Adobe Creative Cloud applications are free for Macquarie staff, and Adobe’s Education team will be on campus on Monday 23 September to run free workshops on some of these applications. No prior experience with Adobe Creative Cloud is required.
Visit goto.mq.edu.au/adobe to find the Adobe Creative Cloud setup instructions, FAQs and online tutorials.
Michael Rampe, Senior Learning Designer in the Faculty of Arts, will open the workshops with a keynote talk discussing the successful incorporation of video assignments into the faculty’s curriculum.
Get Started with Digital Storytelling – with Adobe Spark
This workshop is for educators and staff who are looking to get started using digital storytelling. You’ll explore the principles of producing digital stories with Adobe Spark, then apply your new digital skills and create practical digital storytelling projects to use in your curriculum.
Next Stage Photography Bootcamp
Create incredible photos anywhere with Lightroom. The app offers powerful photo editing features in an easy-to-use interface. Adjust your full-resolution shots and have both your originals and edits backed up to the cloud. Organise with searchable keywords that are automatically applied without the hassle of tagging. And easily share and showcase your photos in fun ways.
Learn Adobe InDesign
Get started with InDesign, a powerful tool for creating everything from PDFs to infographics and everything in between. In this workshop, you will explore how to create and lay out a document in InDesign and create a simple postcard following a step-by-step process.
Up and running with Adobe Illustrator
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use Illustrator to create a personalized logo. You’ll follow step-by-step instructions to create and combine shapes, choose your colours, and add text for a professional-looking result. You’ll also discover how Illustrator can be used to inspire creativity with your students.
Next stage video for everyone: Following Premiere Rush into Premiere Pro
In this workshop, learn how to get started with Premiere Rush. Create your first Premiere Rush project, showing how to work with the timeline and project panel, add media and background audio tracks, and record a voice-over. Then move into Premiere Pro for advanced users, take a tour of the Premiere Pro interface, and go through the entire post-production workflow.