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Adobe

8-Part Webinar Series: Reimagine Creativity Through Optimized Digital Collaboration


Event Date: March 21, 2022 - March 24, 2022
Hosted By: Adobe & Carahsoft

Communicating effectively with constituents is a critical function of the public sector, and in our evolving digital age, agencies must ensure messaging is engaging, informative, and accessible to all members of their audience. As our world becomes more visual, utilizing digital assets throughout communication campaigns is imperative – from graphics, images, and videos – to help make a lasting impression.

Watch the on-demand recordings from our Adobe webinar series to discover how Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) solutions are equipped to enhance collaboration between government creatives and digital workflows, across all screens and mediums, with tools made for designing engaging digital experiences.

Throughout the series of webinars, our team of Adobe solutions experts cover a variety of Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) solutions, exploring the newest tools, features, upgrades, and integration capabilities, to turn traditional communication publications, such as newsletters, reports, and articles, into compelling digital communication designs.

For detailed information on what each session covered, please check out the session descriptions below.

Fill out the form below the table to access the session recordings, Q&A transcript, available slide decks, and helpful web links shared during the webinars.

Day 1 | Go From Inspiration to Creation Faster Than Ever
Webinar 1: Create Gorgeous Images, Rich Graphics, and Incredible Art
  • Save time while making complex edits and deliver faster results by automatically selecting a portion of your image as you hover over it and click
  • Easily add a mask to a layer to combine multiple photos into a single image or remove a person or an object from a photo
  • Discover improved interoperability with Adobe Illustrator to easily import vector content with color, stroke, and properties as well as import layer structure and vector masks
  • Explore a range of creative ideas with the new Neural Filters (Beta) — Landscape Mixer, Color Transfer, and Harmonization, powered by Adobe Sensei
  • Quickly share your designs with your fellow collaborators for viewing and receiving feedback right within Photoshop without having to leave the app
Webinar 2: Design Realistic Prototypes That Tell Your Story and Bring Big Ideas to Life
  • Render animations, embed playable videos, and create vivid and true-to-life prototypes that have motion with Lottie animated file integration
  • Learn how to seamlessly import videos in Adobe XD to create immersive design experiences, adjust basic video settings, and control playback
  • Set video playback customizations, preview the prototype, and share it with stakeholders for review
  • Publish your designs in Behance through the fully interactive public link share tool to collect feedback all in one place and iterate as much as you like — with updates that will sync in a click
  • Utilize the live app functionality preview and device preview to test prototypes before publishing
  • Create, manage, and share colors, character styles, components, and audio assets used in your design projects with the document Assets panel
  • Quickly create standout content from thousands of beautiful templates with the all-new Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Express
  • Easily remove backgrounds from photos in Adobe CC Express to add shapes, colors, graphics, and more
  • Transform your videos into GIFs with the online converter tool, and share them in a flash
  • Discover various Adobe Creative Cloud Library sync capabilities
  • Share logos, fonts, and other brand elements with your team, and print and share PDF documents with features powered by Adobe Acrobat
Day 2 | Design Gorgeous Graphics and Dazzling Digital Publications
Webinar 3: Create Logos, Icons, Web Graphics, and More
  • Remove unnecessary anchor points and generate a simplified optimal path for your complex artwork, without making any significant changes in the original path shape with the Simplify path feature
  • Apply 3D effects easily to vector objects by extruding, rotating, or by applying lighting
  • Invite others to view your project via the cloud, even if they’re not Creative Cloud members, to gather feedback without having to export and send large files
  • Automatically find and activate all available fonts from Adobe Fonts
  • Add textures using Adobe Substance to create graphics with realistic effects
Webinar 4: Standout Layouts with Typography for Print and Digital Media
  • Configure scaling preferences in InDesign to uniformly scale the user interface based on your screen resolution so that elements of the user interface are scaled accordingly, making for comfortable viewing on high-resolution monitors
  • Search for specific instances of a color, and if desired, replace it with another color in a document, or in several open documents in InDesign at once
  • Wrap text around any object, including text frames, imported images, and objects you draw in InDesign – also referred to as runaround text
  • Resigned parent page systems for automatically applied document-wide changes containing repeating logos, page numbers, headers, and footers
  • Integrate interactive media and PDF features
  • Get familiar with various document refinement tools for various text and image options
  • Discover integrated Adobe Sensei smart tool functionalities
Day 3 | Create and Publish Designs That Move Across All Screens
Webinar 5: Share Your Vision with Video Editing That’s Always a Cut Above
  • Ensure text accuracy and consistency with the help of the Graphics Tab for easy text editing, spell check, and find and replace
  • Use the Pen, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon tools to create freeform shapes and paths in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Create edit, stylize, and export captions and subtitles in all supported formats to make your videos more accessible to more people while helping to drive viewer engagement
  • Learn more about color grading footage directly on your editing timeline using professional-quality color grading tools
  • Discover how Frame.io integration allows for instant feedback with time-stamped comments from the mobile app, the web app or from inside Premiere Pro
Webinar 6: Take Any Idea and Make It Move with Cinematic Movie Titles, Intros, and Transitions
  • Discover the tools designed to help you navigate and design in 3D space conveniently
  • Create compositions in After Effects and use Dynamic Link to eliminate intermediate rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Check out exciting new features like Real-time 3D Draft Preview, Extended Viewport, 3D Ground Plane, and 3D Transform Gizmos
  • Remove any unwanted objects from your video and instantly replace it with new image detail from other frames with the improved Content Aware tool
  • Discover how the Frame.io integration allows for motion and visual effects artists to collaborate seamlessly in real-time
Day 4 | Integrated Tools Made for Expansive Creative Projects
Webinar 7: Set Up the Perfect Shot with a Fully Equipped Virtual Studio
  • New asset integration tools, including extensive texture and material libraries
  • Work with expedited render previews at high resolutions
  • Create multiple perspectives and prototypes for realistic 3D scenes with quick and efficient smart tools
  • Enhance lighting with the environment light editor or add physical 3D lights to your scene for advanced staging and perspective designs
  • Export renders directly into Adobe Photoshop for further retouching and enhancement
Webinar 8: Advanced Editing Made Easy with More Creative Control
  • Explore Adobe Stock filters and comprehensive search engine capabilities
  • Discover multiple asset categories from images to 3D assets and templates
  • Learn about the direct integration from Adobe Stock into Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries and various Adobe Creative Cloud apps
  • Receive tasks directly in Adobe Creative Cloud with Adobe Workfront to create amazing content and seamlessly upload it to the relevant Workfront project or task
  • Connect Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) with Adobe Stock to search, preview, save, and licensed assets directly from AEM
  • Leverage Adobe Sensei features such as Smart Tags and Smart Crop
  • Easily share content collections with other team members
  • View content performance with Assets Insights

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