WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.640 [MUSIC] In this video 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:10.125 we're going to look at CC Libraries. 00:00:10.125 --> 00:00:13.380 I love them. You've been probably avoiding them for a long time. 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:17.355 They're amazingly let's get to use them because we're going to add things like this, 00:00:17.355 --> 00:00:19.560 logos and images and colors and it's 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:21.870 going to mean we can use them in other InDesign documents, 00:00:21.870 --> 00:00:24.900 but also look, they appear the same in Photoshop and 00:00:24.900 --> 00:00:28.395 Illustrator in After Effects and all the other lovely Adobe products. 00:00:28.395 --> 00:00:30.345 Let's go and learn how to use the. 00:00:30.345 --> 00:00:33.765 First thing we need to do is make sure you can see a CC Libraries, 00:00:33.765 --> 00:00:35.905 it's on the Window, CC Libraries. 00:00:35.905 --> 00:00:37.455 Let's make a new library. 00:00:37.455 --> 00:00:39.240 I'm going to keep this one that I've got but if you've 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.815 skipped the early tutorial we did when we made our colors, 00:00:41.815 --> 00:00:43.250 you'll have to go to this little drop-down. 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:44.630 It's probably going to say my library. 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:48.110 It's the one you get by default and the bottom here says create new library. 00:00:48.110 --> 00:00:49.940 Create it, give it a name I've called mine 00:00:49.940 --> 00:00:52.500 [inaudible] for this client that am working for. 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:54.860 Now let's say we've added these colors earlier, 00:00:54.860 --> 00:00:56.090 but let's say you skip that. 00:00:56.090 --> 00:00:59.630 Let say that, maybe this just a new color that's appeared. 00:00:59.630 --> 00:01:02.600 What you do is I've drawn a rectangle and it's filled with 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:07.445 some random color that I now want to include in part as my swatches. 00:01:07.445 --> 00:01:11.750 The way to do it is have it selected with the black color and what we can do, 00:01:11.750 --> 00:01:13.700 you see this little plus sign to the bottom here. 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:15.620 I'm in my Great at Heart library. 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. 00:01:18.950 --> 00:01:21.835 Graphic [inaudible] add the square itself. 00:01:21.835 --> 00:01:24.200 I don't need that square listening to fill color. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.245 I click add for just that fill color. 00:01:26.245 --> 00:01:28.510 If I have them both selected, let me show you. 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:30.085 If I had the graphic as well, 00:01:30.085 --> 00:01:31.509 I get a rectangle. 00:01:31.509 --> 00:01:33.670 That's cool, means that later on I can drag 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:36.085 out the exact same rectangle and use it over and over again. 00:01:36.085 --> 00:01:37.370 That might be useful for you. 00:01:37.370 --> 00:01:39.175 I don't want him so I can click on him, 00:01:39.175 --> 00:01:41.185 hit the little trash can, bye bye. 00:01:41.185 --> 00:01:43.870 Two of these colors now, goodbye. It's got an ugly color. 00:01:43.870 --> 00:01:45.615 I don't want, goodbye. 00:01:45.615 --> 00:01:47.035 That's how to add colors, 00:01:47.035 --> 00:01:48.520 other things you can add, 00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:50.470 probably the most useful is images. 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 00:01:53.230 --> 00:01:55.960 lots of other documents because this library stays there, 00:01:55.960 --> 00:01:57.670 doesn't matter what document you have open. 00:01:57.670 --> 00:02:00.130 If I got a new document, File, 00:02:00.130 --> 00:02:02.820 new document, click create. 00:02:02.820 --> 00:02:04.255 You can see these are still here, 00:02:04.255 --> 00:02:07.165 allow me to quickly grab out colors and stuff. 00:02:07.165 --> 00:02:09.190 Let's go back to this one. 00:02:09.190 --> 00:02:11.065 Now adding images can be interesting. 00:02:11.065 --> 00:02:12.580 If it's just the image by itself, 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 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:18.845 I've already cropped it and you can see it drag cropped version of it. 00:02:18.845 --> 00:02:20.805 It's the image is actually quite big. 00:02:20.805 --> 00:02:23.100 What you can do is double-click the image. 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:25.810 You can start to see it spread out for this red edge 00:02:25.810 --> 00:02:30.070 here and that means I've got the whole image selected and down here, 00:02:30.070 --> 00:02:32.955 you see now can I drag it, I can. 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. 00:02:36.625 --> 00:02:43.280 I'm going to download this guy. This is my food image. You can add images that way. 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.755 Other things you might add, 00:02:44.755 --> 00:02:47.380 say this logo here, I can slicked it because it's not cropped, 00:02:47.380 --> 00:02:52.220 I can just drag the whole thing in there and that's my logo green. 00:02:52.220 --> 00:02:54.210 You can add blocks of type. 00:02:54.210 --> 00:02:57.905 Like this one here, say this little round all thing I've made, 00:02:57.905 --> 00:02:59.160 I want to use over and over again. 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:01.010 It's something like it's held, I don't know, 00:03:01.010 --> 00:03:03.995 a call to action or a unique selling point. 00:03:03.995 --> 00:03:07.220 I'm going to click and hold and drag it and you can see the whole unit comes with me. 00:03:07.220 --> 00:03:11.690 If I go to this next document and I want to quickly build a thing, 00:03:11.690 --> 00:03:14.805 I can drag out a full-page, 00:03:14.805 --> 00:03:19.880 I can go up the top here and I can click on filling it with the green, 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:22.670 dark green, drag the logo out. 00:03:22.670 --> 00:03:28.420 I can add my image and this little round all thing. 00:03:28.420 --> 00:03:31.054 You can see how quickly you can stop building extra documents 00:03:31.054 --> 00:03:33.930 because you've got everything in this library gets even better. 00:03:33.930 --> 00:03:36.530 If you jump out to another Adobe products, 00:03:36.530 --> 00:03:38.765 I jumped into say, Photoshop. 00:03:38.765 --> 00:03:42.000 Am working on this and say I need that color row. 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, 00:03:45.770 --> 00:03:48.095 where is he, Great at Heart, 00:03:48.095 --> 00:03:49.505 you can see he's in this one as well. 00:03:49.505 --> 00:03:51.680 I can use them across all these documents. 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:55.220 Here we go. I'm not sure why this drawing that I've 00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:58.700 done needs roundels and stuff but you get the point right. 00:03:58.700 --> 00:04:02.030 You can go between any Adobe product. 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:03.440 I use this a lot between say, 00:04:03.440 --> 00:04:05.615 my video work in After Effects and premia, 00:04:05.615 --> 00:04:07.670 or my graphic design work at a Photoshop, 00:04:07.670 --> 00:04:10.895 the Illustrator, they all use the same libraries. 00:04:10.895 --> 00:04:13.280 One last thing to consider is that, 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:14.450 say you are a freelancer, 00:04:14.450 --> 00:04:16.730 or you are beginning a freelancing role. 00:04:16.730 --> 00:04:21.890 It means that when you sign in to another computer and you use your Adobe ID, 00:04:21.890 --> 00:04:24.085 these libraries will pre-populate. 00:04:24.085 --> 00:04:26.420 If I go into an office and they say, done, 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. 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.300 I jump on my machine and even if they don't have a license for, 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:35.590 I can download the trial and login with my username and ID. 00:04:35.590 --> 00:04:38.270 You can have it installed on more than one computer when it opens up, 00:04:38.270 --> 00:04:40.280 the trial version becomes a full version because I'm 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:44.435 a paying customer and my libraries pre-populate with the stuff that I use. 00:04:44.435 --> 00:04:46.685 That can be really handy when you're switching machines, 00:04:46.685 --> 00:04:50.750 it all syncs up and it also does cool things with some of the Adobe apps. 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:51.815 Go check out the app store. 00:04:51.815 --> 00:04:54.475 They're awesome cool things that libraries work with them too. 00:04:54.475 --> 00:04:56.630 Libraries are awesome. You've probably seen them 00:04:56.630 --> 00:04:58.640 [inaudible] Adobe products and ignored them, 00:04:58.640 --> 00:05:01.005 start using them because they are wicked. 00:05:01.005 --> 00:05:02.865 Wicked is not the word. I take it back. 00:05:02.865 --> 00:05:06.080 They are awesome or great, not wicked. 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:09.540 Terribly ending over, next video, please.