- Creative Cloud User Guide
- Introduction to Creative Cloud
- Download, install, set up, and update
- Manage your account
- Creative services
- Collaboration and storage services
- What are cloud documents
- Cloud documents | Common questions
- Create or convert files to cloud documents
- Set up cloud documents to use offline
- Revert to an earlier version of a cloud document
- Share your work for commenting
- Why can't I see my cloud documents offline?
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
- Collaboration FAQ
- Sync your files using cloud storage
- Find how much cloud storage you have
- Set sync options
- Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
- Download Synced files and content
- Organize libraries
- Creative Cloud mobile apps
- Enterprise and teams
- Adobe Content Authenticity
Learn how Creative Cloud Libraries help you keep project-specific design elements together so you and your team can access them from your Creative Cloud apps.
What are Creative Cloud Libraries?
Creative Cloud Libraries let you gather design elements for specific projects, clients, or teams for use within any of your Creative Cloud apps. Libraries help ensure you and your team access the same elements for a project throughout its lifecycle – from creating initial imagery in Photoshop and Illustrator, or creating print collateral in InDesign.
Collect assets
Gather design assets created in various apps for a project or client – from color palettes, character styles, logos, mnemonics, or approved imagery. A library can contain up to 10,000 assets.
Organize and share
Organize design assets into groups or save them into separate libraries based on brands, projects, types of assets, or clients. Share the libraries with team members so everyone can access the approved design elements and assets.
Incorporate into designs
Create unified designs, websites, brochures, presentations, artwork, and more using the most up-to-date assets from your libraries.
Create and use libraries
Create and use libraries in Creative Cloud apps
You can view and use only the assets relevant to the app you are working in. For example, while you can add Photoshop layer styles to a library, those styles are relevant only to Photoshop.
Click the links below for details on how to create and use libraries in your Creative Cloud apps:
After Effects
Animate
Adobe Bridge
Dreamweaver
Adobe Fresco
Illustrator
InDesign
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
For step-by-step information on how to create and use Creative Cloud Libraries, see the style guide.
Access libraries in your Creative Cloud desktop app
The Creative Cloud desktop app is a convenient place to manage and organize your assets in a workspace that provides more elbow room than the Libraries panel in applications. You can access Your libraries in the Files tab of the Creative Cloud desktop app.
You can also access and manage your Creative Cloud Libraries in the Creative Cloud website.
Use libraries in mobile apps
You can access Creative Cloud Libraries in all mobile apps such as Adobe Capture, Creative Cloud mobile app, and Adobe Fresco. Most mobile apps can use applicable library assets, but can't save assets to a library. In contrast, you can't use library assets in Adobe Capture, but you can save shapes, color themes, brushes, and patterns directly to a library.
Add Adobe Stock images to libraries
Access Adobe Stock images from libraries in a Creative Cloud app
Search for an Adobe Stock image directly from the library in your Creative Cloud app. When you've found an image you like, you can do any of the following:
Drag the watermarked image from the Libraries panel to your creative project and use it as a placeholder.
License it directly in the Library panel using the cart icon.
Add the watermarked image to your library using the plus sign, then license it once you are sure it is the right image.
Save an Adobe Stock image to your libraries
You can go to the Adobe Stock website and save a watermarked preview of an Adobe Stock image to any of your libraries. For more information, see Using Adobe Stock.
Create library assets using Capture in-app extension
With the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop, quickly turn images into various design elements, such as color themes, patterns, vector shapes, and gradients. These are automatically saved to your libraries and instantly usable in your current project, or other Adobe applications. Learn more.
Use libraries in the Adobe Express app
Access assets from your Creative Cloud Libraries and the libraries shared with you within the Adobe Express app. Learn more.
Access libraries in other apps
MS Word and PowerPoint
The Creative Cloud add-on for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint lets you access your libraries within Word and PowerPoint. Incorporate your design assets into your presentations, reports, brochures, and other collaterals. For details, see Adobe Creative Cloud Add-in for Word and PowerPoint.
Zapier
Create automatic workflows called zaps by connecting your Creative Cloud Libraries with Google Sheets, Slack, or any of the other 1,500+ apps available on Zapier. For details, see Creative Cloud Libraries for Zapier.
Gmail
Adobe Creative Cloud for Gmail lets you share links to content stored in Creative Cloud Files, Libraries, and Mobile Creations directly in your Gmail messages.
Share libraries with your team
You can share libraries with your team using the Creative Cloud website, the Creative Cloud desktop app, or any of your Creative Cloud desktop apps. Your team members need either a free or a paid Creative Cloud membership to use Creative Cloud Libraries. When you share, you can also give them either view or edit permission. For details on sharing, see Collaborate on libraries.
Browse and follow public libraries
Learn how you can browse and save publicly available libraries in the Creative Cloud desktop app and later use them for your brand and creative projects.
Export or import Creative Cloud Libraries
FAQ
Libraries support color data for a single swatch or color themes. Libraries only support process colors. Spot colors are not supported and are added as process colors to libraries.
Your assets are stored locally on your device and synchronized with Creative Cloud.
The maximum number of collaborators is 1000 regardless of whether they have view or edit capabilities. If the library is public, it can have unlimited followers.
The maximum file size for a single library element is 1 GB.
You can learn more about Creative Cloud Libraries with these resources:
Tutorials
Video tutorials where Creative Cloud Libraries are demonstrated in mobile apps: