Open a design in the Adobe Express editor and select the element you want to lock.
- 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
- Adobe Express Add-ons overview
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- Develop Add-ons
- Create an Internal listing
- 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
-
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
- Switch between presentation and designs in Adobe Express
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Schedule and publish content
- Content Scheduler overview
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- 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
-
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
- Share assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- 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
- 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
- Adobe Express Add-ons overview
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- Develop Add-ons
- Create an Internal listing
- 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
- Switch between presentation and designs in Adobe Express
-
Schedule and publish content
- Content Scheduler overview
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- 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
- Share assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- 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
Lock editing access
Last updated on
Oct 24, 2024
Learn how to keep the team on-brand by locking your design elements to prevent unintended changes in Adobe Express.
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Select the icon, then select:
- Lock: To prevent the element from being moved or edited.
- Lock: Allow text replace or Lock: Allow image replace: To lock the element's position and styling (size, font, color, and animation) but still allow you to replace the content. Note: Available for Premium, Teams, and Enterprise plans.
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Further adjust the lock permissions in the left panel, under Lock settings.
- Text: Select Edit replace settings to adjust the behavior, alignment, and size.
- Image: Select Replace image to upload a new photo or choose from Adobe assets.
Note:
- To unlock an element, select it on the page, right-click, and select Unlock.
- Text objects using Dynamic layout can't be set as replaceable when locked.
- When replacing images, the background removal isn’t retained. You can remove the background and reframe it after replacing it.
