Design for Your Valentine- Live From San Francisco on February 8

Each Thursday four industry experts guide you through an interactive experience spanning various artistic realms, from branding to photo compositing and poster design.
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9am PST - Valentine’s E-Cards: Send a custom greeting or love note to a friend or a secret crush! Join Andrew Hochradel as he creates custom E-card in Adobe Express that you can remix, download, and send to that special someone.
10am PST - Stickers for Your Valentine: Create the perfect design to send to your sweetheart and use Adobe Express to animate, add effects, and export to use as a sticker on social media.
11am PST - Creating an Editorial Photo Campaign: Join Weekend Creative as they take you behind the scenes of a photoshoot and show you what it takes to make a photo into a full campaign.
12pm PST - Customizing Type: Swish and swash your way into Adobe Illustrator to customize fonts to use in your Valentine’s Day designs. Use the Pen Tool, Pencil Tools, and Adobe Fonts to find a font that’s just your type.
Andrew Hochradel is a freelance brand identity designer based in Southern California: www.behance.net/hochdotco
Elle Mott is the co-founder of Weekend Creative, and art director based in the San Francisco Bay Area: www.behance.net/weekend-creative
Arabela Espinoza is the Co-Founder of Weekend Creative, a Photographer and Art Director team based in the San Francisco Bay Area: www.behance.net/weekend-creative
Meghan Bille is a Marketing and Community Manager for Adobe Live. Meghan also is a certified yoga instructor and pet mom to her beloved cat Kit and dog Al: / meghan-bille
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00:00 Start
01:01 Overview
02:28 Different ways to make hearts in Illustrator
05:41 Generative fill to change heart colors
07:19 Artboards for each heart and exporting
08:33 Backgrounds in Illustrator using effects on shapes
12:44 Opening Illustrator file in Express
13:40 Adding text and picking fonts, splitting word into individual letters
17:51 Animating individual letters, wiggle, adjusting speed and intensity
20:29 Adjust layer timing, offset letter timing
21:49 Dragging in heart and animating from the center out
24:32 Schedule posts and push to social media, or downloading
25:36 3D hearts in Illustrator
29:23 Exporting 3D hearts, importing hearts in Adobe Express
32:01 Text effects in Adobe Express
36:25 Generative fill to replace page background adjust colors
38:01 Animating in balloons and text
40:05 Providing feedback and feature requests for Adobe Express
41:33 Choosing music to add, adjusting layer timing
45:50 Recording voiceover
46:57 Duplicate and resizing to instagram reel
48:06 Animating text out, where to find assets
51:26 Creating 3D chocolate in Illustrator
1:00:58 Overview and introduction
1:02:47 How to publish your own Instagram stickers
1:04:11 Moodboard and puns for inspiration
1:06:18 Making adjustments to icons, replacing anchor handles with hearts
1:09:01 Adding type and type on a path
1:13:10 Adding pulse animation
1:15:07 Exporting gif from adobe express
1:17:31 Adding background design to sticker, framing with hearts
1:27:20 Adding breathe animation to heart and grow to wand
1:30:42 Adding in text over heart and styling font and color
1:32:26 Animating the text in, adjust layer timing
1:35:57 Adding a dashed line around the heart
1:39:02 Adding a tumble in animation to the wand
1:41:27 Resize for instagram story, adding icons
1:43:51 Setting up camera and film strip
1:47:47 Adding a flash icon and pop in and out animation
1:49:01 Adding in film strip animation
1:51:25 Adding type and styling, color and fonts
2:01:54 Today’s project
2:04:30 Starting the edit and preview
2:06:15 Speed editing with gen fill
2:11:45 Adding noise for seamless edits
2:16:06 Dodge & Burn Curve adjustments
2:24:41 Using the path tool for selections
2:26:50 Creating the shift effect
2:30:49 Working w/ clients and offering suggestions
2:36:44 Preview of the .gif
2:37:55 Starting the next edit w/ pink glasses
2:44:47 Using gen fill to extend set piece
2:49:46 Shift blur effect
2:53:50 Pasting setting in Lightroom Classic - final image
3:04:49 Choosing fonts and custom font creation
3:07:50 Lava lamp illustration - shape builder tool
3:10:24 Creating blob shapes
3:17:07 Adding type within a shape
3:19:21 Drawing within a shape in Illustrator
3:29:52 Adding color options for type
3:33:48 Adding texture w/ brushes
3:43:02 Creating brushes in Illustrator
3:48:50 Adding texture in Photoshop
3:53:28 Wrap up

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That"s great, thanks for sharing. Can I do the same but with Adobe CS 6?