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[Auto-generated transcript. Edits may have been applied for clarity.]
Uh, thank you all for being here today to learn some more about visual design.

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Um, poster design. Uh, graphic design, kind of in general, the, um, elements that we're going to go through today, the principles and the,

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uh, software that you can use, uh, will be applicable to all kinds of graphics that you may need to create.

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Um, as a grad student, you may need to create them for a conference poster.

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You may need to create them for an assignment. You may need to create a digital presentation.

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Um, some really good graphics to go, um, in a publication.

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So thanks where we're going to be exploring today or applicable in lots of different areas.

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Um, and we're also going to show you some resources to continue learning more, uh, because you can go further into depth with this,

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depending on which Creative Cloud application you're interested in or what type of design you're interested in.

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So yeah, so I'm going to go ahead and put uh, the link in the presentation, uh, to the presentation in the chat again here.

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And then uh, we will go ahead and get started, uh, with this particular presentation.

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As you have questions, please feel free to go ahead and post, uh, into the chat.

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Um, I'm going to do my best to watch the chat, uh, while we go through the presentation.

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Presentation. So please feel free to do that. If you have questions, comments, if you want to chat amongst yourselves, that's cool too.

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Um, feel free to do that. This is your time to, uh, go through sort of the content with me and to learn, um, alongside.

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All right. Um, but quick introduction.

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Uh, I'm doctor Chelsea Hooper. I'm an instructional technology specialist at the library.

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My main area of work is in the Adobe creative space.

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And I'll show you the main, uh, web page first so you can kind of see where I'm housed and kind of orient yourself, uh, to this presentation.

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So from the main library web page, there is a link to the I and RC,

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which is the Innovation and Research commons that's located on the first floor of the library.

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Inside of that area, we have several different areas that can help you with all kinds of different things.

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You can take, uh, time later to kind of go through those.

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But my main area of work is in the Adobe creative space.

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We're going to be talking about a couple of different pieces of software today, but Adobe is one that you have access to.

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And if you have questions after today about your designs, one really important resource I wanted to make sure you're aware of is our Adobe Helpdesk.

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Um, they can also help give just feedback on your designs as well.

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And if you're using something, if you end up using something like PowerPoint, that's okay too.

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Um, their skill set is in the Adobe Creative Cloud set, but they are used to, you know,

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any kind of digital design and helping with that and giving some ideas and that sort of thing.

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They do not do projects for you.

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They assist you in learning the Adobe app so that you can use them yourself, and so you can continue to use them throughout your career.

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So a great thing to add to your to your skill set anyway,

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as you if you intend on continuing with research and you have to submit grant applications and things like that,

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and being able to create really nice looking figures that help people understand your data is very important.

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If you go on into the business world, being able to pitch, you know, your marketing plan to somebody in a concise manner is really important.

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Um, but the consultants, their help desk schedule is located here on the sidebar.

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They also have different specialties.

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So if you need help with something like video, you need to look for the consultants who have video listed as a skill.

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All of them basically know, uh, Photoshop. So you can just show up for Photoshop or Adobe Express, which I'll be showing you today,

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which is drag and drop based, um, web based drag and drop, easy interface to use.

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Um, but some of them have other skills like, um, uh, illustrator, InDesign, for example.

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So if you need help with specifically something like that,

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just check to make sure a consultant has that skill and then match your schedule up with theirs.

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And then they are also available via zoom.

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So if you can't get over to the library or it's sort of later in the evening and you're not on campus as long as they are listed here to work,

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they are also available via zoom at the same time. So that's a very important resource.

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I wanted to make sure you, uh, were aware of. Now we'll hop back into our presentation.

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Make sure you grab this presentation link. Uh, for today, the IRC poster.

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I'm going to go through this PowerPoint rather quickly.

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Um, because we want to spend a lot of our time kind of looking at the different pieces of software that you can choose.

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And I'm going to do a few demos for you. Um, and I'm also happy to take questions as we go.

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All right. Let's go ahead and get started with the.

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Presentation now? Yeah. So now you know where my main area work is.

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Also help with other kinds of, uh, instructional technologies, such as our digital wall display and things like that.

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Uh, we kind of already went through that.

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So, um, the main thing to think about when you are doing some sort of visual design is what are you trying to accomplish?

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So in this case, if we were talking about poster design, uh, such as a conference poster or a research poster, then we would want to think about.

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And this goes for any kind of design. What's the purpose of it?

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Who is the audience? Are there specific requirements, um, that are needed?

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Those are the things that you need to start with when you're considering design.

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Who are you designing this poster or graphic or presentation for?

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Is it a class assignment? Is it a research presentation? Is it going to be a contest?

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Um, are there, um, rubrics that you can use to help sort of measure your work as you do it?

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Um, is it face to face? Is it virtual? All of these things are going to determine what you choose and how you design it.

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Are there time constraints? Do you get 10s to say what your main information is as people pass by your poster?

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These are some examples of some actual poster presentations.

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This is one from the College of AG. Um, both of these are actually and and this is an example of a prepared presenter.

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Okay, so this is, uh, Doctor Spears here. He has his poster here.

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It's the correct size. It's fitting. Um, you know the easel correctly.

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He's got his name tag on. He's got handouts ready so that when people come by his poster, he can talk to them.

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He's got some nice visual elements here, so he can easily speak to people, because that's the whole point.

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Whatever your graphics are or your poster sales, if it if you're giving some sort of presentation,

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whatever you put in it should help you deliver your presentation.

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If you find yourself stumbling over it, or if it's too much content,

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you're going to have to take some of that information out or rearrange it or redesign your graphic or something like that.

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By contrast, check out this poster, um, behind them.

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It's not the right size. It's falling off. It's a wall of text, and nobody's over there.

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Right. So that's an example, sort of a failed poster.

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So this is what we want to avoid. So how do we avoid it. Right.

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Here are some frameworks that you that may you may find helpful as you're giving presentations.

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Think about the what why how and how to um, if you're kind of, uh,

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wanting to really improve your presentation skills or you're looking to present for the first time, possibly using a framework like this can help you.

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Okay. And here's some other tips. And again, I'm going through this pretty fast because you can refer to this type of stuff later.

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Um, but is it face to face. Is it virtual.

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So appearing approachable, being friendly looking professional, having your opening statement and what we call your 1060 ready right away.

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That's your ten things in 60s or what some people might call your elevator speech.

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Um, you get a very limited time amount of time, especially if it's like a poster where people are milling about to get your points across.

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So having some sort of statement like, can I tell you about my research or, you know, have you, uh, discovered this issue in your work?

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You know, and then, you know, hook them in with some sort of statement and then go into your presentation.

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Um, having handouts or a QR code where they can scan it and get more information is really helpful.

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And then virtual things like looking at the camera, be ready, have professional look,

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look professional with having some nice light, making sure your audio is working correctly.

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Um, eliminating, uh, distractions in your surroundings.

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Um, having a link ready to toss into the chat or to send to them, or a QR code or something like that.

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Um, closing everything else out on your computer so that it runs well.

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Um, some other presentation tips. Practice.

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You can also, uh, zoom with a classmate or advisor and get and run through your presentation.

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Do some peer review with each other. Um, you can also record yourself in zoom and then watch it and then maybe take some notes.

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Figure out where you maybe got hung up and how you could reword things.

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Adjusting your presentation. There is also a PowerPoint presenter coach tool, and this is another reason why it's a good idea to sort of snag,

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um, the presentation link, which I'll put in chat again if anybody arrived late.

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But there's a link to the presenter coach tool here. Kind of just shows you where in PowerPoint that that is.

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It records you and then it gives you feedback.

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At the end it'll say, hey, you said um, like 15 times, you know, or there's too much, uh, too many pauses here, that sort of thing.

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Keeping things as simple as you can.

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If you're giving some sort of presentation, uh, reengaging your audience, you know, maybe have an icebreaker or question for.

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Uh, maybe you do a turn and talk. Turn to your neighbor.

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Talk about this and then come back together. Um, having a backup plan.

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One time, I went to a conference to present, and my presentation depended on having, uh, Wi-Fi.

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So live internet. Um, and there was the internet went out at the present at the conference,

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which is crazy because it was an educational technology conference, so go figure.

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But I had a backup recording of my workshop that was a, um, a video just stored on my laptop.

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So instead of having my whole presentation destroyed, I was able to bring up that locally saved version of that recording.

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Play it and talk over it as as I was going through the video myself.

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And so that saved the presentation. They still couldn't participate hands on, but at least it didn't destroy the whole presentation.

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So having a backup plan, having your files saved in multiple locations, or having it saved like in box or something,

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where you can, um, where it's in the cloud and you can access it later is really important.

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Um, speaking with the conversational but not too informal style, making sure to slow down when speaking.

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Being happy and positive. Act like you want to be there.

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Giving a presentation is important. Um, and then having some sort of clear ending, like a call to action or a link for more information,

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or thank you for coming to my presentation so people know when you're finished, especially with, uh, multiple presentations going on in the same room.

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They kind of want to know when you're done. So you're trying to be polite, right?

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So the career center also has a lot of great tips for preparing for things like speaking to people at a career fair.

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So definitely check out their tips as well. Those are good.

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Also, switching gears just a little bit into different types of graphics that you might encounter.

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There is such a thing as a visual abstract.

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So this is something that you could create and it counts similarly to contributing and contributing an article, um, to Elsevier for example.

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And here are some examples here that you're welcome to explore later.

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But you could use the tools that we're going to explore today Adobe Express, even PowerPoint.

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Um, you know, or some of the other Adobe apps to create something visual like this.

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Um, an icon, some statistics, some important statistics, and a little tiny bit of sort of captioned text to explain what it is.

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And, um, you know, this is a visual abstract. Um, so that's a really neat thing that you could, that you could do.

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And this would also work really well in like a presentation or a grant application or a business pitch.

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Like here's the proof of concepts that we've done.

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So, um, this is just wanted to make sure you knew that this was an option as well as far as contributing to, um, scholarship.

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So this is more information about, uh, Visual Abstracts if you're interested in also like a how to and all of that.

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Um, so just some more information about that. Contests.

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So if you have an opportunity to participate in a contest,

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that is a great thing to do because you will gain experience in presenting and creating graphics.

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You can put that you, uh, participated at least on your resume.

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Um, and a lot of these have cash prizes. So if you happen to win, then that's great.

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Um, but even if you don't, being able to say that you participated and having that experience is really good.

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So look for those opportunities and try to participate those in those when you can.

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You can often like look up to see who the past winners were, um, on these sites where they may advertise the contests.

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And you can see what were the judges kind of keying and on what did they like to see or what was interesting to them?

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Um, so that gives you some ideas there to participate in contests.

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Now let's look at a few examples. So we're going to start with sort of the a little bit more traditional research poster style.

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And then we're going to talk about some other examples of graphics as well.

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But here are some examples of some sort of basic research posters.

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If you have to do a basic research poster, then there's going to be some tips in here for how to do that.

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If you have an opportunity to be more creative. So look at the requirements and always adhere to whatever the requirements are.

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But if you have an opportunity to be more creative, then do so.

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But here are some sort of standard ones. Notice 3 to 5 colors, some logos so we know what's going on.

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Maybe just one chart. A couple of tables.

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Um, using rounded edges here.

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That's sort of pleasing to people. Consistent subtitles.

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That's good. Um, and you can easily read it.

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It's not too much text.

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There's this little leaning towards a little bit too much, but it's still pretty organized for the amount of text that's on here.

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Um, here's the, uh, Doctor Spears example that we saw in the first photo.

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Um, and we'll look at his raw file, but this one was created in PowerPoint.

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Um, and, uh, just has a simple header, a banner, uh, at the top and one at the bottom to kind of give it a beginning and an end.

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Um, and it had certain requirements. It had to have a team research focus, what the resources are and key opportunities.

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And the purpose to this poster was so he could speak with other researchers and find out what are some areas we have in common,

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that we could maybe go for certain funding opportunities together.

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Um, and so this was the table, uh, down here with no borders.

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So that's a great way to, um, no borders showing.

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Anyway, um, that's a great way to organize your content pretty quickly.

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Um, this is a photo with a border. And also we captioned it and made it italics.

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So putting these captions here, even if you think these people will know what they imported fire it looks like always caption it,

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because anything you can do to get people through your presentation is going to be helpful.

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Using these bullet points, using just some Creative Commons photos here so that he could speak to these topics,

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and then something about the black belt and the topography was really important in this particular presentation.

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So we made sure to include that. And also these images break up the text.

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So um, that's an example of a more informal, uh, research poster style.

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Here are some sort of out there examples that you might think about.

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Um, if you're heading to a conference, it might be crowded, there might be a lot of people around.

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You have to sort of make yourself stand out. If you have an opportunity to bring along an iPad that you can show more information on or a screen,

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than then that's a great thing to do to capture people's attention and to show more information that you can flip through and that that kind of thing.

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Here's an example of one that was done at, um, here at Auburn in the humanities.

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So this was an interesting one. They were studying some medieval stories, and they used Photoshop to take, uh, sort of make a copy of the, um,

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images from the story and superimpose them in modern day, uh, setting of what the story was talking about.

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So if the story said this was this took place, you know, um, you know, in, uh, you know, England or whatever or something like that,

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then they would have, like the actual photograph and then overlaid with, um, the character putting the character sort of in at out of time.

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Right. So kind of an interesting thing to capture your attention and talk about that topic.

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Other examples. These are some more standard, uh, presentation styles.

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Notice 3 to 4 columns, um, you know, and just, uh, 3 to 5 colors, you know, and then the information laid out titles at the top.

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That's pretty standard. Here's one that's more like infographic style.

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And this one's done pretty well because it's divided into thirds, um, and done in thirds across.

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So this was a lot of information they had to get across. But notice they kept it all to sort of like an illustrative style.

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Adobe Express could do this as well as Adobe Illustrator could kind of get you further along, uh, with these types.

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It looks like this is also all caps. All caps should be used very sparingly like just in the subtitles or the titles.

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Like this chart has some images associated with it as well, instead of just the bars.

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Maybe this is electric or something. And then this one over here is a graphic novel style.

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then that would be a great thing to participate in. And this is sort of a trend that's happening now.

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People are like, why should I create this really nice looking research poster with 3 to 4 columns and text and images and all that?

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If people only mainly look at the title and that's it.

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So this is a track of talking about theory.

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It's crammed. You cannot simply just take your giant research paper and copy and paste it into a poster.

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whether it's a poster, a presentation or a graphic or whatever.

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and also helping you take something like a giant research paper and figure out what's most important to put in a poster.

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We share our resources with them as well, and they also do, uh, poster design, um, as well.

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So, um, those are some options. Uh, and they have consultants to that you can, uh, schedule.

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So that's very, very helpful. And then, uh, definitely one thing you want to do is to gather the materials you think you might use.

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Put that into your folder. Pick 2 to 3 colors depending on sort of the vibe or what or what sort of feelings you want to come across.

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Incongruous. Um. So gathering.

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and make that a very simple, uh, chart or table or a, um, a statistic that you write out, you know.

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I'm going to show you that in just a minute. It can now print up to 48in by 48in.

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So what's really nice is you could use Adobe Express for your entire poster, and it helps you create any kind of digital graphics as well.

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Um, which is very nice. There are also a few templates to help get you started.

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You can access it wherever you have internet access.

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If we have time, I can show you InDesign a little bit. We do have a whole nother hour long presentation on how to use InDesign to make a poster.

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Um, and then you could use, like Photoshop to manipulate an image that then you put into your poster illustrator.

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You could use that for your entire poster, but you have to kind of draw everything from scratch and kind of know what you're doing there.

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So we have, uh, our long presentations on getting started in Photoshop, as well as getting started in illustrator.

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That would help you, you know, do both of those things if you wanted to use those softwares.

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You can use PowerPoint to actually design a poster. The trick is you have to set up your slide size first.

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There are directions here on how to do that. There's also a video that I made showing you how to do that.

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It's really not bad at all, but you must do that first before you start your design.

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So it kind of depends on the time that you have the learning curve that you're willing to put put up with and that sort of thing.

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And you can have the slides right now. So if you click that link then this will get you these slides.

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You can also print your wide format posters in the Innovation and research comments on the first floor of the library.

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The other side can be longer, so 36 by 48 would work more than that is really too big for you to be designing anyway and toting around.

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create one section the way you want, like one subtitle, and then copy and paste it, and then just change the text.

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um, the authors, the headings, the body text. Louis captions are 18 and that's the very smallest you should go.

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Uh PowerPoint file that was created. And also if we have time, we'll check out InDesign as well, but probably express, uh,

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in case we don't have time to go into InDesign one to kind of just show you the interface, it can be a little intimidating at first.

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That's why we have like a whole nother hour long presentation on just InDesign.

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So that can really be the most of what you need. So try not to be too intimidated by it.

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Um, also on our instructional content page is where we have all of the workshop recordings that we do.

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So like today's workshop is recorded there, as well as one that goes more into depth with Adobe Express.

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an InDesign one on just poster design using InDesign, one on getting started in illustrator.

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Um, I already showed you the Adobe consultants, but their link to their schedule is here.

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That's an Adobe helpdesk. They can answer questions you might have about your project, or if you get stuck using one of these,

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if you let's say you go watch the Photoshop workshop and you're trying to do something to your image and you're not sure how to do it,

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you could ask the consultants, um, how how you could maybe do that.

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You might have to do the orb shortener. You all have access to it.

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And once you sign in there, you can create a URL shortener to any URL that you want.

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00:35:37,038 --> 00:35:38,688
And it also creates a QR code.

381
00:35:39,048 --> 00:35:49,218
And you can log back into RB and check this to test the statistics on how many times people access to your short URL or access to your QR code.

382
00:35:49,488 --> 00:35:55,968
So that's really, um, a neat thing to do, especially if you're giving a presentation at a certain event.

383
00:35:56,388 --> 00:36:01,488
You could use the RB shortener to give them the short URL or QR code to your information.

384
00:36:01,938 --> 00:36:08,508
Um, maybe goes to your references page. That way you get your references off of your presentation, but they're still there.

385
00:36:08,898 --> 00:36:12,298
Um, and you can check later after the event.

386
00:36:12,318 --> 00:36:15,078
How many people access to it? So that's really handy too.

387
00:36:15,468 --> 00:36:23,658
And then we also do, uh, we still are doing free workshops, doing one on, uh, Copilot and Adobe Firefly next week for AI Art.

388
00:36:23,988 --> 00:36:32,058
Um, there's plenty more coming up. So, uh, we also do video ones and all kinds of stuff, but they're also all recorded here on our page.

389
00:36:32,268 --> 00:36:37,218
All right. And that's going to be the end of this particular presentation.

390
00:36:37,228 --> 00:36:42,027
So I'd like to do now and feel free if you have questions about anything I've talked about so far,

391
00:36:42,028 --> 00:36:45,598
feel free to go ahead and post into the chat if you have questions.

392
00:36:45,988 --> 00:36:50,308
What we're going to do next is, uh, talk about the software that we can use.

393
00:36:50,848 --> 00:36:56,338
So if we go to um, let's see, this is the Adobe creative space that I showed you earlier.

394
00:36:56,998 --> 00:37:03,478
I have another presentation that you're welcome to access because it has, uh, some handy links in it and things like that.

395
00:37:03,928 --> 00:37:11,007
Um, I toss this into the chat as well. And, uh, you're welcome to launch this page.

396
00:37:11,008 --> 00:37:16,108
And then I also have a second one here, um, that I'm going to grab for you.

397
00:37:16,588 --> 00:37:23,368
And I'm not really going to go through this presentation page, but this one goes more into depth with like color theory,

398
00:37:23,578 --> 00:37:28,138
um, visual design, a little bit more into depth infographics in particular.

399
00:37:28,588 --> 00:37:33,028
Um, and so that is another resource depending on what it is you need to create.

400
00:37:33,088 --> 00:37:36,268
Okay. Um, so those are a couple of options there.

401
00:37:37,108 --> 00:37:46,078
All right. But on this first presentation page, the IRC Adobe CC page, and I will try to grab each of those links and save them for later as well.

402
00:37:47,128 --> 00:37:52,228
Um, in order to have access to the Adobe Creative Cloud, you do have to sign up for your Adobe ID.

403
00:37:52,438 --> 00:37:57,538
Hopefully you guys have already done that. If you haven't yet, then make sure you take a minute to do that.

404
00:37:57,538 --> 00:38:00,898
In two hours, you'll get a confirmation email that you have access.

405
00:38:01,318 --> 00:38:05,548
Once you have access, you get access to all of this software.

406
00:38:05,818 --> 00:38:08,848
And this is a great sheet that tells you what all you get access to.

407
00:38:09,178 --> 00:38:13,227
And, uh, if it's on, if it's a mobile app or if it's a desktop app.

408
00:38:13,228 --> 00:38:20,428
So that's a great resource right here. And um, in addition to that, you also get access to Adobe Stock.

409
00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:27,238
So I think we'll pause here and go look at Adobe Stock for just a minute, because that's sort of a standalone, uh, page.

410
00:38:27,658 --> 00:38:30,928
So if we go to stock.adobe.com.

411
00:38:31,998 --> 00:38:38,868
This is a great resource because you may need high resolution images for your presentations.

412
00:38:39,228 --> 00:38:43,457
And yes, you can get them inside of express and inside of PowerPoint.

413
00:38:43,458 --> 00:38:46,908
But in Adobe Stock you can search a lot better.

414
00:38:47,298 --> 00:38:52,098
So once you are here at Adobe Stock and you have already signed up for your Adobe ID,

415
00:38:52,728 --> 00:38:59,868
then you'll sign in to your Auburn account and then you get access to mostly images.

416
00:38:59,958 --> 00:39:03,498
Now notice you do also get access to templates.

417
00:39:03,528 --> 00:39:07,068
These are Photoshop templates InDesign templates. Illustrator templates.

418
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:16,088
Images does also include vector images, so you could download a vector image here, bring it into illustrator and continue editing it.

419
00:39:16,098 --> 00:39:22,518
So that's a great way to get started. There are some 3D assets and we do not get access to premium.

420
00:39:22,518 --> 00:39:30,438
We would get access to everything that's called free. We don't get access to video or audio here, but you do get access to it within express.

421
00:39:30,438 --> 00:39:35,928
So. But from here, let's say we wanted to do something on, uh, plant research.

422
00:39:36,798 --> 00:39:40,938
So I'm going to just look for plants and see what kinds of results that we get here.

423
00:39:41,388 --> 00:39:46,428
Um, and here we get tons of results. And notice it says licensed.

424
00:39:46,548 --> 00:39:50,928
That just means somebody else at Auburn has already licensed it, and we can just download it again.

425
00:39:50,938 --> 00:39:54,828
No problem. If it doesn't say licensed, you can just hit.

426
00:39:55,308 --> 00:39:58,368
Uh, there's a whole bunch here that have been licensed for plants.

427
00:39:58,728 --> 00:40:03,758
Here's one. Then you can just hit license and then download, and then it'll download to your computer.

428
00:40:03,768 --> 00:40:08,118
Once it's downloaded to your computer, it removes the watermark and you can use it wherever you want.

429
00:40:08,118 --> 00:40:12,138
After that you can republish it. It can be in a publication. It can be in a presentation.

430
00:40:12,138 --> 00:40:14,958
It can be in a conference, uh, presentation, whatever.

431
00:40:15,348 --> 00:40:22,728
But what I really wanted to show you is these filters over here on the left hand side, you can filter it by what type of images do I only want?

432
00:40:23,178 --> 00:40:27,738
Uh, certain types of images, like vectors. Do. I only want photographs?

433
00:40:28,248 --> 00:40:31,727
Um, do I want the background to be transparent?

434
00:40:31,728 --> 00:40:40,028
So it's a PNG, basically. That's transparent. Uh, does it need to be horizontal, vertical squared images with copy space vectors?

435
00:40:40,038 --> 00:40:46,698
Great question. So vectors like this one here are illustrative uh digital drawings.

436
00:40:46,908 --> 00:40:51,438
So they are drawn by a computer. So they are mathematically created.

437
00:40:51,798 --> 00:40:56,358
So uh this is different from a raster photo image.

438
00:40:56,598 --> 00:41:00,948
So a raster image is typically a photographic image that's been taken with a camera.

439
00:41:01,218 --> 00:41:05,238
And it has a limited a number of pixels that are associated with it.

440
00:41:05,238 --> 00:41:12,688
So if I make it way too big and make it larger than it was originally photographed at, it will pixelated.

441
00:41:12,738 --> 00:41:19,308
It will look bad and blurry, and fuzzy vectors will not do that because they have been mathematically drawn.

442
00:41:19,968 --> 00:41:25,877
So, uh, these are vector images that you could download and then bring into Adobe Illustrator.

443
00:41:25,878 --> 00:41:29,508
So Adobe Illustrator will draw vector images.

444
00:41:29,838 --> 00:41:38,298
This is why a lot of people use illustrator for schematic drawings, because then they can resize them however they want.

445
00:41:38,388 --> 00:41:43,398
And the main integrity of what they have created consistently stays the same.

446
00:41:43,758 --> 00:41:50,747
So great question. Vectors versus raster images is sort of an important concept.

447
00:41:50,748 --> 00:41:54,287
And you can get to both right here in Adobe Stock. Um.

448
00:41:54,288 --> 00:42:01,937
There are also images with copy space as well. These are nice because maybe you have a background image and you want to put text on top of it.

449
00:42:01,938 --> 00:42:07,188
It'll have space for that. And you can also say what type of people should be in your image.

450
00:42:07,548 --> 00:42:11,378
Uh, what size does it need to be? And even like, what color should it have?

451
00:42:11,388 --> 00:42:16,468
So you can really, uh, pare down what you need here in, uh, stock.

452
00:42:16,488 --> 00:42:18,317
So that's a great resource for you.

453
00:42:18,318 --> 00:42:25,307
And then you can bring those into Photoshop or bring it into InDesign or, or bring it into Adobe Express and use it there.

454
00:42:25,308 --> 00:42:29,597
So or just put it into a PowerPoint, whatever you need or a presentation or a paper.

455
00:42:29,598 --> 00:42:41,328
So that's a great option as well. Going back to our our presentation page on Adobe Express, uh, which is the IRC, cc page, uh,

456
00:42:41,328 --> 00:42:44,957
we will go ahead and hop into Adobe Express so I can kind of show you that a little bit.

457
00:42:44,958 --> 00:42:50,388
But essentially this walks you through how to get signed in properly after you have your Adobe ID set up.

458
00:42:51,408 --> 00:42:57,288
Um, there's even a video here that walks you through it. So that's an, uh, that's there to be helpful to you as well.

459
00:42:57,678 --> 00:43:04,968
Um, but Adobe Express is a web based application, and we will go ahead and, uh, hop in and, uh, start working on it.

460
00:43:05,328 --> 00:43:10,128
But some highlights that it helps you create is it has some templates that are available.

461
00:43:10,458 --> 00:43:17,598
Um, this might be good for infographics. It has infographic templates that are available if you've used something like Canva before.

462
00:43:17,628 --> 00:43:23,537
Adobe Express is very similar, but it's better because it's Adobe and because you get premium access to it.

463
00:43:23,538 --> 00:43:25,788
And we can help you. We can support you in that.

464
00:43:26,088 --> 00:43:32,148
If you bring us something in Canva that's not vetted software for the university, so we can't assist you with that.

465
00:43:32,538 --> 00:43:37,697
Um, we can try, but it's not with with Adobe, we have guaranteed assistance.

466
00:43:37,698 --> 00:43:43,308
So, um, you can create all kinds of graphics or documents with, um, Adobe Express,

467
00:43:43,308 --> 00:43:48,978
even video and audio and even a very basic web page without having to know any HTML.

468
00:43:48,978 --> 00:43:54,798
So the page that you're on right now, this presentation is an Adobe Express web page.

469
00:43:55,248 --> 00:43:59,718
So you can kind of get an idea of how it's constructed and how you can build a page very quickly.

470
00:44:00,198 --> 00:44:08,348
Let's hop into Adobe Express. So to get to Adobe Express you can go to express.adobe.com and get signed in.

471
00:44:08,358 --> 00:44:11,208
Make sure you're signed in over here with your proper Auburn ID,

472
00:44:11,868 --> 00:44:17,388
you must have signed up for your Adobe ID first and have approval first before you can sign in.

473
00:44:17,388 --> 00:44:21,828
So make sure you've done that piece uh, first because then you get premium access.

474
00:44:22,338 --> 00:44:29,657
And then from here you can, uh, you know, search for all kinds of things up here, you can search for templates if you want to.

475
00:44:29,658 --> 00:44:33,978
So if we go to templates and we type something like research.

476
00:44:35,018 --> 00:44:43,058
Then we can see what kind of templates we might get. So we have some research fliers, looks like some beginning of some magazine type graphics.

477
00:44:43,358 --> 00:44:48,278
There's also some infographic type things. So those are some ideas to get started.

478
00:44:48,548 --> 00:44:52,778
Now we could also search um infographics. So let's maybe start with that.

479
00:44:55,768 --> 00:44:59,308
And these are just templates that we could get started from if we wanted to.

480
00:45:00,028 --> 00:45:04,198
Um, if we like what we see, we can pick one and then start making changes to it.

481
00:45:04,228 --> 00:45:10,648
We can also start from scratch. Um, so this gives you some ideas to kind of get started with the templates.

482
00:45:11,068 --> 00:45:16,377
Basically you would just click it and start making changes to it. So if we wanted to change let's do one super fast.

483
00:45:16,378 --> 00:45:19,678
Maybe this one's nice and colorful. Customize this template.

484
00:45:20,998 --> 00:45:25,438
And now the best thing to do would be to go up here and name it first so we can easily find it again.

485
00:45:25,468 --> 00:45:30,438
So I might call this one simple info colorful, something like that.

486
00:45:30,448 --> 00:45:34,258
Hit enter. Now this is saved wherever I have internet access.

487
00:45:34,258 --> 00:45:40,688
And I can log back into Adobe Express on any computer and find this again under the My Stuff folder.

488
00:45:40,708 --> 00:45:50,998
The Your Stuff folder okay is where it will live, but from here we can just click on the text and double click it to make changes to it info.

489
00:45:51,178 --> 00:45:56,787
And then we can also just make changes over here to the colorful the color of the text, to how the text appears.

490
00:45:56,788 --> 00:46:00,658
The it even gives you recommended font styles and all this kind of stuff.

491
00:46:01,018 --> 00:46:06,448
Uh, what size is it? We can also just click and drag it, make it bigger or smaller, and you just drag things around.

492
00:46:06,808 --> 00:46:11,778
Drag and drop interface. Easy to use. Um, it has these little elements you can add.

493
00:46:11,788 --> 00:46:20,068
You can also make changes to anything that's here. Um, switch out the icons, replace it with a different icon if you wanted to change the color.

494
00:46:20,548 --> 00:46:23,848
Yeah. If you wanted to turn this into a video, you could even animate it.

495
00:46:24,058 --> 00:46:29,878
Or if you, uh, wanted to create a video that that you embedded on a PowerPoint, this could be an option as well.

496
00:46:30,238 --> 00:46:37,647
You can also translate. So it will translate all of the text on your screen from whatever language you tell it to whatever language you tell.

497
00:46:37,648 --> 00:46:39,058
It does a really good job with that.

498
00:46:39,448 --> 00:46:48,398
You could also duplicate this after you have your design set the way you like it, duplicate it and then resize it to a different size.

499
00:46:48,408 --> 00:46:51,808
So if we do that, we can duplicate. Now we have two pages. Page one.

500
00:46:52,348 --> 00:46:56,548
Page two is same project but we now we can resize.

501
00:46:57,268 --> 00:47:05,008
So notice for the infographic um size it kind of defaults to this long form uh web based version.

502
00:47:05,308 --> 00:47:09,568
That's fine. But for our purposes, if we were going to print this, that wouldn't work so good.

503
00:47:09,898 --> 00:47:16,318
So what we can do is tell this to resize. We can even go tell it to resize to a certain preset size down here.

504
00:47:16,678 --> 00:47:20,097
Um, or if we wanted this to be a presentation, we could click that.

505
00:47:20,098 --> 00:47:26,068
So let's say we want presentation resize and it says do you want to convert it to a presentation.

506
00:47:26,068 --> 00:47:29,878
We can do that. I'm going to pick a different one just so we can sort of see it.

507
00:47:30,808 --> 00:47:34,368
And now we've resized it, you know, so we can make changes to this.

508
00:47:34,378 --> 00:47:38,378
We can. We might have to go back and adjust, you know, like the settings of it and that sort of thing.

509
00:47:38,398 --> 00:47:41,518
Have to resize some stuff, but you kind of get the idea. Right.

510
00:47:42,118 --> 00:47:47,098
So that's one way of creating, another way of creating, if we go back to the home screen,

511
00:47:47,308 --> 00:47:54,258
is by the way that exists in your stuff, just to prove it to you, I'm going to click your stuff and here's your project.

512
00:47:54,268 --> 00:47:56,128
Okay. So all your projects will live here.

513
00:47:56,728 --> 00:48:03,898
Um, otherwise if we want to create something, we can go back to the home screen or just click the purple plus sign here.

514
00:48:04,838 --> 00:48:10,267
And notice that it has these standard sizes that we could pick, and there is a presentation size.

515
00:48:10,268 --> 00:48:13,988
Or we can design a YouTube thumbnail, whatever it is that you need.

516
00:48:14,318 --> 00:48:22,687
But notice there's also a custom size. So I wanted to make sure to show you that because you could choose this like for your research poster.

517
00:48:22,688 --> 00:48:27,578
Right. So we could change this and make this one. Um, let's say we want this one to be.

518
00:48:27,788 --> 00:48:33,998
We'll do 36 by 36. We'll just make it like a square poster, create new file.

519
00:48:34,958 --> 00:48:38,028
And now we have a blank square poster that we can design.

520
00:48:38,048 --> 00:48:41,498
So same thing. We want to name it give it a name up here.

521
00:48:42,098 --> 00:48:48,848
Simple poster. 36 and now we can just start adding stuff to it.

522
00:48:48,858 --> 00:48:52,268
Um, up at the top we have the option to add a background color.

523
00:48:52,688 --> 00:48:57,638
Um, we can make a custom background color. This is where you would copy and paste that code.

524
00:48:57,638 --> 00:49:02,347
If you wanted the Auburn official color. You could also bring in an image and sample the color.

525
00:49:02,348 --> 00:49:08,858
Let's maybe do that. So if we were going to add some stuff to our design, uh, notice we can still get to templates here.

526
00:49:08,858 --> 00:49:11,858
So we could utilize that if we wanted to, but we want to construct our own.

527
00:49:11,858 --> 00:49:16,148
That's probably what you're going to want to do anyway. Notice you can upload your own photos.

528
00:49:16,148 --> 00:49:19,868
So if you had your own research photos that you have permission to use, you could do that.

529
00:49:20,558 --> 00:49:26,468
Um, notice there's also a generate image. So this is Adobe Firefly which is AI art.

530
00:49:26,978 --> 00:49:32,378
Um, I would recommend using it for something you can't find in stock images.

531
00:49:32,738 --> 00:49:36,428
So let's say beaker with blue liquid.

532
00:49:38,218 --> 00:49:41,238
Let's see if it has a stock image that actually does show that.

533
00:49:41,248 --> 00:49:45,508
That is pretty fortunate. We could just enter our stock image here and use that.

534
00:49:46,018 --> 00:49:54,508
But let's say it was like very specific. We could use the um generate image feature to create some AI art pretty quickly.

535
00:49:54,808 --> 00:50:02,038
So let's say we want to do um, uh, beaker with, let's see gradients.

536
00:50:03,048 --> 00:50:08,428
Color, uh, liquid. Blue to red.

537
00:50:08,878 --> 00:50:14,698
Let's see if it does it and then hit generate. Um, so this uses Adobe Firefly to create the AI art.

538
00:50:14,728 --> 00:50:17,847
Now notice now keep in mind a couple of things.

539
00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:24,028
With Adobe's AI art. It is commercial safe because it's only trained on Adobe Stock Images.

540
00:50:24,388 --> 00:50:27,768
It does a pretty good job. Yeah, not too bad. That's pretty cool.

541
00:50:27,778 --> 00:50:30,988
That probably would not be something I could find in a stock image.

542
00:50:30,988 --> 00:50:36,387
So that's pretty unique, right? Um, that's a good example of how you might want to use it.

543
00:50:36,388 --> 00:50:39,388
Create something brand new that you can't find in a stock image. Right?

544
00:50:39,748 --> 00:50:44,518
Um, but it's trained only on Adobe Stock Images, so it's, uh, copyright safe.

545
00:50:45,088 --> 00:50:49,558
However, when you do use AI art, you also cannot copyright it.

546
00:50:50,008 --> 00:50:56,908
So if you plan on claiming complete ownership of your entire design for forever through the end of time,

547
00:50:57,268 --> 00:50:59,878
then you may not want to use the AI art feature,

548
00:50:59,878 --> 00:51:07,648
or you may want to use it to get an idea and then create it on your own for real, in something like Photoshop or Illustrator InDesign.

549
00:51:07,678 --> 00:51:13,168
Okay, so that's just a little side note. If you need to create it for something for school, totally fine.

550
00:51:13,178 --> 00:51:16,467
You're not violating any copyright at all by using this AI art.

551
00:51:16,468 --> 00:51:21,838
It's the same. One of the safer AI arts to use is Adobe Firefly, and we have full license.

552
00:51:21,838 --> 00:51:26,608
You can use it and, you know, uh, put it into your presentations and all of that.

553
00:51:26,628 --> 00:51:32,018
Just anything that an AI creates is not copyrightable, um, in the US.

554
00:51:32,038 --> 00:51:35,698
So that's just sort of one caveat, but totally fine.

555
00:51:35,768 --> 00:51:38,218
Uh, also great idea to use to get ideas.

556
00:51:38,488 --> 00:51:45,537
Some other things you can do, which are pretty cool, is you can remove the background from an image in Adobe Express very quickly.

557
00:51:45,538 --> 00:51:50,358
Used to have to do this in Photoshop and it would take a lot of time. So that's a cool thing.

558
00:51:50,368 --> 00:51:56,088
You can also erase parts of an image. You can also create parts of an image.

559
00:51:56,098 --> 00:52:00,298
So the erase feature also lets you insert an object into the image.

560
00:52:00,298 --> 00:52:02,968
So you can really manipulate the image yourself first.

561
00:52:03,328 --> 00:52:08,068
So if you have your own images and need to edit them first, you can just bring them into express and start editing them.

562
00:52:08,398 --> 00:52:15,838
So that's pretty nice. Um, also under media, uh, notice you have uh, we'll get rid of the search here.

563
00:52:16,288 --> 00:52:19,408
You can search photos in this search is Adobe Stock.

564
00:52:19,408 --> 00:52:23,128
But notice that it doesn't have that filter that I showed you on Adobe Stock.

565
00:52:23,458 --> 00:52:26,958
So you don't get as much choice like you can.

566
00:52:26,968 --> 00:52:30,688
You have to dig through and do a good job with your keywords and not be too picky.

567
00:52:31,078 --> 00:52:39,288
Um, but if you downloaded something from stock like these plants, you could go back to Adobe Express and upload it.

568
00:52:39,328 --> 00:52:45,508
So you could you could combine these tools to help you. Um, notice there are also videos.

569
00:52:45,718 --> 00:52:49,588
So if we wanted a video on plants, we can search for that.

570
00:52:50,278 --> 00:52:53,728
We can create a video here in Adobe Express if we wanted to.

571
00:52:53,758 --> 00:52:58,318
That could be a really neat feature of your presentation, particularly for a digital presentation.

572
00:52:58,648 --> 00:53:05,548
Or maybe you create a video and you have a QR code going to the video that you created on your poster.

573
00:53:05,848 --> 00:53:10,268
So anything you can do to make your poster more interactive, um,

574
00:53:10,318 --> 00:53:15,238
or your presentation or your graphic more interactive and interesting, then that would be helpful.

575
00:53:15,568 --> 00:53:20,698
So to do that, you would start with the purple plus sign and choose video and then just start adding video from there.

576
00:53:20,938 --> 00:53:26,008
There's also audio here. You could also upload your own video. There's even a cute little animate characters.

577
00:53:26,008 --> 00:53:34,518
You can animate a character with your voice for like two minutes is the limit, and it will sort of react according to your audio that you recorded.

578
00:53:34,528 --> 00:53:38,448
So that's kind of a fun feature. Um, also text.

579
00:53:38,448 --> 00:53:43,368
If you wanted to just add text to your graphic, you can just add your own text here pretty quickly.

580
00:53:43,668 --> 00:53:49,998
So if we want to say bigger, whatever it is we're talking about, we can then use the recommended text.

581
00:53:50,028 --> 00:53:51,618
You saw all these features earlier.

582
00:53:51,888 --> 00:54:00,678
Text flow by the way, text flow is a really nice feature because what it does is it helps you to select one text box,

583
00:54:01,128 --> 00:54:04,398
um, to go to blend into the second text box.

584
00:54:04,398 --> 00:54:11,628
So we can assign this text box to be, uh, the first text box, and then the second one to be the second text box.

585
00:54:11,868 --> 00:54:16,847
And we could use text flow to say when this text ends, it just flows into the next box.

586
00:54:16,848 --> 00:54:21,828
So this is possible in InDesign. And now it's possible in Adobe Express.

587
00:54:21,828 --> 00:54:28,158
So that's what text flow is like a magazine. So the page the story starts on the top of the page ends at the bottom of the page.

588
00:54:28,548 --> 00:54:37,398
So that's what the text flow is. There are also text effects where we can say we want our text to look like, uh, blue liquid, something like that.

589
00:54:37,398 --> 00:54:43,038
And then hit generate. And it uses AI to kind of change how the text appears.

590
00:54:43,278 --> 00:54:47,268
So that could be a really unique feature of your graphic if you wanted to do that.

591
00:54:48,138 --> 00:54:52,517
And then finally element. So want to make sure you see the elements, uh Tab.

592
00:54:52,518 --> 00:54:55,638
Because there are lots of fantastic design elements here.

593
00:54:55,638 --> 00:54:58,638
You can design, uh, there's assets that you can just grab.

594
00:54:58,638 --> 00:55:01,668
These graphical elements are really nice for, for posters.

595
00:55:01,998 --> 00:55:06,378
Um, because or presentations because they just add a little visual interest.

596
00:55:06,768 --> 00:55:12,408
Um, there's also backgrounds. There are also shapes that you can pick from and then icons.

597
00:55:12,408 --> 00:55:20,538
Make sure you find the icons under elements because this is super useful, um, for any kind of infographic that you might want to use.

598
00:55:21,018 --> 00:55:27,678
So we can just add an icon, uh, move it around, change how how it appears, you know, we can make it blue or whatever.

599
00:55:27,678 --> 00:55:35,178
Instead, we can also use the eyedropper tool to pick the blue liquid here so it matches, um, that's under elements.

600
00:55:35,178 --> 00:55:38,718
And then finally also under elements is charts.

601
00:55:38,898 --> 00:55:43,338
So it has some sort of brief charts that you can, uh, select from.

602
00:55:43,878 --> 00:55:50,988
You just input your chart and then type in what data you want it to, uh, have, and it will adjust the chart accordingly.

603
00:55:51,408 --> 00:55:58,248
Um, so that's another little option to very basic, but, you know, easy to, for people to read and all of that.

604
00:55:58,818 --> 00:56:04,277
So that is Adobe Express. Um, also uh, you can use PowerPoint.

605
00:56:04,278 --> 00:56:07,458
We kind of talked about that earlier and you have the resources for that.

606
00:56:07,908 --> 00:56:11,537
And then finally, um, in just the last couple of minutes,

607
00:56:11,538 --> 00:56:15,978
I wanted to briefly show you InDesign so you can kind of compare and decide which tool you want

608
00:56:15,978 --> 00:56:21,648
to use depending on your comfort level and how much you want to learn and that sort of thing.

609
00:56:22,218 --> 00:56:28,068
Um, in InDesign, you essentially start a new file, and then we're going to choose print.

610
00:56:28,488 --> 00:56:32,028
And then the first thing that people get confused about is like, well, what's a pica?

611
00:56:32,778 --> 00:56:36,858
Well, a pica is a measurement that's used in professional publications.

612
00:56:36,918 --> 00:56:47,297
Um, because InDesign is Adobe's professional publication tool, people use it for novels, for entire books, magazines, uh, annual reports.

613
00:56:47,298 --> 00:56:53,538
Right. Anything that you where you have to really control your text in your images, InDesign is really good for.

614
00:56:53,898 --> 00:56:56,148
But the first thing to do would be change that two inches.

615
00:56:56,148 --> 00:57:03,498
If we were going to use this for a poster or for a publication, a layout, and then we would choose whatever inches we we want.

616
00:57:03,498 --> 00:57:10,038
So let's say we want 36 by 48. We don't want facing pages necessarily.

617
00:57:10,428 --> 00:57:13,698
Um, and uh, yeah. Thank you. I'm glad.

618
00:57:14,568 --> 00:57:22,367
Um, and then we don't want facing pages and then, uh, you the column gutter is like, how how many columns do you want?

619
00:57:22,368 --> 00:57:25,998
So let's say we wanted three columns. This is just a visual for us to see.

620
00:57:25,998 --> 00:57:30,617
It doesn't actually create columns. It's just a guide. And then we probably do want margins.

621
00:57:30,618 --> 00:57:35,718
You can also hit preview and that will show you what you're doing kind of as you're doing it.

622
00:57:35,718 --> 00:57:39,138
So you can kind of get an idea, um, of seeing what you're doing.

623
00:57:39,138 --> 00:57:43,548
So see I've chosen three columns here. So it's done that and then you hit create.

624
00:57:43,968 --> 00:57:48,547
And now that you've created it, you basically start by putting in some information.

625
00:57:48,548 --> 00:57:53,808
Now it's giving us a little tour. I haven't opened InDesign since I, uh, uh, updated it.

626
00:57:53,808 --> 00:57:56,958
So it's just giving us a little tip, but we'll, we'll, we'll check that out later.

627
00:57:58,058 --> 00:58:01,498
And then you can essentially start placing text. By using the text tool.

628
00:58:01,508 --> 00:58:07,928
You have to click and drag to create a text box. And then you have to begin typing.

629
00:58:07,928 --> 00:58:12,727
And then, you know, right now we'll just fill with placeholder text. But it's going to start out to be really small.

630
00:58:12,728 --> 00:58:16,658
So we don't really want that. So we probably want that to be a lot bigger.

631
00:58:17,078 --> 00:58:21,517
Um, you know so we could set that highlight that and then set that a lot bigger.

632
00:58:21,518 --> 00:58:23,288
So you can kind of see what we're doing here.

633
00:58:23,858 --> 00:58:31,118
And then these text flow pieces, we could click and drag that and then drag it into the next box and then start creating our boxes.

634
00:58:31,418 --> 00:58:36,428
It has these nice little placeholders. So if you know you're going to put a photo there later you can kind of.

635
00:58:36,758 --> 00:58:43,477
Yeah. And there's also text to image which is cool. So the same thing in Firefly is now also in InDesign.

636
00:58:43,478 --> 00:58:47,638
So we could use Firefly to make a text image if we wanted to. So that's pretty neat.

637
00:58:47,648 --> 00:58:51,848
There's also shapes. So if we wanted like a banner up here, we could click and drag.

638
00:58:52,118 --> 00:58:55,208
And then we could fill in the shape with a color.

639
00:58:55,358 --> 00:58:59,198
Um, if we wanted to, you know, some sort of color and then hit okay.

640
00:58:59,708 --> 00:59:06,818
And then we just start adding things from there. Right. So, um, that's and then to place an image, you have to actually go to File Place.

641
00:59:07,058 --> 00:59:10,988
And then we'll just go choose an image maybe from the desktop that I might have.

642
00:59:11,468 --> 00:59:15,788
Um, let's go to the desktop here. Also add this little sea turtle real quick.

643
00:59:16,508 --> 00:59:19,777
And yes we know about that. Expand is also nice.

644
00:59:19,778 --> 00:59:21,368
Oh it already placed it up here. Yeah.

645
00:59:21,938 --> 00:59:31,568
Generative expand is also nice because it'll expand your photo based upon um you know what you have, uh, what what the pixels are around.

646
00:59:31,578 --> 00:59:36,158
It'll make it bigger for you and stuff like that. Yeah. So, uh, we're at time.

647
00:59:36,308 --> 00:59:42,718
Um, but I wanted to, uh, hopefully that gives you get you guys started, uh, with getting, uh,

648
00:59:42,728 --> 00:59:49,027
started with your designs in Adobe Express as well as something like InDesign makes it maybe,

649
00:59:49,028 --> 00:59:55,328
hopefully made it a little bit less intimidating for you. Express is great to start with and and PowerPoint is great to start with.

650
00:59:55,538 --> 01:00:02,708
And then add from there. Um, this particular presentation goes more into depth with like color theory, infographics.

651
01:00:02,708 --> 01:00:06,818
It has a lot of great resources there, so feel free to use that that resource as well.

652
01:00:07,238 --> 01:00:09,848
And uh, thank you all so much for being here today.

653
01:00:10,178 --> 01:00:20,198
Um, I'll give you time to, uh, figure out your next, um, uh, you know, uh, session and all of that, and let me check the chat for some questions.

654
01:00:20,558 --> 01:00:23,588
Are there more in depth? What workshops to take on express?

655
01:00:23,588 --> 01:00:29,497
Yes. So I'm actually doing, uh, one next week on what's new in Adobe Express.

656
01:00:29,498 --> 01:00:33,338
But remember that, um, instructional content page.

657
01:00:33,338 --> 01:00:39,068
So from our Adobe Creative Space page you can get to our instructional content page.

658
01:00:40,588 --> 01:00:47,918
And then here is all of our recordings of our workshops, as well as our workshop flier, which tells you what's coming up.

659
01:00:47,938 --> 01:00:57,478
There's also, uh, library workshops, um, which takes it to, uh, which takes you to our live workshop present, uh, sign up page.

660
01:00:57,898 --> 01:01:00,988
Um, and then we also have them all recorded here.

661
01:01:00,988 --> 01:01:10,197
So in particular with express, I would recommend there's one right here creating infographics and visuals with Adobe Creative

662
01:01:10,198 --> 01:01:15,558
Cloud Express that really goes into more depth with how to use it to create infographics,

663
01:01:15,568 --> 01:01:20,068
color theory, shape theory, um, you know, putting information together.

664
01:01:20,068 --> 01:01:25,107
So that would be very good. This one is fairly new, the first one and is getting started.

665
01:01:25,108 --> 01:01:29,218
And how to create all the things in Adobe Express. So that one would be good as well.

666
01:01:29,818 --> 01:01:32,938
And then somebody says I'm having your system is not supported issues.

667
01:01:33,238 --> 01:01:42,108
If you're talking about when you opened up InDesign, that could happen because InDesign does takes, uh, some processing power express.

668
01:01:42,118 --> 01:01:45,208
You should not be getting any issues because it's web based.

669
01:01:45,448 --> 01:01:48,508
So express might be what you want to use instead for now.

670
01:01:49,018 --> 01:01:53,548
And we have computers in the innovation and research comments on the first floor that

671
01:01:53,548 --> 01:01:58,318
already have Adobe Creative Cloud installed and that you are welcome to come use.

672
01:01:58,618 --> 01:02:07,138
And you just sign in and then you can use the Creative Cloud apps in, um, on the first floor of the computers on the first floor of the library.

673
01:02:07,378 --> 01:02:11,758
Have them in our Adobe creative space. We have computers too, that have Adobe Creative Cloud installed.

674
01:02:12,088 --> 01:02:17,098
That's this sort of thing with some of those Adobe apps is they take more processing power.

675
01:02:17,488 --> 01:02:23,758
Um, if you have sort of an older laptop, may not be able to function very well, especially with the AI art features,

676
01:02:24,178 --> 01:02:31,648
um, you know, so but you can come use those computers in, um, the library and that may help as well.

677
01:02:31,798 --> 01:02:35,188
All right. Well, thank you guys so much for being here today.

678
01:02:35,488 --> 01:02:41,428
Um, and I hope you have a great rest of your, uh, session, um, at the bootcamp.

679
01:02:41,908 --> 01:02:49,678
Um, and if you have any questions, be sure to reach out to the, uh, consultants here on our Adobe Creative Space page.

680
01:02:49,678 --> 01:02:55,078
They are happy to help you as you have questions or need, uh, assistance sort of getting started in the apps.

681
01:02:55,408 --> 01:02:59,048
Thanks again guys. Have a great day. You're welcome.