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..

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.

Join David Wadhwani, Adobe’s SVP and GM of Digital Media, as he welcomes four incredibly creative minds to explore how they foster creativity and approach their work. You will hear from Rob Legato, an Oscar winning visual effects supervisor; Paula Scher, an iconic graphic designer and illustrator; Erik Johansson, an up and coming photographer and retouch artist; and Phil Hansen, a constraint-based artist that believes limitations drive creativity. We think you’ll leave with more than a few new ideas to incorporate in your next creative project.

Join Photoshop and Illustrator expert Deke McClelland for a live presentation of some of his most popular Deke's Techniques. Learn techniques for making your images look their best and new ways to achieve the looks you're after.You will learn how to:• Create line art or text that automatically inverts everything behind it in Photoshop.• Miniaturize the world with Deke's special tilt-shift recipe in Photoshop.• Use a hidden feature in Illustrator to create classic movie poster credits.• Construct a very special ambigram (text that appears the same upside-down) in Illustrator.• Create a Lord of the Rings-style text effect in Photoshop.

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

Demystify the process of 3D animation with Adobe After Effects, which not only offers features for working in 3D, but also serves as a stepping-stone to more advanced 3D programs. In this session, MAX Master Colin Smith will help you dip your toes into the water of 3D animation and compositing.You’ll learn how to:• Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections• Extrude text and shapes into 3D using After Effects and Adobe Illustrator• Work with advanced 3D programs alongside After Effects

Join us for a deep dive into what¹s new in Adobe Illustrator. We'll show you how Illustrator lets you dramatically improve the efficiency of your day-to-day workflow, and how new creative options make notoriously difficult tasks more intuitive and smooth. Anubhav Rohatgi, senior product manager for Illustrator, will show you: • The top new features in Illustrator• Tips and techniques for getting the most out of the exciting new creative tools• Revolutionary new ways to take your work across media

Learn how to work with Adobe Illustrator to approach the design of fashion apparel and textiles. Kevin Renard Sheffield, a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and design technologies manager for Fifth and Pacific, will be your guide to this intriguing field.This session will cover:• How to leverage Illustrator to create technical drawings, fashion illustrations, flat drawings, and storyboards for the fashion industry• How to combine the best approaches for both Illustrator and Photoshop • Effective methods of working in Illustrator

Join Adobe Evangelists James Li and Peter Huang as they show how to use Adobe Creative Cloud for character animation and game art design. They'll demonstrate a highly efficient workflow to create lively GPU-accelerated, interactive 2D skeletal game animations.Li and Huang will cover:• Game animation design: How to architect, design, and create game assets with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Audition• Game animation implementation: How to create skeletal animations in Adobe Flash Professional using the DragonBones design panel • Integration with a game engine: How to export your animations into texture assets in different formats for popular GPU rendering frameworks like Stage3D or cocos2d

Explore why beautiful Illustrator or Photoshop graphics are often compromised with artifacts and pixelation when translated to the web, and what you can do about it. Kevin Hoyt, Adobe evangelist manager, will:• Look at some devices themselves to better understand the differences in how they display• Take a closer look at emerging web standards, including SVG and responsive image techniques, to understand how to get high quality every time• Explore how web standards such as CSS3 can take your designs further, faster with less effort and more precise rendering

Learn about principles of color theory and how you can apply them to your work with Adobe design tools in a practical way. Your guide to color is Stéphane Baril, an Adobe systems engineer and a graphic novel colorist. Join us and discover the true power of color.You'll see:• How to understand and effectively use a color wheel in your design process • How to use Live Color and Recolor Artwork in Illustrator, both for color exploration and graphic production• Tips and techniques for using color in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign

Take a tour of typographic design that crosses the boundaries between lettering and illustration with master designer Daniel Pelavin. Rarely using standard fonts, Pelavin prefers to create his own, giving his work an individuality made possible in large part by the powerful tools in Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Creative Cloud lets you download essential CS6 design tools. Work faster thanks to performance boosts in Photoshop and Illustrator, easily repurpose layouts in InDesign, and speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of enhancements. Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new features as soon as they’re released – like the new package files and unembed images features in Illustrator. You can do it all and WW Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler will demo all of the highlights for you.

Promote your next student or department event with a flashier flyer. Combine cool graphics and text in Illustrator; then export for professional printing.

Learn how to extend your personal brand and use Adobe InDesign to create a poster to promote your work, an event you're planning, or a service you provide. Utilize the example poster assets provided to follow along with this tutorial and create your own poster.

Startup profiles are sets of parameters designed to jump start your design work for print, web, tablets, phones and other devices. Discover how to select the output type and have Illustrator set the basic elements such as size, orientation , and bleed, getting you started quickly and saving you time.

The revised interface in Illustrator CS6 includes a new control panel across the top of the screen. It combines stable and context-sensitive options to make your work easier.

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.

64-bit support means that Illustrator can leverage more than 3 GB of RAM, which can double its speed. Applying effects to large files or working on multiple files becomes a lot more efficient.

There have been many improvements to the user interface in Illustrator CS6. In this video you'll see what's changed and how to customize the interface to suit your own way of working.

Adobe Design Evangelist, Rufus Deuchler talks about just a few of the new time-saving features in CS6 Design & Web Premium.

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.

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.

The Pen tool can be found in many Adobe applications and they way it works can sometimes be a little different. Colin Smith will take you through the similarities and differences with the Pen tool in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and After Effects. Colin also talks about AICB, what it means and why you should use it.

Symbols in Adobe Illustrator are not only good for creating designs for Flash Professional, they are very useful in any design work. Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, shows you how you can leverage symbols to rapidly create complex design of repeating objects, and how this will keep your file size down.

In this episode, you'll get an overview of the Adobe Creative Cloud features available today.

In China, Adobe Creative University offers an extensive certification program, working with leading institutions to train students on industry-ready digital skills and the latest technologies.

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.

Work anywhere with Adobe mobile apps and get professional results. In this session, you'll get an overview of creative mobile apps. Learn which apps are best for you and get a sneak peek at what's new. You won't want to miss this!

Explore new techniques in Adobe Creative Suite that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Work more efficiently with shared content by mastering Smart Objects; benefit from tips and tricks for placing native content in Adobe InDesign and other components; and learn how to reuse print content for your web designs, share swatches and other content, and much more.

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.

See how easy it is to work remotely on a tablet device. If you never thought you could create professional quality output away from your desktop, this session could open your eyes. Create and share your designs from a plane? The beach? Check out this session to learn more.

Discover how to break free from your desktop and create anywhere. Creative professionals are working in new ways with their Adobe desktop products by starting with mobile applications, and then bringing their work into the powerhouse products they already love like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and more. Come see for yourself the advantages of going mobile.

Learn expert tips and techniques to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator. Reduce the time you spend on mundane tasks and gain more time to focus on the activities that matter: the creative ones. Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator product manager, will show you how to work faster, smarter, and much more smoothly. Once you've tricked out Illustrator and made it the custom vehicle you've always wanted, you'll experience life in the fast lane by shaving valuable time off tasks you perform every day.

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Illustrator, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst CS5.5.

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

Not for the faint of heart. This advanced interactive lesson in InDesign CS5 covers many of its interactive features. The Buttons panel, Animation, Timing, and Mult-istate Objects. We get them all working together to make a roll down menu that triggers a multi-state object. This could be very useful for many different projects with a little imagination and creativity. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV.

In the first part I'll demonstarte how to work with Adobe Illustrator in order to prepare vector graphics so it can be extruded to multiple 3D objects using the BCC EPS Extrude plug-in. Then inside Adobe After Effects I'll show how to dress your logo, work with the various Extrusion options, Materials and Render settings. I'll create a fancy camera moves using the built in camera and lights, and end up rendering 4 different scene.

Have you ever tried to create a complex motion path in After Effects? This tip will show you just how well Illustrator and After Effects communicate using a simple copy and paste to the clipboard and transfer illustrations to motion paths in After Effects! Now you can make Illustrator's powerful drawing tools work as motion path creation tools in After Effects.

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.

Meet two designers with different studios, from different parts of the U.S, whose lives and work have changed forever after serving the poor in Africa. Experience a visual journey exploring their creative adventure: See how Adobe Creative Suite enabled easy and effective collaboration in the production of print and web collateral and a documentary film, and come away a lot better because of it.

In this episode Terry White shares 10 Random Illustrator CS5 tips to make you more productive. Although all of these tips work in the latest version of Illustrator, some go back to previous versions and therefore can be used by all.

Make round-trip edits to RIA artwork in Adobe Illustrator, while maintaining the work you've done in Flash Catalyst.

Explore ways to work with symbols in Illustrator CS5, such as how to specify and control registration points, work with smart guides, reset a symbol's instance, and work with layer structure.

The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we're going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it's really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the 'Focus') and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?

Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in a single file, organized and named the way you want, using the enhancements to Multiple Artboards in Illustrator CS5.

Learn how well Flash Catalyst works with other tools in the suite such as Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks.

Work faster with everyday tools in Illustrator CS5. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order, and draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

RC and Corey take turns discussing some of the basics of working with type in the Adobe applications. They go over text boxes and the character panel, kerning and tracking, as well as how to download and install new fonts.

More than two million teenage girls have explored the virtual world of Spark City--shopping in its malls, interacting with other members, and participating in a futuristic economy. The game was created using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

With PianoMarvel, Rain has created a challenging and enjoyable application that makes learning to play the piano fun. The highly visual tool was developed using Adobe Flex 3, AIR, Flash CS4 Professional, and Illustrator CS4.

Morgan Stanley Matrix helps investors make informed decisions about their money with compelling trade ideas enriched with audio, video, and charts. Matrix was created with Adobe Flex 3, Acrobat 9, Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Fireworks CS3, and Illustrator CS3.

Fantasy Interactive's Kontain enables anyone to share their thoughts and opinions through simplified blogging and managing content on a rich-media portal. The platform was developed with Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, and Photoshop CS4.

Second Story's GRAMMY Museum Interactives encourages museum visitors to become part of musical creation through four inspiring visual installations. The installations were created with Adobe Flex 3, After Effects CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3.

Geni Family Tree enables millions of people worldwide to work together online to seamlessly create family trees, stay in touch with long-lost relatives, and share family mementos via photos, videos, and audio. The website was created using Adobe Flex 3, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional.

Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium will let you streamline common design and production tasks with feature-packed releases of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash Professional. And extend the reach of your work by creating interactive content with new Flash Catalyst - without writing code.

Deliver engaging work onscreen to connect with more people in more ways. See how you can use new Flash Catalyst to transform Photoshop or Illustrator artwork into functional designs for user interfaces, info-graphics and rich internet applications.

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.

Marcos Chin, who is best known for his illustrations for the ubiquitous advertising campaign Lavalife will show samples of some of the work that he has done for other clients such as Time, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. He will include some insight into his image-making process using Adobe Illustrator and will talk about his experiences of balancing his personal projects with his commercial illustration work.

Learn how Multiple artboards allow you to manage an entire project within a single file. With up to 100 artboards varying in size, common elements such as colors, type, and symbols can be quickly updated all at once across all project components.

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.

Learn how to use the new gradient widget in Illustrator CS4 to bring your illustrations to life in this Illustrator tutorial presented by Rufus Deuchler.

Create up to 100 artboards of any size and then export and print them in different ways to create multiple assets for a single project.

Create and save elliptical gradients with full or partial transparency. Learn to use the interactive Gradient tool and Gradient panel.

Work with text inside Illustrator CS4. Use the Type tool to create a basic text object. Format text using the Type tool menus in the Control Palette.

Join Von Glitschka, renowned illustrative designer, as he reveals how he combines a solid creative process with the latest tools in Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4 to deliver fresh, inventive design.

Join Mark Niemann-Ross as he shows us: Rocket Science for Developers! Learn about the inner workings of Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, InDesign CS4, Adobe Bridge CS4, Version Cue CS4, and XMP with Mark Neimann-Ross and Mark Erickson.

Corey found a cool, free plugin that works with your web browser to create a 3D interface. RC shows off some of his favorite new features in Photoshop CS4.

Corey is joined by guest co-host Richard Harrington to discuss working with video in Photoshop Extended, Premiere, and After Effects.

Anthony Vitagliano demonstrates Digital Kitchen's collaborative workflow that uses Adobe tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects to create award winning work.

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.

Learn how to capture web pages in a PDF document with working links, images, and multimedia content. This is a great technique for showing web or multimedia work to clients.

Corey has figured out how to create a 3D animation in Illustrator and special guest Matt Kloskowski answers some viewer questions about the benefits of working in Camera Raw.

RC has a tutorial explaining some of the basics of working with buttons in Flash. Corey explores some of the fun you can have typing on a path in Illustrator.

RC shares the benefits of using the Article Tool with your PDFs when you are working in Acrobat. Special guest David Ziser discusses lighting patterns to use in your portrait photography.