My
first experience at Adobe MAX. It was held May 5-8, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. What a great conference. I not only have
the benefit of attending great workshops but also be witness to Adobe’s
new roll out of the new branding of Adobe products. The Creative Suite
(CS) products are branded as Creative Cloud (CC). I have been using the
creative cloud products for close to a year and absolutely love it.
While I have not downloaded all of the products yet, I love having all
of them at my fingertips. I love the whole cloud piece - being able to
upload images, videos, etc., downloading products as I need them, the
Behance feature, while I haven’t used it much yet, I love the idea.
I
also learned at this conference that Adobe is looking at getting into
the hardware business. They will be releasing a stylus (Mighty) that is
connected to the “cloud” and a slide rule (Napoleon) that works well
with tablets.
I
loved the community summit that was held before the conference got
rolling, I had the opportunity to meet product developers and managers
along with other Adobe Education Leaders in a great social event.
Some
of the sessions I attended included InDesign Tips and Tricks, Building
Multi-Folio Apps with Digital Publishing Suite, Building Business
Websites with Dreamweaver and Business Catalyst, Don’t Be Afraid: You
can Learn Edge Animate, Hands-On New Features in InDesign CC, Creating
Mobile Layout Designs in Adobe Muse and Adobe Illustrator: Advanced
Techniques. So many to choose from: https://www.adobe-max.com/scheduler/catalog.do