Are you utilizing Adobe CC Libraries?
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Are you utilizing Adobe CC Libraries?
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Well now I fucking am mate
In prevoius posts people have complained about the CC integration in adobe products, but ignore how much time this can save. That’s why I’m not leaving Adobe, at least not for now. Having access to files and being able to update them accross the board is great, especially when you have brand assets that will end up in mockups, UI, and video/animations.
“SHHHHH”
-sincerely, those of us billing hourly
I put my company’s color palette in my library and it saves me from having to look up the hex codes over and over again. Never did this until a couple years ago but now every time I use it I wish I started sooner. Good call on this 👍🏻
Something so so so under used by people, libraries is so powerful and an incredible tool yet no one seems to be using it. Whenever I see people saying about how expensive Adobe is, I bring up libraries, as it’s so unique and such a fantastic feature, and no one’s using it… Mad
I work in publishing with a team of people and we share elements with CC libraries. It beats having a template pasteboard full of “things you might use” or a folder full of snippets, and anyone can add to it.
There was a lot of wonkiness when Adobe first introduced libraries but it seems to work pretty smoothly now.
Maybe I’m too old for this, but I don’t get it. I just save stuff to my hard drive and it works the same as the example in the video. For the past 10 years at least, since CS5. When you place a file in Illustrator, then later change the original, Illustrator will ask you if you want to replace the old file by the newer one when you open the file where it’s embedded.
I’ve looked into all these ‘helpful’ new cloud services Adobe offers back then, but honestly, I had sincere doubts about privacy; by using those features you’re basically letting Adobe track everything you do in their software.
As I said, maybe I’m too old, then please explain why I should use this stuff.
I was starting to until they wouldn’t load any more. I’ve tried fixing them with everything short of reinstalling the whole suite, which I don’t really want to do as I hate going through and resetting all of my preferences, but maybe I have to give it a go. ☹️
This is so helpful we need more of this
I think CC Libraries are great for solo workers and freelancers, but not great for offices and teams, its is the most annoying thing picking up a file from someone else which is filled with missing CC library links
It works great in theory, but I always found that libraries really slowed down performance across every app and the bigger they are the worse it gets. Instead I just use a sensible network file structure and link files. You still have the same convenience of editing a file and changes across all links, but don’t get the lag from library files.
I don’t use libraries, and this video *might* convince me to *try* it. However, there are still smart ways to manage files, and you can achieve this same effect by placing vector art in photoshop and then editing the original.
But I can see how the point he’s making is that it’s the whole entire collection of things in one place, which is smart and effective.
I think one reason people don’t use it is because of how Adobe introduced the feature. The persistent pop-ups that default to saving every goddamn pixel into a random library is not a good user experience.
Follow this man’s Instagram @barnardco . Sick stuff
Criminally underused, and mostly by the people complaining about Adobe and saying how Adobe is losing its edge and getting taken over by competitors
Maybe it’s Adobe’s fault for not getting it out there, but libraries is so so so good! So powerful, so helpful, so unique
Good video, this sub could do with more of this – this is good content about features that isn’t pushed enough
GOT DAMN, haha love this.
Well….take an upvote then
Do you teach? You explained that very well.
Consider my mind blown.
Yes but why aren’t colour spaces honoured in swatches? Drives me insane that you are fully setup a process swatch in Libraries and suddenly it’s a spot colour.
Did… did this guy just reinvent project folders?
Like, sure it’s great that Adobe lets you have a shared library between Adobe apps where you can insert content from one app to another… but isn’t that what any project folder and compatible apps should achieve? A folder of content you can just drag and drop into your app and apply consistent design across mediums. Vector content dropped into your photo editing. Edited image dropped into your page layout design.. etc.
I feel like it’s only Adobe’s remarkable incompatibility with other apps that makes this seem so revolutionary. As a way to get Adobe apps to work better with each other (albeit in yet another data container, there being Onedrive, Dropbox, Google… who knows what else) it probably solves a problem that shouldn’t really be there anyway.
I’d love this if I could dictate a local location for the files (as in off my own server), but from all I can find it forces it to be cloud-based.
I remember having libraries in the past that were local, as libraries aren’t a new concept. I don’t know why they force it to be cloud-integrated.
If anyone knows how to do this let me know, I couldn’t find it on my own.
Yes! They’re amazing. They save so much time/energy and ensure our admins are keeping to brand guidelines (at least a little bit, anyway haha). We’ve got corporation-wide ones with all of our colors (both cmyk and rgb), fonts, boilerplate, graphic elements, icons, adobe stock, etc.
This is an ad
*Sighs while using cracked software.*
They were smart to completely tie this feature to Creative Cloud.
I use Photoshop for most of my design process then I upload my work to the library and finish the typography on Creative Cloud Express.
I use libraries for my vinyl plotter’s CutContour strokes and colours between illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. But not like this. I can already think of instances for adding proofreading terms on the fly without a template. Thanks op.
My job doesn’t allow my team (3 designers + 2 videographers + 1 digital marketer) to use CC Libraries, allegedly for security reasons. Therefore, we still need to rely on linked files and pray the Lord no one moves any file, which happens almost every day. Not to mention servers full of duplicated files.
Yeah been using libraries almost since Adobe introduced it. It’s one of the few things I feel like Adobe actually have nailed down as a unique selling point of Adobe CC and one of the few things that also actually seems to not only work properly across *all* of their software where it makes sense but is also actually new and modern
Just started learning graphic design. I didn’t get to Illustrator yet, but this is brilliant. Will keep it in my mind for sure!
Is this underused? I think it’s one of the most powerful features of the Adobe suite. It’s what’s keeping me in the ecosystem.
sad to those who use cracked ones aghhhh! (me, probably soon… because I’m almost done in school)
Great tip! For big companies and teamwork in creative agencies you can also simply use dynamic imports: while simpler to use you’ll also be able manage your files by yourself and it won’t add a secondary hierarchy layout in top of your project
i thought this was more commonly used! it’s such a great feature. one thing i’ve noticed though is that the colors don’t always seem to transfer correctly. i have a branding library built out with a lot of assets. if i make an icon on illustrator using the colors from my CC library, add the finished object to CC library, and then place that object into a different file, the colors change slightly.
at first i thought i built the color library incorrectly but i’ve remade it, and checked to make sure the color profiles matched, but still no luck. has anyone else experienced this?
This is how I am able to do my job. I also share cc libraries with motion graphic templates for editors so they have all the assets and mogrphs.
The cloud is great – as long as you don’t need to access files from a colleague who has a day off and no access to hie effing laptop…
I recently showed this feature to my team and their minds were blown.
The only problem for our use case is that we don’t want things to change. We use it for proposals, so when our lead designer added a table in the Library, then updated that table later, it broke everyone’s table.
Holy shit. Adobe needs to be paying you because…God Lord do they ever suck at marketing this feature.
Until this very moment, I was still under the impression that CC Libraries were just a combination of a shitty stock-image storefront they want you to use, a shitty font-purchasing site they want you to use, and the existing functionality that we already have built-in with Windows Explorer.
Seeing this capability…man. I hope several people over at the Adobe marketing department are sweating about their performance reviews. The way they’ve advertised this feature feels like it can compare with the Wii U naming fiasco – doing their very best to convince customers that the product is useless.
Knowing it can do this? Well….fuck. This could have literally saved weeks of time during some projects at my last employer.
I’ve been using Adobe products since 1998 and my mind is continually blown by features I had no idea were there. I will for sure start utilizing this. Thank you for this post!
Does this exist on pirated versions of Adobe products or not because they are offline?
It’s cool although I’ll admit I’ve not tried it, i do linked layers.
Yeah…. if they can get Illustrator and XD to sync up properly when I use Libraries that would be great. As a concept it’s great. It’s not exactly reliable in my opinion. Even updating library files, don’t close then save…. save, check its updated. then close.
u/savevideobot
For my companies logos and colors I have been using libraries for a long time to make quick work of looking up and finding placing colors and elements. I pay a crazy amount for adobe better believe I will be finding and using all the CC features I can.
Sweet Jesus…what have I been doing with my life…?
Agree, super useful… until you start sharing files with another designer on a team that doesn’t use the same CC account. Then you have a plethora of missing library assets. Even worse when that designer is no longer with the company and the account has been discontinued.
Great solution for freelancers though.
Can someone help me find where the library is in Freehand?
MINDBLOWN