Adobe seminar schedule announced for Sign & Digital UK

Written by Colin Gillman | 06 February 2012

Always highly popular with digital printers and sign makers alike, this year the Adobe workshops will showcase all that’s new with the latest Adobe Creative Suite CS5 software including Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Adobe Bridge in addition to sessions on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Designed to simplify tired workflows, these Adobe workshops are considered essential for designers and production professionals who want to understand the benefits of the most significant features of CS5, including many that remain undocumented.

Adobe Seminar Schedule (repeated daily)

10.30-11.15
 Photoshop Elements 10 & Premiere Elements 10
Photoshop Elements 10 has been bundled with an intuitive video-editing solution - Premiere Elements 10. Attendees will discover useful ways to easily edit still and moving images and gain step-by-step assistance to one-step shortcuts. Aimed at those looking to whiten teeth, transform skies, merge photos, instantly fix common flaws or create credible looking movies.

11.30-12.15 Adobe Bridge CS5 – Getting started with Bridge

Adobe Bridge is one of the most underestimated and neglected tools within the Adobe Creative Suite. Adobe Bridge is a comprehensive media manager providing immediate access to all project files, automation tools for mundane and tedious tasks, drag and drop compatibility with other Adobe products, the invaluable Mini Bridge and centralised Colour Management control settings. Often overlooked, Adobe Bridge is an indispensable creative tool.

12.30-13.30
 Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 – Hidden gems
Crammed full of new time-saving features, state-of-the-art raw image processing control, black and white conversion functionality, 64bit performance, one-click colour adjustments, powerful printing options and much more; this one hour workshop offers to explore the new tools within Photoshop CS5.1 as well as blend in the hidden gems of yesteryear.

14.30-15.15 Adobe InDesign CS5.5 – Knowledge is power

This 45 minute workshop is aimed at those looking to design and preflight sophisticated page layouts for print or digital distribution. With built-in creative tools, precision typography, native file support and comprehensive preflight and production tools; Adobe InDesign CS5.5 can create, edit and publish faster than ever before.

15.30-16.15 Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 – Different folk, different strokes

Considered the designer's best friend, Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 provides powerful creative tools blended with productivity enhancements allow users to work efficiently, integrate seamlessly with other Adobe applications and produce great looking output with text for both print, web and mobile devices.

16.30-17.00
 Controlling colour – Soft-proofing made easy

This half hour session promises to equip you with the necessary skills to correctly set-up your colour settings, understand how to accurately soft-proof your image onscreen and finally produce that perfect proof.
Note, this session will not run on Thursday 29th March.

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