Creative Cloud Libraries Implementation Guide As an integral part of your creative system, Creative Cloud Libraries speed workflows and help enterprise designers adhere to brand guidelines. JANUARY 2021 David Mascha CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 1 CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES AND CREATE A UI/UX DESIGN The Creative Cloud mobile app 34 Table of Contents YOUR CREATIVE SYSTEM 3 SYSTEM WITH ADOBE XD Adobe Fresco and Create : 1 Step document elements 18 Photoshop on the iPad 35 CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES BASICS Publish : 2 Step document elements as a new Microsoft Word and The benefits of Libraries for creative work 5 Creative Cloud Library 19 PowerPoint integration 36 How Creative Cloud Libraries work 6 Share : 3 Step the Library with your team to Microsoft Teams integration 37 be used in other projects 20 Google Workspace integration 38 CREATE A CORPORATE Keep : 4 Step the design system MURAL integration 39 STYLE GUIDE LIBRARY Library up to date 21 Camera IQ integration 40 : : 5 Step Create : 1 Step a Library 9 Streamline development handoff and implementation with Libraries 22 Frontify integration 41 Add : 2 Step design elements to a Library 10 Tiled integration 42 Add : 3 Step color swatches 11 MANAGE LIBRARIES WITH THE Add : 4 Step text styles 12 CREATIVE CLOUD DESKTOP APP AUTOMATING AND DEVELOPING Use : 5 Step Library elements 13 Benefits of the Creative Cloud WITH CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES desktop app 24 Add : 6 Step editors and viewers for collaboration 14 Automation with Zapier 44 Create groups 25 Use : 7 Step and update linked elements 15 Developing with the Update Library elements in a Move elements 26 Creative Cloud Libraries API 45 collaborative workflow 16 Add elements 27 ENTERPRISE CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES AND APPS Export, import, and archive Libraries 47 Adobe Premiere Pro 29 Best practices for enterprise Libraries 48 Adobe Premiere Rush 30 Frequently asked questions 49 Adobe Stock 31 Library ownership and continuity 50 Adobe Capture mobile app 32 Adobe Capture in Photoshop 33 CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 2 Creative Cloud Consumers today are exposed to more marketing more—that you use to design your marketing content content than ever before, so for a brand to thrive in and experiences. Libraries and your a crowded market, it must stand apart and deliver Creative Cloud Libraries accelerate work and ensure consistent, cohesive experiences across every creative system consistency in the creative process. This guide will customer touchpoint. The challenge is that most highlight these use cases: brands have multiple teams that create content: video, UI/UX design, graphic design, product design, CORPORATE STYLE GUIDE Store corporate colors, character styles, and brand elements in a read- marketing, and social media teams. They may use only Library to maintain control, ensure brand consistency, and know different apps, but they are ultimately working on the that designers and other stakeholders always have the most up-to- date elements. same projects with the same tight deadlines. SHARED PROJECT LIBRARIES Businesses need one centralized way to access and Teams may easily share design elements, colors, text styles, stock photos, brushes, audio, video, and more when collaborating. These items, as well manage creative elements, and guidelines for their as updates, are automatically synchronized across all users. use, in order to deliver cohesive brand experiences. UI/UX DESIGN SYSTEMS Businesses need a creative system to empower Web, mobile, and UX design teams often use buttons, menus, and other user interface elements across multiple design projects. These elements individuals and teams to work more efficiently, more can be saved from Adobe XD and then utilized as Components across confidently, and more effectively—whether they’re multiple XD projects. building a brochure, a digital campaign, a new app, or DEEP INTEGRATION The Creative Cloud Libraries API enables developers to bring Libraries to all a new game. the third-party and custom enterprise workflows used by creative teams. Creative Cloud is the only place where you’ll find the essential apps and services, including Creative Cloud Libraries, for building and managing your creative system. Creative Cloud Libraries are already part of the key apps—Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, XD, and CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 3 Creative Cloud Libraries basics Sougwen Chung CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 4 Enterprise creative organizations may think about a Library as a curated The benefits brand asset repository or a live, real-time style guide, ensuring that any materials utilized from that Library will be the most current versions of of Libraries for those files. Libraries have unique qualities that help solve typical collab- oration issues: creative work CROSS DOCUMENT Items stored in a Library aren’t document-specific, so you can create a Library item in one document and use it in another. Creative Cloud Libraries make it easy CROSS APPLICATION Independent research study on to capture design elements from Store frequently used elements in one app and use them in another. Creative Cloud Libraries Adobe creative apps and Adobe COLLABORATIVE CONTROL According to Pfeiffer Consulting LLC, by making it easy Stock and then re-use those elements Share frequently used elements with others. Read-only invitations offer for designers to use the right elements, and for enter- enterprises control over their brand elements. prises to control the use of elements, Creative Cloud virtually anywhere. Libraries improve efficiency almost 8x. CLOUD CONVENIENCE, LOCAL PERFORMANCE While Creative Cloud Libraries are Elements are automatically synced to your desktop so they work fast, even DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE: when you don’t have an internet connection. Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries: simple to use, organizations should Boosting productivity for creative teams have a good understanding of HIGH VOLUME You can have a virtually unlimited number of Libraries, each with a unique how they work in order to derive name. Each Library can store up to 10,000 elements. You are limited only maximum benefit. by the amount of your Creative Cloud storage. CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 5 How Creative Cloud Using the Libraries panel in almost any Adobe Creative Ashton invites Emily to the Library he created. 1 Cloud app, Ashton creates a Library and adds creative ele- 2 ments to it. The Library is saved locally on his computer Libraries work and syncs to Creative Cloud. Creative elements stored in Libraries can be created in many ways: via drag and drop, by clicking the Add Elements button at the bottom of the Libraries panel, with the Adobe Capture mobile app, or by using the Creative Cloud desktop app. When a Library element is updated, it synchronizes with Creative Cloud and each subscribed user receives the change. 3 Emily accepts the invitation to the Library. 4 The Library and its contents are synced from Creative You don’t need to be online to use Cloud to Emily’s computer. Library elements since they are synchronized between your hard drive and the cloud. For example, Ashton has invited you to join if you travel, the next time your the Company Brand Library. computer connects to the internet, YES NO the Library will update with the most recent changes. CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 6 What can go into a Library? Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere Pro Premiere Rush After Effects Animate XD Dreamweaver Dimension Bridge Capture Stock Fresco Spark MicrosoftWord Microsoft PowerPoint Google Workspace Colors • • • • • • • • • • • • • Color themes Creative Cloud Libraries make your • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gradients • • • favorite elements available to you Paragraph styles • • • anywhere. You can add images, colors, Character styles • • • • • • • text styles, and other elements in Text • • • • most Creative Cloud desktop and Graphics1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • mobile apps, and then easily access InDesign page items • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Illustrator artwork them across other apps for a seamless • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Photoshop layers/layer groups creative workflow. Here are the types • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Photoshop layer styles • of elements that each application Adobe XD Components • • • • • • • • • • • can save to a Library or access from Bitmap patterns • • • a Library. Vector patterns • • • Pixel brushes • • • “All the digital designers at Atlantic Records Vector brushes • • • use Creative Cloud Libraries differently, but Animate animations/symbols we all have one collaborative library. This • • • 3D models and lights is our asset locker, which contains all of our • • • 3D materials templates and common assets for quick, easy • • • • reference. The majority of the work we do Audio2 • • • • has a really tight deadline, so having one Video3 • • • • centralized location is vital.” Lumetri color looks • • • • • Dana Tandoi Templates • • • • • • • Senior Manager, Atlantic Records 1 Graphics files in the ai, png, bmp, psd, svg, gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff, pdf, heic, heif, and dng formats. 2 Audio files in the aac, mp3, mp2, m4a, aiff, aif, and aifc formats. 3 Video files in the mp4, mov, wmv, mpeg, mpg, and wav formats. File type support is determined by the application. CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 7 Create a corporate style guide Library CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES GUIDE | JANuarY 2021 8 Create a corporate A Display the Libraries panel on your