You decide! Topics for Convention sessions with Russell Viers

Have you seen the preliminary agenda for this year’s Convention? We have Russell Viers giving two sessions. It’s been a few years since he has talked with us and if you don’t remember him he is always entertaining and informative.

“Russell Viers is not just one of the best Adobe CC trainers I know, but he is also the funniest. Don’t miss him.”

David Blatner, author of many books and video courses, including “InDesign Essential Training” at LinkedIn Learning

Russell has given us some great suggestions for session topics, but we want to ask you what YOU want to learn. Short descriptions follow after the form. Share this with your production / editorial staff. Your input will be so helpful in making these valuable sessions.

Beyond the Apps: What Else is in Adobe’s Creative Cloud Subscription
We all subscribe to the Creative Cloud to use the software, right? Well, there is a nice list of features we get as subscribers, but are you using them? I use them and want to show you how to get the most from your monthly fee. We’ll look at Adobe Fonts, online review options, Free Adobe Stock Graphics and Images, cloud storage, integration, and more. 

All you ever wanted to know about file formats, but were afraid to ask
JPG, PDF, EPS, PNG, TIFF, AI, INDD, PSD and so many more…it’s enough to make one’s head spin. Throw in RGB or CMYK and things get REALLY messy. Learn the basic uses for the various formats and when/why to use one over another. 

Presenting Data – creating infographics with Illustrator, InDesign, and other resources
Whether you’re trying to show budgets, improved test scores year by year, increase in traffic fatalities, or any other data-intensive information, there are many ways to convey that so it’s easier for the reader, using infographics. Adobe’s Illustrator has many built-in infographic tools, InDesign can make great-looking tables easily, and there are other resources to help you show data with a story in a more interesting way.

Building Photo Pages Faster
It’s that time of year again when many newspapers are running the many pages of graduate photos. Or maybe you build used car, or real estate ads. Or maybe you have other times you need to place photos with text on a page in a grid. Well, if you do, you know how long it can take to build them. In this session you’ll see some real time-saving tips and techniques to not only build pages faster, but to edit and reformat quickly, too.

Automatic InDesign: Simple tricks to automate InDesign (2 sessions)
Are you tired of doing the same tasks over and over? See many of the easy-to-learn powerful automatic tools InDesign has built in that can speed your production, giving you more time for design. Whether building pages or ads, or both, this class can save you valuable production time.

Taking and Processing photos in the field with Lightroom Mobile
Whether shooting with your mobile device or something more powerful, there are times we need to process and upload photos from the field. Perhaps we just need to upload to social media and we’ll finalize the photos for print when we get back to the office. Lightroom Mobile on a phone or tablet is the answer. Learn how to adjust photos, even with selective adjustments, and quickly export or share.

The Adobe Photo Adjustment Ecosystem
If you’re only using Photoshop to adjust your images, you’re missing out on a whole new way to manage, adjust, and share images. Yes, Adobe still has Photoshop, but there’s also Bridge/Camera Raw, Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop iPad. See how all of these tools can work together as an integrated ecosystem of image adjustment power to save you time and improve quality and flexibility.