Open a design in the Adobe Express editor.
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
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What's new
- New features
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Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
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Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
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Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
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Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
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Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
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Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
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Organize your designs
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Arrange layers and pages
- Work with layers
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Bulk, create, and generate design using add-on
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Find version history of designs in Adobe Express
- Import assets
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Arrange layers and pages
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Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
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Share and publish
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Share and collaborate
- Privacy and permissions
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Make a presentation
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
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Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Create Shared Calendars
- Shared Calendar access and permission
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Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
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Manage collaboration
- Custom fonts overview
- Create from shared templates
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
- Move files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Migrate projects to the latest Adobe Express for iPad
- Troubleshoot Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express Classroom integrations
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Install Adobe Express on iPad
-
For students
- Adobe Express for Education students overview
- Access Adobe Express for Education as a student
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Download and install Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express for K-12 Students overview
- Access Adobe Express student account
- Access Classrooms in Adobe Express
- Access, complete, and turn in assignments
- Comment on assignments
- Delete your Adobe Express student account
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For educators
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
-
What's new
- New features
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
-
Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
-
Arrange layers and pages
- Work with layers
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Bulk, create, and generate design using add-on
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Find version history of designs in Adobe Express
- Import assets
-
Arrange layers and pages
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Privacy and permissions
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Make a presentation
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
-
Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Create Shared Calendars
- Shared Calendar access and permission
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Custom fonts overview
- Create from shared templates
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
- Move files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Migrate projects to the latest Adobe Express for iPad
- Troubleshoot Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express Classroom integrations
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Install Adobe Express on iPad
-
For students
- Adobe Express for Education students overview
- Access Adobe Express for Education as a student
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Download and install Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express for K-12 Students overview
- Access Adobe Express student account
- Access Classrooms in Adobe Express
- Access, complete, and turn in assignments
- Comment on assignments
- Delete your Adobe Express student account
-
For educators
Add and customize shapes
Last updated on
Oct 14, 2024
Learn how to create custom shapes and use expressive borders in Adobe Express.
Try the app
Follow along with any design to learn how to add shapes to your design.
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Select Elements from the left panel and then select Shapes and Draw shape.
Tip:Select a pre-existing shape or choose Draw shape to create a freestyle shape in the focused drawing mode.
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Select a Border style and Border Thickness to modify the appearance of your shape.
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Select Done to save and return to the Shapes menu or select Cancel to discard changes.
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Select the shape you want to edit.
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Use the left panel to adjust the shape's Border style, Border Thickness, Fill, Border, and Opacity. You can also scale and rotate your custom shape, choose a Blend mode, add an Animation.
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Select Download.
Note:
When you select Draw shape, you'll enter focused drawing mode. In this mode, layers and page properties are hidden, and most top header actions are disabled.
