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Using 3D to design has many benefits. Join Adobe 3D technical artist Emily Bisset to discover how to use realistic lighting, shadows, and materials to bring your ideas to life in new ways and make the design process more iterative and expressive. Learn the basics of working in 3D as you create your own branding and packaging designs using Substance 3D Stager.

In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn:

• How to create a packaging concept in 3D
• The foundation of working in 3D with materials, lights, and camera
• How to render pack shots of your design using virtual photography methods

Discover how to create 3D elements with Illustrator and Photoshop and use them with Substance 3D apps that are built for graphic designers. Join Adobe evangelist Paul Trani and learn how to create 3D elements with your favorite design apps and combine them with 3D models, lights, and materials in Substance 3D Stager. You’ll discover new creative possibilities for your designs, get a glimpse into 3D painting and modeling with Substance 3D Painter, and see how to use a new tool for designers who want to model in 3D, Substance 3D Modeler.

As Paul steps you through his designer-focused approach to 3D, you’ll learn how to:

• Create outstanding 3D using Illustrator
• Use materials and 3D renders in Photoshop
• Create a 3D design using Substance 3D Stager
• Paint on models and tweak materials using Substance 3D Painter
• Sculpt models with Substance 3D Modeler

Join David Mellor, senior motion designer at Wieden + Kennedy, to discover how to sculpt a whimsical character using the Substance 3D Modeler hybrid desktop and VR workflow. VR modeling is quickly becoming a popular means to create 3D content, and with Modeler, quick concepting couldn’t be easier. In this session, David will show you quick sculpting techniques that highlight some of the powerful new tools and brushes in Modeler.

You’ll learn how to:

• Navigate the VR interface in Modeler
• Sculpt a character using the new brushes in Modeler
• Add extra detail and repeat elements using copying and linking

Learn how Showtime Networks reinvented their in-house agency workstreams to evolve into a more creative, nimble, and efficient team with a 360-degree agile approach — all while driving a brand refresh in a rapidly changing industry.

Paul Nicholson, SVP Production & Technology at Showtime, will share:

• What most companies get wrong about “process”: Do you know what your employees should do every day — and do they?
• Strategies on self-reflection: How to audit your workstreams and make sure discoveries lead to solutions that double down on what works.
• Hybrid work/life is different: The new challenge is to create, manage, and deliver content when employees can work from anywhere. Look beyond technology to ensure team success.
• How to identify and leverage technology solutions: Frame.io, Premiere Pro, MOGRTs, and more can solve content velocity pressure.

Ensuring quality and efficiency and that the experiences we create meet user expectations and development requirements can be challenging when working with multiple stakeholders in a large, fast paced, and continuously growing organization. Join Bobby Nemati, director of digital product design at Chipotle, as he shares how establishing a design vision, principles, and process can foster an environment for compelling cross-functional collaboration across your organization and create award-winning experiences.

You’ll learn about:

• Our design principles and how we use them in our daily work
• Implementing a process that aligns with your agile development lifecycle
• The importance of defining key collaboration milestones
• How we use Adobe products and plugins to facilitate collaboration, validate ideas, and ensure quality from the early stages of our process to delivery.
• Maturing your design team and practice to support a growing business

Hear industry experts explain how Burberry, a luxury British heritage brand, transformed their workflows through the introduction of 3D. You’ll learn how by adapting traditional ways of working and reimagining them in 3D, Burberry was able to unlock better ways of creating assets and effectively communicating the brand’s vison to stakeholders.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How a company can start working in 3D and engage stakeholders to adopt 3D workflows
• How Burberry used 3D to sell their collections remotely during the global pandemic
• How to create realistic details such as embroidery in Substance 3D Sampler and Painter
• Using Substance 3D Stager to bring 3D garments to life

This session will not be available on demand.

Learn how to capture objects and bring them to life with perspective using Adobe Fresco. Join Spencer Nugent, trainer and veteran product designer, as he shows how to simplify visual complexity and build strategies that make drawing much less intimidating and more intuitive, even for a beginner. Have some chill fun and grow your drawing skills through digital sketching with Fresco.

In this hands-on lab you’ll learn how to:

• Develop an efficient 2D to 3D drawing workflow
• Draw in perspective and use powerful perspective grids and perspective grid capture in Fresco
• Choose the right brushes for the right job
• Work efficiently with layers, including reference layers

Discover how to playfully experiment with established letterforms and create variations that express your own unique style and personality. Chris Campe, designer, author, and founder of the All Things Letters studio in Hamburg, Germany, will share how she uses analog and digital drawing tools, including Adobe Fresco, to alter letterforms in unexpected ways.

Join Chris in this inspiring session to learn:

• The key parameters for altering letterforms
• How to generate ideas for interesting letterform variations
• How to use analog and digital drawing tools in unexpected ways

Join Kyle T. Webster, Adobe senior design evangelist and official brush wizard, for an exploration of the newest Adobe Fresco features, including transformation modes, new animation features, time-savers like reference layers and the Magic Wand tool, and much more. You’re sure to walk away with a better understanding of how to use Fresco in your own drawing, painting, and illustration work.

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

• Automatically create perspective grids from an imported image, layer, or your entire document with perspective grid capture
• Transform and add effects to your Fresco artwork with the Liquify tool
• Make quick selections based on color with the Magic Wand tool
• Control fade-in and fade-out effects easily with control opacity for motion frames
• Transform and move motion paths and frames

Everyone has different eyes and a different brain. And now designers have the ability to tailor consumption experiences for those differences. In our session on inclusive design and accessibility, join Zoya Bylinskii, Research Scientist in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe, as she shares the latest research and features around reading and design.

You’ll learn about:

• The latest findings from our Readability Research team on how personalized reading settings for individuals improve reading outcomes
• New tools soon to be available in Acrobat and Reader for dyslexic readers
• The latest research into tooling for making sure your designs accommodate color-blind audiences
• New tools for making PDFs more accessible

Join art therapist and DC Public Schools arts innovation manager Lindsey D. Vance and Adobe Education Evangelist Wezi Thindwa in a creative conversation leading educators to wholeness through their own artistic practice. Predictable stressors compounded by those related to a global pandemic and mounting socio-political tensions challenge our humanity. Listen as we explore the ways teachers and students can rise to spark collective well-being for the future.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover ways to cultivate compassionate and learner-centered classrooms through personal self-reflection, technology and creativity
• Find out how to ignite social emotional attunement and trauma-responsive practices in order to holistically empower student learners
• Identify clear ways that creativity fuels social emotional learning and uplifts educator and student voices to foster a healing environment in your classroom

Meet two K–12 educators who use digital creative tools with their students to allow for student voice and choice. Learn how they go beyond traditional assessment models, test taking, and wordy slide presentations to get to the core of what students know.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how to use digital artifacts to showcase student work, assess skill development over time, provide a platform for reflection and creativity, and set students up for career opportunities
• Understand the value of digital storytelling in supporting multimodal learners and empowering creative expression
• Hear practical tips for using Adobe Express with students to build videos, posters, and web pages as part of a project-based learning approach

Fast-track your way into lettering with award-winning lettering artist, author, and educator Martina Flor as she unveils the secrets behind her craft. Martina will walk you through the process of creating a lettering piece, from hand sketch to final digital artwork in Illustrator. You’ll see her perform a live demo and walk away with both the inspiration and the tools to give it a go yourself.

In this session, you’ll gain:

• Simple foundations that will change the way you look at letterforms
• Techniques for sketching lettering even if you think you can’t draw
• Insights on how to draw letters in vectors and get the perfect curve
• Tons of inspiration and guidance to help you get started

Want to elevate your designs and give them a polish that only the pros seem to achieve? Join Adobe Principal Evangelist Paul Trani and discover how to boost your Photoshop skills and punch up your style in new ways with entirely new looks. Paul will also introduce essential design fundamentals and productivity tips used by the pros so you can create stunning custom content faster than ever.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Timesaving Photoshop tips and tricks to maximize your productivity
• One-of-a-kind features that can make sophisticated edits and complex designs instantly
• How to match lightning, perspective, and texture techniques seamlessly across images
• Overall color adjustments to give images a fresh look
• How to enhance type when integrating with photos
• Even more newly released features

Are you curious about learning how to draw and design with Illustrator but don’t know where to start? Join Natasha Polozenko, a self-taught illustrator and educator, as she deconstructs the core tools in Illustrator into easy-to-understand concepts and shares her advice on creating and cultivating a personal illustration practice and style. You’ll come away with new illustration skills as you begin your creative journey. Natasha is out to prove that you don’t need formal art training to make it as an illustrator!

In this inspiring session, you’ll learn:

• Simple design concepts and tools to get familiar and confident with Illustrator
• Actionable steps to help you begin your personal illustration journey
• Ways to improve and refine your illustration skills to find your unique style

Join professional photographer and author Nicole S. Young as she demonstrates the world of nature and landscape photography in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. You’ll gain valuable insight into how to use Photoshop Lightroom to edit your photos, whether a lush forest, a giant waterfall, or a close-up of a tiny insect, to make them look their best.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The gear that Nicole uses for her landscape and nature photographs
• Tips on how to create beautiful macro images
• How to sync images in order to access them on your phone or tablet
• Editing tips and techniques using Lightroom

Join photographer Summer Murdock to learn how to use presets as a source of inspiration when editing your images in Photoshop Lightroom. You’ll learn exactly what presets are and how to quickly apply a great look to your photos with a single click. Explore how to create the look you want by applying a preset and then fine-tuning the edits on the image. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how presets can help you save time and empower you to achieve your unique creative vision.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Where you can find ready-made, powerful presets to suit every style of photography
• How to apply presets and refine the edit with the amount slider and further tweaks
• How to create and save your own presets for easy use later

Join Lightroom Product Manager Benjamin Warde and learn how to incorporate video into your Photoshop Lightroom workflow. Find out exactly what Lightroom video capabilities can do for you and how to achieve a consistent aesthetic across your photos and videos. Note that this class uses Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic.

You’ll learn how to:

• Trim the heads or tails off your video to highlight just the part of the video that’s important
• Achieve a matching look and aesthetic across your photos and videos
• Master batch workflows to quickly edit many photos and videos at once
• Streamline your workflow with edit presets for both photos and videos

Create an effective content strategy that will help you achieve your business goals. Join this hands-on lab with Mallory Shoemaker, Adobe Express Content Strategist, and Andy Lambert, author of Social 3.0, co-founder of ContentCal, and Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Adobe, and learn how to tailor a winning content strategy for your audience, brand, and industry.

In this lab, you’ll learn:

• Where social media fits into a marketing strategy
• The “6C” content strategy framework
• How to target your ideal audience
• Which channels to use
• Tools to help you bring your strategy to life

Learn how Adobe Express empowers freelancers, small business owners, and social media marketers to work more collaboratively with teams and increase productivity to deliver faster results for clients. Join Charmaine Jennings, owner of Strategic Charm Boutique — a digital marketing agency that helps businesses share their brand story and build online communities — and Adobe Express expert Chloe McConnell to discover how to:

• Scale and amplify branded content
• Empower your clients to create on-brand
• Leverage workflows across Creative Cloud, from Photoshop to Illustrator to Adobe Express
• Increase collaboration and streamline feedback with teams or clients

Get paid to make the content you love. Join Sharon Tseung, content creator and real estate investor, as she demonstrates how you can build a six-figure business while making a valuable impact in your community.

In this session, you’ll discover how to:

• Make money through ad revenue, affiliate marketing, sponsorships, product sales, memberships, coaching, and more
• Create valuable content that solves problems while generating revenue
• Repurpose revenue-driving content across multiple platforms

Are you excited to get into the world of UI/UX but don’t know where to start? Discover how to take your files from Photoshop or Illustrator to Adobe XD and add interactivity to your designs.

Join educator Daniel Walter Scott for this hands-on lab where you’ll learn:

• How to create a real-world website interface and mobile app
• How to interpret a design brief and create wireframes
• How to add Photoshop and Illustrator elements to your interactive designs
• Productivity tips and secret tricks in XD to speed up repetitive tasks

Adobe XD offers many industry-leading prototype and layout features, but did you know that you can combine these features? Discover how to create advanced user interactions within layouts to bring your UX design work to the next level. In this hands-on lab, designer and developer Chris Converse shows how to leverage unique features in XD to create fully interactive prototypes. Get hands-on with Repeat Grid, Component States, Stacks, Scroll Groups, video, external data, Lottie files, and a range of event triggers to orchestrate a fully interactive experience of your design.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create complex interactions by combining features
• Create reusable assets
• Work more efficiently with Repeat Grid
• Create and update Component States
• Design for any screen with Content-Aware Layout
• Work with video and Lottie files
• Share prototypes with clients, colleagues, and developers

Creative collaboration is at the heart of design, but how do designers move from in-person to virtual creative work? Learn how Samantha Warren, Design Director at Adobe and self-proclaimed people person, has been navigating this new, screen-mediated reality with her team, while they design the software and tools to enable virtual, collaborative creative work. In this session, Samantha will be joined by Bria Alexander, a Senior Design Program Manager at Adobe, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) consultant, and an international speaker, facilitator, and interviewer.

In this session, Samantha will discuss with Bria:

• Her struggles with switching to a world of remote/hybrid work
• How she and her team have built a virtual studio to design exciting new tools
• The role her team plays in being “user zero” for the Adobe products they design
• The evolution of her design leadership style

Join Ian Robinson as he shows you how to use After Effects to transform your static design projects into social media posts for TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Use Photoshop and Illustrator files for animation and speed up your workflow with reusable, editable graphics. Create your own style with custom text animations, colors, and more.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• Importing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files for animation
• Making more eye-catching and engaging posts with motion
• Creating templates to stay organized and work faster
• How to be more collaborative with Frame.io for Creative Cloud

Note: if you attend the Building Your Brand on Social Media with After Effects hands-on lab, you do not need to attend this session as it will cover the same concepts.

Join director Valentina Vee as she shares her best tips for making edits in Premiere Pro faster so you can get more views on your content, no matter which social media platform you’re using. Streamline your Premiere Pro workflows and never be lost in your edits again.

You’ll learn:

• The best shortcuts to cut down your editing time
• Automated processes like auto-reframe, auto-color, and auto-ducking
• How to remix music to your desired length
• How to use and customize motion graphics templates across your content

Social media has become a necessity for every creative regardless of focus. Join digital storyteller and former Adobe Creative Resident Hallease Narvaez to learn how to squeeze as much content as you can out of everything you capture by utilizing different features in Premiere Pro. You’ll follow along as she takes a longer form piece of content and breaks it into standalone snippets for social. Hallease will cover tools like Auto Reframe and Remix for quick exports and music edits, teach you how to create captions for “sound off” videos, and share her tips to make everything pop using prebuilt graphics in the Essential Graphics panel.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use Premiere Pro to:

• Maximize your content across social platforms
• Auto-reframe sequences for different dimensions
• Easily remix music to any length
• Build closed captions
• Create unique graphics quickly using Motion Graphics templates