Adobe MAX 2008 Conference Why it’s professionally important to leave the office

Cool things WE can do to help you

Illustrator CS4 Kuler is truly cooler  Great for brainstorming color schemes  You can generate colors in almost any way you can imagine - keywords, existing images, play with the color wheel Recolor artwork  This feature in Illustrator allows you to quickly view several color variations of your design/chart/poster/project

Photoshop CS4 Content Aware Scale Tool  Good for quickly getting a photograph scaled to final dimensions without distorting the “important” part of the photograph  Demo available in PDF Portfolio posted on my ISER web page

InDesign CS4 Cool electronic packaging with help from Clem or Molly

Cool things YOU can do to help you

Chocolate bribery almost always works Flattery is a close second

PDFs. It’s all about the PDFs. Styles in native application translate to bookmarks in PDF Can create a “zoomed” bookmark to emphasize a point or section in a graphic Easily embed video within a PDF document Create forms from word docs using the Forms Wizard

PDF Portfolio Collect your various project files into one neat PDF file Present files in the order that makes the most viewing sense Send multiple file types to a sender - as long as they have Acrobat Reader 7 or newer they can open your files without specialty software Professionally package your project

Other Adobe Products Acrobat.com  Buzzword - an online word processor that allows you to collaborate, review, comment on documents in a shared spot on the acrobat.com server  Adobe ConnectNow - free video conferencing Adobe.tv (

Jing: Freeware that allows you to capture and record screen motion and audio

Adobe Temporary Tattoos Not Available, sorry. Demos posted in PDF portfolio on my iser web page. ff/molly_ridout.html

Picture Show My room Adobe MAX Conference

But wait, why show you here? Portfolio!