This guide has been produced to inform staff on how to use Adobe Stock assets within Adobe Express. As well as the comprehensive guide, there is also an embedded video included at the end of the document that demonstrates some of these techniques.
Adobe Stock:
As Express is by its very nature a tool for creativity, one of the core principles of this is recognising that the inclusion and use of digital assets such as images and photography can serve as the primary focus for design. Therefore, having access to a vast library of quality imagery greatly enhances the creative abilities and efficiencies of the user. Adobe Express allows you to explore thousands of free, professional-quality photographs that will set your design up for success. Also, If you ever find yourself short on ideas, open up the Express template library, loaded with expertly designed examples to kickstart your creativity. Choose a template, remix it with your personal touch, and publish it in minutes.
This guide has been created to guide users on how to access and use the Adobe Stock items that are available in Express.
What Adobe Stock photos do I get access to with Express and how can I use them?
With your membership to Express, you get access to the entire royalty-free Adobe Stock photo collection. Adobe Stock photos that have a premium badge are provided under a Limited License—Creative Cloud Express; other photos are provided under a Standard License. It should also be pointed out that only limited Adobe Stock functionality is available on the web page and video features within the desktop app.
How do I access Adobe Stock photos in Express?
You can access the royalty-free Adobe Stock photos only from within the Creative Cloud Express app. However, it is not possible to access Adobe Stock photos included in the Creative Cloud Express membership from any other application, including Spark Video, Spark Page, Photoshop Express, or directly on the Adobe Stock website.
What happens to my Adobe Stock photos if I leave Teesside University or when students graduate?
When you are now longer associated with Teesside University and your Creative Cloud membership therefore ends, you are migrated to the free version of Express. For Adobe Stock photos that have already been imported into your design, you can continue to access the photos in that design. When searching for new Adobe Stock photos to add to your design, you will only be able to import Adobe Stock photos from the Free collection into your designs. Free collection photos do not have a crown icon displayed.
Search for stock assets from within Adobe Express.
You have access to a range of images, videos and audio on Adobe Stock. To access Adobe Stock within Express, simply click on Photo, then choose Adobe Stock.
Type in what you would like to search for:
Click on the image which will then appear on your slide:
The Adobe Stock website
As well as locating and inserting digital assets from within Adobe Express, you can access the Adobe Stock website (www.stock.adobe.com) to search for additional digital assets and add them to your Creative Cloud Libraries (you will need to create at least one library to use this feature – see this guide on how to set up a library in Adobe Express). Using the Adobe Stock website allows you to search for and either download locally or add digital stock to one of your libraries.
Using the Adobe Stock website, you can search for different digital stock asset types including:
- Images
- Video
- Audio
- Templates
- 3D
- Fonts
You can also decide which of the libraries that you have set up in Adobe Creative Cloud Express that you want to add the stock asset to.
Once you have added a search value you can sort the search via the Sort by filter.
Once you have selected a digital stock asset that you want to use in your Adobe Express project you can either Save to Library or Download it locally. If you want to find other similar digital stock assets there is also this option available in the menu.
Back in Adobe Express, the newly added Adobe Stock will be available to import into your project/s via the library that the asset was added to.
Video Tutorial
This video tutorial demonstrates some of the techniques described within the guide above that can be used to access and utilise Adobe stock assets within Adobe Express.
More videos on Adobe Express can be found here: Express – YouTube