Hey there, in this video we're going to look... 1
at some tips and tricks for using CC Libraries... 2
and other kind of internal parts like the Market. 3
You probably have used Libraries before, maybe you haven't. 4
I've got my first library here, I'm going to add something to it. 5
I'm going to drag it in there, and give it a name. 6
One is a cartoon that I did of my wife. 7
I've given it a name... 8
and now it becomes-- a couple of tricks. 9
Is that if I drag this out now... 10
it's connected to the Library, which can be a bit of a pain. 11
If I hold down 'Alt' on a PC, or 'Option' on a Mac... 12
when I drag out, it's disconnected. 13
So this guy is connected, this guy is not. 14
What happens is, if I double click this... 15
in here, I decide that... 16
not sure what I'm going to decide here. 17
Quickly think of something; red eye. 18
If I hit 'Save', and I close it down... 19
you'll notice that the library updates, and this guy updated... 20
but this guy didn't, because he's disconnected. 21
Often I do that, I just hold 'Option' and drag it out ... 22
so I've got it disconnected. 23
Other things we can do. 24
Say that I'm working with another person, which I do a lot. 25
We're all remote, so what happens is... 26
say I want to share this library-- I've got lots of libraries, check them out. 27
What I like to do is... 28
anything that has this-- I like to collaborate. 29
So I've got a friend that helps me... 30
another designer that helps me with a lot of work... 31
and we share this Adobe folder. 32
Let's have a look at this one, 'Adobe Logos'. 33
There's lots of just Adobe stuff that we're allowed to use 34
as Certified Instructors in a Certified Training Center. 35
And we share it, the way to share a library... 36
is let's say here, you go up to this 'Burger Menu '... 37
and you say 'Collaborate'. 38
'Share' is what I do with a client. 39
Say I want to send it to a client, and here's the Assets... 40
you can't update them, or mess with them. 41
It's not a Creative Cloud Library. 42
It is just something that you can... 43
Art work that you can use, and download for your own usage. 44
Collaborate means, I trust this other person... 45
and you can delete stuff, and edit it, and add new things. 46
We work on it together. 47
What really happens is, I can email saying, would you like to Collaborate... 48
and they click 'Yes', and I just end up in this drop down. 49
You can tell the ones that are shared with the two little heads there. 50
You can share with loads of people. 51
One of the things that makes it quite useful... 52
is like, say I decide to delete this one. 53
I decide that, yes, goodbye, you're gone. 54
Just delete it. I can undo it... 55
but let's say that I open a document... 56
or the person working with me opens up the document... 57
and says, "It's missing the thing, where did it go?" 58
I'm like, "Oh." 59
There's an option in here to say 'View Deleted Items'. 60
You can just kind of undelete them, it's pretty cool. 61
The other thing you might do is, when you click 'Share a Link'... 62
what ends up happening is, they get given... 63
you get to give them an option to say... 64
whether they are allowed to edit, or they're just allowed to view. 65
Let's say they're not, like a designer, and have a Creative Cloud license. 66
That one's the one you send them. 67
I'll show you what it looks like from their side. 68
So this is what they get. They log in, well they didn't log in... 69
they just click on it, and this is, "Would you accept?" 70
This is what they get, that's the Library option. 71
What I might do is add-- it's a Live one, so if I add this... 72
click back in there, and jump back in here. 73
I might have to refresh this. 74
Hopefully my internet's working fast enough. 75
There she is. 76
What's really cool about it is, if I click on it-- 77
it's not a tiff, it started life as a tiff, that's why it's called a tiff. 78
But they can download it from here, they can save it. 79
There's kind of limited action if they don't have a Creative Cloud license. 80
It doesn't even have to be a paid one. 81
So you can get them to-- 82
that's the pain, I guess. 83
Is they can get little bits of it, they can save the image... 84
and they can start working with that JPEG or that PNG... 85
but if they want kind of full access they need to sign in, or sign up. 86
Doesn't even have to be paid. 87
Cool. Let's close it down. 88
So you can see, colors as well. 89
I use this quite a bit for Web Developers... 90
so in my library there I'll have all the colors that I'm using. 91
You can even put fonts in there, we haven't done that yet. 92
Let's take a font in. 93
Actually it's putting in this text, and that one's pretty hard core. 94
So what I might do is-- 95
it's kind of put it in there, if I click on this option here... 96
I'm going to put in maybe the Text and the Character Style. 97
Not all of that. 98
So now if I go back into here, and I go back out, and I update. 99
So that's Character Styles. 100
I find this is really helpful for Web Developers that I'm working with. 101
They know the font family, the size, the color, all that type of things. 102
If there was line spacing, that gets included as well. 103
Really handy. 104
What you see, this little Web Interface. 105
If they do sign in, they get a bit more, right? 106
That looks like this, or something like this... 107
and they get to do a lot more, like... 108
they get to share-- you can decide on the access they have... 109
but there's just some really cool stuff in here. 110
Let's say I want to go into this thing. 111
It gives me just a lot more details, and a lot more things I can do... 112
and go and save, under 'Actions' here, I can copy it, rename. 113
There's all sort of stuff you can do if you get a Creative Cloud license. 114
The other thing I want to show you about the Library is-- 115
back into Illustrator. 116
It's not really the Library, it's more the CC app. 117
On a Mac, it's up the top here, this little Creative Cloud icon. 118
On a PC, it's in the bottom right, looks the same. 119
Click on it, there's this one called 'Assets'. 120
This is like the hidden gen. 121
You want to go to the one called 'Market'. 122
I love this one because it's free, commercial use. 123
Mainly icons, vector stuff... 124
that you get to use for free commercially that Adobe gives you. 125
So, if I'm in here, I might go, "Hey, I really need a--". 126
I don't know, what do I need? 127
I really need a credit card, I don't know why. 128
Credit cards, I've got loads in front of me. 129
Credit card, okay? 130
In here, there should be some credit card icons. 131
Cool, huh? 132
It's really nice that most of them are vector. 133
Just double check, say you really like this guy. 134
Click on it. I'm going to download it to that Library. 135
Any of your CC Libraries. Kick back, relax. 136
Is it doing it? 137
Over there, it is over there. 138
This one here is actually a Photoshop file. 139
Not quite what I wanted... 140
but I'll open up in Photoshop. 141
Same library. 142
That's why CC Libraries are so cool. 143
Card, there's all sorts of mask going on. 144
It's all kind of bits and pieces. 145
You're probably like me, where you find-- 146
so if I find, I'm like, "You're awesome." 147
And it's like a solid JPEG, and you got to kind of redraw it. 148
So when you are looking in this... 149
just make sure you're looking for SVG or ai. 150
Let's say, vectors. Vectors icons. 151
SVG is one of the words you want. 152
Scalable Vector Graphic. 153
That's a good term to use, well, look for. 154
I'm going to save it to My Library. 155
And now, here it is over here, SVG. 156
I can double click on it, just drag it out. 157
I'm actually going to hold-- 158
What is the key, remember? I hold while I'm dragging out? 159
Yes, it's 'Alt' or 'Option'. 160
That means I start again, then hold that key down... 161
and it means I've got two of them... 162
but I've broken that link. 163
What's also cool is that it's vector... 164
I can ungroup it, I can start messing with it. 165
You might have to right click, and 'Release Compound Path'. 166
That happens quite a bit with SVGs from online. 167
But bits are there, you might have to do... 168
some fun and games to get this thing to work again. 169
All right, that is the secret little treat up there. 170
The last kind of bit to deal with libraries is to do with stock. 171
There's kind of an option in here, it's up there as well. 172
It's just stock library stuff, right? 173
You get 10 freebies to get started. 174
I use it instead of-- 175
It's an alternative for something like Shadow Stock or iStock. 176
The nice alternative for it is that... 177
say I need a picture, a commercial picture, I need to pay for it... 178
and I need some options, and I need it for... 179
I can't think of anything, I'll go to that credit card again. 180
So it's going to look in Adobe Stock. 181
Really cheesy. 182
So there are beautiful ones in there. 183
Don't type credit card and look for really nice options. 184
The cool thing about it is, it's a really big preview. 185
And what happens is, when you're ready to buy... 186
what you can do is go to here, and just say 'Buy'. 187
And if you've got like a monthly subscription-- 188
I've got-- I think I'm paying about 10, maybe 20, averages a month. 189
Something like 30 bucks, 40 bucks. 190
Something like that. 191
What ends up happening... 192
like, say you've designed it, and you've manipulated it... 193
done some stuff to it-- there it is, Adobe Stock in the middle. 194
You've kind of manipulated, added some effects. 195
What ends up happening is, if you license this... 196
it reaches back into your document, and removes the watermark... 197
and this little number down the bottom. It's pretty clever. 198
Works for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, everything. 199
This video is not just images... 200
there's illustrations as well. 201
I'm going to stop trying to sell you Adobe Stock. 202
All right, that's going to be it... 203
for Creative Cloud app, and the CC libraries. 204
Let's get on to the next tutorial.