Montana 2015

Montana 2015 Adobe & State of Montana

Montana IT is changing.

Modernizing. Facing the mobile, social, cloud future of Government. Looking for enterprise-class tools, services, partners and support to deliver critical impact across their agencies. Adobe visited the Treasure State in December 2015 to discuss their recent Enterprise Term Licensing Agreement, which entitles them to a broad portfolio of core capabilities within Adobe's Creative Cloud and Document Cloud platforms.

The Queen City of the Rockies

Gorgeous Rocky Mountain Patterns and Colors

Empty roads near Helena Regional Airport

Big Sky Country

Montana Capitol Building

The building, completed in 1902 and constructed of Montana sandstone and granite, is in Greek neoclassical architectural style, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The exterior of the dome is covered with copper. Atop the dome is a feminine statue affectionately dubbed "Lady Liberty."

State Crest in sandstone relief

The most notable feature inside the center of the Capitol building is the massive rotunda, with four circular paintings surrounding it. These paintings were painted for the Capitol opening in 1902 by the firm of F. Pedretti's Sons, depicting four important archetypes of people of Montana's early history: a native American, an explorer and fur trapper, a gold miner, and a cowboy.

Balustrade into the 1st floor chamber

2nd floor balustrade

Montana Statehood Centennial Bell 1889-1989

Capitol Building Details

2nd floor balustrade & ceiling detail

Fantastic window detail

"This ground we call Montana bears the marks of generations of women's labor, of tipi rings and homestead gardens. We know our culture through stories, spoken by mothers to children on reservations and in immigrant communities."

State Senate chamber with bronze relief centerpiece

Detail of the bronze relief centerpiece, entitled "We Proceeded On," commemorating the 1805-1806 Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery.

Ceiling detail of the State Senate

Cathedral of St. Helena

The Cathedral of Saint Helena is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana. Constructed between 1908-1924, it was designed by A.O. Von Herbulis in the Gothic Revival architectural style. Its 59 stained glass windows were made and installed by the F.X. Zettler Firm of Munich, Bavaria, who claimed that these windows surpassed any which they had ever made.

The Central Aisle of the Cathedral running NW to SE

The Grand Entryway (facing NW)

Gothic Ceilings typically leverage pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses.

The Grand Altar (facing SE from the entryway)

Moses receives the 10 Commandments while idolaters worship a Golden Calf (lower right)

Detail of King David resplendent in royal attire

Abraham's lamb caught in the thicket

Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine and St. Jerome

Last Chance Gulch and the Historic Downtown

The crooked path of Last Chance Gulch, weaving between original mining claims, memorializes Helena' s chaotic beginning as a gold camp in 1864. Helena survived after the placer gold played out and population declined, because pioneer entrepreneurs had made it a financial center. The arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883, and Helena's election as state capital in 1894, confirmed the town’s survival. The panic of 1893 and end of guaranteed federal silver purchases slowed Helena's early momentum, but the gold camp that survived grew gradually as a business and government center.

At the entrance to the Historic Downtown district

The official symbol of Helena is a drawing of "The Guardian of the Gulch", a wooden fire watch tower built in 1886, alongside "The Bullwhacker," a post-Gold rush symbol of the town's continued success. The watch tower still stands on Tower Hill, overlooking the historic downtown district.

The Bullwhacker sculpture in Historic Downtown Helena

The Women's Commemorative Mural (1979) to honor the unacknowledged contribution of the women in Montana history.

Detail of The Women's Commemorative Mural (1979)

The Romantic Cowgirl

Captivating street art

Adjuring graffiti

Mining Helena's Visual Gold

At the Montana 15 IT conference, we demonstrated how the visual treasures found within Helena's everyday experience can be mined, polished and displayed using the latest Adobe technology such as Capture CC for iOS, Photoshop Mix for iOS, CC Libraries, Adobe Stock, Illustrator CC 2015 and Adobe Slate.

Our pre-conference training provided a comprehensive overview of Montana's new agreement, as well as Deployment and Functionality overviews.

Using Lightroom Mobile for iOS to choose, organize, process and sync photos from my iPhone's Camera Roll into the Creative Cloud for creating this very presentation.

Converting a Fleur de Lis from the cathedral into a pattern brush using Capture CC for iOS

Converting patterns and shapes into vector art using Capture CC

Creating an illustration using vector objects and color swatches assembled with Capture CC, stock graphics from Adobe Stock, and brush strokes from Adobe Sketch for iOS.

Using Adobe Slate on the desktop and iPad to assemble the story with filtered results from Lightroom Mobile

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Created By

Jerome Silverman

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