Adobe NEXT Campus Days

A full-day exploration of modern Adobe creative workflows, from creative thinking to color, Firefly, Premiere Pro, and the newest Premiere Beta tools for the Columbia College Chicago community of students, faculty and staff.

Adobe Creative Workflows
Presented by Luisa Winters
October 30, 2026 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Agenda
9:00am - 9:30am
Creativity and New Tools: Where Does the Human Fit?
An opening discussion on how creative tools are evolving. We'll cover what new technology does well, where human creative judgment still matters, how to treat tools as collaborators rather than shortcuts, and how creative workflows are changing.

9:30am - 10:15 am
Adobe Color: Building a Visual Direction
Explore Adobe Color as a starting point for the creative decisions. Create palettes, work with color harmony and inspiration, consider accessibility and carry color choices across a project.

10:15am - 10:30 am Break

10:30am - 12:00n
Adobe Firefly: From Idea to Creative Assets
Browser-based follow-along. Use Firefly for ideation and production: generate and modify imagery, work from references and creative direction, explore variations, and see where Firefly fits into a real production workflow.

12n - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Premiere Pro: Smarter Editing Tools You Can Use Today
Follow along (footage provided). Work in the current release of Premiere Pro with features like Text-Based Editing, Object Masking, and Enhance Speech//Audio, which speed up common editing takes. The focus is on solving real editing problems, not on technology for its own sake.

2:30pm - 2:45pm Break

2:45pm - 3:45pm
Premiere Pro Beta: What's Next in the Timeline
A look at emerging Premiere workflows. See new capabilities built right in the editing environment and how editors can increasingly ask Premiere to perform or assist with tasks without leaving the timeline. This is the "where editing is going next" part of the day.

3:45pm - 4:00pm
Wrap-Up, Q&A and Discussion
Bring the workflows together, talk through where each tool makes sense, answer questions, and leave students with ideas for using these tools in their own creative process.

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