The off-campus networking event I attended was an event from the Adobe Max website. It was a live virtual session on October 19, Wednesday at 8:30 pm EST and around 5:00 pm PST in person in their adobe max conference building in Los Angeles, California. The event was called MAX sneaks by the Adobe Research team. The host and the speakers were Bria Alexander and Kevin Hart himself. Bria Alexander is a Senior Design Program Manager & Adobe Sneaks Co-Host, Adobe. Kevin Hart of course you all already know is an actor, comedian, and entrepreneur. It was on a huge stage with a large crowd of adobe users and about 4000 viewers in 59 countries live and I was one of them.

The woman on the stage in the light blue suit is Bria Alexander and there Kevin Hart in the white t shirt. As you can see there is a large crowd of people attending the event.

The event was called MAX Sneaks and it was a demonstration by Adobe engineers that give us the first look at potential future technologies, that may or may not make it into upcoming versions of Adobe products like illustrator or photoshop. The event was about 2 hours and each Adobe engineer will come on the stage and talk and show a demo of the future tech in different adobe programs. Bria Alexander will introduce the Adobe engineers as they came on stage and the name of each project. During the Adobe engineers are demoing their new programs tools, Kevin Hart and Bria will sometimes respectfully interpret and discuss the usefulness of the new program tools. Bria will always ask Kevin Hart if the new programs would be something he could see his team using in the future.

The first presenting Adobe engineer was Zhifei Zheng showing his new tech in photoshop called Clever Composites. Then Joon-Young Lee showed his new tech in the premiere called Instant Add. Arushi Jain showing her new tech in illustrator called Project Magnetic Type. Ankit Phogat with new tech in illustrator called Project Vector Edge. Jae shin Yoon on his new tech in a video called Project Motion Mix. The list goes on but there were two that interest me the most probably because I could see myself using them in the future.

Project Magnetic Type by Arushi Jain was incredibly awesome in illustrator. It allowed illustrator users to add any shapes to a text without turning the text into an outline. If you move and resize the text the shape will move and resize with the text without the user even grouping the shape and the text together. Furthermore, if the shape or the object has a design element on it and the user places the object on the text in illustrator. Whatever design element was on the object will automatically apply to the texts. When I was watching the demo live, I was amazed.

This is Arushi Jain showing the Project Magnetic Type with her demo.

The second new tech that interests me was Project Vector Edge by Ankit Phogat. His project allowed any art clip that the user has designed to be put directly on a product label or a mock-up in the right perspective and dimension in illustrator. When placed on the art clip on the product label you can move it around to any side of the product and it will stay in the right perspective. Before you would do it in photoshop and use the transform tool like stew, distort, and perspective which would take a while and still not look right. The new tech program does it all for you using ai programming developed by Adobe engineers.