Hear Cathryn Posey, Social Media Strategist for Adobe, suggest how educators can get started in building their personal brand. This segment is part of the free online professional development workshop, "Build Your Brand: Getting Started" available on the Adobe Education Exchange.

In this brief interview with Cathryn Posey, Social Media Strategist for Adobe, Cathryn discusses what it means to build a personal brand and the benefits for educators. This segment is part of the free online professional development workshop, "Build Your Brand: Getting Started" available on the Adobe Education Exchange.

Adobe Education Leader and classroom teacher Nicole Dalesio discusses how she has built her brand as an educator and the many benefits she had enjoyed as a result. This segment is part of the free online professional development workshop, "Build Your Brand: Getting Started" available on the Adobe Education Exchange.

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows how you can capture color inspiration using the new Adobe Kuler iPhone app and then sync your color theme for immediate use in Adobe Illustrator CC.

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows you how to create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows how the new Touch Type tool in Illustrator CC lets you design with type in a powerful new way.

See how the new Touch Type tool in Illustrator CC lets you design with type in a powerful new way.

See how you can create websites faster by letting Illustrator CC generate CSS code for you — for text, objects, even entire layouts.

See how you can create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Building on the success of Ideopolis, an iPad app created for the 2011 MFA Design Thesis exhibition, MFA Design students at the School of Visual Arts now participate in a course called "Tablet Publishing: The Digital Future." Come learn more about this digital publishing course devoted to using Adobe InDesign and the Digital Publishing Suite toolset. In this session, we'll:• Show how Adobe tools allow MFA students to create and develop their own iPad magazine• Illustrate how students migrate from roles as publication designers to experience designers• Define what Digital Publishing Suite has to offer students in a higher education setting• Highlight some of the most creative ways to use Adobe tools

Learn how discovering and telling stories that are engaging, uplifting, and inspiring can be the foundation for your designs, and how your designs can bring these stories to life. Jake Lefebure, cofounder of the award-wining D.C. creative firm Design Army, will share how to tell today's stories with tomorrow's technology, taking those stories from print to new media. In this lively, interactive session, you'll learn: • How to capture your ideas in simple drawings• A process for taking those concepts from sketch to design, and then to production• Techniques to leverage your core design skills across new and emerging media

FrameMaker 11's Reference Pages allow you to associate text and artwork with paragraph formatting. For instance, you can place horizontal lines above or below a paragraph, or have a "Caution" box automatically placed above a paragraph. Writers cannot edit this artwork on the body page; one must visit the Reference Page in order to make a change. If the user revises the artwork or text in a special frame on the Reference Page, all instances associated with paragraph styles will universally update throughout the document.

"Appreciation to Life" is a piece for those who are victims of bullying. I was a victim of bullying through out middle school and the thoughts that went through my mind was outrages and dangerous. I only could imagine what other victims of bullying was thinking. Fortunately I found the AYV program in the Boys and Girls Club, I wanted this piece to show that I understand and that there is hope.

A stop motion animation made by taking pictures frame by frame on a camera. It's a metaphor for life and art, showing that art can spring out of anything in any form or manner to take any shape.

Professor of Film Editing, Julian Semillian explains why the University of North Carolina School of the Arts has made the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro to prepare their students in professional careers in film and broadcast.

A stop motion piece about how "art is" for one student.

Marc Lewis, pioneer of London’s new school dedicated to the art of advertising, will be joined by students in a look at the school’s innovative approach to learning. Students are mentored by award winners, a three year course is squeezed into one, and the focus is on ideas and creativity over execution.

The ability to add a creative blur to images in Adobe Photoshop CS6 just got easier. With the new Blur Gallery you can target regions within your images and customize the areas that you want to be in, or out of focus. This tutorial will discuss the detials in using the new Bokeh feature found in the Blur Gallery. Learn the fine art of adding a bokeh of light to your images for unique, and special effects.

See how you can use the new "Create Shapes from Vector Layer" command to convert your Illustrator documents to editable vectors in After Effects. See how a shape in Illustrator ends up as a Ray-traced, extruded 3D layer in After Effects.

Join Meagan at NAB 2012 as she talks to Art Nickel, a Media Producer at S.A. PRD about Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

This film was created by a group of students who feel that success in education is too often linked to achievements in scientific subjects. This film makes a plea for the Arts, the so-called ‘soft subjects’ illustrating how without a solid creative foundation the world would be much diminished. Inspiration lies at the heart of this film as it tackles the centuries old debate of arts versus sciences. The film is very stylised and the participating students were involved in every aspect from commissioning original music to deciding on the lighting states as well as the sound, camera, scripting and editing of the film.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost demonstrates the power of the Art History brush in Photoshop CS5 and its ability to continuously sample from any history state or snapshot. She will show you how to create compelling, painterly images by making simple changes to the default settings and utilizing a variety of different brush tips and presets.

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.

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.

Hear how USC School of Cinematic Arts animation instructors helped a world-famous conductor launch a new form of classical music performance. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, along with two students from their team, will share how they conceived and built animations to enhance the inaugural concert at the New World Theater in Miami. See their work, experience the music of Pictures at an Exhibition, and learn some technical tricks for melding music and imagination.

In "Intercultural Gardens," CCA Community Arts faculty Susanne Cockrell and an interdisciplinary group of students collaborated with 4th grade students at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland to research, design and install an orchard and outdoor garden classroom, supplied and supported by Alameda-based Ploughshares Nursery.

In "Designing Ecologies," CCA Ceramics chair Nathan Lynch and his students collaborated with Oikonos eco-science nonprofit and REBAR art, design, and social activism group to design nesting modules to be adopted and protected to the currently threatened rhinoceros aucklet birds living on Año Nuevo Island.

Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director, welcomes visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art of the Americas Wing’s 53 new galleries, inviting them to share in the wonder of art spanning three millennia and a whole continent.

In 2010, San Francisco was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts’ Mayors Institute of City Design grant for The ARTery Project, a proposal to jumpstart Mid-Market revitalization between UN Plaza and 6th Street, through short term expanded arts programming and long term investment in the arts organizations that make Mid-Market their home. As the signature initiative of The ARTery Project, Lights on Market Street marks the gateways to Mid-Market with three large-scale public lighting installations. The interactive nature of the site-specific light installations encourages passersby to see the neighborhood in a new light. Along with The ARTery Project’s yearlong calendar of arts and cultural public events, visitors are inspired to return again and again to the district.

Jane Urban made “Moonsong,” a stop motion video showing the connection between nature, humans and art, for Fast Forward, an Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston program in which teens create new media work for critique, presentation and distribution.

YBCA:YOU pilot participants discuss the impact of YBCA’s innovative, personalized approach to experiencing art. The program deepened their appreciation of contemporary art as well as their connection to the YBCA community, their own creativity, and the aesthetics of the world around them. 

In "826 Valencia Book Project," CCA Writing and Literature chair Aimee Phan and students collaborated with 826 Valencia to mentor high school students in essay writing, in preparation for a book release.

Learn how you can use the Variable Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator to rapidly trace complex brush strokes and turn a scanned image into fully-fledged vector art.

In this episode, our four presenters demonstrate Flash professional, After Effects, Dynamic Link, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

In this episode, Terry White demonstrates InDesign’s multiple art boards and Adobe Illustrator’s perspective drawing tool and Bristle Brush.

Turn your productions into $$ by understanding who is accessing your content, whether they are referring it to friends, and what they are saying about it in social communities. Adobe's Online Marketing technologies combine your art with the science of optimized marketing. Join this engaging session to learn more!

This tutorial will show you how to create great looking type by applying Illustrator art brushes to your text. Learn how to keep your newly decorated text editable and how to prevent the art brushes from distorting along the text path.

Join artist and interactive designer, Erik Natzke, for a showcase of his creative work. He'll share insights on how he fuses creativity and technology while working with Adobe Flash Professional and other tools.

Join Richard Weinberg of the USC School of Cinematic Arts to explore high-resolution motion picture optical microscopy. Weinberg developed a system for shooting movies with a RED One camera through a microscope and created a ten-minute movie, "MicrOrganisms," in 4K resolution that premiered in December 2009 at the CineGrid conference. This session reviews the image capture, editing, and visual effects process and how Weinberg used this system to stream live HD microscopy from Los Angeles to Yokohama, Japan, for an interactive presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia.

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.

Christian Saylor, Universal Mind

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Erik Natzke's session takes you on a journey of process and exploration as it relates to his use of Flash as a tool for generating compositions of artistic expression.

Christian Saylor from Universal Mind explored the UX methodology in a unique, engaging, and inspiring format to a community of developers who sought to understand the sometimes confusing world of the Experience Designer.

This music video illustrates the power and beauty of art and creativity in everyday life.

The central idea behind "Vanishing" was to present a alternate reality in which art no longer exists, a reality that is slowly become real. Due to funding cuts across the country, art programs in public schools are being lost. This current generation of young artists is slowly losing their only outlet in which an outside influence helps fund their creativity, and the upcoming generation might not have the chance at all. Art has an immeasurable application on accompanying parts of a high scholars curriculum, and the creative process that a student applies to art can be found useful in many other aspects of school life. The importance of saving school art programs is also heightened due to the recent amount of funding thrown to other places, places that we feel are far less important than ensuring creativity for future generation

Teaching solid design skills in a rapidly changing educational and technological arena poses challenges for institutions striving to give their graduates a competitive edge in the workplace. Bill Galbreath shows how the students at Full Sail University are using the power of the CS4 Master Collection to streamline workflow and create videos and motion graphic pieces, from concept to delivery in multiple mediums. Using many examples, he shows how the students use Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore together to give life and meaning to their creative concepts while at the same time learning the professional workflows that can translate directly to their career choice.

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

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.

Create original art or pattern brushes, and learn how to adjust segments of a brush pattern in Illustrator CS5.

Understand the differences between the object and merge drawing modes in Flash. Toggle between the two modes when creating shapes, make shape selections, and convert drawing objects to merge.

The Academy of Art University is using technology to extend the physical boundaries of its San Francisco campus, and enroll over 10,000 students into online, accredited, degree and certificate programs. Jason Shaeffer, Director of Online Graduate Studies, shows how Academy of Art University uses Adobe technologies to improve the quality of their online courses, improve student access to those courses, reduce costs, and enhance the effectiveness of recruiting.

Synchronous Objects reveals the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography of William Forsythe's dance, One Flat Thing, reproduced. Users can explore choreographic structures, discover patterns and re-imagine what they might look like through streaming video, animation, information graphics and interactive creative tools. Concept, analysis, tools and visual representations are created by The Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Department of Dance and William Forsythe. Website interface and application architecture designed and developed by tracermedia.

Lee Kohse shows you how to draw and paint in Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Cintiq tablet screen. See a quick warm-up exercise and learn how to draw a character right on screen.

In this episode we feature up and coming avant-garde fashion designer Jose Duran. He reveals the inspiration behind his wearable art.

If you spend even 10% of your work week on common tasks like updating design elements, Illustrator CS4 can save you enough time to take a vacation.

SCAD prepares students for successful, cross-disciplinary design careers with Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection software.

Leading U.S. design school uses Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional for online courses, giving students worldwide easy access to renowned degree and certificate programs.

Students at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts use advanced technologies to bring scientific and metaphysical concepts to life.

Find out how students from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London combine traditional skills in animation, drawing, and performance with Adobe software to produce a spectrum of work that includes commercial live briefs and more.

Join this panel of experienced designers and art directors to hear their thoughts on how to successfully combine great design with the latest technology to engage customers with timely, relevant, and resonant information.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to turn an image into an impressionist work of art in part one of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to create an impressionist artwork PDF slideshow in part two of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Students from the Savannah College of Art and Design are building their future today with Adobe CS4. This episode discusses how you will know what’s where with the new Composition Navigator.

Students from the Savannah College of Art and Design are building their future today with Adobe Creative Suite 4. This episode talks about how you can Export from InDesign into the Flash timeline.

Students from the Savannah College of Art and Design are building their future today with Adobe Creative Suite 4. This episode talks about how you can Export from InDesign into the Flash timeline.

At the heart of international design agency Vasava is a father, a son, and a passion for creating jaw-dropping innovative design. In this episode we learn how After Effects CS4 now lets you import Photoshop 3D art.

Create 3D effects with the 3D Rotation and 3D Translation tools. Use the Perspective Angle property to control the appearance of 3D effects.

In this episode we introduce you to the third of this year’s Young Guns recipients, Keetra Dean Dixon.

Join Michael Ninness as he explains that whether you're a web designer or an art director, chances are that at some point you'll need to lay out a project proposal, storyboard, or presentation to pitch your big idea and land your next client.

Watch the virtual fight club for designers and editors as they go head-to-head to create the ultimate digital art using Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and the new Intel Core i7 processor.

Learn how to overlap shapes, subtract from a shapes area, make geometric forms and use many frame tools in this tutorial with Virginia Brodie.

Shellie Hall shares a plethora of information about graphic elements in Adobe InDesign, from color specifications and print settings to rasterization, gamuts and profiles.

Shellie Hall shows you how to create a cool new image frame design for your image in InDesign CS3, then save it as a new object style.

Learn how to use Illustrator's LiveColor feature to replace, reduce, and manipulate the colors in your image.

Watch this commercial spot for an audio product. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

Chris Botello teaches how to use live paint and live trace in Illustrator CS3. This tutorial is part of the Illustrator CS3: Quick & Easy Course at xTrain.

This video is a commercial spot for an event. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

This animated short is a story about finding the music. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

Shellie Hall explores some extra information about InDesign Books. This tutorial is part of the InDesign: Creating Books for Long or Multiple Documents Course at xTrain.

InDesign Books are a great feature for putting together a batch of information for a digital book. Here, Shellie Hall walks through the steps to piece together an InDesign Book.

Chuck Groth shares some information about identity systems, such as how they are used and the role they play in communication and commerce. This tutorial is part of the Design Theory & Elements Course at xTrain.

Filling and stroking images are a great new way to create lines in Adobe InDesign. This tutorial is part of the InDesign CS3: Simplified & Easy Course at xTrain.

Converting a pixel image to a vector image can be very useful in the creative and business world. Learn great techniques for converting to vector images using Adobe InDesign.

Shellie Hall explores typography using InDesign, touching on topics such as type styles, characters, glyphs, and architecture. This tutorial is part of the InDesign CS3: Document Creation Workflow Course at xTrain.

By Chris Botello, Presented by xTrain. Create 3D graphics that can rotate using Illustrator CS3. This tutorial is part of the Illustrator CS3: Quick & Easy Course at xTrain

Discover the many purposes for creating a brochure with Chuck Groth. This tutorial is part of the Design Theory & Elements Course at xTrain.