Telling a Story with Creative Cloud Express

Course details

Graphic design is all about telling stories. In this course, author Rich Harrington shows you how to tell your story with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, the free web-based design tool that's also available on iOS and Android. If you have access to the premium features, you may be interested in the tutorials that cover building out your brand by uploading assets such as logos and custom fonts to Creative Cloud Express.

Explore the feature-rich toolsets that fall under the Express umbrella. Learn how to create graphics for print or web, create dynamic web pages and presentations, and build short video stories that meet the unique needs of your project. Rich gives you the tools you need to manage the content and templates you have stored in Creative Cloud Express, including backing up and syncing content across desktop and mobile.

Concepts

Introduction

Telling a story with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Using the exercise files

An Introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud Express

How to access Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Creating a project with the templates browser
What Adobe Creative Cloud Express is great for

Preparing Your Content for Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Accessing public domain content
Uploading your content via the browser
Uploading your content via the app
Accessing content via the cloud
Choosing content from Adobe Stock

Creating a Brand for Use with Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Managing a brand
Adding logos to a brand
Adding colors to a brand
Adding fonts to your brand
Branded surfaces and branded templates

Creating Graphics with Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Creating and sizing a graphic
Choosing a design preset for your graphic
Experimenting with layout options
Adding photos to your design
Adjusting the color palette of your design
Adjusting the background of your design
Stylizing your type
Sharing a graphic
A second design using Creative Cloud Express mobile - Part one
A second design using Creative Cloud Express mobile - Part two

Creating Stories with Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Creating a web page and choosing a theme
Adding text to a web page
Adding photos to a web page
Adding multiple photos with a photo grid
Adding multiple photos with Glideshow
Using a split layout to combine text and photos
Adding video to a page
Adding buttons for interactivity
Previewing a page
Publishing and making updates to a page
A second page using Spark Page Mobile

Working with Videos with Adobe Creative Cloud Express

Creating a video and choosing a theme
Customizing layouts for a theme
Working with text in your video
Adding images to slides
Adding and working with video
Working with icons
Adding music and setting durations to your video
Recording your own narration for your video
Saving and publishing your video
A second video using Spark Video Mobile

Saving Time with Quick Actions

How to resize an image
How to remove the background from a photo
Converting to a JPG or PNG file
How to trim and resize a video
How to merge multiple videos
How to create a GIF from a video
How to convert to or from PDF

Managing Your Content

Syncing your designs
Duplicating a design
Deleting content

Conclusion

Next steps