Graphic Design

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Wednesday, September 4


10:45 am - 11:45 am	Down & Dirty Tips for Designers with Corey Barker Explore Photoshop's powerful features to create dazzling design effects inspired by the latest design trends in movies, TV, magazines, and the web. These are the tricks that add that "cool" factor to your work.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Designing with Type for Photographers with Scott Kelby Bad type can ruin a really great photo and in this session, Scott is going to show you how to create photo book covers, posters, web graphics and more and how to have your type really compliment your work, rather than destroy it. You'll learn everything from the basics of typography including which fonts to use, when, and why, and how to create simple, beautiful-looking designs (it's easier than you'd think). This class will change the way think about, and use type and photos together from this point on.
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm	Effects With Filters with Bert Monroy The myriad of filters that ship with Photoshop offer solutions for just about any situation you might be face. In this session, Bert will show you how to use filters and combinations of filters to create materials, environments and set moods for your images.

Thursday, September 5


8:15 am - 9:15 am	Illustrator Tips & Tricks with Corey Barker Learn the best practices the pros use in Adobe Illustrator. Being a vector based application it has advantages that other Creative Suite apps just don't have. Find out why this is an indispensable tool whether you use it alone or with Photoshop.
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Intro to InDesign CS6 with Terry White If you're new to InDesign, this class will get you started learning some of the new productivity features in InDesign CS6 that help get your work done faster and easier than before.
10:45 am - 11:45 am	Beginner's Intro To Illustration In Photoshop with Pete Collins This class is for you folks who like to draw and paint and want to know how to use Photoshop to bring your vision to life. I will show you techniques for getting your images from sketches on paper to completed multilayered goodness. We will touch on techniques, brushes and how layers are your best friends. The goal of this class is to inspire you to get started using Photoshop as a great digital canvas that can handle whatever your creativity can throw at it.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Down & Dirty Tricks: An Inside look with Felix Nelson An inside look at the reverse engineering process that inspires the most popular column in Photoshop User magazine!Watch Felix and Corey discuss through and break down how to achieve the most popular effects designers use today.
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm	Feature Animation Character Concepts in Photoshop with Aaron Blaise In this class, you’ll learn step-by-step techniques to creating photo real character concepts for feature films.
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Making The Most Of The Creative Suite with RC Concepcion You are the proud owner of the Creative Suite, but you haven't really opened anything past Photoshop. This class will take to you through some of the applications of the Creative Suite, and show you great examples of how to take projects from one application to another. In no time, you'll have a movie, brochure, card, website, and great photography...all to share with the world!

Friday, September 6


8:15 am - 9:15 am	Illustrator Advanced Techniques with Web Editor We'll go under the hood and help you discover the most powerful and extremely effective features of Illustrator, that'll take all your logo, illustrations and vector-based designs to the next level.
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	What's In A Brush with Pete Collins Brushes and the brush engine in Photoshop are some of the most powerful tools in the program, but understanding how they work can be a bit daunting
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Using Photoshop & Illustrator with Corey Barker Discover how to integrate the power of Photoshop and the design capabilities of Illustrator to take your designs to the next level.
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm	Layers Styles: Insanely Instant Lifesavers with Jack Davis One Click. That's all it takes to take advantage of Photoshop's incredibly powerful and unbelievably flexible designer's tool box of awesomeness - Layer Styles! Let Jack "Wow" Davis show you (and give you!) his best custom Layer Styles - how they are made and how they can be used for creating everything from steel logos to crystal headlines, from grunge textures to vignetted sepia tones - all applied with a single click!

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