Episode Summary: An introduction to the Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps — Design, Video, and Photo tools — and how they extend the creative workflow beyond the desktop.
What You'll Learn
- What Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries are and why they save real time across apps
- The 2 standalone apps to start with: Creative Cloud and Adobe Capture
- A category-by-category tour of the Design, Video, and Photo mobile apps
- Why Adobe Spark Page can produce a podcast intro webpage in under 10 minutes
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What Is Adobe Creative Cloud?
Adobe Creative Cloud bundles creative apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Audition together. Pricing: $49.99/month for the full bundle, $19.99/month à la carte, or $9.99/month for the Photographer Bundle (Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge). Education discounts are also available.
CC Libraries
Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries function like a Dropbox for creative assets, shared across every Adobe app. Instead of hunting down a logo or brand colors each time, everything — photos, vectors, brushes, patterns, color swatches — lives in one folder accessible from Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and beyond. A genuine time saver, and the entry point into working from mobile devices too.
Adobe Mobile Apps
Main categories: Design & Illustration, Video/Visual Storytelling, and Photography & Creative Imaging.
Two standalone apps to start with: the Creative Cloud app (access to every library and everything made in the mobile apps) and Adobe Capture — genuinely remarkable: photograph anything and turn it into a vector illustration, texture, or pattern, ready to drop straight into Illustrator.
Design & Illustration
Three main apps, two in heavy regular use:
- Adobe Draw — used for drawing every product image featured in videos. A favorite.
- Photoshop Sketch — a painting and sketching app with an extensive brush/marker/pencil library, similar in spirit to Procreate. Side tip: anyone into digital painting should check out Kyle Webster Brushes.
- Adobe Comp — useful for InDesign work and web layout, not used daily but genuinely impressive when it comes up.
Video/Animation
Adobe Spark Page — builds a full story webpage from supplied text, images, and video in minutes. A podcast intro page, for instance, is realistically achievable in under 10 minutes. Adobe Spark Post — similar in spirit to Canva: strong typography and pre-built templates for text/quote graphics, shareable directly to social. Adobe Spark Video — animated video stories from templates or…
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