Adobe, as she shows you how to do just that. Learn the best tips, tricks, processes, and guidelines to get you started with 3D type in Illustrator, Substance 3D Painter, and Substance 3D Stager.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just looking to dabble in 3D, here are a few things you’ll add to your creative tool belt:

• Best practices for creating, preparing, and exporting your 3D type from Illustrator
• How materials and details can enhance your typography using Substance 3D Painter
• Bring it all together in Substance 3D Stager with professional & non-destructive tips for lighting, rendering, and iterating  

Technical Level: Beginner

Your creative team is at the strategic center of your brand - so why are they spending time resizing assets and tweaking copy? Designers at dentsu, one of the largest global marketing and advertising agency networks in the world, stay strategic by leveraging Adobe Express to keep low-level tasks off their to-do lists. Join Sakura Martin, dentsu’s Global Brand & Design Lead, to learn how you can enable non-designers to self-serve on-brand, engaging content using assets and templates created by your design team - and keep your designers focused on work that delivers real business impact.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to support better collaboration between designers and marketers with Adobe Express
• How the dentsu design team scales to manage a cohesive visual identity across 145 markets
• New ways to empower non-designers for on-brand content creation with access to basic imagery and video effects

Hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP for Creative AI, how advanced robotics and the latest generative AI are driving innovation and collaboration across WPP, one of the world's largest creative companies. Perry will be joined on stage by Spot, WPP’s Boston Dynamics robot dog, to share how LiDAR and virtual production have become critical to modern filmmaking.

In this session, Perry will deep dive into how WPP:

• Integrates new tools like Adobe Substance 3D, Aero, and Adobe Firefly into enterprise workflows
• Uses advanced robotics, LiDAR, and generative AI to create data-driven creative assets at scale
• Commits to diversity through a world-leading apprentice program with a focus on generative AI
• Encourages adoption across the organization of new timesaving Adobe Sensei features in more traditional Adobe tools

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Join VMware Creative Director Jef Tyler to learn how his team of 40 designers, content creators, video producers, and project managers uses their workflow and Creative Cloud to streamline all their projects from concept to completion, while successfully managing a US$20 billion global brand across employees, partners, and vendors.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Structure your team project workflows through the Creative Cloud ecosystem from Workfront to the creative applications to Frame.io
• Use application and workflow tips and tricks from the VMware Brand team throughout the creative process
• Enable your in-house teams as well as employees, external vendors, and partners to seamlessly execute and manage your brand

Technical Level: Intermediate

Have you always dreamed of animating your illustrations but need help figuring out where to start? With Aurélia Durand, a multidisciplinary artist, learn how to create eye-catching movement in Adobe Fresco.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• What animation is
• How to select the elements in your illustration to engage your audience
• How to mix animated and still elements
• How to use frame-by-frame animation in Adobe Fresco
• How to simplify movements in your animation

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Discover how to illustrate perfectly imperfect letterforms in Adobe Fresco. Jess Miller, a designer and illustrator specializing in whimsical, free-flowing hand lettering, will walk you through the process of creating an illustrative hand-lettered piece in Adobe Fresco combining illustration and lettering. In this live demonstration, you’ll gain valuable insight into Jess’s creative process.

You’ll learn:

• How to illustrate bold, dynamic, and expressive letterforms
• How to combine illustration and lettering to create a visually compelling composition
• Tips and tricks for digital hand lettering in Adobe Fresco

Join Kyle T. Webster, senior design evangelist at Adobe and official brush wizard, for an exploration of the newest Adobe Fresco features including multicolor brushes, new animation features, time-savers like snap to shape and paint inside to speed up coloring, and much more. You’re sure to walk away with a better understanding of how to paint digitally in Fresco, your favorite digital drawing app.

As Kyle guides you through the newest features, you’ll learn how to:

• Find Adobe Fresco drawing tutorials and other learning content to develop your skills
• Make quick selections based on color with the Magic Wand tool
• Create a perspective grid from an imported image
• Add motion to your drawing using motion paths and frames

With generative AI, students can experiment with various forms of media, including text, audio, and visual content, and explore creative expressions that they may not have previously considered. Join AJ Barse, instructional designer at Western Washington University, as he shows practical ways to tap into this potential using Adobe Firefly and accessing Adobe Sensei features.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Provide new starting points that alleviate “blank page” anxiety
• Streamline the creative process by supporting iteration and editing work
• Improve communication skills by demonstrating how different inputs create different outcomes
• Build critical analysis skills by providing a wide range of outputs for comparison
• Assess content authenticity — how to separate the real from the fake

With the avalanche of new challenges, new technologies, and new ways of communicating, we all need creative skills to thrive amid change. How can we best prepare our students for their future? Join Rebecca Hare, education community manager at Adobe, as she addresses the changing landscape and offers three techniques to unlock student creativity.

In this session, you’ll:

• Reframe what matters when creating
• Support your students’ unique vision and voice
• Help them reflect on their journey of growth

Hear how Adobe generative AI solutions are designed to continually evolve, develop, and empower educators and students from kindergarten to university level. Generative AI is expected to have a significant impact on the creativity of students. It has the potential to act as a powerful tool that can inspire and enhance the creative process by generating new and unique ideas. Join Matt Miller, author and educator, and John Nack, principal product manager at Adobe, for this exciting discussion.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how Adobe approaches generative AI
• Hear experts discuss how AI affects teaching and learning
• Discover how AI can make learning more personalized and accessible

Technical Level: Intermediate

Join Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, to learn how to expedite your creative process using the newest features in Photoshop. Discover how Julieanne seamlessly merges disparate visual elements to create a single, surreal, composited scene. She’ll demonstrate how to incorporate powerful tools into your workflow to enhance your efficiency from conceptualization to finalization, with speed and precision. 

Topics include: 

• Choosing and unifying elements to create successful compositions
• Leveraging powerful Photoshop features that will transform your compositing workflow
• Igniting the creative spark using the latest AI-powered features to add content to images in seconds

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Building a memorable and truly unique brand identity that penetrates the modern-day competitive market is fundamental to success. Join Kristy Campbell, graphic designer and brand identity specialist, as she shares essential strategies, skills, and tools to create impactful and cohesive brand identities with the use of Illustrator.

In this energetic session, you’ll learn how to:

• Create powerful and meaningful logos
• Unleash a brand personality through the use of illustration
• Utilize the impact of color and typography styling
• Use a brands story to shape its identity

Technical Level: Intermediate/Advanced

When it comes to InDesign, do you feel like a "mere mortal"? Good news: you can power-up your skills and become an InDesign Superhero! Join internationally renowned InDesign expert David Blatner as he teaches you powerful InDesign techniques in this fast-paced and fun deep dive into our favorite page-layout app. These tips and tricks can turn you from an ordinary InDesign user into a superhero ready to battle the crimes of bad design and poorly constructed documents.

Topics include:

• Shortcuts every InDesign user needs to know
• 10 free automation scripts you must have
• Managing RGB and CMYK colors
• Best practices for working with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Little-known (but great!) hidden features

Technical Level: Intermediate

Join Pei Ketron, professional phototograher and Lightroom Product Marketing and Community Engagement Manager, to discover the tools and workflow that she uses to create unique and compelling images in Photoshop Lightroom. Pei will show you how to combine the editing and masking tools in Lightroom to enhance, refine, and apply creative effects to your images.

Topics to be covered include:

• Using color and tone and contrast for maximum impact
• Applying edits to isolated areas of an image
• Eliminating unwanted and distracting elements
• Applying, customizing, and saving presets to achieve your creative vision
• Timesaving techniques

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Discover the amazing array of controls in Photoshop Lightroom for mobile that are designed to help you edit images faster, with professional-level results. In this session, Lightroom for mobile expert Lisa Carney is your guide to understanding the true power available to you in a single app on your phone.

Lisa will demonstrate how to:

• Improve images quickly with presets and other features that require just a single tap
• Adjust the tones in your image to create drama and focus
• Selectively edit parts of your image using AI masking
• Create social media-ready videos that show off your editing process
• Export photos and add messaging, logos, and textures with ease

Note: Please bring your iPhone or Android device with the Lightroom for mobile app installed to participate in this hands-on lab.

Technical Level: Beginner

You don’t have to be a serious photographer to love Photoshop Lightroom. Maybe you’re ready to amp up your photography game, or you simply want an easy way to make your vacation photos look awesome. Maybe you want a better way to handle that mess of stuff on your camera roll, or perhaps you need a seamless way to collaborate with team members. Whatever your photography needs and desires, Lightroom can meet you wherever you are. (Note that this class is about Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic.)

In this introductory lab, learn everything you need to get started in Lightroom, including how to:

• Apply incredibly simple yet powerful one-click edits that will set your photos apart
• Find that one photo you’re looking for without needing to organize anything up front
• Share your photos and collaborate with your team
• Work with your photos wherever you are on any device
• Leverage built-in learning tools when you’re ready to become an expert

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

When it comes to creating social media content, video is king. And with the Adobe Express all-in-one editor, creating social media videos is quick and easy — whether you’re animating static content, starting from your own video, leveraging Adobe Stock video, or finding inspiration with a video template. Join digital storyteller Hallease Narvaez as she transforms a single video into two weeks of social content. Explore what makes an engaging video, and discover quick actions to accelerate your creative project workflows.

You’ll learn how to:

• Trim and refine individual scenes, objects, and layers in your video
• Synchronize your content with Adobe Stock music
• Add video filters, animations, text, and more
• Resize your video content for multiple social channels
• Take your video content to your social channels in a few quick steps

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Bring cross-channel campaigns to life and accelerate your team’s creative workflow. In this hands-on session led by brand strategist and social media expert Phil Pallen, you’ll leverage multiple-page templates in Adobe Express and assets from across your Creative Cloud apps to create dynamic cross-channel social media marketing campaigns.

You’ll discover how to:

• Leverage multiple-page templates to create the building blocks of your cross-channel campaign
• Design whatever you need with AI-powered text-to-image and text effect tools
• Add linked Photoshop and Illustrator assets to an Adobe Express project so they can update seamlessly as you work in the Creative Cloud apps you love
• Quickly apply brand design elements across your campaign
• Schedule your campaign across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and more in minutes

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Creative collaboration is at the heart of great content design. Whether you’re a creative professional or a marketer, explore how you can bring together people, processes, and creative content in new ways to collaborate with and empower the teams you support. Join Adobe Express expert Brad Soroka along with Senior Designer Claude Piche to discover how you can support your team to create stunning on-brand content at scale, leveraging assets and workflows across all your Creative Cloud apps.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Complete creative projects faster as a team with real-time collaboration and commenting
• Empower your team with comprehensive brand kits
• Create and share Adobe Express templates that leverage linked Photoshop and Illustrator assets

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Adding animated text and graphics to video can increase production value, but how do you easily create these elements in a time crunch? Join Adobe Certified Instructor Nick Harauz in this hands-on lab as he shows how you can simply and efficiently create eye-catching animated titles and graphics using Premiere Pro and After Effects.

In this lab, you’ll learn:

• Motion and title design principles and concepts
• How to use Adobe Stock for inspiration
• Essential Graphics Panel basics for modifying graphics
• How to create, animate, and export a main title animation
• When and why to go to After Effects for further animation

Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Computers can create, but they’re not creative. AI can generate articulated stunning titles in seconds, but what if you need to animate or integrate them into video? In this session with motion design expert Eran Stern, learn how to harness the power of Adobe Firefly and Adobe Stock to create dynamic type animations in After Effects.

Eran will show you how to:

• Morph between different titles
• Create immersive parallax 3D title animation 
• Use new methods to reveal and auto-paint 
• Track titles to video
• Bring letters to life with effects and expressions

Technical Level: Beginner

Knowing how to work with motion has become a must for any designer, especially when creating for the ever-scrolling attention battle that is social media. Join motion designer and Adobe Certified Instructor Kyle Hamrick to learn fundamental concepts of when and why to animate your designs, whether you’re looking to grab viewers’ attention, communicate a brand message, or express your own creativity. We’ll also explore actionable techniques in Express, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and even After Effects that can help you bring your designs to life.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How (and why) to add motion to your existing design skill set
• The importance of timing, speed, and rhythm for different contexts
• Approachable animation techniques across multiple Adobe apps
• How to easily customize existing animations using Motion Graphics templates in Premiere Pro