Join us for a full evening of knowledge and networking, as two internationally known industry experts share how the Adobe Creative Cloud is revolutionizing creative workflows in digital publishing, web, photography, and video. Learn how these advances will impact you, and get an inside look at how you can enhance your productivity.

Who Should Attend

• Creative professionals, students, and anyone who wants to know more about Adobe Creative Cloud, including the latest innovations in Adobe CS6 products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, AfterEffects, and Premiere Pro
• Graphic designers who want to learn how they can leverage existing skills to publish websites or create iPad publications without writing code
• Photographers who want to learn about new features in Photoshop and Lightroom or share their work in exciting new ways with the other applications available in Creative Cloud.
• Web designers who want to stay ahead of evolving standards and deliver content seamlessly across a wide range of screens and devices
• Video professionals who want to save time and money by streamlining their production and postproduction workflows with the powerful toolset in Creative Cloud.

About Our Speakers

Terry White
Adobe | Worldwide Evangelist

Terry White, Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe®, is flying in for this special event sponsored by Adobe and produced by your favorite local area Adobe User Group managers. @terrylwhite

Pariah Burke
Adobe Community Professional | Boston

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and connecting creative professionals around the world. http://iamPariah.com @iampariah

Venue: Parsons Auditorium

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Parsons Auditorium is located on The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's main campus, main entrance, Building 1, off Johns Hopkins Road, off Route 29. For directions and more info about APL visit: http://www.jhuapl.edu/aboutapl/visitor/default.asp

Agenda

Monday 4 Mar 2013

Cost:This is a FREE event, but seating is limited to 150 attendees.

Content: The evening will consist of lectures at the Johns Hopkins auditorium. Attendance is limited to 150 people. The event will be kicked off with an Adobe Evangelist keynote speaker

Food: Light refreshments will be served.

Prize Drawing: We will have lots of giveaways that include Pariah's new ebook, "Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks (ePublishing with InDesign Series)", Adobe branded merchandise, and several Creative Cloud Memberships. The first 100 attendees will receive a gift bag from Adobe.

Additionally, the Baltimore InDesign User Group will be conducting a special raffle in support of their chapter. The raffle is open to everyone and will include a free license to Adobe InDesign CS6, a 2-day training certificate from Zenith Technology Institute | Ledet Baltimore, and an iPad mini from MacMedics.

Adobe & Check-In Tables: Please bring your EventBrite ticket when you check in. Registration will be located in the cafeteria of Building 1 across from Parsons Auditorium.

Social Media: While at the evening presentation feel free to post pictures or comments to these social media sites or hash-tags (twitter)

#CreateNOW
#Adobe
#CreativeCloud

http://www.facebook.com/adobecreativecloud

Session Abstracts:

Adobe Keynote - CreateNOW with Terry White - Terry will cover many topics in each Creative Suite application listed below. Some of the most exciting features include the ability to publish your content & designs to an iPad, the web (using HTML5) and other mobile devices. This is now free to Creative Cloud subscribers (through a single user license of DPS in InDesign.) Also exciting is the ability to place animated Edge Content into InDesign for publishing to the same devices.

When it comes to collaboration, if you haven't heard, the Creative Cloud now has tools specifically designed for teams. Eliminate all the back and forth emails (or the dreaded reply alls that you don't need to see) on a given project by using new tools for Creative Cloud members.
Topics Covered in 90 Min keynote:

• Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams
• Adobe Ideas (a touch app for iPad)
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Suite) Single User Edition
• Adobe Photoshop | New Features for Cloud Subscribers
• Adobe Muse | Rich, Dynamic Websites Without Code
• Adobe Edge Animate | Creating Interactive HTML5 Content
• Adobe Edge Code "Code the web"
• Adobe Edge Reflow "Design the responsive web"

Session 1: "Creative Professional Workflow's - more value in the Creative Cloud" -- Adobe Community Professional Pariah Burke will extend what was covered in the Adobe keynote and do a "deep-dive" demo on creative workflows with Adobe Creative Suite Applications that are available to Creative Cloud Members.

Event Hosts

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services enable our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their digital content across every channel and screen.

Aaron Houston

Adobe Community Manager for North America

Annapolis Adobe Multimedia User Group (AAMMUG)

We are creatives, designers, developers, educators, hobbysts, photographers, professionals, and videographers who use Adobe creative products to pursue our passions. [Manager - Fred Ryals]

Baltimore InDesign User Group (Baltimore IDUG)

Learn, share, and connect with the Greater Baltimore Adobe InDesign User Group (BIDUG), where design and publishing professionals gather quarterly. The goal of the group is to inspire, enrich, and challenge like professionals in all things design. [Manager - Magda Saina]

Central Maryland Adobe User Group (CMAUG)

The Central Maryland Adobe User Group (CMAUG) explores the gamut of Adobe's products with the intention of educating both beginning and experienced design and media professionals on the evolving Adobe Creative Suite and providing peer support for projects using Adobe software. Our hope is that the collaborative and constructive environment created by the group will foster new working relationships and mentoring opportunities. [Manager - Christine Marsh]