Create templates with brand restrictions

Last updated on Dec 15, 2025

Learn how to convert your file into a template with controlled permissions and brand style restrictions, ensuring your team can collaborate while maintaining on-brand content.

Note

This feature is available for Teams and Enterprise plans.

Open a file in Adobe Express, and select the Share button from the header. 

Select Convert to template  .

Select Info to add the following template details:

  • Enter a name in the Template name section.
  • Click Select to choose a location in Files or Projects, and then Select to save the template.
  • Add tips or guidance for collaborators in the Template note section.

Select Locks if your design includes locked elements, and then select one of the following options:

  • Users can unlock layers if needed
  • Users with a passphrase can unlock layers if needed (Enter a Passphrase for the collaborator to unlock the layers)
  • No users can unlock layers

Lock permissions are applied to all the locked elements in a design. Read more about locking design elements.

Select Style to set restrictions for color, font, and editing options. Select the toggles to apply limits. For Color and font settings, click Select to choose the brand or library that defines the allowed styles.

Note: You can select and add up to five brands per template. If your collaborator does not have access to a brand, they can request access to it.

The template options screen open in Adobe Express showing style restrictions where access is requested to using color and fonts from 3 brands.
Select up to 5 brands to limit font and color access to those brands.

Select Review and approve to add review and approval workflows to the template if needed.

Select Keep a copy of this file to keep a copy of the original file, and then select Convert to template.

Once the template is saved, you can go to the location of the template and share it or the project with your collaborators. 

The template is saved in the file or project location you select when creating it. You can continue editing the template and publish any changes you make. Both you and your collaborators can use the template and create new files from it.