It's the end of hard matte lines. Keep the details when separating complicated foreground elements like frizzy hair or motion-blurred edges from complex backgrounds. This means you can create natural-looking composites without keying specially shot footage.

Photoshop has an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers to get more done in less time. Attending this energetic, fun, and fast-paced session will leave you smacking your forehead and saying "I wish I'd known that years ago!" This session will reveal as many tips and techniques to boost your productivity as can be packed into 60 minutes. In this session, Michael Ninness, Senior VP of Product and Content, lynda.com, will cover:+ The top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user MUST know.+ Easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail.+ Automating certain tasks — without recording Actions!+ Optimization tips for smaller and more efficient web graphics.

Join Ethan Malasky, Adobe senior engineering manager, for a fun, immersive presentation in which he "interacts" with cartoonish characters to illustrate the various graphical features found on the web today and the ones coming soon. Malasky will cover:• The history of the graphical web• The background and details behind SVG, Canvas, and WebGL• Next-generation CSS features like CSS Shaders, Compositing, and Blending

Join Corey Rich, one of the most recognized adventure and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers, as he shares his experiences capturing photographs and video for commercial and editorial clients. Having made the transition from photography to videography, Rich will detail all that goes into developing and delivering a final video edit and a corresponding set of photographs for a commercial client. He'll also give an inside look into what drives his interest in visual storytelling.In this inspirational session, you'll learn:• How to transfer photography skills to video• How to develop your own vision using a DSLR camera• What goes into making some of the most difficult images in the world

Photoshop has an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers to get more done in less time. Attending this energetic, fun, and fast-paced session will leave you smacking your forehead and saying "I wish I'd known that years ago!" This session will reveal as many tips and techniques to boost your productivity as can be packed into 60 minutes. In this session, Michael Ninness, Senior VP of Product and Content, lynda.com, will cover:+ The top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user MUST know.+ Easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail.+ Automating certain tasks — without recording Actions!+ Optimization tips for smaller and more efficient web graphics.

Does your game need to integrate with the iOS Game Center? How about including an in-app purchasing system? Learn how to go beyond the standard ActionScript API when developing mobile games with Adobe AIR, part of the Adobe Game Developer Tools in the Adobe Creative Cloud. Come to this session to understand and learn in more detail how to:• Write your own extension using native code, and develop the ActionScript API that wraps it• Package a native extension, and reuse it during your game development• Leverage third-party native extensions available today

The Brackets open source project provides a playground for experimenting with new ideas in web tooling. Built in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, anything is possible through Brackets extensions. This session will take you through the necessary steps to build your first extension. Kevin Dangoor, lead contributor to the Brackets open source project, willdiscuss:• Detailed review of the brackets extension API• How to structure and build extensions• Setup for debugging and testing extensions• Sharing your extension with the community

Stay alert and try to solve these "simple" JavaScript puzzles designed to demonstrate some of the more obscure "features" of the language. Try your best to answer them! But be careful — the solutions aren't as easy as they look. Learn these puzzlers so you can avoid making the same mistakes in your own code. What to expect from this session: • Learn about some of the more obscure features of the JavaScript language by solving fun puzzles.• Hear detailed explanations as to how it can cause bugs in your application.• Discover ways to make your code immune to bugs caused by these features.Note: This talk will not cover JavaScript with respect to libraries and frameworks such as jQuery and Node.js; it will only discuss language.

The Renault Captur has built a brand engagement iPad app using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The app uses engaging slideshows, images, and video to illustrate details of the car, showcase the design process from concept to reality, and communicate its consumer lifestyle message.

Adobe is proud to introduce the Preview for Edge Reflow, available to the public for the very first time via the Creative Cloud. In this episode, we will give you the high level details of what Reflow is and where you can download it.