Mark Hamill hosts the 2009 Adobe MAX Awards. The Adobe Max Awards are a global awards ceremony that recognizes the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences.

MAX Keynote Day 1. To remain competitive and viable in a rapidly changing world, entire industries are faced with reinventing the way they do business.

MAX 2009 Keynote - Day 2. Be inspired by some of the surprising things the community is doing with Adobe technology to drive future innovation and reinvention within their own industries.

Learn how to create and distribute Flash Lite applications and content to the largest mobile audience in the world - Nokia phone owners - via Ovi Store. Also discover how to develop Flash Lite applications for Nokia's touch screen devices.

Join Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes in a deep dive into the hidden gems of Photoshop CS4. He'll also reveal many new technologies released since Photoshop CS4, including the Digital Negative (DNG) Profile Editor and more.

Get ready to have your face melted as Activision Blizzard and BLITZ take you on the epic journey behind the portal development for the world's top music video game franchise.

Join Against All Odds founder Rick Smolan and HP Distinguished Technologist Jim Rowson as they discuss the future of online content creation and variable data publishing over the cloud.

From Adobe OnLocation to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, learn the ins and outs of capturing and editing video to get the best possible results. Then, we'll explore options for making the most of your video in Flash Professional

Join Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee as she shares her favorite techniques for working with the incredible Photoshop CS4 Extended 3D features. Learn how to paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D...

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.

Join us for an examination of Adobe's Flash Platform, focusing on how the tools (Creative Suite, Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst) can create better cross-discipline and team integration when developing projects based on Flex 4.

Join in the fun for one of the most entertaining hours at MAX. This session pits the worldwide evangelists for Creative Suite against each other in a creative cage match. From Flash to Dreamweaver, After Effects to Encore, InDesign to Photoshop

Learn to love creating sound with Soundbooth CS4 and develop advanced skills with Adobe Audition. See how easy it is to create, edit, and clean up multiple audio files with other Adobe products such as Flash Professional and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Explore the possibilities of expressions and scripting to create programmatic animations in After Effects CS4. You'll learn how to use JavaScript-based expressions to link the behavior of any property on any layer to that of any other property...

Learn how Adobe Story, a collaborative scriptwriting application that is now in beta, helps you turn your tale into a production-ready script. Now available on Adobe Labs, Adobe Story offers tight integration with other Adobe tools

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 best practices and step-by-step instructions on how to take your content from creation to publication to distribution on eBook readers such as Reader Digital Book, Kindle, and iPhone.

Learn how to use the rich layout and typography tools in InDesign CS4 in conjunction with the new interactivity features to add buttons, links, navigation actions, and page transitions to create compelling SWF and PDF presentations.

Learn how to use ActionScript as part of your design process, and explore how your design can improve with the use of dynamic behaviors and motion. We'll discuss the differences between code for a prototype, a proof of concept, and a shipping product

Come learn about the latest developments in cross-product coding workflows between Flash Builder 4 and Flash Professional. See the new coding improvements in Flash Professional and hear about the team's plans for making development easier in the future.

Learn how to transform the almost unlimited creative capabilities of Flash CS4 Professional into interactive experiences that best drive the metrics that your clients care about.

Learn to leverage existing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator assets in Fireworks to mock up web pages or complete websites. Optimize images for the web and export a design as CSS.

Join Steven Heintz, product manager for Flash Catalyst, and other members of the Flash Catalyst engineering team for a peek at what's ahead for this new tool and how it will fit into design/develop workflows.

Explore the landscape of the web today. Understand what technologies are available to you, when and how to use each technology to add richness and interactivity to your designs.

Learn about designing and developing augmented reality experiences on the Flash Platform. Join two Adobe evangelists as we take you through the business uses and consumer uses of augmented reality and how you can use CS4 and the Flash Platform tools.

Discover how to leverage the Flash Platform to deliver cross-channel experiences that extend beyond the website. The session will examine how the platform allows the seamless transition of creative content and technology across diverse screens and devices

Explore the functionality of Drupal from a designer's perspective while learning about the most common workflows. Learn how to integrate Drupal with Dreamweaver and how to use Creative Suite 4 Web Premium to customize Drupal theme templates.

Learn how Full Sail University is using the Adobe Flash Platform to instruct students how to create rich Internet applications (RIAs) that access APIs and web services.

Effective Designer and Developer teams rely on communicating concepts and details to their collaborators and stakeholders. Sometimes a picture is a thousand words, but often, you need to combine artwork and annotations to communicate a better experience.

See how the integration between After Effects and Flash Professional opens up new creative options that enable advanced interactivity, contextual advertising, and more. Learn how to turn After Effects keyframes and markers into cue points and more.

Learn from the experts how to design and deploy a new kind of multiplayer gaming experience in the browser. Rebel Monkey recently launched a casual MMO called CampFu, which gives players the unique ability to form teams and engage each other in realtime.

Find out about the many languages and tools available for both designers and developers to customize and automate Creative Suite for integration inlarger workflows.

Attend a session designed to make your overall design and development process more streamlined and efficient. Learn from Doug Winnie, group product manager for workflow and web tools, as he demonstrates how to break down a process into a workflow

Learn essential skills for using Photoshop CS4 to produce images that look great and load fast for the web and for use with Flash Professional. We'll reveal hidden optimization tools and quick techniques for making images look their best, and more.

Get an inside look at the design and development of a scrappy little photo scrapbooking tool for kids. The Postcards development team will dig deep into challenges Adobe AIR developers face, including building a visually rich and animated application.

Come behind the scenes for an inside look at how some of today's biggest entertainment brands use Flash CS4 to tell--and sell--their stories. Learn how The Visionaire Group took advantage of advanced design tools for Universal's The Fast & The Furious 4.

Learn how Akamai's global network brings HD-quality video online at broadcast scale, while giving viewers the same experience to which they're accustomed with television. Akamai will walk through best practices for delivering HD-quality video content.

Learn a straightforward process for developing prototypes. Starting with a whiteboard sketch, learn how Fireworks can take a design from concept to wireframe. Then create a functional, click-through prototype from the wireframes to simulate online...

Join HP Chief Marketing Officer for the Personal Systems Group (PSG), Satjiv Chahil, to hear how Hollywood is creating world-renowned films and animations, businesses are increasing their productivity, and individuals alike are using HP Technology.

Discover Adobe's optimized implementation of the Flash runtime that enables the delivery of HD video and rich applications to Internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, and other devices that are connected to the television.

Get the skinny on the new design and animation features in Flash CS4 Professional. Spend an informative and entertaining 50 minutes with renowned animator Chris Georgenes and learn what Flash CS4 is all about from a designer's point of view.

Learn about the widgets, data connections, and effects available in the Spry framework, and how Dreamweaver CS4 simplifies the process of building Spry-driven pages with little or no required code.

Learn the secrets and tools of the trade for creating great games with Flash Professional, including honing the fun factor, performance optimizations, and cross-platform/device strategies.

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.

Take a close look at attractive but challenging designs, and break down the code and techniques necessary to turn your vision into CSS reality.

Join Roundarch's Adam Flater and Dave Meeker, along with Brian Finn and Evan Small from Tesla Motors, for a lively discussion on the process of developing the technology that powers the user experience (software and hardware) in the Tesla Model S.

Join Scott Thomas, a lead web designer on President Obama's electoral campaign, as he explains how to design online communities that resonate and motivate.

Learn how to approach skinning web widgets and know what to look for regardless of the framework. JavaScript widgets bring today's web designer a great deal of functionality in easy-to-include packages.

Join artist, designer, and technologist Joshua Davis in a journey through his new experimental work. Each year Davis selects a new theme to push himself to change and explore new work. This year's the theme is space.

Learn valuable techniques for preparing UI design comps in both Photoshop and Illustrator for use in Flash Catalyst. Discover practical tips on how to structure your designs so they are ready to build.

Learn the must-have skills for working with Photoshop and digital images, including color correction, masking, image restoration, and retouching. Terry White will answer the most frequently asked questions on working with digital images and more.

Learn insider techniques for Illustrator CS4 from the source, David Macy, the Illustrator product manager. Learn how to take advantage of the new tools in Illustrator CS4, and get the skinny on techniques you should be using right now.

Watch an expert guide you through a selection of today's popular web content management systems and learn which one is right for you. This session will include detailed demonstrations of WordPress, Drupal, and the Adobe InContext Editing

Discover what you can do with multi-touch and the Flash Platform. Learn how you can build your own multi-touch table for a fraction of the cost of commercial products. We'll also discuss an approach to building multi-touch applications for the Flash Platf

Get an overview of the latest developments in the Flash Platform relevant to casual and social gaming. You will get a firsthand look at some fun and innovative games from top publishers as well as insight into how these games were made.

Keeping your hands on the keyboard as much as possible is the ultimate way to become a more efficient InDesign user, enabling you to get more done in less time. This always-popular session will teach you InDesign shortcuts you can build into your workflow

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See how to leverage Flash Catalyst to bring your ideas to life quickly and inexpensively. Learn how sketching your creative vision using Flash Catalyst may improve communication and collaboration among stakeholders and more...

Join Franz von Holzhausen and members of the Roundarch team for an interactive discussion about the many challenges related to automobile design, from form factor and industrial design to onscreen user experiences.

Learn how to quickly create wireframes that are richer and more interactive than ever before, without writing a single line of code. Then see how wireframes can be integrated into the broader product workflow.

Come see Lee Brimelow and Mark Niemann-Ross demonstrate unexpected things you can do using Flex and Creative Suite.Grab some popcorn and your 3D glasses as we demonstrate how Creative Suite applications can be programmed using Flex and Adobe AIR,and more.

See how you can create rich mobile applications that run on tens of millions of Nokia devices and more than 30 models globally. With Nokia Web Runtime, you can use your web development and design skills in your favorite web authoring tools.

Learn from the professionals how to turn whiteboard ideas into hand-held experiences. Ali Ivmark, a member of the Adobe XD team, and Christian Robertson, visual design director from Punchcut, will take you through the overall design process.

Turn your code demos into artwork with the help of Adobe's platform evangelists. Even the developer evangelists at Adobe use Creative Suite 4 to help with their demos, and in this session, you'll get a look behind their design process.

Hear thoughts from Director of Product Management for Design Will Eisley on how Adobe plans to help designers be successful as the media landscape continues to evolve. Learn how new features available in Creative Suite 4 Design Premium help designers.

Spend 60 minutes with three products with a single purpose: to help designers and developers deliver interactive content and rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the tool that's best for their needs.

Uncover the secret to making video searchable using Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. The breakthrough Speech Search feature in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth, combined with output to Adobe Flash Professional and free components to get you started.

Come experience MegaPhone, the service platform that gives you the power to connect any phone to any screen for realtime multiplayer gaming action, as seen in the Sneak Peeks live Trivia and Survey applications! Play live games from the audience, learn ab