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Creative Cloud Libraries in Bridge

Last updated on 3 May 2024

Introduced in the July 2018 release of Adobe Bridge CC

Creative Cloud Libraries makes the core design assets for your brand or personal projects available to you anywhere. Easily collect and organize images, colors, text styles, and other elements created in various Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps. Then reuse and modify these assets across projects, devices, other Creative Cloud apps, and teams - all from the Creative Cloud Libraries panel. You can add and manage your assets in your libraries using Bridge and easily access those elements in many of the Creative Cloud apps.

Overview of Creative Cloud Libraries

Collect

Creative Cloud Libraries provides a mechanism to collect design assets from various apps, and is not limited to desktop apps only. You can capture inspiration, whenever it strikes, using the family of Creative Cloud mobile apps or even download assets from Adobe Stock.

Manage

You can organize design assets into multiple Creative Cloud Libraries. These may be based on brands, projects, types of assets, or even your personal favorites that you reuse to create your signature style.

Use in designs

Create designs and artwork by using the most up-to-date assets from Creative Cloud Libraries.

Access Creative Cloud Libraries in Bridge

Do one of the following:

To switch to the Libraries workspace, click Libraries in the Application bar.
To switch to the Libraries workspace, choose Window > Workspace > Libraries.
To open the Libraries panel in any other workspace, choose Window > Libraries.

Note:

To access your libraries from Bridge, sign in to your Adobe ID account by choosing the Sign In option from the Help menu.
You can access the Creative Cloud Libraries Panel from one Bridge window at a time. If you're working with multiple Bridge application windows, then you can open the Libraries Panel in another Bridge window by clicking Open Libraries Here. This moves the Library panel from the non-active Bridge window to the active Bridge window.

Access Creative Cloud Libraries in Bridge

Turn on the Library sync

Creative sync makes your libraries accessible across multiple applications, devices, and the web automatically. For cross-device syncing to work, library sync must be enabled in the Creative Cloud desktop app.

Open the Creative Cloud desktop app. (Select the icon in your Windows taskbar or the macOS menu bar.)
Select the Cloud activityicon. Your library sync status will be displayed.
If syncing is paused, select the resume button to enable it.

Library syncing paused in Adobe Bridge.
When you enable library sync, the libraries start syncing. Your libraries are kept up to date across devices. Library sync may take some time, depending on the volume of content in your libraries.

Library syncing is up to date in Adobe Bridge.

Work with Creative Cloud Libraries

Create a library

In the Libraries panel, select Create New Library from the panel menu.
In the dialog box that appears, enter a name for the new library and select Create.

The new library is now available in the Libraries panel.

Import a Creative Cloud Library

In the Libraries panel, select Import Library from the panel menu.

Export a Creative Cloud Library

Select a library from the Libraries panel drop-down menu.
Choose Export Library from the panel menu.
Specify a folder location in the Export Library dialog box.
Select Export.

Rename a Creative Cloud Library

Select a library from the Libraries panel drop-down menu. Then, choose Rename from the panel menu.

Delete a Creative Cloud Library

Select a library from the Libraries panel drop-down menu. Then, choose Delete from the panel menu.

Collaborate with Creative Cloud users

You can share your libraries with other users for them to view, edit, use, rename, move, or delete the contents of the shared library.

Select a library using the Libraries panel drop-down menu and do one of the following:
- To collaborate on a library with other users, choose Collaborate from the panel menu.
- To share a library through a public link, choose Share Link from the panel menu.

Bulk upload assets to a library

The Libraries panel in Bridge lets you bulk upload your graphics. Do one of the following:

Drag and drop assets from the Content panel to the Libraries panel.
Drag and drop the assets directly from File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (macOS) into the Libraries panel.

You can also manage the following types of assets in the Libraries panel.

Graphics	Videos	Capsules/MGRTS	Charater Styles
Color	Color Themes	Brushes	Layer Styles
Animations	Paragraph Styles	Patterns	Gradients
Lights	Looks	Materials	Models
Scenes	Templates	Text

Add assets from Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock is deeply integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries. You can add a watermarked stock image to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. You can then use the watermarked image in your documents as a library-linked asset.

When you choose to license the image—which you can do directly from within the Libraries panel in Bridge—all instances of the watermarked asset in your open documents are updated to the high-resolution licensed image.

Work with library assets

License Adobe Stock assets

In the Libraries panel, select one or more Adobe Stock assets.
Right-click the assets and choose License from the context menu.

Edit assets

In the Libraries panel, select an asset.
Right-click the asset and choose Edit from the context menu.

Bridge launches the appropriate application for editing your asset. For example, if you choose to edit an image, Bridge launches Photoshop.

Duplicate assets

In the Libraries panel, select one or more assets.
Right-click the assets and choose Duplicate from the context menu.

Copy or move assets between libraries

In the Libraries panel, select one or more assets.
Right-click the assets and choose Copy To or Move To from the context menu, and then choose the library you want to copy or move assets to.

Rename assets

In the Libraries panel, select an asset.
Right-click the asset and choose Rename from the context menu, and then specify a name for your asset.

Delete assets

In the Libraries panel, select one or more assets.
Right-click the assets and choose Delete from the context menu.

Library search

The search box in the Libraries panel enables you to search for the right asset, quickly and efficiently. You can modify your search based on the following available options:

Adobe Stock: Search for the assets in Adobe Stock from directly within the Libraries panel.
Current Library: Perform a search for your asset within your current library.
All Libraries: Perform a search for your asset across all your libraries.

Preview in Libraries panel

When you select an item in the Library panel, its preview is displayed in the Preview panel. You can select multiple files together to see their previews, as shown below.

Preview of files selected in Library panel

The Preview panel also supports transparency grid. You can enable or disable transparency grid from the thumbnail quality and preview generation options menu, which appears when you select .

Library_preview_options — Preview generation options

Find Adobe Stock images visually similar to a library element

The visual search functionality in the Libraries panel lets you quickly find stock images similar to a library element. Follow this step:

In the Libraries panel, right-click an asset and then select Find Similar from the context menu.

Bridge displays the search results right within the Libraries panel.

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