Do one of the following:
- Click the dropdown in the Libraries panel, and then choose Create New Library.
- Click on the upper-right corner of the Libraries panel to expand the flyout menu, and then choose Create New Library.
A Creative Cloud Library is a collection of design assets. Several types of design assets can be added to a Creative Cloud Library. With Adobe Illustrator, assets can be one of these types: Colors, Color Themes, Character Styles, Graphics, and Text.
Creative Cloud Libraries help you organize, browse, and access creative assets. For example, you may want to create a Creative Cloud Library that contains all the components most frequently used in a specific project.
In Illustrator CC 2014 and earlier, every graphic asset, once dragged from the Libraries panel into an Illustrator document, was no longer linked in any way to the original asset. Consequently, modifying the original asset in a library had no effect on the copy used in the document. Illustrator assets dragged from a library were 'unlinked assets'.
However, from Illustrator CC 2015 onwards, with the linked assets feature, an asset dragged from a library to a document is a 'linked asset'. This is the default behavior. Each modification made to the asset in the Library affects all its linked copies used in Illustrator document(s).
To bring graphics from library as an unlinked asset, press Alt/Option while dragging it from the Libraries panel.
All assets that were used in Illustrator CC 2014 are unlinked assets. To use the linked assets feature, drag the asset again from the Libraries panel in Illustrator CC 2015.
Creative Cloud Libraries are displayed in the Libraries panel in Illustrator. If you create libraries on different computers while using the same Adobe ID, the assets and libraries are all visible in the Libraries panel across computers.
To open the Creative Cloud Library panel (Libraries panel), click Window > Libraries. Use the Libraries panel to:
A. Creative Cloud Library drop-down menu B. Show items as icons C. Show items in a list D. Stock search drop-down E. Assets F. Add Content icon G. Progress/Sync icon H. Delete icon
Do one of the following:
Do one of the following:
Type a name, and then click Create.
Select a library using the Libraries panel dropdown.
Expand the flyout menu, and then choose Delete.
Select a library using the Libraries panel drop-down menu.
Expand the flyout menu, and then choose the Rename.
Select one or more assets in a library.
Right-click an asset.
From the context menu, select Copy To or Move To, and then choose the library you want to copy or move assets to.
You can share your libraries with other users for them to view, edit, use, rename, move, or delete the contents of the shared library. If another Creative Cloud subscriber has shared a library with you, you can further share it with other Creative Cloud users.
In the Libraries panel, select a library from the drop-down menu.
In the Libraries panel, expand the flyout menu, and choose Collaborate.
In the browser page that opens up, provide an email address, and specify what kind of access you would like to provide:
Add an optional message for the person you would like to share the library with.
Click Invite.
Launch the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app and log in with your Adobe ID credentials.
When a library is shared with you, you receive a notification in the Creative Cloud desktop app. Click the bell icon to access your notifications.
Click Accept for each library collaboration invitation.
In the Libraries panel, select the name of a library that you would not like to share anymore from the drop-down menu.
In the Libraries panel, expand the flyout menu, and choose Collaborate.
In the browser page that opens up, delete the names of all the users that the Creative Cloud Library is shared with.
In the Libraries panel, select the name of a library that you would not like to collaborate on anymore from the drop-down menu.
In the Libraries panel, expand the flyout menu, and click the Leave library option.
Note: You can only delete a library that you own.
In the Libraries panel, select the name of a library that you want to delete from the drop-down menu.
In the Libraries panel, click the flyout menu, and click the Delete library option.
Click Delete to confirm the action.
Hover the mouse pointer on an available color asset to view the name and hexadecimal code of the color.
Select an asset in the active Illustrator document.
Click the Add Content () icon in the Libraries panel and choose Fill Color from the drop-down menu.
In the Swatches panel (Window > Swatches), click the New Swatch icon.
In the New Swatch dialog, define the name, type, mode, and values for the color.
After you define the color, select the Add To My Library checkbox. Select a different Library, or choose Create New Library, if you do not want to use the current Library.
Click OK.
In the Swatches panel (Window > Swatches), select a Color Group.
To add a Color Group as a Color Theme, your Color Group must have a minimum of one color, and a maximum of five colors.
In the Swatches panel, click the Add to Library icon , to add the current Color Group as a Color Theme in your library.
Select an object in the active Illustrator document, and then do one of the following:
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
Select a color using the Color Picker dialog and then click OK.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
Type a new name for the color and press Enter.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
When you add a Character Style to your Creative Cloud Library, more than 50 attributes of a piece of text are stored.
Select a text object in the active Illustrator document. The Add Content icon () in the Libraries panel is activated.
Click the Add Content icon () and choose Character Style from the drop-down menu.
All the attributes available in the Character Style Options dialog (Window > Type > Character Styles > double-click a character style) are copied as part of the Character Style.
Right-click a Character Style in a library, and click Add to Character Styles.
Select a text object in the active Illustrator document.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
If a Character Style does not have the font associated with it on the local computer, a warning icon is displayed at the bottom right corner of the Character Style thumbnail.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
Type a new name for the Character Style and press Enter.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
You can also use a Character Style in the document (Use in Document option), so the copy and the Character style are placed into the active document.
You can store objects and assets from your document in the Creative Cloud Library. The assets you store as a Graphic in a Creative Cloud Library retain their vector form. When you reuse a Graphic from a Creative Cloud Library in another Illustrator document, it is in vector form.
With an active Illustrator document open, do one of the following:
In the Libraries panel, in the Search Adobe Stock box, type a keyword related to an image that you are searching.
From the results displayed, select an image. You can also choose to either buy the photo or save a preview of the photo to your current library. If you place the pointer on selected image, the License and Save to downloads and Save Preview to Downloads icons are displayed. If you select the license option, the following pop-up appears for confirmation.
For more information on working with Adobe Stock images with your libraries, see Using Adobe Stock.
Do one of the following:
Do one of the following in the Libraries panel:
Edit the component when it opens up in an Illustrator document window.
Save the document.
The graphic is updated in the Creative Cloud Library, and the thumbnail is automatically refreshed. Also, if the asset was created in Illustrator CC 2015 or later, it is a Linked Asset, and Adobe CreativeSync ensures that it is updated across all locations where it is used.
In the Libraries panel, do one of the following:
Type a new name for the image and press Enter.
In the Libraries panel, right-click a graphic and then choose Delete.
You can add text objects from your document to Creative Cloud libraries and then share them with other users and across applications. Text assets in a library retain the character/paragraph styles and other attributes originally applied to them. You can reuse text assets in libraries across Illustrator or InDesign documents.
If a text objects has effects and appearances applied to it, you must add it to the library as a graphics asset to preserve them.
In an active Illustrator document, do one of the following:
Do one of the following:
By default, Illustrator brings the text asset into the document with its character/paragraph styles and attributes preserved intact. If you want to use the text asset in your document as plain text without any of these associated styles, right-click the text asset in the Libraries panel and choose Place Without Styles from the context menu.
Text assets added to libraries are also available from within the Libraries panel in InDesign. You can edit and use text assets across these two applications. In the Libraries panel List view, the icon to the right of the text asset in the Libraries panel indicates the application in which it was created.
For more information, see Rendition of shared text assets in Illustrator and InDesign.
In the Libraries panel, follow these steps:
Alternatively, you can double-click the text asset to edit it in the application in which it was created.
The text asset is updated in the Creative Cloud Library and the thumbnail is automatically refreshed. Also, the asset is updated across all locations where it is in use.
In the Libraries panel, do the following:
In the Libraries panel, right-click a text asset and then choose Delete.
The visual search functionality in the Libraries panel lets you quickly find stock images similar to a library element. Follow these steps:
Illustrator displays the search results right within the Libraries panel.