0 1 00:00:00,007 --> 00:00:01,578 Hey there, in this video we're going to look... 1 2 00:00:01,603 --> 00:00:04,654 at some tips and tricks for using CC Libraries... 2 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,109 and other kind of internal parts like the Market. 3 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,469 You probably have used Libraries before, maybe you haven't. 4 5 00:00:13,273 --> 00:00:16,102 I've got my first library here, I'm going to add something to it. 5 6 00:00:16,563 --> 00:00:19,195 I'm going to drag it in there, and give it a name. 6 7 00:00:19,625 --> 00:00:22,219 One is a cartoon that I did of my wife. 7 8 00:00:23,781 --> 00:00:24,703 I've given it a name... 8 9 00:00:24,734 --> 00:00:28,477 and now it becomes-- a couple of tricks. 9 10 00:00:28,502 --> 00:00:30,727 Is that if I drag this out now... 10 11 00:00:31,648 --> 00:00:34,305 it's connected to the Library, which can be a bit of a pain. 11 12 00:00:34,414 --> 00:00:38,125 If I hold down 'Alt' on a PC, or 'Option' on a Mac... 12 13 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:40,125 when I drag out, it's disconnected. 13 14 00:00:40,150 --> 00:00:42,172 So this guy is connected, this guy is not. 14 15 00:00:42,197 --> 00:00:43,953 What happens is, if I double click this... 15 16 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:47,945 in here, I decide that... 16 17 00:00:50,453 --> 00:00:51,836 not sure what I'm going to decide here. 17 18 00:00:55,294 --> 00:00:56,984 Quickly think of something; red eye. 18 19 00:00:58,021 --> 00:01:00,240 If I hit 'Save', and I close it down... 19 20 00:01:00,265 --> 00:01:03,021 you'll notice that the library updates, and this guy updated... 20 21 00:01:03,046 --> 00:01:04,709 but this guy didn't, because he's disconnected. 21 22 00:01:04,734 --> 00:01:08,310 Often I do that, I just hold 'Option' and drag it out ... 22 23 00:01:08,335 --> 00:01:09,670 so I've got it disconnected. 23 24 00:01:10,888 --> 00:01:12,614 Other things we can do. 24 25 00:01:13,419 --> 00:01:16,248 Say that I'm working with another person, which I do a lot. 25 26 00:01:16,851 --> 00:01:18,771 We're all remote, so what happens is... 26 27 00:01:18,796 --> 00:01:21,443 say I want to share this library-- I've got lots of libraries, check them out. 27 28 00:01:24,435 --> 00:01:26,552 What I like to do is... 28 29 00:01:26,859 --> 00:01:29,365 anything that has this-- I like to collaborate. 29 30 00:01:29,390 --> 00:01:32,107 So I've got a friend that helps me... 30 31 00:01:32,132 --> 00:01:33,670 another designer that helps me with a lot of work... 31 32 00:01:33,904 --> 00:01:35,810 and we share this Adobe folder. 32 33 00:01:35,835 --> 00:01:38,107 Let's have a look at this one, 'Adobe Logos'. 33 34 00:01:38,132 --> 00:01:40,421 There's lots of just Adobe stuff that we're allowed to use 34 35 00:01:40,446 --> 00:01:43,591 as Certified Instructors in a Certified Training Center. 35 36 00:01:43,904 --> 00:01:46,505 And we share it, the way to share a library... 36 37 00:01:46,685 --> 00:01:48,929 is let's say here, you go up to this 'Burger Menu '... 37 38 00:01:48,954 --> 00:01:50,201 and you say 'Collaborate'. 38 39 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:52,794 'Share' is what I do with a client. 39 40 00:01:52,819 --> 00:01:55,373 Say I want to send it to a client, and here's the Assets... 40 41 00:01:55,398 --> 00:01:57,865 you can't update them, or mess with them. 41 42 00:01:57,890 --> 00:01:59,435 It's not a Creative Cloud Library. 42 43 00:01:59,460 --> 00:02:01,192 It is just something that you can... 43 44 00:02:01,216 --> 00:02:05,981 Art work that you can use, and download for your own usage. 44 45 00:02:06,427 --> 00:02:09,138 Collaborate means, I trust this other person... 45 46 00:02:09,163 --> 00:02:12,435 and you can delete stuff, and edit it, and add new things. 46 47 00:02:12,460 --> 00:02:13,607 We work on it together. 47 48 00:02:13,732 --> 00:02:16,427 What really happens is, I can email saying, would you like to Collaborate... 48 49 00:02:16,452 --> 00:02:19,021 and they click 'Yes', and I just end up in this drop down. 49 50 00:02:19,046 --> 00:02:21,567 You can tell the ones that are shared with the two little heads there. 50 51 00:02:21,677 --> 00:02:23,060 You can share with loads of people. 51 52 00:02:23,085 --> 00:02:25,960 One of the things that makes it quite useful... 52 53 00:02:25,985 --> 00:02:27,710 is like, say I decide to delete this one. 53 54 00:02:28,289 --> 00:02:30,703 I decide that, yes, goodbye, you're gone. 54 55 00:02:31,328 --> 00:02:32,859 Just delete it. I can undo it... 55 56 00:02:32,884 --> 00:02:35,468 but let's say that I open a document... 56 57 00:02:36,133 --> 00:02:38,164 or the person working with me opens up the document... 57 58 00:02:38,189 --> 00:02:40,227 and says, "It's missing the thing, where did it go?" 58 59 00:02:40,252 --> 00:02:40,930 I'm like, "Oh." 59 60 00:02:42,258 --> 00:02:44,781 There's an option in here to say 'View Deleted Items'. 60 61 00:02:44,806 --> 00:02:47,102 You can just kind of undelete them, it's pretty cool. 61 62 00:02:47,127 --> 00:02:50,195 The other thing you might do is, when you click 'Share a Link'... 62 63 00:02:51,294 --> 00:02:53,373 what ends up happening is, they get given... 63 64 00:02:53,405 --> 00:02:55,213 you get to give them an option to say... 64 65 00:02:55,238 --> 00:02:58,310 whether they are allowed to edit, or they're just allowed to view. 65 66 00:02:58,466 --> 00:03:02,287 Let's say they're not, like a designer, and have a Creative Cloud license. 66 67 00:03:02,513 --> 00:03:03,682 That one's the one you send them. 67 68 00:03:03,707 --> 00:03:05,514 I'll show you what it looks like from their side. 68 69 00:03:05,701 --> 00:03:08,584 So this is what they get. They log in, well they didn't log in... 69 70 00:03:08,950 --> 00:03:10,927 they just click on it, and this is, "Would you accept?" 70 71 00:03:10,952 --> 00:03:12,794 This is what they get, that's the Library option. 71 72 00:03:13,107 --> 00:03:16,560 What I might do is add-- it's a Live one, so if I add this... 72 73 00:03:17,396 --> 00:03:19,731 click back in there, and jump back in here. 73 74 00:03:19,849 --> 00:03:21,263 I might have to refresh this. 74 75 00:03:21,677 --> 00:03:23,298 Hopefully my internet's working fast enough. 75 76 00:03:23,323 --> 00:03:24,247 There she is. 76 77 00:03:24,536 --> 00:03:26,583 What's really cool about it is, if I click on it-- 77 78 00:03:26,615 --> 00:03:29,536 it's not a tiff, it started life as a tiff, that's why it's called a tiff. 78 79 00:03:29,888 --> 00:03:32,997 But they can download it from here, they can save it. 79 80 00:03:33,458 --> 00:03:36,677 There's kind of limited action if they don't have a Creative Cloud license. 80 81 00:03:36,702 --> 00:03:38,130 It doesn't even have to be a paid one. 81 82 00:03:38,155 --> 00:03:39,818 So you can get them to-- 82 83 00:03:40,029 --> 00:03:41,193 that's the pain, I guess. 83 84 00:03:41,218 --> 00:03:43,701 Is they can get little bits of it, they can save the image... 84 85 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,599 and they can start working with that JPEG or that PNG... 85 86 00:03:47,419 --> 00:03:51,216 but if they want kind of full access they need to sign in, or sign up. 86 87 00:03:51,497 --> 00:03:52,849 Doesn't even have to be paid. 87 88 00:03:53,388 --> 00:03:55,169 Cool. Let's close it down. 88 89 00:03:55,380 --> 00:03:56,599 So you can see, colors as well. 89 90 00:03:57,037 --> 00:03:59,005 I use this quite a bit for Web Developers... 90 91 00:03:59,030 --> 00:04:02,435 so in my library there I'll have all the colors that I'm using. 91 92 00:04:02,584 --> 00:04:05,466 You can even put fonts in there, we haven't done that yet. 92 93 00:04:06,709 --> 00:04:08,044 Let's take a font in. 93 94 00:04:08,458 --> 00:04:11,709 Actually it's putting in this text, and that one's pretty hard core. 94 95 00:04:11,734 --> 00:04:13,310 So what I might do is-- 95 96 00:04:13,998 --> 00:04:16,419 it's kind of put it in there, if I click on this option here... 96 97 00:04:16,444 --> 00:04:19,856 I'm going to put in maybe the Text and the Character Style. 97 98 00:04:20,373 --> 00:04:21,474 Not all of that. 98 99 00:04:23,818 --> 00:04:28,021 So now if I go back into here, and I go back out, and I update. 99 100 00:04:31,034 --> 00:04:32,128 So that's Character Styles. 100 101 00:04:32,153 --> 00:04:35,010 I find this is really helpful for Web Developers that I'm working with. 101 102 00:04:35,035 --> 00:04:38,987 They know the font family, the size, the color, all that type of things. 102 103 00:04:39,136 --> 00:04:42,049 If there was line spacing, that gets included as well. 103 104 00:04:42,082 --> 00:04:43,034 Really handy. 104 105 00:04:43,059 --> 00:04:44,932 What you see, this little Web Interface. 105 106 00:04:45,221 --> 00:04:46,830 If they do sign in, they get a bit more, right? 106 107 00:04:46,855 --> 00:04:48,815 That looks like this, or something like this... 107 108 00:04:48,972 --> 00:04:50,964 and they get to do a lot more, like... 108 109 00:04:51,167 --> 00:04:53,534 they get to share-- you can decide on the access they have... 109 110 00:04:53,753 --> 00:04:55,862 but there's just some really cool stuff in here. 110 111 00:04:56,215 --> 00:04:58,338 Let's say I want to go into this thing. 111 112 00:04:59,354 --> 00:05:03,430 It gives me just a lot more details, and a lot more things I can do... 112 113 00:05:03,463 --> 00:05:06,815 and go and save, under 'Actions' here, I can copy it, rename. 113 114 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,008 There's all sort of stuff you can do if you get a Creative Cloud license. 114 115 00:05:10,131 --> 00:05:12,970 The other thing I want to show you about the Library is-- 115 116 00:05:12,995 --> 00:05:13,981 back into Illustrator. 116 117 00:05:14,006 --> 00:05:15,990 It's not really the Library, it's more the CC app. 117 118 00:05:17,186 --> 00:05:20,131 On a Mac, it's up the top here, this little Creative Cloud icon. 118 119 00:05:20,156 --> 00:05:22,865 On a PC, it's in the bottom right, looks the same. 119 120 00:05:23,155 --> 00:05:24,971 Click on it, there's this one called 'Assets'. 120 121 00:05:24,996 --> 00:05:26,295 This is like the hidden gen. 121 122 00:05:26,568 --> 00:05:28,176 You want to go to the one called 'Market'. 122 123 00:05:28,201 --> 00:05:31,613 I love this one because it's free, commercial use. 123 124 00:05:31,902 --> 00:05:34,035 Mainly icons, vector stuff... 124 125 00:05:34,254 --> 00:05:37,552 that you get to use for free commercially that Adobe gives you. 125 126 00:05:37,584 --> 00:05:40,210 So, if I'm in here, I might go, "Hey, I really need a--". 126 127 00:05:40,375 --> 00:05:41,777 I don't know, what do I need? 127 128 00:05:41,847 --> 00:05:45,252 I really need a credit card, I don't know why. 128 129 00:05:46,291 --> 00:05:47,601 Credit cards, I've got loads in front of me. 129 130 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:49,133 Credit card, okay? 130 131 00:05:49,815 --> 00:05:52,078 In here, there should be some credit card icons. 131 132 00:05:52,461 --> 00:05:53,242 Cool, huh? 132 133 00:05:53,267 --> 00:05:55,508 It's really nice that most of them are vector. 133 134 00:05:55,533 --> 00:05:57,687 Just double check, say you really like this guy. 134 135 00:05:57,937 --> 00:06:01,406 Click on it. I'm going to download it to that Library. 135 136 00:06:02,484 --> 00:06:05,320 Any of your CC Libraries. Kick back, relax. 136 137 00:06:06,687 --> 00:06:07,750 Is it doing it? 137 138 00:06:08,085 --> 00:06:09,122 Over there, it is over there. 138 139 00:06:09,890 --> 00:06:12,016 This one here is actually a Photoshop file. 139 140 00:06:12,041 --> 00:06:13,344 Not quite what I wanted... 140 141 00:06:14,039 --> 00:06:15,508 but I'll open up in Photoshop. 141 142 00:06:16,047 --> 00:06:17,164 Same library. 142 143 00:06:17,726 --> 00:06:19,187 That's why CC Libraries are so cool. 143 144 00:06:19,836 --> 00:06:23,164 Card, there's all sorts of mask going on. 144 145 00:06:23,189 --> 00:06:25,320 It's all kind of bits and pieces. 145 146 00:06:25,492 --> 00:06:26,958 You're probably like me, where you find-- 146 147 00:06:26,983 --> 00:06:28,327 so if I find, I'm like, "You're awesome." 147 148 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,641 And it's like a solid JPEG, and you got to kind of redraw it. 148 149 00:06:31,961 --> 00:06:33,648 So when you are looking in this... 149 150 00:06:33,673 --> 00:06:36,780 just make sure you're looking for SVG or ai. 150 151 00:06:37,093 --> 00:06:41,336 Let's say, vectors. Vectors icons. 151 152 00:06:44,328 --> 00:06:45,796 SVG is one of the words you want. 152 153 00:06:46,420 --> 00:06:47,928 Scalable Vector Graphic. 153 154 00:06:48,343 --> 00:06:50,790 That's a good term to use, well, look for. 154 155 00:06:51,017 --> 00:06:52,289 I'm going to save it to My Library. 155 156 00:06:52,570 --> 00:06:55,359 And now, here it is over here, SVG. 156 157 00:06:55,437 --> 00:06:57,476 I can double click on it, just drag it out. 157 158 00:06:57,672 --> 00:06:58,843 I'm actually going to hold-- 158 159 00:06:58,868 --> 00:07:01,352 What is the key, remember? I hold while I'm dragging out? 159 160 00:07:02,561 --> 00:07:04,725 Yes, it's 'Alt' or 'Option'. 160 161 00:07:04,858 --> 00:07:07,225 That means I start again, then hold that key down... 161 162 00:07:07,258 --> 00:07:09,327 and it means I've got two of them... 162 163 00:07:09,577 --> 00:07:10,811 but I've broken that link. 163 164 00:07:10,836 --> 00:07:13,210 What's also cool is that it's vector... 164 165 00:07:13,235 --> 00:07:16,202 I can ungroup it, I can start messing with it. 165 166 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:19,241 You might have to right click, and 'Release Compound Path'. 166 167 00:07:19,274 --> 00:07:21,780 That happens quite a bit with SVGs from online. 167 168 00:07:22,882 --> 00:07:24,519 But bits are there, you might have to do... 168 169 00:07:24,544 --> 00:07:27,609 some fun and games to get this thing to work again. 169 170 00:07:29,507 --> 00:07:32,514 All right, that is the secret little treat up there. 170 171 00:07:32,733 --> 00:07:35,983 The last kind of bit to deal with libraries is to do with stock. 171 172 00:07:36,008 --> 00:07:37,943 There's kind of an option in here, it's up there as well. 172 173 00:07:40,366 --> 00:07:41,733 It's just stock library stuff, right? 173 174 00:07:41,850 --> 00:07:43,975 You get 10 freebies to get started. 174 175 00:07:44,936 --> 00:07:46,366 I use it instead of-- 175 176 00:07:46,391 --> 00:07:48,936 It's an alternative for something like Shadow Stock or iStock. 176 177 00:07:49,467 --> 00:07:51,959 The nice alternative for it is that... 177 178 00:07:52,084 --> 00:07:55,647 say I need a picture, a commercial picture, I need to pay for it... 178 179 00:07:55,694 --> 00:07:58,085 and I need some options, and I need it for... 179 180 00:07:58,249 --> 00:08:00,741 I can't think of anything, I'll go to that credit card again. 180 181 00:08:01,119 --> 00:08:02,666 So it's going to look in Adobe Stock. 181 182 00:08:02,947 --> 00:08:04,416 Really cheesy. 182 183 00:08:07,796 --> 00:08:09,570 So there are beautiful ones in there. 183 184 00:08:09,595 --> 00:08:14,616 Don't type credit card and look for really nice options. 184 185 00:08:16,078 --> 00:08:19,545 The cool thing about it is, it's a really big preview. 185 186 00:08:19,820 --> 00:08:22,210 And what happens is, when you're ready to buy... 186 187 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:24,562 what you can do is go to here, and just say 'Buy'. 187 188 00:08:24,587 --> 00:08:27,858 And if you've got like a monthly subscription-- 188 189 00:08:27,883 --> 00:08:32,405 I've got-- I think I'm paying about 10, maybe 20, averages a month. 189 190 00:08:33,109 --> 00:08:35,600 Something like 30 bucks, 40 bucks. 190 191 00:08:36,046 --> 00:08:37,156 Something like that. 191 192 00:08:38,618 --> 00:08:39,812 What ends up happening... 192 193 00:08:39,837 --> 00:08:42,366 like, say you've designed it, and you've manipulated it... 193 194 00:08:42,391 --> 00:08:44,773 done some stuff to it-- there it is, Adobe Stock in the middle. 194 195 00:08:45,937 --> 00:08:48,679 You've kind of manipulated, added some effects. 195 196 00:08:48,704 --> 00:08:51,280 What ends up happening is, if you license this... 196 197 00:08:51,305 --> 00:08:54,046 it reaches back into your document, and removes the watermark... 197 198 00:08:54,071 --> 00:08:56,124 and this little number down the bottom. It's pretty clever. 198 199 00:08:56,413 --> 00:08:58,906 Works for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, everything. 199 200 00:08:59,054 --> 00:09:01,968 This video is not just images... 200 201 00:09:02,202 --> 00:09:03,749 there's illustrations as well. 201 202 00:09:05,007 --> 00:09:06,882 I'm going to stop trying to sell you Adobe Stock. 202 203 00:09:06,946 --> 00:09:08,085 All right, that's going to be it... 203 204 00:09:08,110 --> 00:09:10,977 for Creative Cloud app, and the CC libraries. 204 205 00:09:11,141 --> 00:09:12,859 Let's get on to the next tutorial.