Project Aspen sneak peek: Boosting creative velocity
At Adobe MAX 2021, our yearly celebration of creativity and creatives around the world, Adobe shared a sneak peek of Project Aspen. Project Aspen is a collection of six new automation services for digital imaging (plus one for print), which allow you to handle common design tasks and challenges with new, easy-to-use workflows. Now you can make quick work of certain more tedious tasks that previously ate up your day, so you have more time to do what you do best — be creative!
Check out these six videos, featuring Adobe Senior Creative Cloud Evangelist Paul Trani, as he gives these intuitive new workflows a spin.
Replace Smart Object Layers
Using the Replace Smart Object task in Photoshop, you can easily change out selected Smart Object layers with other files that you provide. 3 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to replace key imagery quickly and easily.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Replace Smart Object Layers
Photoshop Data Merge
With Photoshop Data Merge, you can create multiple variations from one Photoshop file by replacing the text and imagery with content from a data file. 4 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to connect design files to data sources to automate production workflows.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Photoshop Data Merge
Auto Crop
Whether you’re doing a few or 100s of images, let Adobe Sensei identify your subjects and select the best options for framing — saving you hours of time. 3 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to crop images to multiple sizes in batches.
- How to choose custom sizes or select from popular social media, web, print sizes.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Auto Crop
Remove Background
Removing image backgrounds in batches of images is easy when you have= AI generating the masks. 3 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to remove backgrounds from multiple images in batches using Adobe Sensei.
- How to select a transparent background or a color of your choice.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Remove Background
Lightroom Apply Presets
Apply auto tone or upload your own presets and apply them to a batch of images. 2 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to apply consistent color themes to batches of images.
- How to choose your own preset color themes.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Apply Presets
Convert Files
Creating multiple variations of images from one Photoshop file is possible! Now you can replace the text and imagery with content from a .CSV data file or Google Sheets. 2 min video.
What you will learn:
- How to upload your files to batch-convert them to JPG, PNG, or TIFF.
- Where to find your updated files.
- Learn more about Convert Files
Sign up for Project Aspen today.
Note: You will be asked to sign the NDA to participate in the Beta program.
Use Case: Using Data Merge to Create Social Media Assets
To see more of Project Aspen in action, check out this infographic showing a simple workflow for using Project Aspen Photoshop Data Merge. Here, Codify Design details how they created social media posts featuring speakers at this iconic conference — fast.
Artwork design for the Russell Brown Reunion Workshop, celebrating 37 years of inspirational design. Codify Design Studio created and developed the website, and Glitschka Studios designed the logo.
The challenge: A big ask with mind-blowing deadlines
The grand victory finalé of 37 years of inspirational design, the Russell Brown Reunion Workshop brings together graphic designers, art directors, photographers, and creative directors from around the world as they seek fresh, inventive ways to use the latest Adobe applications.
Here were the must-haves:
- 307 assets in 5 sizes in 2 days (we might be exaggerating a little here!).
- Each social asset had to be unique to the speaker.
The solution: Project Aspen to the rescue
What feature saved the day? Project Aspen Data Merge! It was used to operationalize the process and create consistency in the designs.
The results: Killer social media, no sweat!
Project Aspen Data Merge makes it possible to accomplish remarkable feats in design, without losing your mind doing repetitive tasks. These are exactly the results we had. With Project Aspen Data Merge, we were able to make 100 unique variations of assets from one Photoshop file in about an hour. And so can you, so try it for yourself and sign up for Project Aspen today.