Adobe Training Resources
Adobe Creative Cloud (CC)
Desktop Apps
These are the leading desktop applications used by university faculty, staff, and students to create impactful digital content.
Adobe Photoshop CC
overview video
essential tutorials to edit and composite images
first hands-on project (23 minutes)
- crop and straighten
- improve lighting and color
- remove unwanted content
- add creative effects
- sharpen and save
more hands-on projects and tutorials
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
overview video
essential tutorials to organize, edit, and share images
first hands-on project (12 minutes)
- import photos from your computer
- perfect your photos
- crop and straighten your photos
- enhance isolated areas of a photo
- work with Lightroom anywhere
more hands-on projects and tutorials
Adobe Illustrator CC
overview video
essential tutorials to create vector graphics, logos, and illustrations
first hands-on project (30 minutes)
- set up a logo project
- use basic shapes to create complex art
- color artwork quickly
- transform and fine-tune logo
- add text to personalize logo
- preview and share logo
more hands-on projects and tutorials
Adobe InDesign CC
overview video
essential tutorials to design page layouts for print and digital publishing
first hands-on project (18 minutes)
- set up postcard for printing
- add images and text
- apply color to your graphic elements
- position elements in the layout
- print the postcard and share it with the world
more hands-on projects and tutorials
The CC learning resources are accompanied by project-based curriculum to develop career and communication skills in graphic design, illustration and print and digital media production, using Adobe tools. Visual Design develops four key skill areas: project management and collaboration; design; research and communication; professional digital photography, illustration, and page layout using Adobe tools (Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign).
The curriculum prepares students for the following Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exams:
- Visual Communication using Adobe Photoshop
- Graphic Design and Illustration using Adobe Illustrator
- Print & Digital Media Publication using Adobe InDesign
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
overview video
essential tutorials to edit and export video
first hands-on project (45 minutes)
- learn about the user interface and quickly creating a sequence
- apply quick and easy editing techniques
- add titles and sizzling graphics
- trim in the timeline and adjust colors
- work with audio
- export your completed video
more hands-on projects and tutorials
Adobe Audition CC
overview video
essential tutorials to edit audio for video projects
first hands-on project (26 minutes)
- find the noise in audio files
- learn to remove rings and beeps
- get rid of unwanted sounds that are mixed into main audio
- remove all annoying background noise in one step
- heal audio files automatically
- export edited audio
The CC learning resources are accompanied by project-based curriculum to develop key digital communication skills such as design, project management, research and communication, and video and audio design and production technical skills using Adobe tools (Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition).
The curriculum prepares students for the following Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam:
- Video Communication Using Adobe Premiere
Adobe Acrobat DC
overview video
essential tutorials to learn PDF workflows for business communications
first hands-on project (13 minutes)
- Acrobat vs Reader
- create PDF from file
- combine files into single PDF
- rearrange pages
- edit text
- replace image
- add a comment
- add open and change permissions passwords
Adobe Creative Cloud Services
overview video
essential tutorials and projects to learn about:
- Creative Cloud Assets
- Creative Cloud Market
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Typekit fonts
- showcase creative projects with Adobe Portfolio
more hands-on projects and tutorials
Mobile Apps
Sketch, draw, paint, create layouts, edit photos and make videos with Adobe’s family of mobile apps. With CreativeSync all your apps and assets are connected across your deskop and mobile devices, so you can do great work anywhere.
Adobe Capture CC
Turn any image into a color theme, pattern, unique brush, Look or vector graphic that you can use in your creative projects on desktop and mobile devices.
Works with:
- Adobe Illustrator Draw
- Adobe Photoshop Sketch
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Premiere Clip
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Illustrator CC
- Adone InDesign CC
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Create beautiful freeform vector designs on your mobile device with Illustrator Draw, the app that lets you turn your ideas into production-quality artwork wherever inspiration strikes.
Works with:
- Adobe Capture CC
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
- Adobe Illustrator CC
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Create expressive drawings anywhere using natural drawing tools like pencils, pens, markers and watercolor brushes to get all the textures and blending effects you’d get on paper.
Works with:
- Adobe Capture CC
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Premiere Clip
- Adobe Photoshop Mix
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Illustrator CC
Adobe Comp CC
Create layouts with Comp CC, which transforms natural drawing gestures into crisp graphics. Pull in vector shapes, images, colors, text styles, and professional fonts. Instantly send your comps to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign to finish on your desktop.
Works with:
- Adobe Capture CC
- Adobe Illustrator Draw
- Adobe Photoshop Sketch
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
- Adobe Photoshop Mix
- Adobe Photoshop Fix
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Illustrator CC
- Adobe InDesign CC
Adobe Premiere Clip
Create and edit amazing videos right on your mobile device. Then send your work to Premiere Pro CC on your desktop to refine it with the same video tools used by professionals.
Works with:
- Adobe Capture CC
- Adobe Photoshop Sketch
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
Craft and share pro-quality images from your smartphone or tablet using simple yet powerful tools built with Adobe Photoshop technology. Perfect your shots in a tap with more than 40 presets. Experiment with color, adjust clarity and add vignettes. You can even connect to other Adobe apps like Photoshop Fix to retouch and refine your work.
Works with:
- Adobe Illustrator Draw
- Adobe Photoshop Sketch
- Adobe Premiere Clip
- Adobe Photoshop Fix
- Adobe Spark Page
- Adobe Spark Video
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
Adobe Photoshop Mix
Get the app that brings serious Photoshop editing to your mobile device. Cut out and combine elements from different images, blend layers and apply looks right from your mobile device. Import project into Photoshop CC of further editing.
Works with:
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
- Adobe Photoshop Fix
- Adobe Spark Page
- Adobe Spark Video
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
Adobe Photoshop Fix
Liquify, heal, lighten, color and adjust your images to perfection — then easily share them across other Adobe Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps.
Works with:
- Adobe Comp CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
- Adobe Photoshop Mix
- Adobe Spark Page
- Adobe Spark Video
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
Adobe Spark
- Adobe Spark web app: a browser-based web experience for creating social posts and graphics, web stories and animated videos
- Spark Post: an iOS mobile app that enables anyone to create stunning social posts and graphics in seconds
- Spark Page: an iOS mobile app that helps users create beautiful web stories
- Spark Video: an iOS mobile app that enables users to create compelling animated videos in minutes
Adobe Education Exchange
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