Aligning Your Creative Work For Higher Impact
Design consistent experiences with ease using Creative Cloud Libraries.
As a modern creative, you know how hard it is to manage the ever-growing number of channels that your customers interact with on a daily basis. Whether they’re using your website, talking to you on social media, or viewing an ad on the train, your customers expect a consistent, compelling experience. That’s why your branding and tone need to be consistent and on point across all of the content you create.
Meanwhile, you’re scrambling to create content as fast as you can, ever mindful of the deadline looming around the corner. If you could spend less time checking guidelines, you’d be able to focus more on strategy and creativity, right?
To help you spend more time doing what you do best — being creative — we developed Creative Cloud Libraries (CC Libraries) as a tool for organizing and sharing curated sets of creative assets. When you create a library for your brand or project, it automatically syncs across your apps, devices, and the people you collaborate with on projects. Best of all, it’s embedded into the Creative Cloud apps you already have, allowing you to collect, manage, use, and share color swatches, character styles, vector graphics, images, brushes, videos, animations, 3D models, and more — all in one place.
A populated brand library for sample company Bold Corp.
CC Libraries speeds up the management of creative assets by 10x and reduces rework due to inconsistent content.
Not only can CC Libraries help you be more productive in your own design work, but it also extends to all of those teammates, organizations, and freelancers you work with regularly — saving time and effort in matching your company’s brand or project guidelines. Together, you can take output across all creative disciplines to the next level of quality and consistency.
CC Libraries synced across CC desktop and mobile apps.
Functions of Creative Cloud Libraries
Here are some easy ways to use Creative Cloud Libraries.
- Collect creative assets from various Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps. Capture inspiration whenever it strikes — whether you’re working in-app at your desk, spotting an image or color or texture on-the-go, or browsing ready-to-use assets from Adobe Stock.
- Organize creative assets into multiple Creative Cloud Libraries by brand, project, or other classification. Manage them from wherever you’re working, even offline in your Creative Cloud desktop apps.
- Use and share CC Libraries to collaborate with team members or inform stakeholders. Whether you want to share a library privately with a project member or publicly with an external partner, make sure the most up-to-date assets inform all their designs across formats and channels.
There are two ways to share a library: by inviting individual collaborators (the Collaborate path) and by generating a link (the Send Link path). Choose Collaborate when you want to share libraries that contain private creative assets, such as campaign or product design assets that should not be released to the public yet. You can allow recipients to add or modify assets in the library.
The Collaborate path for inviting collaborators.
Alternatively, choose Send Link if you want to share the library with a large number of people without allowing them to modify it.
The Send Link path for sending a public link.
How other creatives are using Creative Cloud Libraries
Many large companies across a variety of industries are already using CC Libraries to design branded marketing campaigns. They create style guides for company-wide branding, or a seasonal retail campaign, and share them across multiple teams. CC Libraries are also used on a shorter-term basis for collaborating on a project, where a smaller group of people can easily share and edit work in progress. In addition, many creatives keep their own private libraries as a way of collecting inspirational or frequently used assets. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing customer case studies to help you make the most of CC Libraries.
Increase your productivity with Creative Cloud Libraries
Pfeiffer Consulting conducted a research study comparing workflows with and without CC Libraries, and found close to 10-times productivity gains on average. Sharing and making one update of color settings, one set of graphics, and one image asset took almost 20 minutes to complete using common workflow methods — but just over three minutes with CC Libraries. This goes to show that cumulative, small productivity gains in repetitive operations can add up significantly and can save you and your team hours in the course of a week.
With every update to CC Libraries, we’re looking for ways to further increase your productivity. For example, you can now drag and drop files in bulk from your local file system into a library in most Creative Cloud apps. Also, if somebody shares a character style with you and you don’t have the font on your computer, you can now download it from Adobe Typekit with a single click.
Get started now
If you haven’t yet, create a CC library and add a few assets. Add the assets you use nearly every day — for example, your corporate brand colors, logos, and fonts. Once you create the library, share it with your teammates and ask them to start using it too — and watch collaboration happen seamlessly.