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MACWORLD CONFERENCE
Date: October 27-28, 2005

Venue: National Hall Olympia, London
www.mac-expo.co.uk

MacExpo 2005 takes place on Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th October and will showcase all the latest hardware and software solutions, technologies and services available on the mac platform.

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Stream 2 Programme: Pro Graphic Design

How are today's top design firms taking advantage of the latest Mac tools and technologies? Learn why the Mac is still the premiere platform for graphic design. We'll show you how to keep your mind creative and how the Mac is being used to meet the needs of top designers in print, web and video today. This track features power-user tips and tricks for working with the most recent Creative Suite versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. It also includes a world-first look at the dramatic improvements in QuarkXPress 7.0.

Thursday 27th October 2005

09.40 Registration and Morning Coffee

10.20 Welcome and Introduction

10.30 QuarkXPress 7.0: First Full Preview!
Speaker: Dan Logan, QuarkXPress Product Architect

The latest version of market-leading DTP software QuarkXPress marks the application’s biggest-ever upgrade. In this UK-first feature-packed session you’ll see the future of page design – and why Quark believes it has nailed the advance of Adobe InDesign. The programs’ new transparency effects match and surpass those in InDesign. Advanced typography features have been enhanced. Text editing and tables are also vastly improved.

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Creative Suite Expert Tips & Tricks
Speaker: Deke McClelland

The latest upgrade to the Creative Suite makes good on its promise, supplying you with a collection of powerful graphics and design products that play well together. Modelled after Deke's popular One-on-One series, this session examines specific tricks and techniques intended to expand your creative range. Learn how to synchronize colour settings to ensure consistent display and printing, develop assets across multiple applications, and take full advantage of the new Adobe Bridge. Make Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign work together; more importantly, make them work for you.

15.00 Mid Afternoon Break

15.30 How To Cheat In Photoshop
Speaker: Steve Caplin

How do you turn a light on? How do you create beards and stubble? How can you draw in perspective? How can you liven up static images? How to Cheat in Photoshop has the answers to all your photomontage problems. This session takes you through the intricacies of Photoshop from beginning to end as Steve Caplin takes on real-world tasks, showing you the path from problem to solution in a highly visual, appoachable format.

17.00 Close

Friday 28th October 2005

09.40 Registration and Morning Coffee

10.20 Welcome and Introduction

10.30 Adobe Photoshop Masterclass
Speaker: Deke McClelland

Learn the tools and commands that make Photoshop the industry’s workhorse. Entertaining and yet educational, this session is a must for anyone serious about mastering Photoshop. Topics cover Photoshop’s finest hours including: Adjusting Levels; Curves, Shadows & Highlights; Adjustment Layers; High Bit Depth and Exposure; Duotones, Spots and Gradient Maps; Sharpening Focus; Blurring and Averaging; Distort and Displace; Liquidify; Vanishing Point; and Smart Objects. It really is a Masters-level course in Photoshop!

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Advanced Photoshop Retouching Technique
Speaker: :Corps Business

Roll up your sleeves and improve your Photoshop skills in this training session on techniques needed for professional-grade retouching, compositing and image finishing, brought to you by top trainers, Corps Business. Topics include: colour correcting and tone; advanced selection and masking; custom brushes; and clipping groups.

15.00 Mid Afternoon Break

15.30 The Digital Darkroom
Speaker: :Martin Evening

Photoshop is an ideal program for reproducing traditional darkroom techniques. In this seminar you will be shown crafty ways to create special effects such as split-tones, simulate cross-processing effects, and produce a fake infrared image in black-&-white or colour. The second half of the session looks at manipulating the tonal range in a digital photograph and the various strategies that can be used to dodge and burn an image.

17.00 Close

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