Open a design in the Adobe Express editor.
- 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
- Create with 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
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Work with layers
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Bulk, create, and generate designs
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- 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
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Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Make a presentation
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos 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
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Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- Content Scheduler overview
- 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 and collaborate with Shared Calendars
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Share and collaborate
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Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
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Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- 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
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- 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
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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
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- For students
-
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
-
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
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Work with layers
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Bulk, create, and generate designs
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- 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
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Make a presentation
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos 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
-
Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- Content Scheduler overview
- 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 and collaborate with Shared Calendars
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- 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
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- 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
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- For students
-
For educators
Add Photoshop and Illustrator files as linked images
Last updated on
16 Oct 2024
Learn how to add Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files as linked images and edit the images in Adobe Express.
Add as linked images
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Navigate to Your stuff > Files.
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Select a Photoshop or Illustrator file and drag it into the editor.
Note:
Don’t see your Photoshop or Illustrator files? Learn how to save your PSD and AI files as cloud documents.
Edit linked assets
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Select the linked asset, then select Open in Illustrator or Open in Photoshop, in the Linked Asset panel to launch the application, depending on your file type.
Select Open in Illustrator or Open in Photoshop under Linked Asset to launch the appropriate program. Select Open in Illustrator or Open in Photoshop under Linked Asset to launch the appropriate program. -
Modify and save changes in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, then navigate to Adobe Express. You'll see the message Your linked assets have changed on your screen. Select Update to apply the changes to the image.
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Select Download to save the image to your device or Share it with your online audience.
Note:
Have trouble adding or editing linked assets? Learn how to troubleshoot errors with linked assets.
