1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,640 [MUSIC] In this video 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:10,130 we're going to look at CC Libraries. 3 00:00:10,125 --> 00:00:13,385 I love them. You've been probably avoiding them for a long time. 4 00:00:13,380 --> 00:00:17,360 They're amazingly let's get to use them because we're going to add things like this, 5 00:00:17,355 --> 00:00:19,565 logos and images and colors and it's 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,870 going to mean we can use them in other InDesign documents, 7 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:24,900 but also look, they appear the same in Photoshop and 8 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,400 Illustrator in After Effects and all the other lovely Adobe products. 9 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:30,345 Let's go and learn how to use the. 10 00:00:30,345 --> 00:00:33,765 First thing we need to do is make sure you can see a CC Libraries, 11 00:00:33,765 --> 00:00:35,905 it's on the Window, CC Libraries. 12 00:00:35,905 --> 00:00:37,455 Let's make a new library. 13 00:00:37,455 --> 00:00:39,245 I'm going to keep this one that I've got but if you've 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,820 skipped the early tutorial we did when we made our colors, 15 00:00:41,815 --> 00:00:43,255 you'll have to go to this little drop-down. 16 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:44,630 It's probably going to say my library. 17 00:00:44,630 --> 00:00:48,110 It's the one you get by default and the bottom here says create new library. 18 00:00:48,110 --> 00:00:49,940 Create it, give it a name I've called mine 19 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:52,500 [inaudible] for this client that am working for. 20 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,860 Now let's say we've added these colors earlier, 21 00:00:54,860 --> 00:00:56,090 but let's say you skip that. 22 00:00:56,090 --> 00:00:59,630 Let say that, maybe this just a new color that's appeared. 23 00:00:59,630 --> 00:01:02,600 What you do is I've drawn a rectangle and it's filled with 24 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,450 some random color that I now want to include in part as my swatches. 25 00:01:07,445 --> 00:01:11,755 The way to do it is have it selected with the black color and what we can do, 26 00:01:11,750 --> 00:01:13,700 you see this little plus sign to the bottom here. 27 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:15,620 I'm in my Great at Heart library. 28 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:18,950 I want to add something to it and you can see here is a graphic fill color. 29 00:01:18,950 --> 00:01:21,840 Graphic [inaudible] add the square itself. 30 00:01:21,835 --> 00:01:24,205 I don't need that square listening to fill color. 31 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,250 I click add for just that fill color. 32 00:01:26,245 --> 00:01:28,515 If I have them both selected, let me show you. 33 00:01:28,510 --> 00:01:30,090 If I had the graphic as well, 34 00:01:30,085 --> 00:01:31,505 I get a rectangle. 35 00:01:31,509 --> 00:01:33,669 That's cool, means that later on I can drag 36 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:36,090 out the exact same rectangle and use it over and over again. 37 00:01:36,085 --> 00:01:37,375 That might be useful for you. 38 00:01:37,370 --> 00:01:39,180 I don't want him so I can click on him, 39 00:01:39,175 --> 00:01:41,185 hit the little trash can, bye bye. 40 00:01:41,185 --> 00:01:43,875 Two of these colors now, goodbye. It's got an ugly color. 41 00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:45,620 I don't want, goodbye. 42 00:01:45,615 --> 00:01:47,035 That's how to add colors, 43 00:01:47,035 --> 00:01:48,525 other things you can add, 44 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,470 probably the most useful is images. 45 00:01:50,470 --> 00:01:53,230 This is image here and I'm going to add it so that I can use it in 46 00:01:53,230 --> 00:01:55,960 lots of other documents because this library stays there, 47 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,670 doesn't matter what document you have open. 48 00:01:57,670 --> 00:02:00,130 If I got a new document, File, 49 00:02:00,130 --> 00:02:02,820 new document, click create. 50 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:04,260 You can see these are still here, 51 00:02:04,255 --> 00:02:07,165 allow me to quickly grab out colors and stuff. 52 00:02:07,165 --> 00:02:09,195 Let's go back to this one. 53 00:02:09,190 --> 00:02:11,070 Now adding images can be interesting. 54 00:02:11,065 --> 00:02:12,585 If it's just the image by itself, 55 00:02:12,580 --> 00:02:15,640 you can just click hold and drag it in but you can see I've dragged it because 56 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:18,850 I've already cropped it and you can see it drag cropped version of it. 57 00:02:18,845 --> 00:02:20,805 It's the image is actually quite big. 58 00:02:20,805 --> 00:02:23,105 What you can do is double-click the image. 59 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,810 You can start to see it spread out for this red edge 60 00:02:25,810 --> 00:02:30,070 here and that means I've got the whole image selected and down here, 61 00:02:30,070 --> 00:02:32,960 you see now can I drag it, I can. 62 00:02:32,955 --> 00:02:36,625 I have just dragged it by double-clicking it and you can see that's the entire image. 63 00:02:36,625 --> 00:02:43,285 I'm going to download this guy. This is my food image. You can add images that way. 64 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,760 Other things you might add, 65 00:02:44,755 --> 00:02:47,385 say this logo here, I can slicked it because it's not cropped, 66 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:52,220 I can just drag the whole thing in there and that's my logo green. 67 00:02:52,220 --> 00:02:54,210 You can add blocks of type. 68 00:02:54,210 --> 00:02:57,910 Like this one here, say this little round all thing I've made, 69 00:02:57,905 --> 00:02:59,165 I want to use over and over again. 70 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,010 It's something like it's held, I don't know, 71 00:03:01,010 --> 00:03:04,000 a call to action or a unique selling point. 72 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:07,225 I'm going to click and hold and drag it and you can see the whole unit comes with me. 73 00:03:07,220 --> 00:03:11,690 If I go to this next document and I want to quickly build a thing, 74 00:03:11,690 --> 00:03:14,810 I can drag out a full-page, 75 00:03:14,805 --> 00:03:19,885 I can go up the top here and I can click on filling it with the green, 76 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,670 dark green, drag the logo out. 77 00:03:22,670 --> 00:03:28,420 I can add my image and this little round all thing. 78 00:03:28,420 --> 00:03:31,050 You can see how quickly you can stop building extra documents 79 00:03:31,054 --> 00:03:33,934 because you've got everything in this library gets even better. 80 00:03:33,930 --> 00:03:36,530 If you jump out to another Adobe products, 81 00:03:36,530 --> 00:03:38,770 I jumped into say, Photoshop. 82 00:03:38,765 --> 00:03:42,005 Am working on this and say I need that color row. 83 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,770 You can see this is another library that I'm working on but if I switch to this one here, 84 00:03:45,770 --> 00:03:48,100 where is he, Great at Heart, 85 00:03:48,095 --> 00:03:49,505 you can see he's in this one as well. 86 00:03:49,505 --> 00:03:51,685 I can use them across all these documents. 87 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,220 Here we go. I'm not sure why this drawing that I've 88 00:03:55,220 --> 00:03:58,700 done needs roundels and stuff but you get the point right. 89 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,030 You can go between any Adobe product. 90 00:04:02,030 --> 00:04:03,440 I use this a lot between say, 91 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,620 my video work in After Effects and premia, 92 00:04:05,615 --> 00:04:07,675 or my graphic design work at a Photoshop, 93 00:04:07,670 --> 00:04:10,900 the Illustrator, they all use the same libraries. 94 00:04:10,895 --> 00:04:13,285 One last thing to consider is that, 95 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,450 say you are a freelancer, 96 00:04:14,450 --> 00:04:16,730 or you are beginning a freelancing role. 97 00:04:16,730 --> 00:04:21,890 It means that when you sign in to another computer and you use your Adobe ID, 98 00:04:21,890 --> 00:04:24,090 these libraries will pre-populate. 99 00:04:24,085 --> 00:04:26,425 If I go into an office and they say, done, 100 00:04:26,420 --> 00:04:29,000 I want you to do some work with us and you're going to use our machine. 101 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,300 I jump on my machine and even if they don't have a license for, 102 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:35,590 I can download the trial and login with my username and ID. 103 00:04:35,590 --> 00:04:38,270 You can have it installed on more than one computer when it opens up, 104 00:04:38,270 --> 00:04:40,280 the trial version becomes a full version because I'm 105 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:44,440 a paying customer and my libraries pre-populate with the stuff that I use. 106 00:04:44,435 --> 00:04:46,685 That can be really handy when you're switching machines, 107 00:04:46,685 --> 00:04:50,755 it all syncs up and it also does cool things with some of the Adobe apps. 108 00:04:50,750 --> 00:04:51,820 Go check out the app store. 109 00:04:51,815 --> 00:04:54,475 They're awesome cool things that libraries work with them too. 110 00:04:54,475 --> 00:04:56,635 Libraries are awesome. You've probably seen them 111 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:58,640 [inaudible] Adobe products and ignored them, 112 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,010 start using them because they are wicked. 113 00:05:01,005 --> 00:05:02,865 Wicked is not the word. I take it back. 114 00:05:02,865 --> 00:05:06,085 They are awesome or great, not wicked. 115 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,540 Terribly ending over, next video, please.