There are so many great apps in Creative Cloud, we decided to make a collection of mini videos showcasing what’s at your disposal. If you want to see guides on pricing, packages and getting started, our Adobe Creative Cloud webpage has all the information you need – take a look at the great benefits of a Creative Cloud subscriptionnow.
XD: Website design that keeps up with the digital era
Adobe XD is a powerful vector-based design tool, built for modern UX/UI designers – it lets you easily take your website or app from concept to prototype. We found some great apps designed on XD likeSiply, which rewards users for drinking coffee (yay!), and a brilliant Tour de France app, which follows the race across the country and tracks the key figures and events. Big or small, XD is the all-in-one UX/UI solution for designing websites, mobile apps and more.
Behance: The easy way to showcase your portfolio to the world
Behance is the leading online platform to showcase, network and discover creative work – we actually sourced most of the examples included here from Behance. It’s also an important recruitment tool, and is used by companies across the world to explore the work of designers and access talent on a global scale.
Dimension: The best way to create 3D designs
Adobe Dimension CC makes it easy for graphic designers to create high quality, photorealistic 3D images. Dimension lets you composite 2D and 3D assets to build product shots, scene visualisations and abstract art, then take your work into Photoshop for those final touches. We’ve seen some beautiful 3D art made using Dimension, including a gorgeous gallery of an ancient Greek coin, photorealistic chairs and dice by one artist. We also enjoyed the style of this subway poster for Frau Marta, featuring a realistic 3D can and a scrumptious Christmas tree.
InDesign: The vector-based design solution for print and digital
This industry-leading page design and layout app lets you create, pre-flight, and publish beautiful documents for print and digital media. InDesign CC has everything you need to make posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs, and more. Some interesting work from InDesign includes, a classy university magazine, and an exhibition of some of the last joint photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Portfolio: Make your own creative website
Portfolio lets you easily build a visually stunning website to showcase your creative work. You can choose from a selection of templates with powerful customisation tools, to give your portfolio site a personalised look. Since Portfolio is free with any Creative Cloud subscription, you can house your creative designs on your personalised website, and easily share them with your network on Behance.
Prelude: Video logging and ingest made easy
Prelude is a video logging and ingest tool designed for intuitive, efficient media organisation and metadata entry in a digital workflow. Video professionals can add metadata, rapidly tag and transcode video footage and quickly create a rough cut. Since Prelude integrates effortlessly into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, you have fluid communication and organisation throughout the video production process.
Premiere Pro: The ultimate video editing software
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Premiere Pro is to video what Photoshop is to photography. As the industry-leading video editing software, Premiere Pro lets you edit, adjust colour, refine audio, and more – all in one seamless, integrated workflow. With intuitive tools and tons of step-by-step tutorials to get beginners started, Premiere Pro is one of the most powerful video editing apps available for filmmakers, YouTubers, videographers, advertisers and just about anyone working with video. If you want to see a great little clip made on Premiere Pro, take a look at this really cool moving picture for KaDeWe’s Super Asia SS18 campaign.
Spark: Create stunning social media content in minutes
Adobe Spark makes it fast and easy to create graphics, web pages and video stories, and with the mobile app, you can create and post outside the office. Turn your text and images into professional looking graphics for web, video, social media and more. With the wide selection of curated designs and templates, creating compelling digital imagery has never been so simple. Since Spark is one of the newer additions to Creative Cloud, we made a live video showing how you can create a beautiful looking social media graphic in less than ten minutes.
Photoshop: The industry-leading editing and design app
Photoshop lets you transform your photos and designs into anything you can imagine. It’s used by millions of designers, photographers and creatives across the world to edit and create beautiful imagery, with intuitive tools and easy-to-use templates.
Media Encoder: The go-to app for media processing
Media Encoder lets you encode audio and video into many different formats. It can be used alone or as a companion to other Creative Cloud applications, like After Effects, Premiere Pro and more, to turn your media tasks into one seamless workflow.
Lightroom: Work and edit anywhere
Easy to use filters and sliders let you make quick and easy adjustments to your collections of images, while the intuitive auto-tagging tool makes organising your photos simple. With Lightroom, all your photos are stored in the cloud, so you can work on them anywhere – whether you’re editing on mobile, the web or desktop, your changes are automatically applied across devices.
InCopy: Boost collaboration between copywriters and designers
InCopy lets copywriters edit and format copy, track changes and make subtle layout changes to a document, while your design team works on it at the same time in InDesign. It gives you access to robust tools for copywriters and designers to work together, without going back and forth in multiple versions.
Character Animator: Bring 2D characters to life
Character Animator lets you create a 2D character and make it come alive. It tracks your facial expressions in realtime and records your motion, so characters act, and react, just like you do. Create 2D animations for live broadcasts, student projects and cartoons, or just wow your friends on social media.
Bridge: The perfect collaborative tool for organising and publishing creative assets
Bridge CC gives you centralised access to all the files and assets you need for your creative projects. Organise personal and team assets, batch edit with ease, add watermarks, set centralised colour preferences, and even upload your photos to Adobe Stock. Bridge simplifies your workflow and keeps you organised.
Audition: Deliver the perfect audio mix with beautiful sound
Adobe Audition is a professional app with intuitive controls for precision audio editing, mixing and sound effect creation – it’s also the industry leading tool for cleaning up recordings and audio restoration. With its comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform and spectral display, even beginners can achieve professional quality audio.
Acrobat: The most powerful PDF solution in the world
Acrobat DC lets you create, sign and amend PDFs on any device. Convert your print or digital files to editable PDFs and use the powerful print production and digital publishing tools to make changes, sign documents and share your files with others.
If you want to find out more about Creative Cloud, or learn about the correct version for your business, go to Jigsaw24.com/Adobe, get in touch with us by email at DandP@Jigsaw24.com or call us on 03332 409 204.
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