Discover why at times we feel on fire with creativity — and at other times we don’t. We'll explore the neuroscience of creativity, productivity techniques, and emerging practices that spur innovation and help our brains work best. Beware: This session challenges the standard norms for concentration, focus, and productivity and may change how you work — for the better. Learn how to: • Eliminate the blocks that impede creative productivity• Create and leverage the states in which your brain generates the most ideas • Structure time and workspaces to be more productive • Dismantle standard approaches to working in order to stir creativity

Adobe's XD Seed team was tasked with inventing the future of collaborative workspaces. Learn how Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, helped inspire this vision. We'll show how the Context project came to life.Adobe XD's Remon Tijssen, principal designer, and David Macy, principal incubator, will present:• Why WIRED says, "I can't tell you how excited we are about Context and the creative liberties it is going to provide us"• How trends in technology such as touchscreens, sensors, and multidevice interfaces change the way we collaborate• The energetic beauty of a system based on simple containers and high-performing, natural gestures• The evolution of Context from prototype to production code

In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the After Effects interface, identifying the most essential panels—the Project panel, the Timeline, and the Composition panel. He also introduces workspace presets, which instantly reconfigure the After Effects workspace for specific tasks.

In this video you'll see how the Project panel, Media Browser panel, and default workspace have changed to make it easier to find and trim assets easier. You'll also learn how to use the new Hover Scrub feature to quickly preview and trim clips.

In this movie, author Jan Kabili demonstrates how to apply a vignette (a darkening or lightening at the corners of an image) in the Guided Edit workspace in Photoshop Elements 11. This effect directs the viewer's attention to the subject in the center of an image.

Learn three simple ways to adjust exposure, brightness, and/or contrast in your photos. The Instant Fix option in the Organizer offers great results fast. Quick Edit mode in the Editor workspace gives you a bit more control with sliders and adjustment previews. And the Brightness and Contrast Guided Edit offers step-by-step assistance so you can get exactly the look you want.

Take a tour of the new, modern interface in Adobe Premiere Elements 11. See where to find key tools and options in the three-column Organizer, learn your way around Quick and Expert editing workspaces, and see how to add transitions, effects, and other enhancements to your movies. Finally, learn how to share your finished movies to disc, YouTube™, Vimeo, and more.

Get a clear overview of Adobe Premiere Elements 11 with this tour of the Organizer and Editor workspaces. See where to import clips, preview them, organize them into albums and folders, add tags and other information, create InstantMovies, and quickly share in a variety of ways. Also see what's included in the Quick and Expert editing workspaces, and get a look at enhancement options including transitions, effects, music, and more.

In this movie, author Jan Kabili discusses how to use the Photo Fix features  in Photoshop Elements 11 to quickly and effectively crop your photos in the Organize workspace.

Get a clear overview of Photoshop Elements 11 with this tour of the Organizer and Editor workspaces. See how to use the Organizer to import photos, organize them into albums, add keywords and ratings to make them easy to find, add captions, make quick fixes, and share them via Facebook and more. Also, see how to enhance your photos in the Editor workspace, which offers Quick, Guided, and Expert modes that let you edit the way that fits your needs.