Adobe Design places a lenticular lens on de Youngsters Day Out

Our collaboration with the de Young Museum on its yearly fundraiser

A photograph of the legs of two children both wearing multicolored rainboots. The child on the right is holding a canvas bag with with a blue, green, yellow, and pink design that reads de Youngsters Day Out.

Photography by Gary Sexton

For the past seven years, Adobe Design has taken part in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s (FAMSF) annual family fundraiser, de Youngsters Day Out.

The free community day fills the museum with families and friends exploring galleries, making art, and watching live music and dance. It supports the museum’sEquity School Partnership Project—which supplies in-classroom instructional support, art supplies, and transportation for students who don’t typically visit the museum.

Every year, volunteers from Adobe Design look forward to bringing art to life for the children attending the day at the museum. Our designers have transported attendees to magical forests with bewitched, audience-created butterflies; used AI to transform paintings on canvas into dimensional, virtual experiences; and brought children’s favorite superheroes to life against a comic-book skyline. This year, our Adobe Express design team partnered with Smilebooth to bring movement and depth to energetic green-screen portraits with lenticular printing.

Striking a pose

Visitors to the museum had their likenesses captured in a Smilebooth photography setup. They struck two poses before heading over to our editing station, where they used Adobe Express to animate their photos. Before their transformation into 3D prints, and animated GIFs, children added custom color palettes, text effects, friendly shapes, and textured backgrounds to their photobooth snapshots.

A photograph of a little boy, wearing a green and yellow dinosaur costume, and his mom. Both are standing in the background against a pink screen, and holding plastic dinosaurs, while a photographer in the foreground (using a camera on a tripod) takes their photo.
Attendees began by getting acquainted with the photobooth, which included strategizing poses. Adobe designer, Linda Ma, joined her son Max along with two of his favorite dinosaur toys. Photography by Gary Sexton.
A photograph of a little boy, wearing a green and yellow dinosaur costume, and his mom. He's standing, and she's kneeling with her arms around him, in the background against a pink screen while a photographer in the foreground (using a camera on a tripod) takes their photo.
Linda and Max opted for a final classic pose before heading to the editing station. Photography by Gary Sexton.
A photograph of a little boy, wearing a green and yellow dinosaur costume, sitting on his mom's lap at a table with a pink tablecloth. People are standing in the background as his mom watches over his shoulder while he uses an application on an iPad.
Attendees big and small customized digital copies of their photobooth images in an Adobe Express-designed template. Max played with colors and marveled as his photo went from black-and-white to full color. Photography by Gary Sexton.

Along with memories of the magic of photographic technology the museum’s young visitors left the exhibit with their photobooth prints, a digital GIF, and an analog lenticular print. By the end of the day our volunteers had helped guide hundreds of children (and their parents) through the Smilebooth and Adobe Express exhibit and helped to create almost 600 lenticular prints and export 900 GIFs. It was a fast, fun, high-energy, and creative way to spend a Saturday.

A GIF of a little boy, wearing a green and yellow dinosaur costume, and his mom. Both are against a pink screen background and holding plastic dinosaurs. The GIF is framed in blue and adorned with happy faces on shapes (a heart, diamond, circle, triangle, and square). #DeYoungstersDayOut is in black type in the lower left hand corner.
Max’s personalized Adobe Express graphic.

Every pro bono partnership gives us an opportunity to spark the imagination of new audiences but de Youngsters Day Out will always be one of our favorite ways to spend a nine-to-five. As designers, creative expression and creative exploration are our obsessions, pastimes, and pursuits and every year, the day-long event gives us an opportunity to share that with the children in our community.

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