Adobe evangelist, Rufus Deuchler, shows how to create at lightning speed thanks to a range of new features and significantly improved performance in the CS6 versions of Photoshop Extended, Illustrator and InDesign. Adobe® Muse™ software enables designers to create websites without writing code. Planning, designing, and publishing original HTML pages is as easy as creating layouts for print. With master pages, built-in tools for interactivity, and access to over 400 web fonts served by the Adobe Typekit® service, it’s a snap to produce distinctive, professional websites.

Startup profiles are sets of parameters designed to jump start your design work for print, web, tablets, phones and other devices. Discover how to select the output type and have Illustrator set the basic elements such as size, orientation , and bleed, getting you started quickly and saving you time.

64-bit support means that Illustrator can leverage more than 3 GB of RAM, which can double its speed. Applying effects to large files or working on multiple files becomes a lot more efficient.

Learn about Image Trace, which can automatically turn scanned art into a vector graphic. It replaces the old Live Trace and produces cleaner paths and better color recognition in less time.

With the Pattern feature, you can create swatches based on shapes you create, then apply them to selected artwork and edit them any way you want.

Adding a gradient to a stroke is a new and useful feature. In this movie, you'll learn how to modify the stroke width and create something truly unique.

Explore Illustrator's new interface, which defaults to medium dark, similar to some video products, and learn how you can adapt it to meet your personal preferences easily and quickly.

With Illustrator CS6, textures and patterns have never been easier to create. In this tutorial, learn how add a repeating pattern to the background of your artwork.

The revised interface in Illustrator CS6 includes a new control panel across the top of the screen. It combines stable and context-sensitive options to make your work easier.

With Illustrator's panels ported over to a completely new system, it is easier than ever to make inline text edits and use keyboard shortcuts, freeing you from the tyranny of the mouse.

In this movie, learn about Adobe Illustrator, the software used by artists and graphic designers to create scalable vector artwork for use in projects for both print and web.

Learn about the Gaussian Blur effect, which provides instant previews and vastly improved render time.

In this episode, hear from Terry White, Adobe Design Evangelist, to see Adobe Creative Cloud and the new features in Creative Suite 6 in action. Learn how you can create at lightning speed thanks to new performance engines in Photoshop Extended and Illustrator. See how to quickly create multiple layouts from a single set of content in Adobe InDesign CS6. And discover Adobe Muse, for designing HTML websites without writing code including 400+ web fonts served by Typekit that make it a breeze to include distinctive typography in your site design.

Product manager Brenda Sutherland shows how to easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns that can be edited at any time with Illustrator CS6.

Adobe Design Evangelist, Rufus Deuchler, shows new users the types of things you can create using CS6 Design & Web Premium.

Save time as you design and build for website by learning about the latest productivity enhancements in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Whether using your old system or have a new one, you’ll be able to experience increased performance in Adobe Createive Suite 6 Photoshop, Dreawmeaver, and Illustrator.

Adobe Design Evangelist, Rufus Deuchler talks about just a few of the new time-saving features in CS6 Design & Web Premium.

With Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe Fireworks CS6, Adobe Flash Professional CS6 on your side, you have everything you need to unleash the full potential of the latest HTML5/CSS3 standards and frameworks, including jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, and WebKit. Discover how easy it is to create adaptive layouts that adjust to different screen aspect ratios, create HTML5 animations and interactions or build apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS and Symbian. More than just breakthrough features, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 unleashes the latest workflows for designers looking to pushing the boundaries be it publishing, print, tablet, iPad or interactive.

See how illustrator and animator Sanjay Patel uses images to craft compelling stories. From over 14 years of work at Pixar to his visually rich illustrations of the Hindu mythology of Ramayana, Patel will share his artistic methods, including how he goes from paper, pen, and pencil to highly detailed work in Adobe Illustrator.

See how easy it is to work remotely on a tablet device. If you never thought you could create professional quality output away from your desktop, this session could open your eyes. Create and share your designs from a plane? The beach? Check out this session to learn more.

Learn how the artists at Sesame Workshop create the digital assets for their world-famous Sesame Street Muppets using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as their primary tools. In this inspiring session, you'll get an inside view into how these amazing character artists bring the magic that is Sesame Street to life through illustration and photography. You'll also gain an understanding of how Sesame Workshop’s outreach to children around the world helps them learn and grow.

Discover how Hallmark is developing a motion design workflow for content that has multiple uses (print, interactive, web, broadcast, mobile, and so on). We’ll show how to take files that originated for print and then convert them for distribution to the web, mobile applications, Google TV, and broadcast. See how to start with HD source files and follow an "author once, distribute everywhere" model. While focusing on a single file, the session will cover a range of topics from naming conventions to output modules and file creation.

Discover how to break free from your desktop and create anywhere. Creative professionals are working in new ways with their Adobe desktop products by starting with mobile applications, and then bringing their work into the powerhouse products they already love like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and more. Come see for yourself the advantages of going mobile.

Learn expert tips and techniques to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator. Reduce the time you spend on mundane tasks and gain more time to focus on the activities that matter: the creative ones. Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator product manager, will show you how to work faster, smarter, and much more smoothly. Once you've tricked out Illustrator and made it the custom vehicle you've always wanted, you'll experience life in the fast lane by shaving valuable time off tasks you perform every day.

Join Mordy Golding as he demonstrates an eye-opening approach to using this powerful, vector-based software to create wireframes and pixel-perfect graphics for web and mobile projects. Learn how to integrate with other web applications and to generate HTML5 and CSS3 content right from Adobe Illustrator. Think Illustrator isn't used for web and interactive design? Think again!

Watch the process of designing and developing a rich Internet application based on the Adobe Flash Platform — as it happens. Learn how to keep the process on track (on time and on budget) using WorkflowLab in conjunction with Adobe Creative Suite tools. Michelle Yaiser and Leif Wells will walk you through best practices for this process, including the preparation of a design in Illustrator, adding interactivity in Flash Catalyst, and connecting an application to live data in Flash Builder.

Learn insider techniques for Illustrator CS5 from the source — David Macy, the Illustrator product manager. Learn how to take advantage of the new features in Illustrator CS5, and get the skinny on techniques you should be using right now but never had the time to learn on your own. Whether you design for print, web, interactive, or video, you'll leave this session with practical and effective techniques you can use every day.

In this expert panel session, we will compare common workflows and discuss the latest Adobe tool releases, including CS5 products (specifically Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks) and Flash Builder 4 Professional. The panel includes Garth Braithwaite (interaction designer), Leif Wells (ActionScript developer), Zach Stepek (server-side developer), and Stacey Mulcahy (information architect). The session will be opened up for discussion points from the audience, so feel free to bring along questions.

Join us to hear a panel of four super-talented Threadless artists explain their creative process and how they learned to love the bomb (dropping their work on the world and waiting for the reaction, aka the explosion). Threadless founder Jake Nickell leads the discussion, which delves into the nerve-racking trials and awesome thrills of being a young graphic designer in today's market. Visual examples of each artist's work will be shown. Panelists include Ross Zietz, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Aled Lewis, and Enkel Dika.

Learn how to take your skills in visual design for print and the web into the exciting and rapidly growing field of designing for user experiences. Get an understanding of this multidisciplinary field and see how interaction designers provide solutions to complex design challenges and define new and evolving interactive products and services.

Learn how to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance with the new Perspective drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. See how the new Perspective Grid tool supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective and the Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective.

Learn what's important in web design, and see how your experience in print design can not only translate into web design but also serve as an advantage. Getting started in web design can be overwhelming without some good direction. That's why AIGA Portland presents Jason Duerr of Sandstrom Partners, who will help you better understand the constraints and possibilities when designing for the web.

Learn how to design for an effective user experience, which should be the underlying goal for any application. See how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 along with Adobe Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Fireworks CS5, and InDesign CS5 as user experience design tools. This session covers creating personas, site maps, storyboards, and wireframes and how these elements are combined to create a finished application. To extend your knowledge from this session, attend the "Hands-on: Using Flash Catalyst CS5 to Design Rich User Experiences" lab.

Discover how to make your vector art stand out. In this session, you'll learn about the variety of output options within Adobe Illustrator that can be used to create dynamic designs and illustrations. Artist Greg Geisler, one of the creators of the Illustrator how-to guides on Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/howto/), will walk you through his process for creating visually rich artwork. He'll show techniques using various tools in Illustrator, discuss integration between Illustrator and Flash Professional, and explore going beyond Illustrator with additional techniques such as laser cutting. Join this session and get more out of Illustrator.

NAPP instructor & Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop RC Concepcion examines the pre-installed layouts of Dreamweaver CS4. He also discusses how CSS helps users build a Web site.

NAPP instructor & Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop RC Concepcion reviews how to create a folder and file structure in Dreamweaver CS4. RC also explains how that folder structure is represented on the Web.

NAPP instructor & Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop RC Concepcion shows you how to organize your project files and how to define a Web site in Dreamweaver CS4.

Greg Rewis walks you through demonstrations to get you up to speed with creating SVGs for multiple devices and the web.

Create sharp web graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS5. Join Terry White as he takes a look at some of the little known new Adobe Illustrator CS5 features including Pixel Preview, Align to Pixel Grid and the Artboards Panel.

Showcasing new features of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium to prepare students for future success in web design, web development, and interactive design technology.

Establishing an intent for artwork, considering the audience and destination, before beginning a project makes it easier to repurpose artwork later. Use New Document Profile settings to define size, artboards, bleed, and color mode for the document.

Create variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5. Control the thickness of a stroke at any point along a path by using the Width tool. Apply, save, and re-apply variable widths across multiple paths by using width profiles.

Using the Width tool, create variable-width strokes and use various stroke profiles for consistent style in Illustrator CS5.

Discover ways to map flat artwork into perspective in Illustrator CS5. Transform artwork by allowing automatic plane positioning and perpendicular movement of objects.

Create new artwork in perspective in Illustrator CS5 by using the Perspective Grid tool. Create shapes and panes mapped to perspective.

Learn about changing the stacking order of objects in an interactive tour, using familiar commands from Illustrator. Use the align commands to easily align objects on the artboard.

In this movie, learn how to define the pages and states for a simple interactive game. You’ll also learn how to duplicate and reuse existing button components in a design.

Once you’ve brought artwork into Flash Catalyst, you’re ready to start defining the components that will add interactivity to a project. In this movie, learn how to create button components from Illustrator art and edit a button’s appearance.

Set up your document for perspective drawing by defining the perspective grid in Illustrator CS5. Learn how to change the grid settings.

Learn the 9-slice scaling method and scaling options in Illustrator CS5, including how to preserve symbol instance proportions when scaling.

Learn how to use the Draw Behind and Draw Inside drawing modes to efficiently achieve various layer effects in Illustrator CS5.

Create complex art from simpler basic shapes by using the Shape Builder tool in Illustrator CS5.

Use the new Artboards panel to name artboards and adjust settings of artboards in Illustrator CS5.

Use the new pixel-aligned feature to create web graphics that fit optimally with your finished product, and take a peek in Preview mode.

The Blob Brush and Eraser tools perform pathfinder operations behind the scenes as you draw. Draw over existing brush strokes with the Blob Brush to merge the strokes. Select objects before drawing with the Eraser tool to erase only selected areas.

Understand the benefits of using modifier keys in combination with the drawing tools in Illustrator CS5.

Navigate the stacking order in an Illustrator document by using the Selection tool. Select and isolate grouped objects and go into Outline Mode to view them more clearly. Learn how to select objects beneath the selected layer.

Choose the Selection tool to select an object or group of objects or the Direct Selection tool to select individual paths or anchor points. Choose the Group Selection tool to select nested groups. Use modifier keys to add or subtract from selections.

Learn about Illustrator CS5, a versatile, out-of-the-box solution for creating vector graphics. Illustrator supports cross-media design and multiple graphics formats, and provides endless options to create lifelike designs and artwork.

Learn the Top 3 Features of Flash Professional CS5. Includes the Flash Text Engine, new Text Layout Panels, iPhone App Development, streamlined workflow with FXG support and the ability to import between the Flash tools, Photoshop and Illustrator. (We know that sounds like more than 3)

Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid to generate clean, sharp graphics for the web and mobile devices in Illustrator CS5.

Explore the landscape of the web today. Understand what technologies are available to you, when and how to use each technology to add richness and interactivity to your designs.

Join Chevon Hicks, creative director and president at Heavenspot, a top digital agency in Los Angeles, as he shares his techniques for creating vector portraits using Illustrator CS4.

Take a close look at attractive but challenging designs, and break down the code and techniques necessary to turn your vision into CSS reality.

Learn to leverage existing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator assets in Fireworks to mock up web pages or complete websites. Optimize images for the web and export a design as CSS.

Learn insider techniques for Illustrator CS4 from the source, David Macy, the Illustrator product manager. Learn how to take advantage of the new tools in Illustrator CS4, and get the skinny on techniques you should be using right now.

Join newspaper designer Jacek Utko as he explores how a new type of journalism -a creative one -can generate a fresh approach for news and content on the web. Newspapers and magazine have much to learn from web, but websites have a lot to learn from print

Learn valuable techniques for preparing UI design comps in both Photoshop and Illustrator for use in Flash Catalyst. Discover practical tips on how to structure your designs so they are ready to build.

Join Von Glitschka, renowned illustrative designer, as he reveals how he combines a solid creative process with the latest tools in Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4 to deliver fresh, inventive design.

Join Terry White and Colin Smith, the creative pro masters, as they show us cool tips and inside techniques for Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4.

Join Robert Hoekman as he explains how smart people doing dumb things can be funny. Lots of smart people doing the same dumb thing in your web application isn't funny.

Join Stephen Hammond and Karl Rainhold, experts from Omniture, the market leader in analytics, as they discuss analytics for RIAs and how they compare to analytics for traditional websites.

Join Kathleen Maher, Devin Poolman, Nick Bilton and Mary Yurkovic as they show us how trendsetting publishers are bridging the divide between print and digital to extend their brand, capture new readers, and lower production costs.

Join Simone Legno, tokidoki cofounder and world-renowned illustrator as he discusses his journey from freelance creative to chief creative of a global lifestyle brand based entirely on vector-based art.

Join David Macy, Illustrator product manager and get it straight from the source. In this session, Davidwill be your guide to what's new and cool in Illustrator CS4, the vector software long considered to be the essential tool for cross-media design.

Learn how to bring content from Illustrator or Photoshop into your Flash projects.

Learn how to bring content from Illustrator or Photoshop into your Flash projects.

Product Manager David Macy demonstrates new the new Blob Brush feature.

Animate Photoshop and Illustrator assets with Flash. Learn how to animate symbols by using keyframes and motion tweens. You'll also learn how to publish your Flash animation for the web and mobile.

Corey talks about some useful scripts on the web that are available to anyone for download to use with Photoshop. RC answers a viewer question about turning an image into a cartoon using Illustrator.

In this interview, author Robert Hoekman ("Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design") discusses Miskeeto and his latest book.

Dan Brown, (author of "Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning") discusses how the use of metaphors when thinking about content and content management can yield beneficial insights.

In this interview, author Andy Clarke, "Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design," discusses the CSS Eleven and his motivations behind creating the working group.