Design & Media Waves (Track 1 & Track 2)
The New Adobe Creative Suite 4: Shortcut to Brilliant 2:00 - 3:15 (Part 1)
3:30 - 4:45 (Part 2) Noha Edell will be presenting
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium. This software is the ultimate toolkit for today’s designer. Express yourself in exciting new ways and deliver rich creative experiences across media. Attend these two sessions to discover its strong individual features and, just as importantly, its cross-application cooperative abilities to provide you the best tools for the job, where you need them, when you need them. With Design Premium, it’s all about your productivity.
Introduction to Microsoft Expression Blend 2
8:45 - 10:00 (Track 1) Christian Thilmany, Microsoft
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Microsoft Expression Blend is the glue that brings together the designer and developer workflows. It natively supports Visual Studio projects and allows designers and developers to work on the same files and resources allowing each to leverage their strengths in the application design process. In this session, we will show how Expression Blend uses the power and flexibility of XAML to help deliver compelling experiences to both the desktop and the web via WPF and SilverLight. Blend allows the designer to use their complete range of skills, leveraging video, vector and pixel art, 3D content and audio while seamlessly integrating into the developer's workflow.
Creating Appealing Web Content using Adobe Creative Suite
8:45 - 10:00 (Track 2) Jon Buck, New Horizons of Minnesota
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Designing and maintaining a website has never been easier. This session will explore some of the powerful tools included in Adobe Creative Suite. During the Photoshop section, you will learn about raster-based graphics and discover the ways you can enhance them. You will get a comprehensive look at vector graphics and motion capabilities which are included in Flash. Using Dreamweaver, you can manage and create web content without having in-depth HTML knowledge.
Building a Beijing Olympics Silverlight Application
10:15 - 11:30 (Track 1) Brian Lockwood, New Horizons of Minnesota
Session Level: 100–Beginner to 200–Intermediate
Have you been watching the Olympics online? Come in and join us as we embark on an adventure to create a Beijing Olympics online media player. Using Expression Blend and Encoder we will create a Silverlight application that includes features used by NBC to deliver on-demand and streaming video to people all around the world. Objectives include navigating around Expression Blend, introducing Expression Encoder and discussing Microsoft's new Silverlight technology.
Documentation and Training with Adobe Technical Communication Suite
10:15 - 11:30 (Track 2) Jon Buck, New Horizons of Minnesota
Session Level: 100–Beginner
This session will give you a firsthand look at the documentation and training process using Adobe Technical Communication suite. The session will highlight FrameMaker, Acrobat, RoboHelp and Captivate. FrameMaker allows technical writers and trainers to organize content by topic and output it to multiple formats. Acrobat will allow you to take your existing FrameMaker content and make it easily accessible by creating PDF files rich with navigation. RoboHelp provides an attractive alternative to the traditional paper training material. Using the information from FrameMaker, RoboHelp will create a web-based version of your training material. You can then make your training more interactive by adding pop-out screens, simulations and training scenarios created in Captivate. Captivate makes creating training demonstrations and simulations a snap. The screen capture technology allows trainers to develop rich training material which is used to reaffirm the content created in FrameMaker. These training scenarios can be linked to the training documentation using Adobe RoboHelp.