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

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

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.

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.)

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.

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!