Terry White, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows off the newest Creative Cloud features for designers. See what's new in the tools you love — Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, and InDesign CC — and discover new ways to work like creating websites or iPad apps without writing code. Learn about new services that help keep your ideas, files, fonts, settings, and team members in sync. All in one place, only in Creative Cloud.

Learn how to leverage the rich toolset in Adobe Illustrator to create vibrant web graphics, wireframes, and complete website mockups. Justin Seeley, staff author for lynda.com and an Adobe Certified Expert, will share his design expertise.Learn how to:• Build responsive layouts with artboards• Produce custom color palettes and swatches for web graphics• Craft vector shapes and text designs that seamlessly scale• Apply drop shadows and other live effects• Optimize and export different types of graphics• Speed up your workflow with reusable image sprites and Smart Objects

Learn how Adobe Ideas can help you create quick vector illustrations even if you don't usually draw. Brian Yap, illustrator and creative director at Boxing Clever in Saint Louis, will demonstrate several techniques to create illustrations from reference images.In this session, you'll:• Learn the basics of creating illustrations on a mobile device with Adobe Ideas• See how the latest update lets you use new brush options and layer features• Discover how to take an illustration from Adobe Ideas to a finished piece using Adobe Creative Cloud and Illustrator

Explore why SVG may be the most significant technology to leverage as myriad displays continue to emerge on an almost daily basis. Learn how to get started with SVG as well as how to ensure harmonization across web platforms with SVG2. During this session, Alan Greenblatt, Adobe Evangelist, and Dirk Schulze, Adobe Computer Scientist, will:- Outline the foundations of SVG such as drawing shapes, transforms, and animation- Demonstrate SVG features such as transforms, masks, clip-paths, and filters applied to HTML content- Provide a look at the SVG support in the tools you know and love, and show exactly what it is they are exporting- Explain the work Adobe has been contributing to CSS and SVG to bring vector graphics back to the forefront of web design- Showcase key SVG2 features such as masking, filters, text decoration, and advanced styling

Learn how to use Adobe Fireworks to create icons and sprite sheets and extract CSS properties. Tools and techniques we'll explore include the Pen tool, composite paths, the Path panel, and CSS Properties.Dave Hogue, vice president of experience design at Fluid, will explain:• How to use vector tools in Fireworks to create icons for websites or mobile apps• How to create a CSS sprite sheet of the icons and design an icon toolbar• How to extract the CSS properties of the toolbar so that it can be built in Adobe Dreamweaver or Adobe Edge Code and Brackets

Learn how to use Illustrator and a free vector file of a world map to create a custom map showing geographic data by country.

Create a multi-layered color illustration using Adobe Ideas. Learn to prep your illustration for further refinement in Adobe Illustrator. Part 2 of the 3-part series "Creating a vector illustration using Adobe Ideas and Illustrator."

Learn techniques on how to clean up and edit an Adobe Ideas file in Adobe Illustrator. Part 3 of the 3-part series "Creating a vector illustration using Adobe Ideas and Illustrator."

Tour the interface of Adobe Ideas and learn to draw with its tools. Learn to prep your illustration for further refinement in Adobe Illustrator. Part 1 of the 3-part series "Creating a vector illustration using Adobe Ideas and Illustrator."

Birgitta Hosea, a London based digital artist and animator, will be demonstrating the powerful new Ray-traced 3D engine in After Effects. She’ll show you how vector shapes and text can quickly be extruded in 3-dimensions as well as new materials options for translucency, refraction and reflection.

Steve Burnard, Adobe UK Product Manager, shows how to create beautiful designs for websites and mobile apps using Fireworks CS6. Combine vector and bitmap images, mock-ups and interactive content for popular tablets and smartphones.

Learn how to easily create and save eye catching color themes in Adobe Ideas sketches.

Learn about the power and versatility of Fireworks CS6 as an application for screen design, including websites, mobile devices and interface design using vector and bitmap image support.

Get an introduction to Ray-traced 3D, how to activate it, the 3D layers it adds, and the many options that are available in those layers. Vector layers for text and shapes have greatly expanded options in this version of AE, and most useful for non vector layers are the new "Material" options which include the ability to create after-effects-native reflections for the first time.

Take an in-depth look at extruded vector layers in this continued lesson on Ray-traced 3D. Review the new properties including the extrusion parameter, the bevel settings, the material options including reflections, also explore the animate pop-up and environment maps.

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.

In this video, you will see how to quickly convert vector graphics from Illustrator to shape layers and animate the paths in After Effects CS6. In previous versions, this would have involved a great deal of tedious cutting and pasting - but no more.

Vector-based shape layers now behave very much like vector shapes in Illustrator, InDesign, and other Adobe applications. Learn how to apply fills, including None, as well as solid, gradient, and dashed strokes. Plus, you have stacking and alignment controls, as well as the option to snap the edges to the pixel grid.

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.

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost shares the new features and enhancements in the Photoshop CS6 vector shapes tool.

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

Edit images and create vector graphics more quickly thanks to new performance engines in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Illustrator CS6.

Product manager Brenda Sutherland Convert shows how to convert raster images to editable vectors using a completely new tracing engine in Illustrator CS6.

Create superior designs faster. Get consistent formatting with type styles, use vector layers to apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects, easily create custom strokes and dashed lines, quickly search layers, and more.

Make an instant Motion Graphics Promo using the new Create Shapes from Vector Layer in After Effects CS6.

Join Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator product manager, and she shares an exciting new way to create seamless, repeating vector patterns in Illustrator CS6.

In this mobile app demo, John Chen shows animations on the Nexus One (left) and iPod 4 (right) performing poorly because of too many vector graphics. Note the degraded performance (as slow as 12 fps) as more and more vector graphics come in. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

This lesson introduces techniques for working between Illustrator and Flash Catalyst. Learn how to prepare vector files for export, and how to incorporate them into an active Catalyst document.

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

Learn how Adobe Ideas, the essential digital sketchpad tool, lets you design anywhere using vectors, layers, and color themes to create finished design work ready for production.

Artist and Creative Director, Brian Yap, pushes the boundaries by being among the first to implement Touch app technology to design in a new way. Yap is able to achieve his pen and ink inspired look uncompromised with Adobe Ideas and saves the several steps of sketching, scanning and inking. Adobe Ideas has made his iPad his newest design tool. Although he designs in a cutting edge digital way with the iPad, the work that he creates can be printed in a very traditional method. He enjoys the freedom of working away from his desktop and he sees this as just the beginning of the changes to the way artists work. Check out Brian's Behance page: behance.net/brianyap

Kyle Lambert is a fine artist based in the UK and was formally trained as an oil painter. He currently freelances and specializes in painting, illustration and animation. Used to the tactile nature of oil and canvas, Kyle naturally gravitated to the iPad to create digitally. Lambert is becoming well known for his striking character portraits and was the first artist to create photo-realistic work using Adobe Ideas: http://bit.ly/oHhjuy. In this video, learn about Lambert's approach to working and get inspired as you watch how he creates using Adobe Ideas – zooming all the way in to get fine detail and zooming all the way out to see the image.

Dramatization of a true story about how Kush designed a real music CD album cover for Warp 11 in Adobe Ideas then exported into Adobe Illustrator to create print quality vector art.

Explore some of the lesser known yet powerful features of Adobe Fireworks, an essential design tool that operates with both vectors and bitmaps and can span the design process from wireframe to comp. If you are already comfortable with Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, and Flash Catalyst, see how Fireworks can become an integral part of your design/develop workflow.

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!

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.

See how easy it is to quickly create a complex shape with the new Shape Builder tool in Illustrator.

Quickly create the illusion of the 3rd dimension in your illustration with the new Perspective Grid tool in Illustrator CS5.

Master the use of gradients in Illustrator to quickly add a 3-dimensional aspect to background colors or objects.

Looking for a more organic way to draw in Illustrator? Bristle Brush is for you. It’s like painting with vectors.

The Blob Brush tool in Illustrator is the fastest way to draw crisp, sharp vector graphics that have a natural feel to them.

Fast Track your Cut & Paste artwork by using the Appearance Panel to rapidly apply fills, strokes and effects to any shape you create in Illustrator.

Mobile devices can have a hard time processing complex vector graphics. With Flash Professional CS5.5 you now have the ability to export complex vector graphics as an easier-to-process bitmap while still retaining the graphic in vector format in Flash Pro. Paul Trani takes you through this process and shows you how to cache vector graphics as bitmap images.

In this tutorial, Paul Trani shows you how to use Flash Professional CS5.5 to convert a vector graphic into a bitmap (a process known as symbol rasterization) for editing in Photoshop.

In this episode I'll show you how to get started working with images in InDesign CS5. See the best ways to bring your images in and size them. Also learn the ins and outs of working with text wrap around vector shapes.

Live Trace is one of Illustrator's most unique features but sometimes the vector result contains small unwanted artifacts. This tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop layers in combination with Illustrator Live Trace to fine tune the final vector result to give you gorgeous, transparent results with very little effort and still maintain complete control.

Adobe Illustrator has some fantastic vector drawing tools, great for creating repeated patterns for use on fabrics clothing and any design work. However if you you make the repeat too large the files can become quite cumbersome and the file sizes are massive. Learn how to create the most efficient, flexible Illustrator artwork.

Explore the most current optimization strategies for graphics in Adobe Flash Player and ActionScript 3.0, including their effects on both Adobe AIR content and existing web content. You'll walk away with an understanding of not only how to implement these best practices, but also why they are required for improved performance. From bitmap vs. vector to vector vs. array, this session has you covered.

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.

Learn to use Vector Graphics as Smart Objects.

Web and application designers use Fireworks to optimize graphics, create polished text documents, add interactivity to prototypes, preview prototypes in mobile device emulators, and export to Flash Catalyst.

Create a button symbol from text, a bitmap image, or a vector shape. Define keyframes for the up, over, down, and hit states of the button, and swap out the artwork for the different states.

Learn how to create and prepare artwork in Illustrator for use in After Effects. Learn how to maximize the quality and flexibility of vector graphics in After Effects.

Paint expressively with vectors that look like natural media brushstrokes using the new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5.

Take Illustrator CS5 designs into Flash Catalyst and create interactive experiences without writing code. Refine your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity you added in Flash Catalyst

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

Achieve beautiful paint effects using lifelike brush strokes in Photoshop Extended and expressive Vector-Painting Brushes in Illustrator, or use 3D Extrusion Tools in Photoshop Extended to create artwork that will stand out in print and digital media.

Learn how to trace placed images into Illustrator CS4 with a number of different methods. Redraw a logo, and redraw a map as well. Also take a hand drawn image that contains line work and convert it to vectors with the Live Trace Feature.

Quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks

Learn how Adobe OnLocation can be used to adjust the settings on your camera before you shoot so that your post-production experience becomes even easier. Karl Soule walks you through the process.

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.

Corey’s tutorial is about creating a custom vector pattern using Photoshop and Illustrator. RC shows how to use Slideshow Pro along with Dreamweaver to add an image slideshow to your web page.

RC uses After Effects to create an animated title that can then be imported into Flash as an FLV file. Corey demonstrates how to use vector graphics from the Symbols panel.

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.

Eran Stern continue to animate the vector shapes using After Effects and finalize the design for our Telenovela opener.

MAX 2008 is an event unlike any other. Its unique combination of education, interaction, and genuine fun continues to attract a larger, more exciting audience every year.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out.

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.

Host John Schuman introduces the fundamentals of Flash CS3 such as creating symbols, drawing tips and tricks and more. John will also introduce the virtual hero of the series, Victor Vector.

Get an overview of what Fireworks does. Work with bitmap and vector images in the same document. Deliver content in multiple formats.

Intelligently scale objects or graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap files) with 9-slice scaling. Combine 9-slice scaling with Smart Guides.

Sure, you might not put your life in the hands of Dr. Kush but he might help alleviate some of your browser plug-in blues. Plus, Victor Vector stars in an infomercial.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out

Jason Levine walks you though how Adobe After Effects lets you design vector graphics, create more organic movements, and expedite delivery.

Corey has a tutorial about the benefits of using vector masks and special guest Bert Monroy shares a tip he uses when working in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Supercharge your 3-D skills! Discover how to import 3 dimensional vector art then adjust size, tinker with lighting effects, and manipulate tiny, unsuspecting vectors with your bare hands!

Host John Schuman introduces the fundamentals of Flash CS3 such as creating symbols, drawing tips and tricks and more. John will also introduce the virtual hero of the series, Victor Vector.

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.