The new Oil Paint filter is a fantastic way to add a painterly look to your images. Discover the range of stroke textures it offers, and find out how to add a pattern adjustment layer to create a canvas effect.

Photoshop CS6 offers a new engine that harnesses images and patterns to create fills, offering different arrangements to give some great effects particularly suited to graphic design or collage oriented projects.

Styles aren't just for text; they can also be used for photos. This movie shows how to use this feature for photo effects including custom pattern and hue overlays and burnt edges.

Create seamless pattern brushes for use in your design projects. Author Justin Seeley shows you how to use the Auto Generate Corners feature in Adobe Illustrator. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com..

Video games are more than 40 years old, and we are starting to see repeated patterns of audience engagement. We'll show how the time between success reinforcement and the size of an audience have been linked for nearly the last 40 years. Hear from Richard Hileman, Electronic Arts chief creative director, as we explore:• How today's mobile, tablet, social, web, and console games, and new platforms like Connected TV, reflect the link between success reinforcement and audience size• How the complexity of the controller and the game serves as an audience filter over time, by impacting the learning curve of the game • How web-based platforms, combined with innovations in controlling games, can significantly boost the size of the game-playing audience

Learn from those on the front lines of code and design how to build industry-leading digital experiences that perform great and challenge assumptions about hybrid apps, and look darn good while doing it. Michael Wolf, director of technology at Cynergy, will show:• Dos and don'ts of cross-platform mobile design• Patterns that help you build and design with a common codebase, but enable each platform to shine• Performance pitfalls to avoid and tricks that can save you• The nuts and bolts of real-world PhoneGap applications like Halo Waypoint and Verizon Wireless

Get an insightful tour of surface design and discover how it bridges the world of graphics, product design, textiles, and fine art. Your guide is Jessie Whipple Vickery of the Pattern People, a surface design studio founded by Vickery and designer Claudia Brown.Vickery and Brown will demonstrate:• How surface design is evolving from a textile-focused craft to encompass products, interiors, architecture, and the built environment• How patterns are found everywhere, and how to find inspiration for pattern design in the world around us• How surface design defines our identity, inspires our emotions, tells a story, and adds meaning to the products that surround us

Tony Harmer, Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, will demonstrate how you can quickly create stunning pattern designs using Illustrator CS6. He’ll show the new gradients on strokes features and image trace as well as produce seamless patterns using the amazing new pattern-generation capabilities that Illustrator CS6 has built-in.

A cocktail-style celebration at the AIGA National Design Center Gallery on 5th Avenue in New York City. Attendees were encouraged to get hands on with the new features in CS6 and Creative Cloud. They were able to sketch a design using Adobe Ideas on the iPad. The sketches were then sent (by syncing to Creative Cloud) to a panel of designers (3 designers from Coach Brands, and 1 from Limited Brands) who used the new pattern creation tools in Illustrator CS6 to turn the sketches into repeating patterns which we will then be printed on a custom messenger bag. We’ll be sending each attendee who participated their very own unique messenger bag in a few weeks.

Discover how the new Bounding Boxes work to help you select and manipulate elements in a scene. Learn about the new Inverted "V" pattern on layers, how to use the selection indicators to identify layers and elements, and how you can edit a 3D element by manipulating its Bounding Box.