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0:07 Good morning, afternoon, evening everyone and welcome to Adobe Live. I'm Jack. It is a cold morning where I am from in Chicago. >> Oh, sorry. >> let us know where you're joining from today. today I have the pleasure being joined by patients Walton, creative director, graphic designer, and Adobe community expert. So, you know, you can expect some pro tips today. Patience, how you how's your day going?
0:37 How's the weather? >> It's going well. It's actually pretty cold out here in Arizona. The weather, you know, it's shifting. So, we went from it being like hotter than hot to now it's like I'm a West Coast girl, so 60° for me is just absolutely cold. Well, it's like 8 here. So, >> Oh, where are you? >> Chicago. I'm in the I'm in the Midwest. >> Yeah. >> Dad's in Chicago. So, yeah. I completely Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1:06 >> I'm really excited about what you're going to be sharing with us today, patients. I love libraries. they're such a timesaver. As well as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Express. Those are like some of my favorite apps. if you are on our live chat on Bee Hands or on YouTube, feel free to throw any questions you have out there throughout the stream to patients and I and we'll be happy to answer them. but for now, I'm going to just hand it over to you patients so you can give us a little bit of an intro, show us some of your work, talk about what we're working on today. How's that sound?
1:39 >> Perfect. All right. So, I'm patient as she said. I'm a California native. I'm from Compton, California. grew up out there in LA. I am a creative director at this point. I served as a graphic designer. worked in for Fortune 500 companies for years. did like a lot of major campaigns there. and just really excited to be here. I currently right now like she said serve as a Adobe community expert. I work with the apprentice program. So we have a mentor or apprentice within our my nonprofit that I lead that works with us. So I kind of mentor her. I have a lot of interns that I work with and then I'm also a instructor. So, I teach design at Huntington University. So, I wear a lot of hats. I switch them out simultaneously, but all of them all go with design. So, I love what I do. I love creating things from white space and just super excited to be here.
2:38 >> Awesome. Do you do you have a a social you know place that you share your work that you want to share with everybody in the chat so they can see some of your work? >> so I'm one of those artists that don't really share their work out like that. So I've actually in the last two years became an entrepreneur. So I've been working for my own agency called the Premier Design House. and I used to freelance all the time when I worked in corporate, but the last two years I've kind of worked on a lot of campaigns of my artists out there who know working in entertainment, it's like big NDA, big NDA. So, a lot of times you create things and you can't really share your work out. So, I've just gotten to a place within the last couple of months where I've worked on some social things and some campaigns where I can share those things out, but I haven't put them out there yet. I can go through some of the things that I've created on like in Illustrator and things like that and then kind of talk about the campaign I'm working on. But my artists that know they know like you can't really share off the work or it's like one of those things where it's like you have it. It's like oh I need to post this this that and the other. So just now getting to a place to where it's like hey let's put your work out there. Let's talk about what the work that we're doing and also like you know let's with the projects that I've done that are under NDA do other things to kind of counteract what that is because when all of your work is just kind of like you can't share it then it's like when you're asked to share work you don't have it.
4:00 >> Gotcha. Well maybe we can take a look at the the project where it's kind of started and where it's kind of evolved to and we can get into it. >> Sure. So just a little backstory about the project that I'm working on. this particular project specifically when I was at Max that was my first Max last what was it October we're in December so I was at at Max and I ran into a lot of people at the Adobe Express booth because I was helping to serve at the different booths while we were there that were communications directors and they worked in the comm's fields and so early on in my career I was a communications and engagement specialist so what I did in that role is I created all the graphics, all of the assets for my department, but I also put on the events as well. And so what would happen is I would create things for the department and people would take those graphics or take whatever I've been that I've created and decide they want to create their own stuff. And so what I noticed when I was at Max is that I ran into a lot of creative directors and a lot of people that were in departments and they were running departments. And one of the biggest issues that they said that they had is like, "Hey, we developed these templates in Illustrator. We developed these templates in in design and unfortunately because our consumers or our people that work in our department, they don't know how to use Illustrator or you know any of those tools, they'll go and create their own stuff in Canva.
5:26 And so because we have an Adobe license, we want to keep them in the Adobe products. We want to keep them in Adobe Express. We want to keep them, you know, utilizing what we have over here versus going and creating their own stuff on a different platform after we created all this stuff. So, love Canva. No shade to it at all. However, if all of your libraries and everything isn't in Adobe, we don't want you going out and making your own graphics. So, one of the things that I talked about in this workflow that we're going to talk about today is that this particular workflow I'm going to create my assets for this conference that I'm working on for next year. and in creating the assets, what I'm doing is I'm developing out templates for the teams that are going to be pushing out the social graphics, right? So, I'm very clear that there are some of us who are very talented and we can go in there, create the social graphics, create the copy, and just really, you know, maintain that for the for the client. That's something I've done for a lot of my clients where I've created their graphics and I've managed their socials and all this. For this particular client, they have their own social media team. So, what we're going to do is develop out a library for them because it's also there also going to be some speakers and people that have bios and people have all these things and so we're going to develop out some templates for them to use like they need a letter head header and they need some posters and like a FAQ document. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to develop out the assets for those things and then I'm going to create a resource library using Adobe Express's website functionality and have it where if they click certain buttons it'll get them to the templates that we develop out.
7:07 >> Nice. Yeah, I know. I've seen all of those I know at Adobe Max they had those nice templates for the various speakers and mentors all developed where you could just kind of plug in your name and your headshot and and post it to social. >> Yeah. And I mean honestly and to be honest I I would say for communication scenes specifically like when you're talking about corporate or you're talking about people that have like large teams giving them tools and resources to use so that way they they can't adjust the fonts. They can't adjust you know go in there and make something that's supposed to be pink orange and things like that. So right yeah just really want to make sure that there's you know they have they have the availability to do what needs to be done.
7:47 >> Yeah. Exactly. You want to let give them enough control but also not, you know, too much to be dangerous. >> Exactly. Exactly. Not enough to be dangerous. Correct. So, this project specifically, it this is where we started and the client that I'm working with, she wanted the pro the name of the conference is called Beautifully Broken. So, she wanted like the idea of like a mosaic with broken pieces. And I was like, okay, this is great. So, I kind of worked on the type treatment and we made it like, you know, gave it like a silvery, you know, look because I wanted it to come off the page really and not just be flat text. and I was I I was not sold on the mosaic thing. I was going to give her what she wanted and this is kind of what the direction we're going in. And the other day we had a meeting about the conference and I was like, I'm going to take this in my own hands. like thank you for your, you know, thoughts and and I'm going to give you what you want as a client, but also as a director. I know that sometimes you just challenge the status quo and have a discussion with your client about what is visually appealing and what really will, you know, get the person that's interacting with the graphics their attention.
8:57 And so we went from this design to we landed here. So we still have the broken pieces. We still have the type treatment, but I feel like it's a lot more clean. Like, it's a lot more clean. The text is clean. Like, you can see everything. And the broken pieces that are beautifully broken are not necessarily like coming at you. Kind of like the graphic that we're looking at before. Like, I feel like the mosaic pieces really like take up the entire image versus these these pieces here.
9:33 >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's not competing with the information as much as Absolutely. Multicolored pieces. >> Absolutely. And that was my biggest thing. I wanted to make sure that the information did not compete with what we're working on or what you know the overall branding for the conference. And then we had just rebranded the entire organization. So we have their new monogram here. So we really just wanted to give a cleaner, more concise look. So, the conference graphics that I've worked on so far, we have this speaker flyer. We have a speaker flyer that's more like it's purple, it's darker. And so, what I'm going to do is I am going to develop out the bio slide and a couple of other slides to kind of help with filling in the information. So, right now, I'm going to go based off of the the pink one that we have. And you know, I cleaned up all of my my stuff. The only thing I had left on my Illustrator, is is this right here. Normally, it's, if anybody knows, there's graphics everywhere, >> right? Exactly.
10:38 >> Stuff everywhere. But I was like, I'm going to live stream. Like, I want to show my real workflow, but I'm gonna clean up my mess a little bit >> and go from here. I will say this, I love Illustrator. So, the biggest thing that I love right now that they did with this new update is these plus signs. Like I when I can hit >> the artboards. >> Oh my god. My on the the plus size on the artboard and make sure that I have another one without having to go. Oh my god. When I saw that come through, I want to you want to talk about somebody that jumped for joy. Like it literally was a a sigh of relief.
11:10 >> Yeah, the new art artboard updates are are pretty nice. The new rearrange. >> Yeah, they're they're pretty great. I I love them a lot. and I love the fact that I don't have to go up to the Yeah, that's one of the things that I felt like were just like really really good for me. Like it really just made me very very glad. So, right now what I'm doing is I'm going to go in and I'm going I'm making they want a page for the bio. So like the speaker bio. So, a lot of times at least when you're when you're doing conferences or if you're making conference graphics on social, they want to show who's coming to speak and kind of give the people an opportunity to know who they are. And so, what I also realized is that, you know, you have ADD sometimes when you're on social media and and instead of going in the caption to get the information, being able to just provide the information on the main on a main carousel is really I think the best way to do it. And so that's one of the things that I tell my clients, you know, that we're going to do. So with this particular page where we have like the speaker name, the speaker title, I'm going to create something where they can go in and add the bio for the speaker.
12:23 so people know who they're coming to see. >> Great. We got a bunch of people joining us already in the chat. No questions yet. Let us know if you have any questions. Kieran is here. Kieran is sick today so wasn't able to host but is here in spirit. >> Hi Karen. >> Yeah, feel better Kieran. Get the chat is telling him to get some chicken chicken soup. So >> no 100%. Get some chicken soup. Get some some something warm, a nice little blanket. Cuddle up on the couch. Rest is always great.
12:57 >> We've got Carol who's in Florida and it's going to be 83. I'm I'm jealous of Carol. Oh, >> Frog, Sean, then over we got Nate, over on YouTube and on Bee Hands, and we've got Jacob. Oh, we've got Sean, too. Can't forget Sean. Welcome in, everybody. So, we're working on these are going to be social posts. This is going to be like a a carousel where you'd have like a bio on the second slide essentially.
13:26 >> Yep. So, yeah, this is a this right here will be the bio. So, as you see over here, they wanted like purple and pink. So, in here, just trying to add trying to add the pink to the the graphic. And then I just put like this, you know, a little static thing to kind of keep me posted on who the, you know, who the person's photo is. So, my thought process is to probably have them somewhere here, just depending on who the photo is and then add their their name and and like a short bio.
13:54 Now I know you've done some speaking which kind of puts you in a unique position to design these graphics as somebody who's kind of been in that world. Is this your first project working on conference graphics? >> Absolutely not. So in the so work so working in corporate for all those years and doing comms in corporate you're always working on some type of conference campaign or something like that. So this is not my first time really working on conference graphic period. and because I've been at a I've spoken at a lot of conferences over the course of my career in the last I say last 20 years, I kind of, you know, you're in the conference world, so you kind of know what to expect. what I will say is that, you know, from a standpoint of doing it for for the church, this is like I would say I've done conference graphics where it's like this is the flyer. So now getting into a space to where it's like where it is more so around like full you know social campaigns and stuff like that like I've done that for other organizations but not necessarily where it's not like oh let's let's figure out a creative way to provide the information for the client. So, the other thing that I'm doing in here, too, is that when you take your when you take things to Adobe Express, I'm taking like the background. So, I'm going to have to add the text when I get there for them. So, I'm, you know, just kind of playing around with the placement of the text and kind of the direction that I want the the text to go. So, that way when I get to Adobe Express, I I know what to where where I want the text to go.
15:33 So, that way they can go in and update it. So Kieran has a question for you. patients, where do you tend to find inspiration from before you jump into designing? Like do you have a mood boarding process or >> So yes, I do a twofold question really. >> So the new Adobe boards like I've been using that like crazy when it comes to mood boarding. So like I just throw everything on there in terms of what I want. Before I'm I'm a girls girl, so I love Pinterest. I love love love Pinterest. Like I'm on there for nail inspiration, hair inspiration, the whole nine yards. And so I want to say within the last within the last couple years or five, six years, I've gone on there for some design inspiration. But lately since I've been teaching I've been having my me and my students have been doing a lot of mood boarding from Behance. So, like I've been having them go out and look at other work from other people and really look at that. I will also say is I I I fang girl out on certain things. So, like if I'm on Instagram and I see somebody like laid out a carousel a certain way and it's like, "Oh my god, like I think this is a really cool way to do things, I'll go and save things on my Instagram feed." And then also like, you know, just in different places. But I definitely get a lot of my inspiration these days from Behance. I get a lot of my inspiration from Pinterest and then just scrolling on Instagram really when it comes to social graphics specifically.
17:04 and then a lot of times, you know, there are some like major like a couple of different designers out there like I stalk Kieran's work. I told him I was like I'm a fan. I stalk his work all the time. He's fantastic. Like I do a lot of book formatting too for clients and so I'll go on LinkedIn and kind of go and look go down a rabbit hole. That's actually how I found Karen was on he somebody post one of my friends that are in the design industry. They they liked something that he posted and I was like guy and so I went on his page and I was like oh he he's pretty dope. So like looking at other work because I think like as designers you get overwhelmed you get you know you have imposttor syndrome.
17:46 You feel like you're not as good as you need to do. The one thing I stopped doing though within this last I want to say year or so is I stopped having my algorithm be mainly designers because what I found out like I want to support my friends. I want to make sure I follow them and I like their work and all that. But what I found is that comparison kills. So when I'm looking at everybody else's graphics and I'm looking at what they're doing and then I'm like this doesn't look as good as theirs and then I go back and I switch it and it's all those different things. And so I really got myself to a place to where I stopped like really putting all of my, you know, ducks in. Let me go look at this person's graphics. Let me go see what they're doing. Let me go see exactly what they have going on because the next thing I know now, the whole campaign I'm working on is trash. I'm starting a little career.
18:37 >> Yeah. I mean, that's a tough thing that I don't think we talk about a lot. that affects especially like, you know, new designers. what what you see on social media isn't the full story. It's kind of like the end, you know, glossy results. you don't see all of the, you know, work that kind of went into that project necessarily depending on the account, right? Some people can be very real with their process, >> but other times you're like you just kind of have to take it with a grain of salt like you know you don't you know you only know are seeing the part of the story that they are presenting.
19:12 >> Yeah. And I think social media is a highlight reel, but as a designer specifically, I think what happens is is that you compare yourself to other people. And I think in this last two years, for me specifically, like going more into the creative director route versus the route of being the one that creates all the campaign. So like I'm providing the direction for where the campaign needs to go and then they kind of take it from there. what I'm learning is that, you know, I just need to be content with where I am and know my journey is not going to be everybody else's journey. My journey is not like the journey that I've had as far as design is concerned is nothing similar to the agency route. Like I didn't go to school and graduate and go to an agency and do all that. And I'm not knocking that route at all. I think that that route's great. But I think that, you know, what I found is that I I got to a place to where I was always comparing myself to my peers and comparing myself to what they had going on. And it was like, oh well, I didn't go this route, so I won't be as successful as it was.
20:12 Oh, I didn't do X, Y, and Z, so now, you know, I'm not going to have, you know, a my journey is going to be, you know, a little bit different than theirs. But I also realized that my journey is what makes me me. And so it's not going to be exactly like everybody else's. But also I connect with people that are not necessarily in the design industry per se. They've gone the route of working in corporate. They've gone the route of getting their degree later on in life.
20:36 and you know it it makes me more personable. So you know it it's like I said it's comparison kills. It's one of those things where I've just gotten more comfortable with where I am with my design journey. And you know hopefully that you know hope hopefully I inspire somebody to continue you know designing and not being like I quit this because there are days when you want to take your entire laptop and throw it >> for sure. Yeah. And you know at the end of the day clients are going to hire you for you. So it's important to be >> well 100%. And >> well also I think too when it comes to clients specifically like you know they hire people that they that they like to work with. So, like a lot of the opportunities that I've gotten with different campaigns that I've worked on or opportunities that I've had in my career, I've had them because people hired me because they liked me. They liked my personality. They liked the way that I, you know, presented things. I didn't like go along with their foolishness. So, I was like, hey, I wanted to, you know, do X Y and Z. It's like that is terrible. Like, we should do something else. And not being afraid to like get, you know, give my feedback, but also if they want to go with a terrible graphic, who am I to judge them? That's their decision. that's what they want to do with their life, right?
21:48 But still being like I'm me. So I'm not like, you know, trying to what do you call it? Trying to to make them happy. I'm like, you want to go this route, be my guest. However, comma, I think we should not do that. You know, so >> yeah, definitely those could be tricky conversations to have with clients where you're like, well, this is maybe not the best for your audience necessarily. I know that you were emotionally attached to it, but let's think about your goals ultimately, right?
22:18 >> Yeah. >> We do have another question. Robert's asking about working on conference materials if you've ever used the data merge features or variables in Illustrator in design. I know you said you used to put together these graphics kind of in Illustrator and in design. >> Yeah. So, not use the data merge feature in in and my question for him would be in what way though? Because I'm like I literally like I'll go in there make the graphics or make the because for me I'm making the template of what it needs to look like and kind of passing it off.
22:54 I think there's there's a couple of conferences where I did like the full campaign and kind of manage everything end to end. but right now I'm in the space where it's like okay here you go. So can he elaborate on that? Yeah, we'll see if you have any followup. Robert over in the Behance chat. also, hello to Bri. Welcome to the chat. We've got Raj over on YouTube. I think Bri's in both chats.
23:28 So, where we where we at now? We've got our >> We got our speaker bio. Yes, we got our speaker bio. were on the last slide was like once they read the you know the the bio hopefully they're sold and they want to come and so now >> your call to action >> absolutely register now so please go register for the you know so that we're we're on our our call to action at this point and so like I said really what I'm just doing is kind of figuring out the the whole thing of or the whole layout of how I want these things to go and trying to weave in the purple as much as I can because that's the, you know, the theme of the conference. They want purple growth.
24:10 >> Yeah. It seems to be moving along pretty quickly because you've got kind of all these assets >> going. >> Yeah. And I had like I really like sat and >> pre like sat with the assets and made sure that I liked, you know, the direction we're going in after I gave the client or after I know went back to the client and was like, "Hey, I think we should go this route." because I mean I'm also thinking about the fact like even with these graphics I have to create posters I got to create wayfinding like all these things. So think about the where we started and it's like actually that won't that that won't work just because I think that you know when you're trying to do way finding and stuff like that trying to make sure that everybody knows where they're going and and and stretching the the are or your images your images getting skewed like I just I want to make sure that you know everything looks apart because once I've h once I hand it off I can't I have to look at it from social and be like oh god what happened.
25:07 Yeah, I feel like wayfinding can really make or break a conference. Like, yes, you want to make sure that people can get to their sessions and get where they need to go. It's it's important. >> Well, and it's also like think about the fact that like in this situation with this conference, like the parking lot signs, the you know, they this client has like a big billboard or not billboard, they have like an electronic billboard in front of the the building.
25:32 So, you know, have making sure that people can see the information on that billboard and that it's not skewed and all that stuff. So, you know, all those things having to take those into consideration and making sure that all of the graphics can be seen. So, that's really where where my my thought process has been with it. >> So, Robert's got a followup. Robert's saying, "I'm a former newspaper guy now working in ministry. >> Things like personalized name tags with photos are cool when done with the merge." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've not actually had the pleasure of using that because I haven't had to personalize things in Illustrator. A lot of times they'll the personalization thing like I think we've I've used like Oh my god. How do we personalize things before? It's been a while.
26:24 >> I don't remember. >> Yeah. I will say that I know I I I know exactly what he's talking about, but I haven't had the pleasure of using it. >> Yeah, in in design you can put you can attach you can link it to an Excel sheet and those top category names you can treat them as like variables. So, if you had a bunch of conference attendees and you wanted to do custom name tags, >> you could say like name and you've got like a column down that has everybody's names and you can link that.
26:56 >> Oh, like conference. >> Yeah, you can link that Excel column title as a variable and it it's in like brackets and it'll say name. and when you run a data merge, it'll replace that text with everybody's name in separate. >> That's super cool. Yeah, I know. We like I've done it where we've where I've had we've done stuff where we've had personal life that I just I like I said, I've passed everything off and been like, "All right, good luck."
27:26 >> well, I'll have to really use that later on because I think that that's really good. No, we might I might actually tell them to use that for this conference. Thank you, Robert. That's really good information. >> Yeah, thanks Robert for sharing that. Robert's saying, "By the way, beautiful work and thanks for the info. Use immersion in design but not in Illustrator. I was wondering if they work similar." So, yeah, they do work similar. Robert, >> what is it?
27:51 >> Yeah, the the output is a little bit different. you it outputs to artboards. I believe that you can like switch through but it's a very similar process with how you link the Excel sheet to the variables and then you can output the files but slightly different I would say they're slightly different but not too different that if you know how to use one you can figure out how to use the other. >> So So but we're setting these up in Illustrator and then we're going to take them over to Express.
28:25 >> Yes. >> Right. Yes. Yes, we are. Yes. Yes. Yes. Because I have to take these. I'm taking what I'm doing right now, Robert, is I'm going in and I'm creating how I want this to look in Express. and then I'm going to take I'm going to copy all of my templates where it's stuff where they can like where they can change the verbiage and I'm going to take it over there. So, right now I have like this little silhouette that says photo and then I have, you know, my verbiage. But when you take when I take this over to Illustrator, I mean, not illustrator to express, I'm going to go in and add the verbiage on the page.
29:01 >> Gotcha. >> And we are approaching already, believe it or not, the halfway mark. >> I know. That's why I'm headed >> flying >> flying by. Yeah, I'm headed to I'm headed to Adobe Express right now, actually. Just going to go in copy my >> Very cool. copy the art boards that I just created so I can just show how we, you know, create this template in Adobe Express. Just got to go in here and take out.
29:33 If you're just joining us, patients has been working in Illustrator on some templates for a conference. And this is a real conference. >> Yeah, it is. >> Did we talk about that yet? I don't feel like we talked about that yet. Okay. >> No, it's a it's a it's a real thing. It is happening in 2026. >> Nice. >> It's happening here in Arizona. So, it's actually So, like my background when I started in design years ago, I started in doing graphic design for my church. So, I volunteered at the church doing graphic design for years, like years. and you know, it was one of those things where one, because I was early on in my career, I just wanted to be able to use my gift in in a way, and I wanted to make sure that I was effective in utilizing my gift. So, I, I volunteered and when I felt like things would get daunting for me or I felt like things would get to a place to where they weren't going that well, I would get discouraged. But now, that was I was in my early 20s. But I will say that that experience that I got doing that, oh my god, like I can't even I can't even begin to talk about like how one the nuances of just doing graphics at church period. Like those nuances is is different. And then just making sure that there's things for everything. So it's like, okay, I got to make sure that there's like I said, wayfinding, that there's badges, there's there's all kinds of things >> happening.
31:06 >> Definitely. And what a great way to get experience on some real world projects, >> right? Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. It's it's it's it's wonderful experience. It's great. It's one of those things where it is very much so it's rewarding because you're able to learn more information about things and learn more information about, you know, how to do various graphics. and so yeah, I think it it was a very rewarding experience for me and it was a very good experience. I enjoyed it. I thought that, you know, it was one of those things I would never I would never trade that experience for the world.
31:46 because like I said, doing the graphics, doing graphics that are not that like I would say this, entertainment graphics and church graphics very two different worlds, but also the same at the same time because you're doing some of the same stuff. But I would say it gave me foundation. It also gave me like it also told me like hey I learned feedback really well. So like I learned how to take feedback, how to not get my feelings hurt, >> how to not get my feelings hurt, not how to not like you know take things personally and just really you know just understand that what the client wants what the client wants and it has nothing to do with you specifically.
32:23 this is literally like this is what I want and you're either gonna give me what I want or you know you're gonna get off the job or you know I'm gonna give it to somebody else. And so I learned early on how not to take things personal. Yeah, I think that's can be hard again for designers just starting out to like learn how to really effectively use critique and feedback when it comes to to their work.
32:54 >> So, >> yeah. Well, I think too like you know it's it it is one of those things where it is feedback is different because like when I when I I think I perfect I learned how to take feedback without getting offended in in in doing church graphics but then I learned how to take feedback and be strategic with the feedback in working in corporate so it kind of went hand inand so luckily I was So volunteering when I was working in corporate as a communications and engagement leader and things like that. It just it was you know it it was it it was simultaneously so it made it easy for me to be able to function when it's like oh I got feedback from you know my client at work and then I also got feedback from the client at church or you know from the person I'm creating the graphics for. So, you know, I'm going to take it take it and and implement it.
33:54 And it just made me a better designer overall, honestly. >> So, it looks like we're get ready to have hop over to now. >> About to go over to Adobe Express. I just saved this. I'm have to close Illustrator down and then go into or reopen it because when I try to add it to my libraries, my libraries are actions there. It This is what happens when you're on Zoom. decides it wants your computer decides it wants to act crazy like like a child. It acts like my children like oh we're in public and perished.
34:28 >> So we're saving this in Illustrator then and bringing it up. >> Yeah, we're going to say I'm we're I'm going to reopen up Illustrator. I'm going to save it in my library. Then I'm going to open it up in a library or I I'll save it in my folder and open it up there. So just going to reopen up Illustrator and kind of go from there. We've got a a lot of nice comments around your hands. also welcome professor canon. Robert saying the critique isn't about the person but about the work. Tough lessons.
34:56 >> Hi Professor Canon. I talked to him at Mac. It's one of my favorite people. >> Yes. >> We had a good conversation at Mac. >> Carol is saying my career started with the yellow page ads but also included graphics for a church and their Christian school for a few years. to include mural slet paintings for Easter, etc. Great experiences. >> Yes. Oh my god, that's that was one of the like when I was in when I was like in the thick of doing church graphics back when I first started out, the Easter graphics, those were my favorite because I felt like you got Yeah.
35:32 because you had a chance to kind of get outside the box and really get a chance to like really like put things together. because a lot of times it' be like the same stuff. I felt like Easter kind of when you when it comes to church stuff, it's super like that they get kind of reinvigorated around that time. And so getting out the box and really putting together what the strategy should look like with like some of my favorite things to do.
35:55 >> Nice. Yeah, I could see that. I mean, there's sort of pre, you know, Christmas, for example, has a very defined look and feel to it, you know, that I feel like never really changes, but >> and even with Christmas, like depending on what it is, you can kind of get a little creative there. But while I got Adobe Illustrator doing whatever it is that it wants to do in the background, like open maybe, close maybe, I'm just going to go along with this temple that I have here. and this is why I'm going to add. So, like normally, you know, you relink your files and stuff like that in Adobe Express. So, I saved I went to your stuff. So, I had it in this folder.
36:39 and I have my folder here. And so, I went and grabbed this and linked it here. So, the file that I'm going to bring over here, the photo here, but while it add my text in Adobe Express, right? >> So, this is that >> info in >> the speaker. Mhm. The speaker name and their speaker title like what I put in Illustrator. And normally I would have like my fonts and all that, but can't get Illustrator to do what it needs to do. And it's >> gotcha.
37:25 >> You might be able to. >> Not no fault of that. It's just the fact that my computer just decided one thing. And I am aer. I love my my favorite fonts are like Aaner Poppins, Monzerat, like when I'm having to do certain copies. So, we're going to go in there and change that. >> Gotcha. Yeah. So, like I mentioned earlier, we're we're actually a little bit over halfway through the stream now. If you're just joining, patience is was working in Illustrator, now we're over in Adobe Express. you can find the replay if you missed the first half of the stream. You can go ahead and go watch the replay on the Adobe Live YouTube channel. we've also got a Discord and a newsletter that you can sign up for to get notified about the schedule every week.
38:26 find out about future live streams. We've also got an Instagram, a Tik Tok, we're on Twitch with community shows. We're really everywhere. So, go ahead and grab those links. They should be in the description, both on YouTube and on Behance. >> So, we're just going to add the speaker name here, and then I'm going to show I'm going to get to the the meat and potatoes of utilizing the Adobe using Adobe Express to make this resource library.
39:00 >> Gotcha. So you're going to make these are going to be templates that >> can access from the library. >> Yeah. So like they So like this is specifically for like comm's team. So like if we create templates for the create the templates that way we can avoid them doing whatever it is that they want to do to the images. So that way when I when I pass this over the comm's team can go in there, update the titles, update the speaker names, and they don't have to keep coming back and being like, "Hey, we spelled it wrong." Well, actually, you can go right in here, update it, and then download it.
39:38 >> Yep. >> But I did my foundation in Illustrator just to make it easier. Like I love Adobe Express. I think it's great, but I like I've been working in Illustrator for so long. that's my workflow. So, it's very very difficult to come out of there and be like, let me create something from scratch and express. If I have to do something quick, I'll go to Express and do stuff in Express. But if it's something where I know that I, you know, I really want to play around my art boards and do all the things and take it with like I can take Express with me on the go everywhere that I go, but if I don't have access to Wi-Fi or if I'm traveling or if I'm on an airplane and the Wi-Fi is not acting right like >> Yeah.
40:17 I've definitely been there with airplane Wi-Fi before. >> I can still keep going. but it's got like trying to access things on the go. but when you don't have Wi-Fi, you know, being able to to continue to create and then I'm old school. Like I've been doing this for a long time. So, you know, it it's new. So, trying to trying to get to a place to where you're utilizing new materials and making sure that you're, you know, trying new things out. Sometimes you're you're a creature or habit.
40:48 >> I think everybody has I'm definitely an illustrator girl. I feel like everybody has their like home home base where they feel like they if you've got to whip something up fast, like what are you going to grab, you know? But it is good to like explore these different tools because you know different thing is like for me I think I >> Yeah. And I think for me, like I started out I started out in in Photoshop and then I went to I went into Illustrator later on. And so from starting in Photoshop and going to Illustrator early on just kind of got stuck there.
41:34 Yeah, I I think I definitely feel like I probably learned Photoshop first, but then when I went I, you know, got into Illustrator and I was like, "No, this is where I want to be, you know." >> Yeah. No, 100%. We love I love Illustrator. I think she's she's my favorite. I love Illustrator. Absolutely love Illustrator. I got a question recently was like, "Oh, if you're stranded on, you know, if you were stranded on a beach with someone or stranded with an Adobe app, which one would it be?" And I was like, " Illustrator." And I was I went back and forth because I love in design, too. But I was like, I don't know if it's Inesign. I don't know if it's Illustrator. So, I think it's Illustrator. I think that that that's who I want to be shared on on a beach with >> Yeah. I I've talked about in past streams about like how in design a lot of people like why don't you just do it in in illustrator like in design has is really great for like certain things that I just feel like illustrator doesn't focus on if that makes sense.
42:43 >> Yeah. No, I and and here's the thing. When you do a lot of like book design and stuff like that, like I think that is where I feel like illust in design is like it kills it, right? Like I also like I've done a lot of >> I've done a lot of like books and journals and things like that. And so in doing like the books and the journals and all the things, what's happened is is that you know I just kind of got used to being in there. I love in design. I really I was in college.
43:18 >> All right, we've got our Looks like we've got our speaker card >> a template. >> So, I'm going to go to my template information here and just kind of tell it Oh, Bri saying in our chat, Adobe Express and Photoshop Express are my go-to. Do you let us know in the chat what your home base is, what your home home base, your app is, your favorite app, where you go to.
43:50 >> Yeah, I think my home my home base is my on a regular basis. Illustrator is always open. Always open >> for sure. So now we're going through the settings here. >> Now we're going through the settings to convert this to the template. So I am so technically whoever has access to this can go and update the speaker name speaker title. So I'm going to put here this template you are the template I can spell that'd be great. it's for >> spelling live is always tricky.
44:28 >> Yes. speakers beautifully broken. >> We are down to our last 15 minutes. Letting you know patience and also the chat know if you have any further questions for patience before we >> Yes, please ask me all the questions. I'm an open book. >> Yes. And and patience is I think we touched on it briefly, but you're an Adobe community expert as well. Yes, I am the fourth officer.
45:07 >> Yes, I'm active. So, a lot of the times, I actually just became an expert earlier this year in May. and so what I've been doing so far is like I did the Adobe Create Now. So, I was there talking about the Creative Cloud app. Then I was at Max talking about the different apps at Max. So, yeah, did a whole I've done a lot. like I've been really really really blessed to be a part of the program. I actually didn't even know the program existed.
45:37 And so I actually when I was at I spoke at the creative na the creative the create creative pro >> okay wording is hard. Yeah. >> yeah creative pro conference here in Chandler this year and so some of the people from the Adobe team was there and so I went over to the booth and and one of the guys Seal actually over who's over the program he goes why aren't you an Adobe creative expert? all of everybody here is an Adobe C. Why are you I was like I don't know. I didn't know that that was even a thing and so he kind of explained it to me and we talked about it and you know it was a really good conversation. He's like sign up and so soon as I signed up I got in the back end and I realized there were so many things I was already doing like testing out you know new products and you know going to different conferences, speaking at conferences, teaching like all the things that you're getting points for. I was already doing all that. So I was like, why am I not an expert? Because I've been doing all this for for years now and and didn't even know anything about the program. So, you know, got a part of the program and so now I'm there and I've been, you know, not looking back ever and not going anywhere ever since. And then two, when I was when I was at the Adobe Create Create Now event, I met some of the people that are over the mentorship program. And so got a chance to get an apprentice at our nonprofit. I I have a nonprofit and the nonprofit specifically works on creating programs for children and marginalized communities and also putting together things for designers and creative professionals and small businesses. So we literally are grassroots. I just founded it once I left my job in 2024. founded the organization and then went from there. And so basically we got an apprentice and so she's been doing fantastic. She actually just got highlighted on Adobe Live yesterday. Her name is Simone Grace. I got to shout her out. she's >> on the >> on the inside the it was on the LinkedIn and then they highlighted her in the broadcast channel on Instagram.
47:53 >> Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, >> you saw that on the Instagram account. >> Yeah, she's freaking amazing. Like she is just she is she's she's fantastic. So, she actually I I started mentoring her and was able to give her an opportunity to come and and work at the nonprofit and she has done some killer graphics since she's been there. So, I'm just really really proud of her. >> if you're curious what we're talking about, if you go to behands.netresources, the new career resources page, you can find out more about the creative apprenticeship program and and all the things the mentorship program that patient is talking about.
48:35 >> Yeah, it's a fantastic program. I think it's it's one of the best programs I've seen with Adobe. I wish that when I was in school or when I was a like when I was in my early on my design >> Yes. I'm like, if there would have been a program like that where you're able to meet people and just really get an opportunity to understand like the design industry and talk to people that can give you all the information like oh my god I would have been just so so happy. It's hard when you're first starting out whether you're a student career change to like network to like find people, find your >> Well, it's also to find your people, right? So, it's like, you know, trying to find the people that, you know, understand where you come from because like for me, >> because I started out in corporate, like I only knew corporate designers and so I had to like really go out of the b like really go and make sure that I was, you know, looking for the right people.
49:38 And so, in my part, I worked in I worked at in the financial industry. So when you work in financial in the in the finance industry, you're not going to find people that are graphic designers, they're like, you're not going to find that. You you might, but you you might not, right? And so I had to find my people. And so it took for me to go to design conferences and, you know, get be a part of AIGA and all the things in order for me to be a me to really find my community. And so once I found it, I was like, okay, great. This works. But you have to find it. And so sometimes it's very difficult to to really, you know, find your community when you're not working in in that space where that where that is.
50:20 >> Yeah, definitely. And daunting, too, especially if you're you're switching careers, right, to where you start, you know? >> Yes, it's daunting. And it's also like, you know, you feel like you're the oddball out because it's like, oh, all I care about is design. And they're like, girl, go get your go in there and learn your metrics. Like you're you're you know what I mean? So, it's like you you you're trying to figure it out. You don't really know the way to go. And like especially with when you're graduating from college, too, like where do you go? What do you do? Who's your people? Like, where do you belong? And it makes you feel like imposter syndrome. Like, am I crazy for having this dream to want to design or, you know, does does this make sense or did I make the wrong choice or did I make the right choice? I'm artsy, but I also can make professional graphics. So, what does that look like? So, it's it's it's interesting. I'll say that >> we're coming up on like the last five minutes here. So, >> we're almost there. So, we got we got Illustrator. So, we got what we created in in in Illustrator. And what I did was in my libraries, I went and I created some stuff. So, I'm going to my brand >> your building blocks for the simple.
51:31 >> Yeah. My There you go. My bu my building blocks for how I want everything to work. So, I went and I put my fonts in there. I put my cat characters in there how I wanted things to show up. >> >> there it is. >> Yep, there it is. my character style and my text wherever it's going. I'm not Yep. This is Aender. I'm an Aer. >> Yeah. Is that You think that's your >> That's one of my go-to texts. Yeah. My goto. I just it's it's it just it's so it's so clean. So I just I have I always go to Aer. so I'm going to add >> every designer has that like go to sand serif and serif that they use like this is this is the one I like >> out of all of the seraps and sand seraps out there.
52:24 >> Yes. Yes. It's it's absolutely what it is. It's like this is the one that I enjoy. This is the one that makes things work for me. Like it's just it just is clean. Like I I vary between this one and Monzerat and and what else? Monzerat. Oh, Poppins. Pop. Me and Poppins. We go We go We go together really bad. Oh, yeah. >> We go together really bad. Like I love Poppins. >> And then there's also like some new like the new like decorative sense fonts that I've been seeing. Like I've I've really been into those too. and so yeah, I just, you know, I enjoy it. I I I I really I'm I'm I like the new trend that's happening where we're, you know, getting outside the box with the way things look, especially when I spent all those all those years in corporate design. Getting outside the box is just I just love it. Right. So, I'm just going to go in here and put secret bio just so we can kind of get to the next thing. Right. Once again, spelling is hard in your life.
53:33 >> And as we get close to the end, where can, well, you said that you got, you're not big on social, but, is there a place where people can? >> Yeah, they can find me on. So, I'm on Instagram, so like I share all the different things I'm doing on Instagram. I'm on LinkedIn, so I share what I'm doing on LinkedIn. I'm going to start I'm going to get better at sharing my work. Definitely get better at sharing my work.
53:53 >> All right. I'll hold you to that. >> Please do. You'll see it. DM me and be like, "Hey girl, you said you're going to do this." All right. So, here's the bio. and then make this a template. So, we're going to go template setting. all right. So, over here, template setting. I just want to make sure that everything is the way it needs to be. I copy this link. And then I have this like I was making a or making we're working on the creative library really quickly. So here's the library. What I normally do is like I'll start with a template. So I'm just going to use this template for now just because it's already created and I'm going to go in here and change this to be broken.
54:48 I I I am a big fan of these web pages and I don't think they get enough love. >> They don't they do not they and I don't know why. I do not know why. >> I don't know. They're a great way to like share things with, you know, >> right? And that's the thing like I feel like, you know, I think that they're a fantastic way to share things out. It's an easy way to go in there and just update things. I'm just going to go grab this text over here just to change it out a little bit. And then we're going to change the background to a different background.
55:23 >> Anything in the bottom? >> Huh? >> In the bottom right. The gear icon. >> Oh, I didn't see that. Thank you. My screens are I got I got the I got the chat box. >> I didn't remember how to change it the main image out. I thought that was going to be it. Oh, I thought it was this. >> Oh, wait. Nope. >> We're going to create a new theme. That's what we're going to do. That's what we're going to do. We're going to create a new theme.
56:06 Go here. So, I'm going to go down. We're gonna I would love to try to figure this out right now, but it's not doing what it needs to do. So, I'm going to go down here. So, what I'm going to do is put like flyer graphics. so, we got like four minutes of like flyer graphics and then I would put like the subtitle underneath it for like what they need to do. And then I'll have like a button. and it would be like flyer template.
56:32 And then I'm going to put my URL here. Save this. And so, now there's a button that says flyer template. So, we're going to share this out. I'm just going to go publish this to the website. I'll go and update the graphics when I have more time. Okay. All right. So, we have broken. we're going to create this link. So, this link would be what I create or what I provide to my client once I go in and add all of the details and all that. I'm going to copy this link. We're going to put this here.
57:11 So now we have a website. going to load up and this blue graphic would essentially be of the beautifully broken graphic. Once we update that and when they if the person that's managing is to click on the flyer template button, >> it now provides them with a template that they can customize and make sure that they update for the conference.
57:42 >> Nice. So, this is how what you would share to the client for them. >> So, I would share this to the client for their team. And so now they're in here and they can go to each page and click on the information, update the bio, but this is their specific file that they can do. So like for comm's directors, they could go in there and adjust it and make, you know, multiple different files with the different templates for them to access.
58:09 >> Nice. Well, I think we are that's going to be do it for us on time. >> Yeah. but thank you so much patience for sharing not only your process but all of your wisdom and insights you know on your career and you know kind of how you've gotten to where you are. >> please follow patience on social media >> and keep on Instagram. Yeah. >> but we've got more graphic design coming up next with Brady Patterson.
58:42 that's going to be over on Behance YouTube doing a sports team. So, stay right here and we'll see you in the next stream. All right, bye everyone. >> Bye.
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